I was going to post something about Trump’s unfurling insanity on Twitter, but you know what? Fuck it. Keeping up with that malevolent buffoon is exhausting. I’d rather talk about a destructive wind event we’ve already survived instead. It was 25 years ago today that Hurricane Andrew made landfall in South Florida. Here’s one of …
Squirrel! (Open Thread)
This squirrel was hanging out on a post near one of the bird feeders. It kept staring at me for some reason, even though I was minding my own business inside the house and am famously tolerant of squirrels raiding my feeders: I figured if I pulled out my camera, it would go away, and …
“Back Up, You Creep”
NBC obtained an excerpt of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming book, in which Clinton describes that whack moment during a town hall-style debate when Trump was lumbering around behind her like a sour-faced, spray-tanned golem: “My skin crawled,” Clinton said. “It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching …
Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread
I originally titled this “Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread” because it just cannot be only Tuesday. But alas, it is. Here’s a lovely shot taken by faithful reader cope of a pre-dawn Atlas rocket launch at Cape Canaveral: I’m on the opposite coast, but if it’s clear enough, I can see launches from over here on …
Eclipse Open Thread!
I saw it! I saw it! The eclipse started about 10 minutes ago in my area, will peak just before 3 PM and be over shortly after 4 PM. We have a lot of fat, puffy white clouds, which I thought were going to ruin it — and still might. But I went out into …
Afghanistan Address Spoilers
Even if you don’t use Twitter, you’ve probably heard about the amazing predictive powers of Trump’s Twitter archive. For every stupid action Trump takes as president (and there are no other kind), there is an equal and opposite reaction tweet from the Trump Twitter archive. The many Trump tweets criticizing President Obama for golfing or …
Hope Votes
Somewhere around the year 2042 or so, I hope to remove from my pocket a shimmering, translucent, flexible square about the size and weight of a hanky and use it to read this B-section article in the NEW New York Times: Hope springs eternal, mostly. And yet. Ryu Spaeth published a piece in the New …