Web Log for 7.29.26

Animals 

Anger-triggering video showing that mental illness is a male thing: For no apparent reason, young male walks up to a sea lion on the beach and kicks it--probably as hard as he can. 

https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/2026/07/kickin-friggin-sea-lion-this-little.html 

When he's caught I hope somebody takes him to a nature preserve with bison, drops him three feet from a bison bull, and peels out. And somebody else records the live video.

May this be the only cyclonic pattern you see all year, Gentle Readers. Meme from Tom the Backwoods Traveller's Blogspot.

Comedy

Anthony Fauci treats his congressional hearing as comedy.

Senator Hawley: "What day is it?"

Fauci: "On the advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer according to my rights under the Fifth Amendment." 

Even after being advised that, under a legal technicality, he has no right to refuse to answer. Biden's pardon is supposed to mean that he feels free to testify. 

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2026/07/birdland.html

The comments include a three-hour video, for those who (1) have nothing better to do and (2) want to know whether their US Senator vapped Fauci in an entertaining way. Fauci looks, not completely stoned, but as if he took some sort of prescription pharmaceutical to get through being raked over the coals by a committee of people all of whom are probably taller than he is.

If awarded a certain lucrative writing job for which I've applied, I'd be doing things like sitting through the three-hour video, speeded up, in order to advise paying subscribers at what point in the video their Senators speak. That thought may at least offer consolation if someone else gets the job.

Statement 

Shared by Sanaa Rizvi at dVerse.