The "Visual Intelligence" button on my phone informed me that they were redstarts. Redstarts! Never heard of them. And I say "them" because they're both there, male and female. The female is hard to see, but as The Beatles observed long ago, that means she's good looking.
I got a second outing, to the front yard, which is heavily shaded now. I sat on the bench and read a book — read it 3 times. Almost understood it.
Write about anything you want in the comments. Did you get outside 2 or 3 times? Did you read any books cover to cover, multiple times?
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Read 18 books today. Scored par on 9 of them. They lay in front of me - each a mystery waiting to unfold. How will I get through them? How will they end? Although I have been to this library many times, each book is different every time I read them.
Oh ... also not even Grok can figure out what book you are reading in your photo.
Gorey
Some prudent advice from a warrior...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/04/lt-general-michael-flynn-has-strong-advice-for-president-donald-trump-regarding-russia-ukraine-conflict/
I got out three times. On the third, I found the woodchuck is using the neighbor's porch again. Curses!!!
When it comes to fiction, I've more or less switched over to audiobooks which makes it difficult to read/reread given the time involved. With non-fiction, I rarely reread.
I will, if my wife doesn't want to do something and I have time, rewatch a movie on DVD. I just did that with "The Chase" with Marlon brando. Its fun go re-watch and see all the flaws and good parts and think about why it was so good or so bad.
In the case, of "The Chase" I had to rewatch just to catch all of Brando's dialogue. "Mumbles" as Sinatra named him, uses a hokey "southern" accent which makes it difficult to make out the the words. He got off several witty put-downs and comebacks that became clear on re-watch.
The movie itself is a Hollywood hymn of hate to the South of 1966. Everyone in this small Texas Town, except for Brando and Angie dickinson (hubbahubba), is a drunk, or a racist, or a tramp, or a religious nut, or a gossip, or a violent lout.
Robert Redford plays "Bad Boy" Bubber, about as well as you'd expect. Best acting award goes to Janice Rule, as the drunken sharp-tongued shrew and adulterer who dominates meek slimey Robert Duvall.
The Willowdale Handcar is the towering apex of American literature. And it has pictures!
Got outside for many hours today (with the wife and son). Went to one of our favorite snake spots, found three species (along with some frogs, toads, salamanders, hellgramites, and crayfish). Got the trifecta with the queen snakes - peed on, pooped on, and (almost) puked on. The first two are their standard defense mechanism. The third one I feel bad about - apparently it had recently eaten and the stress of being picked up induced vomiting. That's actually really not good for the snake, so I feel a bit guilty. Also saw a beaut of a rat snake, which might be the most chill snake to come across. And some watersnakes, who were their usual grumpy selves, so we tend to look without touching those guys (unless they're pretty small).
I know we have a weird hobby, but my son is not a sports kid, and this gets him outside. Poking around in a creek on a beautiful day beats sitting through an 11-year-old baseball game, I'd say.
Mr. black and Mrs. Greene
One was invisible
But the other could be seen.
I was amazed that such small birds as "redstarts" are migratory. They winter in South America and Caribbean. O' lucky birds.
Yes. Went out to the land, walked the property. We're installing a new water crossing on a deep-cut stream, and the 8 ft culvert has been dropped off, but no activity today. Changed the batteries and memory chips in the game cams, and reviewed some of the photos: A bobcat has visited twice, a black-footed fox, lots of deer, and the odd dog and cat. A stray calf which apparently has been recovered. And ourselves, of course.
Then, added a couple of honey supers to the better-performing hives, which have already filled up their own. Looks like it might be a decent year for honey ! Red clover and hairy vetch and bee balm all still going strong during this nectar flow season, among the rest of the wildflowers.
Still work regularly, so don’t get out much during the weekday. However, going to Austin tomorrow. It has been awhile since I’ve been there. Unfortunately, the Mothership is already sold out for the weekend. Fortunately, that means I’ll likely get outside more and explore.
Got lots of pictures of birds in Hawaii. Sometimes I wish I could post those pics (don’t want a social media account to do that). We took a few sunset photos that reminded me of the daily pics here. We get up early enough for sunrise but never can find a good spot to photograph those. The lake is a few door downs and to the east, but usually too many planes landing overhead for a great shot.
Money Manger is right--Gorey.
The art, the typography, and the prose fairly scream it.
Have never heard of Redstarts. You learn something new every day, if you are lucky.
Sloppy, choppy and dumpy surf due to adverse tropical conditions blowing up the coast. Watched the sun rise, peek a booing thru the clouds along the St Johns River. All kinds of birds - osprey, egrets, blue herons, cardinals, woodpeckers and humming birds all over our flower garden. Stormy all day. Just finished "An Englishman's Travels in America ( mid 19th century ) and then started Rick Atkinson's American Revolution trilogy the first book being "The British are Coming". At 8:15 pm the wind is huffing, the day is fading and we'll be queuing up Jeremy Clarkson's Farm season 4. The winds are swinging to offshore and grooming the surf as I type. Dawn Patrol tomorrow out to the North Jetties at Huegenot Park. On Surfari to stay.
A little yard work, a little grocery shopping, multiple swims in the pool… and a slow ride. I’m taking it easy.
After I downloaded that Merlin app, which I heard about here first, I found out that there were redstarts all over the place around here. They just seem to hang out in the canopy. I only knew them from when I was a kid, but here they are all around, so now I catch a glimpse, now and then. Same with vireos and yellow warblers, and right now there is a great crested flycatcher outside, which I have seen before, but I didn't know the call until I got Merlin. On my walk this morning, I head a black billed cuckoo, and I have heard him many times, but never seen him.
Took a bag of garbage to the can. Boom! Went outside.
Three hours clearing brush on the hunting land. Still picking away at a rather dense tome I bought while in England anticipating a rainy day or two. Not a drop in two weeks. It was weird.
Yesterday a little warbler had a head on
collision with out backdoor glass. Knocked it's ass out. He came to after a couple minutes, hung out another 5 and they took off for the nearest tree. https://photos.app.goo.gl/yWQAd2zzr5z8AZ4i7
The oldest living person in the world is Ethel Caterham of England, who was born on 21 August 1909. She is the last living person born in the decade of the 1900s. There are four living women born in 1910, and another five who were born in 1911. The world's oldest living man was born in 1912.
These are people whose earliest memories would be of the decade of the 1910s. Nobody alive remembers anything earlier. There are photographs and sound recordings from earlier times, as well as books, but other than historians, most people don't know anyone other than the most famous people of those times. Most people who were well-known in the 19th Century have been forgotten today.
Experiences and skills that were common then are unknown today. We have no need to know how to drive a horse-drawn carriage. We don't need to know how to light a whale-oil lamp and trim the wick, or how to feed a coal-burning stove. Live entertainment is an alternative today, but not the only entertainment available, as it was in the days before phonographs, radios and motion pictures.
And as Althouse noted earlier today, our future fate is to be as forgotten and as irrelevant as buggy whips and coal-burning stoves. People care about the recent history that they can remember. They tend to feel that they are the pinnacle of enlightenment. The past? It's boring and primitive compared to their morally superior culture. But just as many people now feel that way about the past, so will the people of the future feel about us. Many things change, but human nature does not.
The main difference is that now so much quality archival material is available. One reason that music from before the 1960s is less popular is that the sound quality of many of the recordings prior to that time was poor. Almost everything recorded since the 1970s sounds pretty good sound-wise, even if the material may be dreck.
I wonder if one of the things that AI may turn out to be useful for would be improving the quality of those ancient recordings that don't sound good.
Easy recovery day, sunny but cool, about 65 F. Recovery days I try to keep my hiking HR around 105, which means slow, 24 minute miles. Takes practice to go that slow, but I'm working on it :) Reviewed code, had a Zoom meeting, and outlined a presentation. I can't believe I volunteered to give a presentation, I should know better.
My acquaintance with redstart is as a crossword puzzle word.
I am planning a scenic train trip across Canada, and to avoid any ill-feeling I am practicing my Jordan Peterson Toronto accent. Some Canadians are upset that you-know-who threatened their delicate sovereignty. The sovereignty of the US derives from the consent of the governed, but Canadian sovereignty derives from the Crown. Considering the head that wears it these days, I'd be threatened, too.
I woke up to light rain and had a cuppa before heading off to the gym. Back in time before the rain started again and what developed into cats and dogs. Got some work done while waiting for freight deliveries- a replaced couch cushion and a new low pro espresso machine. I read a bunch on use then the reading devolved into yt videos understanding the brew process. I am now the exclusive house barista…
Merlin hasn’t picked up a restart but sometimes picks up seven or eight different species in a sixty second record in the am…
"Merlin hasn’t picked up a restart but sometimes picks up seven or eight different species in a sixty second record in the am…"
You can get that from a single mockingbird in the south. It's pretty amazing.
A conservative plumage. Shy, perhaps. I see her, too.
Took the loppers to do some maintenance on our mile and a half trail. For some reason I took my phone. So weird to hear a phone ring in the middle of the woods. Had a wonderful conversation with our daughter. Excellent day!
"Experiences and skills that were common then are unknown today. We have no need to know how to drive a horse-drawn carriage. We don't need to know how to light a whale-oil lamp and trim the wick, or how to feed a coal-burning stove."
And people alive today are trying to tell you they know what needs to be done (and what sacrifices you need to make) to deal with challenges in the next century.
From: "Aliens Cause Global Warming", by Michael Crichton:
Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport. And in 2000, France was getting 80% its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source, unknown in 1900. Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was. They didn’t know its structure. They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS. None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn’t know what you are talking about.
Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100. Tell me it’s even worth thinking about. Our models just carry the present into the future. They’re bound to be wrong. Everybody who gives a moment’s thought knows it.
Outside #1 with my coffee and morning meditations; outside #2 for my walk with the dog; outside #3 at lunch; outside #4 with a glass of wine for our evening catch-up; outside #5 for dinner. Might be outside once more before bed. It's a bit humid here in the Houston area, but still quite pleasant in the western 'burbs where we almost always have a breeze.
Redstarts in Wisconsin always signal the end of warbler migration. Like the yellow rumped warblers at the start of migration they're wonderful active birds near the ground.
Many of the spectacular ones (Blackburnian, for one) are treetop dwellers. We used to call redstarts the poor man's oriole as they're orange and don't need binocs to see fully.
Marlon Brando was from Omaha.
Is it true that president Autopen signed Fauci's pardon? I beg your pardon, I didn't promise you a redstart garden.
Trump might be on a pace to out-sign Biden's auto-pen. Reason for the pardon season. Trump's will be remembered as the Pardon Piñata Presidency.
I'm just going to say it. I don't like all the pardons. It undermines the rule of law. There. I got it off my chess, chest cheddar.
The only person telling the truth about the "Big beautiful bill" is Rand Paul. He likes Trump and supports Trump - but the bill is a financial mess.
The democrats - including the "PARDONED" Jan 6th frauds - are all lying about it.
The democrat party is nothing but Lying liars who lie.
I'm reading about the Mitford sisters. They were the 20th century Brontes. There were six sisters and four of them wrote books. It's a shame Unity Mitford never got to write her memoirs. She was most probably Hitler's lover. They had pet names for each other. She could make him giggle. You don't often think of Hitler giggling......Unity's middle name was Valkyrie. She was born in a town in Canada called Swastika. (I don't know if they've since changed it.) Unity though that she had a divine mission to make peace between Germany and England. Hitler who was into mysticism also thought it possible.....Not much has been written about their love affairs. It really doesn't fit into the Hitler brand. That's all for the good. There was a considerable power imbalance and Hitler was much older. If word got out, Hitler's reputation would take a hit. He might even be posthumously cancelled......Unity was not able to effect a peace treaty with Germany. When war was declared, she shot herself in the head. She didn't succeed in killing herself. She was in a coma for several weeks and when she came out of it, she was child like and incontinent. That's how she remained until she died a few years later.....Hitler had a thing for suicidal women. He visited her in the hospital, paid her bills,and, despite the war, arranged for her to be moved to Switzerland where her family could arrange passage back to England. It's fair to say that they truly loved each other, although this is not the kind of love story that inspires poets....Unity was a full on Nazi and actually participated in some of Hitler's crimes. Still, it's a very sad story, but it's hard to generate much catharsis or pity for the participants.
"Lem Vibe Banditory said...
I'm just going to say it. I don't like all the pardons. It undermines the rule of law. There. I got it off my chess, chest cheddar."
Last day in office, parden friends family, acquaintances, and everybody who voted for him .
Pardoned for all crimes, past, present, and future.
Precedent has been set-almost.
That should keep the courts busy for a while.
@William
That’s fascinating.
I asked Grok about Swastica Ontario:
Swastika, Ontario, has not permanently changed its name despite pressure to do so during and after World War II. The town, founded in 1908 and named after the Swastika Gold Mine, was targeted for a name change due to the symbol’s association with Nazism. In the early 1940s, the Ontario government attempted to rename it “Winston” in honor of Winston Churchill, reflecting wartime anti-Nazi sentiment. Residents resisted, tearing down the new signs and restoring the original name, famously adding a sign reading, “To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first!” This defiance preserved the name, rooted in the Sanskrit symbol for “good luck,” predating Nazi appropriation.
As of 2023, the town retains its name, with a population of about 500, and no further government-mandated changes have been enforced. However, debates persist, as seen in a 2021 petition urging a name change due to rising antisemitism, which gained attention but did not succeed.
"Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will swell US debt by $2.4tn, warns fiscal watchdog ~ FT
With a $2.4 trillion price tag, Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ is starting to sound less like legislation and more like an invoice to the future.
Musk exhorted Republican lawmakers to “KILL the BILL" on X, and he hasn't re-tweeted a neo-Nazi in weeks. Could he be the Resistance hero the Left so badly needs? 😉
@William— love the Mitford gals! Fell under their spell after visiting their ancestral home in burford in the Cotswolds. You can have lunch there— The Swan. It’s lovely. Glamorous pencil sketches of all six sisters hang over the fireplace. They are a mini series waiting to happen.
Video: This guy is walking 13,000kms for what he calls "The adventure of a lifetime".
There’s an upcoming miniseries about the Mitford sisters titled Outrageous. It’s a six-part British historical drama set to premiere on June 19, 2025, on BritBox in the United States and Canada, and on U&Drama in the United Kingdom. The series, written by Sarah Williams and based on Mary S. Lovell’s biography The Mitford Girls.
Also there’s a documentary - The Mitfords: A Tale of Two Sisters, available on Docubay available through Prime Video which focuses on Jessica (the communist) and Diana (the fascist).
I hope that miniseries will be available on BritBox in the US.
YouTube: "Am I the only one seeing a mishmash here?" - Dr John Campbell on mRNA and pregnant women.
"So many contradictions."
Currently reading Orlando Figes "The Crimean War:A History" on Amazon Kindle. It IS a military history, but the truly interesting bits, seeing as I know the military story in some depth from many other books, is the politico-social background of the whole mess, which is fascinating. One revelation - till now I never realized just how astute a stateswoman Queen Victoria was, not that she had all that much real power. As for books I have read more than once, I don't, usually. One that I have repeated is also by Orlando Figes, "Natashas Dance".
Reddit Video: The title of this video is "Refreshing"
After watching it, I asked myself, what if the minority pushing the radical trans agenda is much smaller than we believe? Small enough NOT to be able to accomplish so much so fast, without help from people in high places?
Keep asking questions.
Lem: Dr John Campbell missed the important findings about mRNA vaccines.
“Here’s the bottom line: mRNA vaccines for COVID, according to estimates from Yale School of Public Health, saved 3.2 million lives,” Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told ABC News.
“So instead of 1.2 million Americans who lost their life because of COVID, it would have been a 4.4 million,” he added. “So, I think it's unfortunate that anti-vaccine activists target mRNA vaccines like they do, but it is a good technology.”
The Department of Education just said in a statement it determined Columbia violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it “acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students.”
But the Trump adminstration ignored a similar complaint from jewish students against NYU alleging that, for years, —in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964— the school has acted with deliberate indifference to its hostile antisemitic educational environment in refusing to enforce its own policies which it readily applies to protect other victims of race, color, or national origin-based prejudice. Further, nearly every day since Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, plaintiffs and other Jewish students are forced to run a campus gauntlet of verbal and physical harassment, threats, and intimidation, including being taunted with disgusting antisemitic slurs; having their complaints ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting by the NYU administration and being subjected to anti-Jewish hate fests led by NYU students and faculty members extolling Hamas’s mass murder, rape and kidnapping and calling for the annihilation of Israel.
But, of course, Barron Trump attends NYU.
Yes I was outdoors -- sailboat race tonight! The local Corinthian Yacht Club puts on a series of 20 short Wednesday night races, starting in April through the end of August. ("Short" == 90 to 120 minute time limits.)
You always learn something, it's fun, you hang out with some great folks, and you're outside!
Oh,and did I mention sailboats?
The Big Beautiful Bill is NOT what I voted for. Where can I find a political party that is fiscally responsible? Trump is a clown and I vote for him if I think he is going to do the right thing. He is wiffing on this bill and I am happy Musk is calling him out.
@gadfly, how much did Pfizer pay Dr. Peter Hotez to spread that bullshit? How much are they paying you?
…’experts’ or ‘watchdogs’ claiming knowledge of the impact of new tax policy are just not credible. Economies are complex and dynamic while ‘accurate’ claims made to decimal places make static assumptions that no individual or business will alter their behavior as a result of the changes in policy which is absurd. Piling logic fallacies and innumeracy to make their case is not a credible strategy. Ignore them…they’re usually the same people making claims about market crashes and catastrophe because their favored politicians are not in power…
…that said the bill is crap. Congress loves spending and government spending counts towards gdp so Republicans would never hear the end of a negative number…so we’re all going down with the shit…
…the opportunity zones are a big mystery and probably a boondoggle for the signatories. The sports team provisions re: losses and amortization don’t impact anyone but our people but are changes what make owning a team less attractive…
I went outdoors for a walk with the dog, but the air quality index where I live was 150 due to the Canadian wildfires. So that, along with my seasonal allergies, made it uncomfortable, so I went back inside to read. I'm reading two books about Cyprus, which my wife and I will visit later this fall. Cyprus has a fascinating history.
I'm rereading "There Once Was a World" after 20+ years. That's a serious investment, as the book is 697 pp + notes, double columns. The author Yaffa Eliach was sick of Holocaust studies focused on death. She virtually re-created Eishyshok, the shtetl in Lithuania where she was born in 1937. The Nazis massacred its Jewish inhabitants in 1941 except for a handful that escaped.
My spouse Ann and I (of ten years duration, as of a month from now) have a tradition of reading aloud to each other, about a half-hour each day, while also viewing the Kindle version of the book (if available) on my 42" desktop TV.
Yesterday we read about half of Arthur C. Clarke's (2001: A Space Odyssey) story “Rescue Party”—his first published story, as Clarke once noted in chagrin as fans' effusive praise for it continued to roll in, many years later (implying he'd had gone downhill in his writing ever since), and indeed it's an old favorite of mine—from his collected (shorter) stories.
Every two or three days (unless it's a story or essay we can quickly finish) we'll rotate around to another in the list we're presently reading, which right now includes:
SF&F
• H. Beam Piper, Space Viking
• Jack Vance, Dragon Masters
• Andre Norton, Time Traders series: Galactic Derelict
• Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones (one of his so-called juveniles)
• Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings
• Poul Anderson, Flandry/Terran Empire series: “The Game of Glory” (just finished)
• Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (just finished)
Non-fiction
• Thomas Sowell, Controversial Essays
• Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I: The Birth of Britain
• Jacob Bronowski & Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition: “Thomas More”
Occasionally we'll read a mystery (e.g., Ellis Peters' Cadfael: the medieval monk detective).
After many years, I finally hit on how to get your best friend to read and enjoy one's old favorites: read them to her! Except we're reading new stories and books too.
Hey Botfly, anything to say about Biden’s FBI targeting Catholics as domestic terrorist and then lying about it to Congress? Or are you just pretending to care about fairness?
I saw that another activist Judge has blocked ICE from deporting the Egyptian family of the terrorist that his Visa and committed murder. The Judge claims their “constitutional rights” need to be protected.
I know Trump is questioning birthright citizenship, but when did citizenship become something you get for just stepping into the country? That Constitution the Judge thinks protects these Egyptians starts with “We the People of the United States. They have no constitutional right to be here.
Eva Marie said... @ 9:49
Canadians are an odd lot. From my time in Newfoundland I visited; Placentia Bay, Goobies, Dildo, Come by Chance, Little Hearts Ease and a host of others.
Brought forward from half a week back, whence it had gotten stuck in comment limbo…
Trump's harshest action against Putin to date…
…Was a JDAM [Joint Direct Attack Munition] that a U.S. B-52, accompanied by Finnish Air Force fighters, fired at a Finnish firing range only 100 miles from the Russian frontier on March 6, 2025.
Austin Bay in a piece posted on 2025-03-12 observes that Trump's pressure on Putin has begun. As Bay writes: {quoting…}
The Barents Observer reported on March 7 that on March 6, Finnish F/A-18 fighters escorted two USAF B-52s into the Arctic Circle on a so-called training mission. A video “by the Finnish Air Force, filmed from cockpit of a F/A-18, shows one of the B-52(s) releasing a guided JDAM bomb. Shortly after, a giant blast can be seen at a designated target in the taiga-forest within the Rovanjarvi firing range.”
{/unQuote}
Austin notes that, due to Ukraine's long reach utilizing potent drones (as indeed we just saw extended much further), Russia's strategic bomber force had previously been moved far away (but not far enough!) from Ukraine—up near the Barent's Sea and east of the Urals—where, however, they remain extremely vulnerable to U.S. (or really anybody's—viz. Nato) attack and destruction, if Putin doesn't accept the ceasefire and enter into peace negotiations. Whether he believes such an American attack is likely—remember this is the “unpredictable” Trump he's confronting—is irrelevant; Putin must face the possibility of such a strike.
Nothing had to be said publicly (or even privately) by the Trump administration for this message to be communicated loud and clear to Putin.
Althouse: I see that a comment I made half a week ago, which you just released from comment limbo—which I thereupon just reposted so folks reading recent postings could see it—is once again promptly put in comment limbo by Google. Could you please free it up again?
"She virtually re-created Eishyshok, the shtetl in Lithuania where she was born in 1937."
Lithuanians had to be dragged by the ear to celebrate the victory over Nazism. I think about that because of something kind of strange that happened in my high school Social Studies class. We were asked around the room about our heritage, and one girl said that her family was from Lithuania, and she offered out of the blue that "Lithuanians have the purest white blood in the world." None of this Moskol half breed genetic defilement by the rape by the Mongols for them! I bet if there were any Ukrainians in the room, and argument might have broken out about who had the purest blood
buwaya said...
"Currently reading Orlando Figes "The Crimean War:A History..."
Hey buwaya - good to "see" you here again!
"The Crimean War:A History..."
I hope I live long enough to see how it finally turns out.
"During a course for high school children in Miami-Dade County, students were assigned to complete a sexuality-focused questionnaire that asked a series of bizarre questions such as:
“What do you think caused your heterosexuality?”;
“Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?”;
and, “Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself?”
The above is front a questionnaire given by a college professor to high school students taking a class called “Preparing for Student Success,” was designed for students to develop academic goals and come up with strategies to succeed in college and offered in Miami-Dade County, an area that has turned red in recent years. - The Daily Wire
Thank you, Althouse!
@Michael McNeil, another fan of Jack Vance? Hooray! If you can find it, consider reading his “The Languages of Pao.”
mRNA vaccines for COVID, according to estimates from Yale School of Public Health, saved 3.2 million lives
Horseshit. There is absolutely no way of knowing that, let alone proving it.
"Nothing had to be said publicly (or even privately) by the Trump administration for this message to be communicated loud and clear to Putin."
What, that the US can wipe out bombers that are really only a threat to Europe. Non stealth, slow flying bombers, propeller driven, that can launch missies that can reach Europe, at best? It is already known that the US can start WW3 any time it pleases.
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