📚Orygoon🚲

The Daily Scout.

I hope for so many things but wouldn’t it be a delight if Alaska just buried both Dan Youngs definitively.

“Let them eat road kill”

Let’s elect presidents who are avid bicyclists and hikers instead of golfers.

Shooting at an elementary school in Bend. Dead children. You hear that? Dead children. At a school.

My kids went to a quirky little Episcopal day school called Saint Michael’s. They had an amazing pageant every year, each grade doing different skits, just a few weeks after school started. It was glorious.

Regarding the vote by mail ruling, and most of the others in recent years, just f**k Thomas and Alito.

We should be sharpening our pitchforks, ffs.

My entire life I thought the Constitution would protect us from catastrophic damage by any one person.

He’s going to double the national debt in his four years,isn’t he?

Elect an idiot, expect the idiotic.

Hegseth’s vision of “warfighting”

Stop chasing brown people. Just stop. Unless they are felon-level criminals. Just stop. I want my country at peace with itself.

And with all the deportations, housing prices are about to go down 600%.

They are all so badly effed up.

Maybe that Miller creep will have an apoplexy.

Looking at Mel Brooks some decades ago, who would’ve thought that he would be the guy to live to be 100?

Summer read recommendation during your local heat dome: Kim Stanley Robinson’s THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE.

I’m so very tired of this Mad King shitshow.

Is MAGA mad that we’re sending aid to Venezuela? They keep saying they don’t mind in the that children in Africa are starving and dying of AIDS, because of the cancellation of USAID, that we shouldn’t spend a penny on non-Americans.

So trump canceled signing the housing bill. What a petulant little bitch.

Welp. So much for those 500 ships that have been waiting for months to go through the Hormuz.

www.detroitnews.com/story/life/h... You’re welcome to if you wish but this is absurd.

Yesterday at the post office, I was a little bit behind a guy with a T-shirt that said “HAM SAMMICH“ on the back, and I reached for my phone to get a snap, but you will just have to imagine it because I left my phone in the car.

I have thought since he started this term that when trump turns 80 (that’s in eight days now) that he will suffer a massive narcissistic injury at being really really obviously OLD. I expect an ever higher level of crazy. It won’t be pretty.

Looking at the morning’s news, I think of the time many years ago when a friend was explaining how to play Sim City. They said at first they thought the areas marked out with Rs designated Republicans and they razed those areas. Only later did they understand it was for residential areas. If only.

My son’s ballot is the hottest of hot messes. For governor:

They’re invasive. Never planted one, but they sure planted themselves. Meant to thin them this spring but my knees decided they’re 100 years old and I couldn’t. There’s a FOREST of them in my front yard and it’s kind of brilliant.

I don’t drive a lot or buy gas often but I did today for the first time since mid-March and whoo boy. 🙄

This Ukraine war is going to be a fascinating study for historians as a David and Goliath 21st-century story. I hope Ukraine is wholly triumphant. War is still too terrible to be a spectator sport to cheer. Superpowers have been sent home tails between legs before. Shouldn’t be such a surprise.

I saw a bumpersticker while out and about that says VACCINES CAUSE ADULTS.

My father was a career Air Force pilot and I saw a lot of air shows and I hated them. So much unnecessary danger.

When I was little I got mumps, and then my sister got mumps, nbd really, and then my dad got mumps, and you antivaxxers out there, someday some of your adult sons will get mumps and you will have regrets.

There’s no good fix for the lousy structure our shortsighted founding fathers left us with. Authoritarianism and rule by an unpopular minority is our reality and our destiny.

The easiest college course I took was introduction to logic. Musk would fail it.

If I lived to be 80, 10% of my life will have been with this president. How depressing is that.

Thank you, people of Hungary.

Come on, voters of Hungary.

Serious (ish) question: aren’t all our pilots fitted out with military-grade, Pentagon-budget AirTags of some sort?

With the inexorable march of “too many birthdays” I am starting to look at certain (and uncertain) medical interventions. Chatter about not being able to afford Medicare, coupled with another war of choice and requests for enormous DoD (WAR!) budgets piss me off. Or, potentially, worse.

It’s “Good” Friday.

1.5 trillion for the DOD, a 42% increase from the previous year.

Eventually, everyone will have nukes. We’ll either learn not to start wars, or we’ll die.

I recall the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and I got a lot of college work hours pulling documents for a big comprehensive energy index our uni put together. It seemed like a good idea at the time to develop alternatives to oil. Oh well.

The Night Watcher Matthew Wong 2018

My cousin’s kid and his family have gotten back here safely. They were in Saudi Arabia, working at the embassy. It took awhile.

Like, the guy is ignorant even by Oklahoma standards.

I have a cousin who has a son (who sends me Christmas cards!) who works for the State Department and is posted with his family in the Middle East. I don’t have the heart to ask her what his situation is.