A magic eight ball would lie less frequently than K. Leavitt.

“These are the actions of an authoritarian state." (Did you guess that this is about #Trump?) https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-left-wing

After Che...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDoPU1vwfU

Here's me watching a total eclipse of the sun ...

The 3-D glasses let me see the far side of the moon.

https://cavebear.com/images/misc/red_n_blue_eclipse.jpeg

One of my fave awful pun comics...

https://cavebear.com/images/misc/oh-the-humidity.png

There is no surprise here that Elon is getting 2.5million times the pay.

The surprise is that there has not been an uprising. .... yet.

"Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/13/elon-musk-tesla-pay-workers

I love Jamie Raskin so much

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-08-11-raskin-to-burgum-doi-pirro-usao-re-reflecting-pool.pdf

#USPol

Yesterday I had to trap a couple of rats in our garden. So the article below caught my eye:

"Josh Kushner, Bob Iger to buy Lakers for $12.5B"

(Josh is brother to Jared.)

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49590362/josh-kushner-bob-iger-buy-lakers-12b

By-the-way, for those of us who aren't in Europe to observe today's total solar eclipse:

Remember that unless you are beyond the Arctic or Antarctic circles you experience a total eclipse once every 24 hours when the Earth comes between you and the Sun. Most people call it "night".

I've have some theories about events.

For instance, I've observed that revolutions - American, French, Russian, etc - tend to take at least a century to play out.

And here in the US since at least the great crash of 1929 we seem to have a national catastrophe every 15 to 25 years:

1929 - Great Crash
1941 - Pearl Harbor
1963 - Kennedy Assination
1986 - Challenger Disaster
2001 - 9/11
2024 - Trump II

Pause and rest your eyes for a moment.

Their lack of knowledge is disturbing...

Clearly these people do not understand the threats of smart-phone based voting...

"Opinion: Mail-in ballots are still under attack. Mobile voting can protect access to ballot box."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/11/commentary-mail-in-ballots-are-still-under-attack-mobile-voting-can-protect-access-to-the-ballot-box/

How true...

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erwcofx42b24pekytwhgwsk3/bafkreiahrkt22vm56sra56eqtcuhmc4n7xqasmc7wqsupcmuo6xyxq47se

Game console thumb syndrome?

Of course, one must ask: did they do the correct thumb?

Who's a socialist, who's a communist....

In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University, found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe “a man who … repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and … takes sexual advantage of many women—someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment.” When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”

Life meets art, head on ... meep-meep!

This accident actually happened. In Monterrey in Mexico a driver crashed into a concrete wall decorated with a trompe-l'œil mural of a Looney Tunes tunnel.

#StreetArt

Early reminder: Birmingham Sunday (September 15) falls on a Tuesday this year.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/baptist-street-church-bombing

Holy mf'in chit

This is the way

Interesting and useful...

"Tracking the Trump Administration’s Most Corrupt Transactions"

https://campaignlegal.org/document/tracking-trump-administrations-most-corrupt-transactions