So my site access has been restored but my WiFi access continues to be spotty as my ocean-going continues, but it did prompt the first graphic in this week’s gallery by the producers of the Ricochet podcast, where I ended up being a mostly silent spectator this week between 10-second bursts of connection, which was about all I needed for my very few five-second bursts of lucidity.
Meanwhile, I still haven’t been able to restore my old hijacked Twitter account, so I have launched a new one: @RealStevenHayward. Follow if you’re into the whole social media thing. I think I’ll be more like that RealOtherGuy and do more polemic entries than my old account, which I used mostly to tell jokes.
Speaking of jokes, I’m so old I can recall the 1970s when we embraced the proposition: “That government is best which McGoverns least.” What the hell do we say now about the DSA takeover of the Democratic Party? These guys make McGovern look like a Truman Democrat. (Recall that McGovern had supported Henry Wallace in 1948.)
Still looking for a strong internet signal, but I think that may be an orca eating my toe.
The Zumwalt Class destroyer: Inspiration for the Obama Library?
Really strange that Katie Porter didn’t do better in the California primary.
The Colbert Late Show staff photo. Gee—I wonder how it could possibly have been losing $40 million a year?
News item: Stephen Colbert to write a Lord of the Rings sequel. . .
Speaking of the useless media, time for some headlines:
Breaking news from 1962.
I endorse “embiggenate”
Worrying about armadillos is about item 12,186 on my worry list.
The joke must have been really good.
Good to see Sydney back in the news again for her politics, which have embiggenated our public discourse.
It’s a total mystery. . . why Politico is so stupid.
That’s what those faddish ‘Mediterranean diets” will do to you.
Finally! I new plot for the long overdue ‘Sharknado’ sequel.
Oh great; another Godzilla reboot can’t be far behind.
Oh goody: A new thing for feminists to complain about!
I must have missed the Monty Python reboot somehow. . .
It’s a total mystery (says the South Florida Realtors Association).
Did you know the Romans invented the bikini 1800 years before the French did? (And apparently had Title IX sports, too.)
And finally, a double-header this week. . .
