Lots of online time...
Animals
This is how chickens are meant to live...but if a human's not out there with them, they will not live this way for long. They're not cats. Their ancestors had poor survival skills in tropical Asia, and most of the survival skills they had have been bred out of them.
Cute Things
Meme for grandmothers; easily tweakable for aunts:
Health News
Do we need a category for "Schadenfreude"? A Snowflake-American writer is down with COVID. Again. Apparently he took a symptom-blocking medication two weeks ago when it started and, after a complete course of meds, feels sicker than before. If all the Illiberal Left had permanent COVID to stop them talking in public until they had admitted, publicly, that being prevented from talking in public is not a good thing, that would be an excellent thing. Unfortunately virus aren't smart enough to select that way. COVID is no longer a pandemic but it's still out there. The position of this web site is that we should respect everyone's right to do quarantine, for COVID or anything else that they may have or have been exposed to, and maintain a good healthy distance. You don't need a mask, veil, etc., if you maintain a healthy distance. Nice to have one if you can't. And yes, face coverings need to be changed, just as clothes do, whenever they start to feel damp. The position of this web site is that panics and lockdowns would have been a stupid idea if it had been tuberculosis.
"To promote the benefits of honey"...but nowadays it hasn't got any. At least, whatever benefits it has are outweighed by its toxicity.
Marketing
As major social media develop "filtering" policies to tell Big Business and Big Government what they want to hear, online reports of "what's trending" naturally lose touch with real people and become useless to businesses. Katherine Dee discusses why businesses need to demand an open, uncensored Internet--or cut their losses and not use the Internet at all.
Music
Pbird at HowToMeowInYiddish.blogspot.com has been fascinated with this song, and so have I. Part of the fascination is that the English subtitles are not a translation of the lyrics. They add context.
Can a man dance the Asturias in sport shoes? Of course not. When a man learns that kind of moves, it's called popping. Because only in America would a man have the fortitude to try.
A side of Heather Wood some of you may have been watching mature, over the years since we heard her as perhaps the truest-voiced of the girl folksingers, but I had no idea existed. When all the trendy mothers in my generation were naming their daughters after the sweet little songbird, who knew she was an Army veteran?
Weather
It's not global, but British Columbia is certainly seeing climate change. Warming. Cutting down the iconic pines of Vancouver because, apparently, the soil's too dry to keep them alive, and if the axes don't get them the fires will.
One thing we can do to help? Shut off the disinformation that claims that climate change is global and can only be solved by enabling global tyranny. Any valid answers need to begin by rejecting that obvious non-starter.
We had more rain last night. Plants that ought to be blooming now are drowning. Jewelweed, a succulent flower that grows when rained on, literally can't handle its own growth; last night's heavy rain knocked over even more of my jewelweed monsters, ten feet high, twelve, doomed never to bloom. The hummingbirds came but aren't finding jewelweed blossoms this year. I didn't even plug in the fan that cools the computer until July, and haven't turned it on much yet. And this morning I felt the cool north wind of mid-August. We've had wetter summers, because this summer's showers-every-few-hours have mostly been just sprinkles that washed the glyphosate vapors out of the air, not adding inches to the total precipitation. I can't remember a cooler, wetter summer.
Meanwhile the Southwest is scorching. What can they do? They forget the Green ideas and lie in front of the air conditioners. How else are they going to survive? And although it's not global, thank God, they are aggravating their own heat wave with their air conditioners...
San Antonio is usually a pretty and pleasant place to be, though hot in summer. I'm told that this is changing. Relatives in San Antonio should know they're welcome to come here if they need to cool off, especially the last of the older generation.
Meanwhile, though Germany normally does have snow-capped Alps and altitudes at which summers are normally chilly, Reutlingen's had quite a heavy snowfall...
Meh. If snow clouds were intelligent enough to dump snow on Klaus Schwab whenever he starts spouting TV-cartoonvillain noises,that would be a very good thing.
Zazzle
My newest Zazzle design is apparently the most complicated one of its kind the site has.
Not mine:
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