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From the AARP Bulletin, yet another reminder I’m past my prime.

Moraine Lske in Banff Nat’l Park; note two examples of Rayleigh Scattering in this photo

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! 🫶🏽

Just saw that tomorrow's high in Death Valley will be 123 F. FYI, a steak cooked rare will have an internal temperature of 125 F. Let's not go there.

“Cyclosporiasis foodborne infection” is long, complicated, and nonspecific. How about we rename the disease for the cause and identify it as Trump Diarrhea Syndrome, or TDS for short.

did he not have a horse

If the Bible is going to be taught in school then science needs to be taught in church.

I’m surprised they haven’t added ivermectin to the reflection pool yet to try and rid of the algae

📌Trump has Obama Derangement Syndrome.

This is Jasper. He lives across the street and often visits us. But his owner is moving and has asked us to adopt him. I’d prefer to make him indoor only but I don’t think he’s ready for that.

I had a Costco hot dog for lunch today. (Almost) All is right with the world.

On this Star Wars Day, please enjoy this photo I took of Harrison Ford.

One of these is “A Lady Reading,” by Albert Ritzberger, the other is my wife. Really hard to tell the difference, isn’t it?

Just read a disturbing recipe for guacamole from America's Test Kitchen: mix pureed lima beans (possibly the most horrible vegetable known to mankind) with your avocado and other ingredients.

Hey, Santa Monica area people, I'll be at the Cloverfield overpass over the 10 freeway at 4:00 O.M., today, Friday, Jan. 30. Come wave at cars, and encourage people to get in the streets!

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

The Rams have the Seahawks overconfident now!

Sortilege is a good thing with which to spike your egg nog. Better than brandy.

Today I learned that Brother Jasper, while employed at Manhattan College, invented the 7th inning stretch.

@altnps.bsky.social #Arches Reports of graffiti already at Arches National Park, near Landscape Arch. Bah, people.

#Utah thanks for funding national park workers in your state. It was great to see rangers in action at Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce, and Zion last week.

Packaging run amok. We get some health items shipped to us. Here’s a travel pack of tissues in its own box.

Autumn harvest moon tonight.

@governor.ca.gov hey Governor Newsom, don’t you think California should quarantine any Florida residents who travel here?

NCAR (Nat’l Center for Atmospheric Research) sending out layoff notices today

So, mixing up the Four Seasons Hotel with the Four Seasons Total Landscaping business gets you a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

So have any California Republicans complained about Newsom’s redistricting to TX Gov. Abbott, hmmm?

If the government is buying portions of chip companies, isn’t that (gasp) socialism?

Why don't day laborers work for ICE?

In today’s LA Times, Patt Morrison (yes, the hat lady) used the phrase, “angel farts.”

mRNA vaccine technology shot and will get a Nobel prize, not that RFKj cares

I know where Stephen Colbert should take his next show, #PBS! Maybe right after #Washington_Week_in_Review?

Give this guy a medal

Happy Bastille Day to our French friends and Francophiles. We were in Paris on Bastille Day a few years ago, totally unplanned, but it was pretty cool.

Hi All!