Sunrise — 6:41.

We were surprised by the pink. Seemed like it was going to be another one of those all-gray clouds mornings, but that just goes to show.

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"What's he doing in there?"

Video by Meade, on the shore of Lake Mendota, today in the afternoon. We don't know what that man was doing out there in the water. Perhaps limnology. 

Later, I had no idea Meade was making this video of me, traipsing about in the forest:

 

"President Trump, who has long railed against mail-in voting — including on Monday, when he called it 'mail-in-cheating' — used the method himself in a Florida special election scheduled to take place on Tuesday."

I'm reading "Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail/President Trump has long fixated on mail-in voting to bolster his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. But he recently used the method in a Florida special election."

What do you think?

It's hypocrisy

It's not hypocrisy

 

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"Am I being performative?"

AND: "Marine destroys woke college professor."

With the Corgis taking the lead....

"It seems that the seven dogs stolen from their owners escaped from an illegal transport truck and made their way back home. They say that [with the Corgis taking the lead], they crossed highways and fields together, traveling about 17 km to return to their respective homes" (translated from the Japanese).

所有者から盗まれた7匹の犬が、違法な輸送トラックから脱走して家にかえったらしい。
彼らは【コーギーがリーダーとなり】高速道路や野原を横断して約17kmを一緒に旅してそれぞれの家に帰宅したんだって

もう一度言う･･
【コーギーがリーダー】pic.twitter.com/qeUMTeVpbh

— コーギーつむぎ🧂🍞 (@corgi_tumugi) March 24, 2026

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"The American Cornhole League said in 2023 that Webber was a 'shining example of our slogan — anyone can play, anyone can win.'"

That's the last line of a Fox10 article with the headline "Quadruple-amputee cornhole player accused of shooting man to death during argument."

Dayton James Webber, 27, is a professional cornhole player. He was 10 months old when he had a blood infection that cost him his limbs.

It's hard to picture a quadruple amputee shooting a gun, but we are told that he was also driving a car, he shot the front-seat passenger, and there were also backseat passengers, and when they got out of the car and declined to pull the victim out of the car for him, Webber drove off with the victim still in the front seat.

And so it goes for the shining example of the notion that anyone can do anything.

By the way, who knew there was a professional cornhole league?

"This is not about providing deterrence. A blind 88-year-old man can’t leave his house."

Said the lawyer for Bill Cosby, arguing against punitive damages, in "Bill Cosby Loses Sex Assault Lawsuit and Faces a $59 Million Judgment A California jury found that Mr. Cosby had abused Donna Motsinger in 1972 after inviting her to attend one of his comedy shows" (NYT).

The jury awarded $19.25 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive damages.

Motsinger testified that Cosby gave her "a pill that had left her incapacitated." Cosby did not testify.

"To lead a better life..."

She was great as the girlfriend to male comedians — Lenny Bruce and W.C. Fields — but she's also perfect as the mother of The Village People....

Goodbye to Valerine Perrine.

NYT obituary: "Valerie Perrine, Screen Siren Who Won Critical Acclaim, Dies at 82/Known early on for skin-baring temptress roles, she later earned rave reviews, a Cannes award and an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Lenny Bruce biopic 'Lenny.'"

Sunrise — 6:46, 6:57.

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"OnlyFans was launched in 2016, the same year as TikTok, and started out by connecting models directly with fans to sell them photos and videos."

"Where pornography had mostly been viewed for free on online sites, OnlyFans developed a subscription-based model for creators with their own OnlyFans accounts, with most being sex workers. In 2021, OnlyFans banned sexually explicit video content on its site as it looked to bring on outside investors and responded to requests from banking partners and payment providers, including major credit card suppliers."

From "OnlyFans Owner Leonid Radvinsky Dies at 43/The adult entertainment platform owner ran the company since 2018 and passed away after a battle with cancer" (Hollywood Reporter).

The link on "banned sexually" goes to the 2021 article "'Am I Going to Lose My House?': OnlyFans’ Pivot Leaves Adult Content Creators With Fewer Options/As the social platform unveils a ban of sexually explicit content starting in October, sex workers say the company is placing them back in a financially precarious position that they had previously gotten out of because of the platform" (Hollywood Reporter).

I'd never noticed this ban until now, mixed in with the news of the death of the man who got very rich building the platform and who died at the age of 43.

UPDATE: This post seems like a deliberate trick to lure readers into revealing their familiarity with OnlyFans! It was only after posting that I realized that Hollywood Reporter was bad at reporting the complete facts. Neither the new article nor the 2021 article revealed that the ban was never implemented. I suspect it's because of an assumption that its readers know what goes on at OnlyFans. I knew enough to write "I'd never noticed this ban until now." I never noticed what was not there to be noticed. Noted.

I'm reading "How a Family of 3 Lives on $500,000 on the Upper West Side" in The New York Times.

Excerpt:

Their household income is roughly $500,000 per year. While they make a good living, they try to be frugal and are saving money to buy an apartment. They moved into their roughly 800-square-foot rental eight years ago when it was just them and their dog, Peabody, a Maltese poodle. Now their son’s crib is steps away from their bed. They installed a curtain between the bed and the crib to keep the light out.... Since they share a room with their son, he often wakes them up around 5 a.m. 'In the sweetest and most adorable way,' Ms. Gossai said.

They make $500,000! $500,000 and they've got a makeshift curtain separating their baby from their bed and are resorting to framing the situation as adorable. 

I wonder how much thinking went into referring to the dog as a "Maltese poodle," rather than a "Maltipoo." Is this a sign of the great turn against the -oodle? Or is this run-of-the-mill resistance to cutesiness?

"Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop truck 1. Stop."

How does this happen?

"I am pleased to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations..."

"... regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Writes President Donald J. Trump at Truth Social. He's got it in all caps. He's shouting it from the rooftop, I guess. That doesn't make it true, but I hope it's true.

UPDATE: "Oil Prices Tumble and Stocks Rise as Trump Backs Off Threats to Iran Infrastructure" (NYT)("Despite Tehran responding to Mr. Trump by saying that no such talks were taking place, the gains in stocks and drop in oil mostly held").

Moby was "taken aback at how unevolved" The Kinks were.

Here's Moby (in The Guardian):

Lola by the Kinks came up on a Spotify playlist, and I thought the lyrics were gross and transphobic. I like their early music, but I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are.

Here's the Wikipedia article for "Lola" and here are the lyrics. You know them: "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls/It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world/Except for Lola," etc. etc. Video here.

Dave Davies deigned to respond: the X response from Dave Davies: "I am highly insulted that MOBY would accuse my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in any way."

Unevolved!

I thought The Kinks wanted to be unevolved! 

That's "Apeman," my favorite track on the 1970 album, "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One." That's also, obviously, where you'll find the more familiar track, "Lola."

What's so great about evolution?

Sunrise — 6:34, 6:55.

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