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You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Many maps and globes depict the planet’s largest island, Greenland, as all white. Given what seems to be an accelerating pace of global warming, I wonder how long it will be before the cartographers have to re-colorize this island?
This article needs just a tad of an introduction.
Being a man of certain age, I Am Official Old,I have some minor problems with arthritis, fortunately they are still not a daily preoccupation. The major culprits are my ankles, my knees, my left shoulder that was injured in a car accident, and my hands, principally my left hand. I broke the ring finger and the finger next to it on that hand many moons ago in a fight. Plus I wonder since Continue reading “Frozen Bird “
First of all, the shear hubris of this billboard is more than I can fathom. Then the divisiveness promoted by this sign, surely placed by a religious organization or person, is the exact opposite of what religion should be doing. Historically, however, Christianity has not be an inclusive religion, except by force, nor has it been an agent for tolerance and acceptance of people who believe or think differently than themselves. IMHO, this attitude continues today in many branches of Christianity.
On the other hand, I have been and am certainly demonizing MAGA Republicans. For me, they are espousing the worst side of humanity. Why so many Christians, especially Evangelical Christians, are so adamantly onboard with the MAGA crowd is mystifying.
That persons like tRump, Putin, Maduro, Kim Jung-un, Netanyahu and many more of that ilk are in positions of power is proof that a god does not exist — at least the god as detailed in the various religious texts, or if he does exist, he certainly does not love humanity.
Oh well.
“Matrimony… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Casamiento Segundo, its until-death-do-us-part mission… to explore a strange new relationship… to seek out a new life and new adventures… to boldly go where no sane couple has gone before.”
This is a picture I took of Señora gleefully experiencing a ménage-à-trois, well okay, a ménage-à-doobie, with two music icons painted on the wall of a cannabis store in Muskogee, by gawd, Oklahoma.
Of course, the person on the right is the legendary Bob Marley, the Reggae musician, famous for his advocacy of the legalization of cannabis and giant spliffs.
The cowboy hat wearing gentleman is none other than Continue reading “Matrimonial Log – Star Date 5785.280”
Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page. Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns. I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.
To see more Words of the Day, visit this link: Words of the Day
Here is an interesting, short read from the pen of Thom Hartmann:
Why are Red State Citizens Poorer, Less Educated, & Sicker than Blue State Citizens?
The quick synopsis is that they are shooting themselves in the foot.
Just something to think about as you getting ready to vote in what seems like the most consequential election of my lifetime. I see this election as clear option between democracy and fascism, between inclusiveness and Christian Sharia law, between joy and a Draconian world view, between sanity and insanity, between the have-too-muches and the rest of us…
If nothing else you have to wonder why Elon Musk is pouring so much money into the tRump campaign. Musk is the epitome of self-interest, seeing himself better and smarter than practically every other person on the planet, willing to use and abuse just about anyone for his own ends. Wait, that describes tRump also.
That is the the only explanation I can think of if Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris are on the campaign trail TOGETHER. Hell has indeed frozen over.
It is amazing how many Republicans are coming out for Kamala Harris as they see tRump as an existential threat to our country.
May Jupiter bless them all.
Señora hates this picture. I have it as part of suite of pictures rotating on my desktop as backgrounds. I will have to say though that it was shortly after they snapped this picture that the guide lost control of the raft and Señora and I ended up in the river. I thought it great fun. Señora had a completely different opinion.
She was a trooper, or maybe just in love, when she did this, jumped out of a perfectly good airplane and went rappelling with me. Adrenaline is good sometimes… as long as the situation is reasonably controlled.
JD Vance is objectively a horrible man. I would call him the poster child for everything that is wrong with American politics, but there is so much competition in the Republican party, he would just be one of a rotating cast on that poster. To say I find the Republican party disheartening, would be an understatement.
Then there is his running mate, tRump. How a misogynist, racist con man managed to gain control of one of two major politic parties of the most powerful nation on the planet will keep historians employed for quite some time. How he managed to maintain that control as dementia became too obvious to ignore will also keep sociologists and political scientists occupied. I am sure there will be several doctoral theses written in all those professions.
There has been something niggling at the back of my brain for Continue reading “JD Vance – Escape from L.A.”
I golf most often across the mighty Mississippi River at a golf club in Illinois that has two 18 holes courses. It is cheaper than the courses close to the house here in Missouri, and generally easier to get a tee-time. The owner, however, tends to manage the courses in a very redneck manner.
Just from the nature of the work, most of the employees working in the club houses and cart barns are part-time. The employees tend to be in two camps. Some are Continue reading “I Had Not Heard That One Before “