I had this dream... In an alternate 2025, President Harris deploys the California National Guard to Texas to protect the rights and safety of the LGBTQ+ community. Fox News commentators agree we must support the President's judgement. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Who knew!

[I've been working hard at not looking or sounding too Irish as I carry no documentation. And though a number of ancestors were likely welcomed by robber barons wishing to exploit them, Some may not have mentioned the legal entanglements with the British Crown which played a role in their flight.

Nobel Prize for Baldface Lying... Do you really even have to ask?

Sickening in so many ways. 😥

Dreaming last night... Excruciatingly enduring the fires of Hell. Check calendar- Hasn't even been 9 months yet.

Nicholas Kristof NY Times 10/4/25 "National Guard troops could help Portland, if they rented office space."

Market capitalism has some fine attributes. Butt, butt, butt...

I'm sure any day they'll make big sweeps through multimillion dollar home neighborhoods of Lake Forest and Barrington too. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

As noted in MIT Technology Review The Download [Wow! Then I could say I accomplished something with my life] news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news...

So exciting! I get 10 cents per gallon off gasoline for my new vehicle. ... the EV.

Attn. Robert Kennedy Jr., CDC, NIH, ACIP etc. Truth: Everyone who gets vaccines will DIE. Just one to one hundred years later than if they hadn't.

Saturday morning Ai fun...

I wonder if there are birds in cat heaven. ❤️

"return on investment of between $60 and $475 per dollar invested" [And saved around 2 million American lives.]

[I'm sure there are other positive stories about water and irrigation in California. I just can't think of them.]

'This end helps the smoke get out' Having undefined fun with undefined objects (and a few trucks).

Stunning. Sculpted for millennia by wind and sand.

What!?

[I am very grateful to (N) Justice Kavanaugh for his opinion. Apparently masked, jackbooted, machine gun toting IRS agents could surround Country Club members; hauling some off in chains if not able to show evidence of correct tax filings.]

[Many are sleeping head in the sand. Don't want to be woke.] "If this does not constitute a Sputnik moment, it is hard to imagine what would."

I started to check the news. Almost immediately I realized today would be a kitten day. Isn't that better?

No way! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

[The robots quietly chuckle as we fret about harm from vaccines.] As noted in NY Times, Thomas Friedman, 9/2/25:

I noticed something flying across the backyard. It seemed too small to be a hummingbird. I barely followed it all the way to the patio where it crashed into the dog's nose and down to the cement. A Cicada. Maybe Neotibicen winnemanna.

Oh such a problem! 🙂

Number 47 has no time for maths. It interferes with making things up. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

[Brings to mind slasher movies where I'm yelling at the screen, "don't go down to the dark basement to see why the lights aren't working! Run away NOW!] "Uncertainty about childhood vaccination was highest among nulliparous pregnant participants (31 of 68 [48%])" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I'd see more concerts at 1965 prices. www.startribune.com/beatlesmet-s...

In a surprise counter proposal Ukraine is willing to give Putin a section of Florida which Ukrainians care little about.

My Senior friends and I thank you Bose!

A very good year for gardeen cucumbers. Most will go to the foodshelf Tuesday.

[I too am mathematically like, whatever.] www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

One of world's most powerful people, a court adjudicated sexual assaulter commonly believed to exhibit disturbing psychopathologies apparently finds wind turbines unattractive. Huh.

Finally!

Damn birds! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...

Meanwhile, far across campus, student #1234567 pays their own way and tries to figure out where to get $300 for broken organic chemistry lab glassware. 247sports.com/longformarti...

More great fungus among us. I enjoy the Onion Bagel top and the shaggy leg stem.

Appreciating the little things.

If I didn't mow I'd miss great mushrooms.

I was about to click on a nation/international news site. But it's Saturday morning. So... This is what my psyche can handle.

I noticed a little branch in the yard after today's storms. Glad I looked closer.

I want to stick my head in the sand. But AI is something that will be part of my life, good or bad. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/22/1...

Balance. Many say it's a very good thing in life. Maintain balance. Today for example... I got the mail and there was one pice of junk, one bill and one check. And the check was for a bit more than the bill. I'm golden. I received the county update. Budget is in balance. 50% Fraud, 50% waste. Super

Worst headline ever? 'Oh great! FEMA says they can finally get those buildings AWAY from danger!😀 But noooo. FEMA will just say they are not longer IN the danger zone. 47th best administration ever. ?

Two course dinner. First beans of the season!

Its a beautiful lawn if one looks closely.