Animals
East Sussex moths. I like this one; it's different from all of our local Tiger moths, but related. At rest they all seem to be trying to camouflage themselves as geometry homework. This one seems to be adding a layer of security with a fake spider face.
Music
Seems to me that, during the twentieth century, we made a jump directly from fearing that the Everglades would kill us (if we went into it) to fearing that we will kill it. Wasn't there a step we missed in there somewhere?
I can't say I ever sang this song well, but I was singing it, word for word and note for note, in grade three, for the relatives who lived at one end of the Fearful Forest or the other.
Stickers
Not Zazzle. Private shop. Design by Priscilla Bird (very different person from me). These stickers go on pictures or words when they're "100% HUMAN MADE, NO AI USED."
Writing, Under the Influence
Exactly what "Aryan" means has never been clear. The word has been mostly used as part of the mythology of an anti-theistic political cult, to mean something that does not exist in the real world. It was loosely based on the idea that in order for Iceland to exist some people in northern Europe had to have excellent DNA. Theoretically these people used to live in India but then moved westward to what is now Iran and then to what are now the Scandinavian countries. Then the idea went on into meth-head raving and was used to include Italians who had not only dark complexions but also political ideas so bad that other Italians ended up killing them in self-defense. So it has been hard for anyone to say "Aryan" with a straight face since Mussolini's time. Hunter Biden was obviously describing himself and his drinking-and-drugging buddies as Aryans in a lame, drugged-out attempt at a joke. Ha. Well, all right, ha again, but it wasn't very funny. I had to read "Arise Aryan Sons of the Delaware Fatherland" to complete the laugh.
A matter of more serious concern...
He thought he was handsome?
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So on Sunday I thought of ten things that are more interesting than this drip's laptop? Well, his laptop is more interesting than his face is.
Coincidentally, the local newspaper ran a feature on the embarrassing relatives of other Presidents, and they didn't even dig back far enough to discuss Mary Todd Lincoln. (She was eventually declared insane, but that was no excuse. Old Abe should have seen it coming. Anyone from Kentucky who tries to compete with Virginians, or even Carolinians, or even Marylanders, on ancestor-snobbery, is going to be trouble.) Proud Mary set a record that was hard to beat, but Billy Carter may have broken it. Of course, Obama has that half-brother to practice charity and loyalty on, the Bushes had Neil, the Clintons had Roger, the Reagans had Patty, Mrs. Ford had her drinking problem, the Kennedys had their father's background, and the Johnson, Nixon, and Trump families have those Presidents...but Hunter Biden does seem to be trying to be as much of an embarrassment and security risk as Mrs. Lincoln or Billy Carter.
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