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August 28, 2025

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MadTownGuy said...: #4: When morning gilds the skies ...; 8/28/25, 6:29 PM
TickTock1948 said...: The first pic is magical.; 8/28/25, 6:38 PM
mezzrow said...: These (and yesterday's) pictures have been stunners, Althouse. We all want to see one of these, but you have to drag yourself out there with a measure of faith to see the ad from God when it actually drops.

Thanks for doing the work. The sunsets are easier from my venue.; 8/28/25, 6:38 PM
Narr said...: They're all good; 1 and 4 are intense.; 8/28/25, 6:53 PM
Jaq said...: I saw a bald eagle flying overhead, then a little while later, I was sitting on the screen porch and I heard a couple of wing beats coming from high in the oak next door, and a bird big enough to be that eagle drops out of the tree and then there were the squeaks of an excited chipmunk, which I am assuming were its last words. Help yourself to as many as you like, Mr Eagle.; 8/28/25, 7:04 PM
Big Mike said...: I understand that the MSM noted that the Robin-the-trans-child-killer had written "Trump" on one of his guns. Were the New York Times and Washington Post among them? Because this afternoon I learned that what Robin-the-trans-child-killer actually wrote was "Kill Donald Trump." I think this maybe means he wasn't MAGA.; 8/28/25, 7:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Stay glassy Lake Mendota. @5:55; 8/28/25, 7:21 PM
Gospace said...: Do you believe men can become woman and vice versa? If you answer yes- you're mentally ill and should be institutionalized. And therein lies a problem

We now have a SC justice who stated during her confirmation hearings that she's not a biologist and can't define male and female. Or maybe man and woman- immaterial. And- she was CONFIRMED!!! Either she was lying-or she's stupid. (The two aren't mutually exclusive.) If subsequently you have voted for any senator who voted for her confirmation- you're part of the problem. That that answer didn't result in a unanimous rejection of her as a SC justice is a tragedy.

We're all being much too polite in not standing up for common sense. Someone (probably an AWFL) tell you their kid is trans? Don't hem and haw, tell them loudly, especially if others are around- "Your child isn't trans! Your child is mentally ill! And you're enabling it. You're either evil or stupid!" Then walk away from them. Don't even acknowledge it's worth debating- it's not.

The doctors who do operations that they know won't change someone's sex? Every one of them, without exception, no matter how much good they may have done otherwise, is a peer of Dr. Mengele and his Japanese counterpart Shirō Ishii. And need to be told so. Their medical licenses should be revoked. Unfortunately, not possible to jail them without an unconstitutional ex post facto law. Shrinks who encourage the trans movement? Their medical licenses should be suspended- and they should be prohibited from working with any minors in the future.

Did you vote for Tim Walz? You're part of the problem, and should be ashamed of yourself. Gavin Newsom? Same. Any politician who proudly supports the trans community? The same. Sometimes to get rid of a problem- you have to make yourself a one issue voter, regardless of ho much you hate the other guy. As Heinlein said (paraphrased)- sometimes you cannot find a reason to vote for any candidate- but you can always find a reason to vote against someone. Have a reason- and vote AGAINST people.

Doesn't have to be this issue. Want illegal immigrants gone? Vote against anyone fighting for their non-existent right to be here.

Against censorship? Don't vote for people who support it. Which, BTW, is the Democrats (fine/imprison people for misgendering or using the N word- unless they're black) not Republicans (keep pornography out of school libraries- that's not censorship as previous understood).

A lot of people (supposedly according to surveys) are one issue voters on gun control. Some vote against politicians supporting gun control, some vote only for those same politicians. I suspect the former group is larger. And getting larger.

We, as a society, are entirely too polite to people who spout off inanities, and we need to stop.; 8/28/25, 7:31 PM
Enigma said...: @Big Mike: The coverage at Zerohedge had pictures of the anti-Trump writing on his weapons from the start.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/demonic-minneapolis-shooter-im-tired-being-trans-i-wish-i-never-brain-washed-myself; 8/28/25, 7:32 PM
Hassayamper said...: The brave young Scottish girl who defended her little sister from Muslim sex-pests with an axe and a large knife, resulting in her arrest, now has a GiveSendGo campaign that has raised well over 30,0000 pounds for her legal defense. It's called Justice for Lola and Ruby, and as best I can tell, it seems to be legitimate.

Memes depicting this young lady as Boudica or Joan of Arc are all over social media, and are fomenting a harsh reappraisal of the bizarre British prohibition on self-defense and the desirability of immigration from Third World shitholes. The worthless, wicked Starmer regime is terrified of what it might lead to.

Please donate generously, and spread the word to friends and family, especially in the UK. Let's push British patriots to rise up en masse, and become ungovernable by the leftist scum.; 8/28/25, 7:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: Made a tandem parachute jump today, beautiful weather, went thru a little cloud. I did some jumping with canopy chutes in college years go but the new wing chutes are fantastic.

As Martin Mull said, that’s a borderline thrill.; 8/28/25, 7:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: You know what a trial is, don't you?

No 'I am here!' assurances from the significant other.; 8/28/25, 7:41 PM
Narr said...: Over a month ago I saw two green hummingbirds outside my window, and my wife and I made some sugar water for them.

It was weeks or a month early for them, but we were glad to see them and looked forward to a long season . . . and we haven't seen one since.

A no hummer bummer summer.; 8/28/25, 7:49 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Headline: "Catholic Schools Begged for Tiny Security Budget from State - Walz, Dems Refused Despite $17 Billion Surplus and Similar Grants to Public Schools"; 8/28/25, 8:02 PM
paminwi said...: Gospace @ 7:31 Spot on!; 8/28/25, 8:22 PM
wildswan said...: The CDC is in the news because sveral top scientists have quit claiming that an impeccable scientific record is being dragged in the dust by RFK Jr's vaccine investigations. Impeccable record?
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was led by Raymond Vonderlehr from 1932 to 1943. His next big job was as the first head of the CDC (1947 to 1951) when the CDC was first organized by the combination of several USPHS agencies. We aren't surprised to learn that the CDC, following Vondelehr's lead disregarded the horror of the ongoing "scientific research" on syphilis at Tuskegee. This "scientific research" continued from 1932 to 1972 to harm the men involved and resulted in the spread of syphilis to women whom the men knew and even to several children. Nor did the CDC prevent or criticize the work of John Charles Cutler of the USPHS who led a team in Guatemala (1946-1948) which deliberately infected 1300 people with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid without their consent. This "scientific research" was exposed in 2010 without any assistance from the CDC. (Cutler later worked on the Tuskegee Study and was considered a distinguished leader in public health research until the Guatemalan and Tuskegee research was exposed in 2010.)
ttps://www.bostonreview.net/articles/reverby-our-man-guatemala/#:~:text=Cutler%2C%20a%20physician%20with%20the,and%20gonorrhea%20without%20their%20consent.

As Reverby points out much of the scientific research which our tax dollars pay for is done overseas - sometimes under conditions or in ways which would not be acceptable in the US itself.

As we know, the Wuhan Lab was partially funded by the HHS through NIH and it was doing research banned in the US and doing it under unsafe conditions by US standards.

In short, we count on wonderful medical discoveries from the scientific research we fund but we can also count on researchers who cut corners or exploit vulnerable people for the purposes of their own scientific ambitions. And it's a fact that the scientific establishment at the CDC has a very poor track record in discovering these exploiters. Under RFK Jr. we can hope for some solid scientific studies into the many many vaccines which the CDC is promoting as standard. And we can expect opposition to any such studies.

Opposition is good if the opponents bring forward arguments from science. Maybe not so good if they simply claim "authority" and "expertise" while quitting the battle. Authoritarian science is not science at all. It's fake science, just something the media can enjoy foaming over about for awhile. Raymond Vondelehr smiles.; 8/28/25, 8:22 PM
phantommut said...: That first shot is... wow.; 8/28/25, 8:25 PM
Jupiter said...: Hey! Some good news at last! The police in Scotland have finally tracked down and arrested the 14-year-old girl who cut the balls off of every white man in the UK! Just a matter of solid police work and scum migrant provacateurs. You go, Dhimmis!; 8/28/25, 8:36 PM
Big Mike said...: @Enigma, with respect, ZeroHedge is scarcely "Mainstream Media."; 8/28/25, 8:37 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: "No comment, said Ms. Muncheausen."

To nobody's surprise who is paying attention, the mother of the Minneapolis school shooter (not the one Gov. Walz hired to do assassinations, the other one) ... is refusing to assist police in their investigation of how she turned her kid into a child-killer by pumping him so full of female hormones and trying to turn him into a woman that he decided to kill himself also.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/minneapolis-school-shooters-mother-mary-grace-westman-not-cooperating-with-cops/

These fucking whackjob Democrat whores need to be brought to justice or it's just going to keep happening.; 8/28/25, 8:39 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Looks like the Trump referendum is happening at the CDC.

What a time to be a virus.; 8/28/25, 8:42 PM
Lazarus said...: Hakeem shows us the way.

From now on, to avoid charges of incitement to violence, politicians will tell their supporters to "Fart! Fart hard! Fart like hell! Fart! Fart! Fart!"

Followed by a demonstration by Eric Swalwell.; 8/28/25, 8:46 PM
Political Junkie said...: Kak - The Ultimate Virus.; 8/28/25, 8:58 PM
Big Mike said...: From Bill Ackman, on X:

On the topic of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, there is a long history of Fed Governors who had relatively minor ethical or legal infractions who resigned in light of the importance of unimpeachable probity for those who serve in this important position.

It is either true or false that Governor Cook misrepresented her primary residence status on one or more mortgage applications. The evidence put forth publicly by
@pulte
strongly suggests that she lied on one or more mortgage applications, in other words, mortgage fraud.

It should be straightforward for Governor Cook to disprove the alleged fraud and it shouldn’t require a team of lawyers and litigation to do so. She just needs to answer a simple question:

Did she or didn’t she sign an affidavit declaring that the subject properties were her primary residences? Yes or no.

Whether President
@realDonaldTrump
has the technical legal authority to terminate Gov Cook is not that relevant in my view. What matters here is whether a Fed governor has committed mortgage fraud or not. It is not a political question. It is a question of fact.

Governor Cook should immediately put forth the facts to clear her name or she should resign in the best interests of the integrity of our financial system. The sooner this occurs, the better for her and our country.

I’m pretty sure Lisa Cook doesn’t much care about this country, but perhaps she should care about her own reputation.; 8/28/25, 9:32 PM
Aggie said...: @Big Mike: "...I’m pretty sure Lisa Cook doesn’t much care about this country, but perhaps she should care about her own reputation. ...."

Her opposition to resigning, and the silence instead of refuting the claims, suggest that all of her reputation is wrapped up in her current assignment, and without that position, she has nothing else to offer.

How is it that people who have been fired by their boss think they can simply choose to remain on, instead? It's the same with this CDC lady. As if that's an option, as if any working relationship is still possible. There seems to be an endemic condition of over-estimating one's worth and importance, also one's authority in the scheme of things.; 8/28/25, 9:39 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Prediction: Federal district court judge will grant temporary restraining order in favor of Lisa Cook shortly.; 8/28/25, 9:43 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: England is a great example of what happens to a citizenry once disarmed. The become something... not even worthy of pity. That video of a young men led away because he said "I love bacon" or other, i forget the exact words. The crowd there should have rallied and started chanting "I love bacon, you love bacon, we love bacon, morning, noon and night!"

But, that's not what happened. The cousins lack that fight, fight, fight, raised fist spirit, oozing out of Trump only minutes after getting his right ear shot off.; 8/28/25, 9:51 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "I love bacon, you love bacon, we love bacon, morning, noon and night!"
"I love bacon, you love bacon, we love bacon, morning, noon and night!"
"I love bacon, you love bacon, we love bacon, morning, noon and night!"

The hashtag is too long, but it's a catchy chant.; 8/28/25, 9:55 PM
Big Mike said...: @Aggie, someone took a look at her lawsuit against the a President of the United States. He noted something interesting:

“At no point in her 24-page lawsuit does Lisa Cook deny she committed mortgage fraud.”

I wonder why that is?; 8/28/25, 10:04 PM
buwaya said...: Instapundit brings up an oldie but a goodie -

https://eastbayexpress.com/rich-black-flunking-1/

John Ogbu was a big deal in the 1990s-early 2000s, in probably the last era when the black-white academic performance gap was honestly evaluated. Its no coincidence that Ogbu was a Nigerian (Ibo/Igbo) academic who was black but separate from American racial tribalism. He concluded that the performance gap was unlikely to be the result of external/input factors, but rather cultural/inherent factors, and so unlikely to be amenable to public policy solutions - of which there was already a decades-long history of failure. This was broadly rejected by the educational establishment.
Ogbu latched on to the very last plausible explanation, other than biological hardware, and even that was unacceptable.

This is, or was, much more significant for American culture than it might seem at first glance. Its not just about K-12 grades or NAEP scores. It was the total failure of academic research to find a solution to that which was presented as THE principal American problem, that created the last two generations of bitter hostility. It, more than anything, prompted the exterminating rage of the intellectual class against the entire US. The US, by not having a solution to what was evidently an intractable fact of nature, deserved utter destruction. The bitterness that Andreessen noted in the post-college generation -

"By 2013, the median newly arrived Harvard kid was like: “[expletive] it. We’re burning the system down. You are all evil. White people are evil. All men are evil. Capitalism is evil. Tech is evil.”
Douthat: But they’re working for you. These are people who are working for you.
Andreessen: Of course. So I had this moment with a senior executive, who I won’t name, but he said to me with a sense of dawning horror, “I think some of these kids are joining the company not with the intent of doing things for us but destroying us.”

The ONE goal that could not be, made an intellectual generation dedicated to total destruction of everything.; 8/28/25, 10:07 PM
Original Mike said...: According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Americans consume an average of 2.4 burgers per day,

How is that possible? Did they slip a decimal place?; 8/28/25, 10:08 PM
Mr. T. said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/28/25, 10:13 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Prediction: Federal Marshals will arrest Lisa Cook for trespassing on federal property (a felony) shortly.; 8/28/25, 10:13 PM
Mr. T. said...: Kakhack/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetroll said:

"What a time to be a virus."

Leftism is a virus. An opportunistic, parasitic, hemorrhagic lytic.

A virulent societal plague.

It is to the body politik what HIV is to the biological body.; 8/28/25, 10:14 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "I love bacon, you love bacon, morning, noon and night!"
"I love bacon, you love bacon, morning, noon and night!"
"I love bacon, you love bacon, morning, noon and night!"

The chant was too long also.; 8/28/25, 10:15 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: How is that possible? Did they slip a decimal place?

Easy:

You see, in 2022, an obscure website named Quartz claimed that Americans will eat 222 pounds of beef in 2018. It cited a USDA estimate (not actual numbers) of food availability in that year. Yahoo News then stole that story so it could sell advertising around it.

It's all just bullshit, wrapped in horseshit designed to do nothing but get you to click on it. Lo and behold, it worked. In that way, a bunch of dumb advertisers were defrauded by a "metric" called "engagement."

They used to call these "ratings" but then computers came along and it became very apparent to advertisers that Nielsen "ratings" were a fancy way of robbing them. So now they get robbed this way.

So, no, Americans don't eat 2.4 hamburgers a day.

Wasn't that easy?; 8/28/25, 10:27 PM
Aggie said...: @Big Mike not only that, I am seeing information now that there is a third property that was given a mortgage under false terms as well. We shall see how it unfolds.; 8/28/25, 10:29 PM
BudBrown said...: Wonderful pics.; 8/28/25, 11:21 PM
Achilles said...: Original Mike said...

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Americans consume an average of 2.4 burgers per day,

How is that possible? Did they slip a decimal place?

About right for me.

Probably a weekly total or something like that for most.; 8/28/25, 11:31 PM
Saint Croix said...: The cops in the UK must be fucking insane.

While walking in their local community. Lola (12), Ruby (13) and Mayah (13) were accosted by two adult foreign nationals. The foreign nationals were directing inappropriate sexual remarks at Lola. When Lola and her sister told the migrants to leave them alone and go away Ruby was viciously attacked by the adult female, yanked to the ground by her hair and both migrants proceeded to kick Ruby in the head on the ground. Seeing her sister being beaten senselessly on the ground, Lola retrieved an axe and a knife and bravely scared off the attackers, saving her sister. This is when the foreign national decided to film the aftermath which went viral on social media. In the video you can hear Lola telling the attackers to go away and leave her sister alone. Ruby was hospitalized after the attack with a severe concussion a tennis ball sized lump to the back of her head as well as lots of bruises. Unfortunately rather than arrest the attackers, the local police decided to arrest Lola instead.

I've seen the video. My reaction upon watching the video, was to wonder why this little girl was carrying around such a large weapon. And why was the man behind the camera mocking her and telling her to show him the knife. What the fuck is going on? That was my reaction to the video.

Now that the video has been placed in context, and we find out what happened before the video was shot, it all makes sense. Her sister was attacked by an adult woman. She ran home to get a weapon. And she chased the attacker off.

Apparently, the UK police believes in disarming citizens and allowing rapes of underage children. How do you miss the injuries to a child, committed by an adult? How do you skip over that and say, "no crime"?

I have zero sympathy for the police in the UK, as they apply their double standard of law. Ignore violent crimes by "migrants," while you tell British people to shut up and get fucked.; 8/28/25, 11:40 PM
Saint Croix said...: correction: the girl was attacked by the woman, and the man, who were both viciously kicking her in the head; 8/28/25, 11:42 PM
Iman said...: “What a time to be a virus.”

Don’t be too overconfident, kak. They’ve developed medications to get rid of you.; 8/28/25, 11:57 PM
Saint Croix said...: He concluded that the performance gap was unlikely to be the result of external/input factors, but rather cultural/inherent factors

From your link, it wasn't at all "inherent," and 100% cultural.

The kids weren't doing their homework, and they were resisting the academic structure and the assignments.

It's not racial at all. I did the same thing.; 8/29/25, 12:19 AM
Saint Croix said...: He concluded that the performance gap was unlikely...to be amenable to public policy solutions - of which there was already a decades-long history of failure. This was broadly rejected by the educational establishment.

The educational establishment is authoritarian in mindset. It has designed a classroom with one authority (the teacher). And there are indoctrination materials. Your job as a student is to memorize what the authority tells you, and regurgitate it for the test.

So that's a big problem with our educational system, in my opinion. I believe in school choice and empowering parents to find the best schools for their children.

Instead of fixing the problem -- the authoritarianism of our education establishment -- they just decided to update the indoctrination materials with an explicitly racist worldview.; 8/29/25, 12:53 AM
Saint Croix said...: Prediction: Federal Marshals will arrest Lisa Cook for trespassing on federal property (a felony) shortly.

Prediction: Trespassing is not a felony, it is a misdemeanor, and FLC is full of shit (again).

Shall we look it up?; 8/29/25, 1:12 AM
gadfly said...: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had to face reporters and defend the decision. His best answer? The Cowboys traded Micah Parsons, an all-world pass-rusher on a Hall-of-Fame trajectory, to *checks notes* improve their run defense.

"We need to stop the run," said Jones. "We haven't been able to stop the run at key times for several years. When you have the kind of extraordinary pass rush that Micah had, then the way to mitigate that pass rush is to run at you."; 8/29/25, 2:23 AM
john mosby said...: Gospace: "Unfortunately, not possible to jail [trans-ing doctors] without an unconstitutional ex post facto law."

I am not sure about that. I think the plain old battery or mayhem statute should suffice. Sure, doc could offer affirmative defenses: the medical board specifically recommends the techniques, Obamacare pre-approved payment for the operations, etc.

But imagine, as many commenters here have, that instead of cutting off wieners for psychological health, docs were cutting off legs for the same. No jury would accept that, no matter how many medical boards endorse trans-disablism or whatever it's called.

People keep saying "following orders is no excuse." Time to make them live by it. RR, JSM; 8/29/25, 4:16 AM
john mosby said...: Ref Igbo scholar and b/w school performance differentials: Individualized AI instruction will finally solve this. RR, JSM; 8/29/25, 4:23 AM
Enigma said...: @Big Mike: "ZeroHedge is scarcely "Mainstream Media.""

Times change. The standards for "mainstream" change. Sometimes influential outlets become "failing legacy establishments" too. See the Associated Press and MSNBC.

For some reason Zerohedge has an insider pipeline and routinely publishes facts before most others. They were expressly targeted by the Mary Poppins crew during the Biden Regime, but then invited to the White House on May 6, 2025.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zerohedge-white-house-certain-people-know-exactly-who-blew-nord-stream-trump-says

Don't read their comments section, however. That content is mostly toxic bile.; 8/29/25, 4:59 AM
Humperdink said...: You’re correct Enigma. I read Zero Hedge everyday. Great site. Unfortunately the comment section is anti-Semite central.; 8/29/25, 5:13 AM
Humperdink said...: What’s the fuss all about? Recall the Biden administration’s FBI was spying on the Catholic Church. The trans shooter was just executing policy. He/ she just got carried away.; 8/29/25, 5:21 AM
Rocco said...: Humperdink said...
“What’s the fuss all about? Recall the Biden administration’s FBI was spying on the Catholic Church. The trans shooter was just executing policy. He/she just got carried away.”

Accurate choice of words there.; 8/29/25, 5:57 AM
Rocco said...: Lazarus said...
“Hakeem shows us the way.

From now on, to avoid charges of incitement to violence, politicians will tell their supporters to "Fart! Fart hard! Fart like hell! Fart! Fart! Fart!"

Followed by a demonstration by Eric Swalwell.”

Cory Booker can join and say “I am Fartacus.”; 8/29/25, 6:05 AM
Humperdink said...: Two days before the trans mentally ill guy shot up the Catholic Church/ school, Minnie Governor Tim Walz was hailing Minnesota as a trans-sanctuary state (via Hotair). The Catholic Church not so much.; 8/29/25, 6:22 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Serious question. Why do we fund medical research overseas? Aren’t we competent to do it ourselves? If not, why not.; 8/29/25, 6:50 AM
Enigma said...: @Jersey Fled: "Why do we fund medical research overseas?"

IMO, it's for a few reasons:

1. Work-around for research that's illegal or likely to be politically scrutinized in the US. Consider Wuhan for virus gain-of-function and Ukraine for NATO military applications.

2. The global university culture routinely collaborates and shares resources. See CERN, LIGO, the ISS, and other mega projects. Follow hundreds of years of serious science, useful research today is extremely expensive and the experts are distributed randomly around the world. Most of the cheap and easy wins were accomplished long, long ago.

3. You rub my back and I'll rub yours. Corruption, patronage, dependence, and preserving the in-group hegemony. It's hard to be taken seriously by researchers unless you have a name-brand pedigree. Some researchers are passionate only about tenure and getting their next government grant.; 8/29/25, 7:58 AM
Original Mike said...: "You’re correct Enigma. I read Zero Hedge everyday. Great site."

Me too. re: the comments section, I didn't even know they had one.; 8/29/25, 8:18 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Over a month ago I saw two green hummingbirds outside my window, and my wife and I made some sugar water for them. It was weeks or a month early for them, but we were glad to see them and looked forward to a long season . . . and we haven't seen one since."

I keep seeing a hummingbird through the big window in front of my desk. I don't know if it's the same hummingbird that keeps returning or different hummingbirds that are always alone, but they are attracted by a small sun-shaped ornament that is hanging from the top of the window, on the inside. Perhaps it looks like a flower to them... or a feeder. Meade told me to take the ornament down, on the theory that it's wrong to confuse them, but I don't know if it's keeping other birds from flying into the window. Birds do fly into the other windows from time to time.; 8/29/25, 8:28 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Lowest Labor Day gasoline prices since 2020.; 8/29/25, 8:48 AM
Original Mike said...: Some years we have a robin who incessantly pecks on our windows. This happens during nesting season. Our two theories are it sees its own reflection or it's trying to drive us away.

re: hummingbirds, we see them constantly in our garden.; 8/29/25, 8:51 AM
Narr said...: Some years ago we had a bird--not sure what species, maybe a grackle--that kept up a steady assault against one of our dining room windows for several weeks.

I finally taped some newspaper up to eliminate the reflection (there was no attraction inside) that I assumed was the problem, but by that time it was getting to be autumn and the birds left so I'm not sure I solved the problem or Nature did.

Our worst bird issues have been when one traps itself in one of the kitchen vents. That happened twice at our old house and once here.; 8/29/25, 9:38 AM
Jersey Fled said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/29/25, 10:18 AM
Leland said...: Lowest Labor Day gasoline prices since 2020.

But grocery prices...

(just ignore that grocery prices that are rising, such as beef and chicken, are based on decisions made about livestock at least a year ago).; 8/29/25, 1:26 PM
Kakistocracy said...: RFK Jr. says you shouldn’t get a Covid vaccine. All doctors and research results say you should. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.; 8/29/25, 2:59 PM