15+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1822+ words) Welcome to Friday, June 19, 2026, and it happens to be Juneteenth, celebrating what's considered to be the end of slavery in the U. S. : There's a Google Doodle for the holiday; click the screenshot below to see where it goes: It's also Corpus…...

12+ hour, 40+ min ago  (369+ words) First, a pair of Willets (Tringa semipalmata), which may not be migrating too far but are rather already on their nesting grounds'they breed in Atlantic coastal marshes. Their calls are quite similar to those of oystercatchers, but a little less…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1746+ words) Homeopathy is one of the biggest scams I know of." The products have no curative properties and yet people spend billions on them. And, as Dara O'Briiain says in the bit below, "It's JUST WATER." (h/t Andrew Petto: First,…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (189+ words) There's a new Jesus and Mo comic, called "context," which came with the note, "Another eternal, uncreated Jesus & Mo strip," as well as this caption: And it's eternally important that you don't hang around after dinner. As I point out…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (249+ words) Here are a few odds and ends from around my neighborhood for you. When it's the leaves fill out in the Summertime the Chinaberry Tree (Melia Azedarach) is pretty nondescript, but in the Winter when all that's visible are the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1790+ words) Welcome to another damn week: it's Monday, June 15, 2025the Ides of June and also National Megalodon Day, celebrating the largest shark that ever lived. We can only estimate their sixe, but here's s0me info from Wikipedia: Here from the article is a…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (644+ words) Fat Studies" is not a pejorative term, but rather an activist branch of academia with an agenda, including the claim that being fat is not unhealthy, and is a sign of oppression by the weight-deprived." Particularly disturbing'and detrimental to health'is…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (420+ words) Why Evolution Is True I wondered what Bill Maher thought about the sketchy Graham Platner and his run as a Democrat for the Senate seat from Maine. Well, see the video below. Maher realizes that Platner is a "broken person,…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (325+ words) I'll put up some videos of the World Cup games or highlights that interest me. Here are 20 minutes of highlights between Brazil and Morocco, which was tied 1-1 at the end. Summary from the BBC: Vinicius Jr spared Brazil the embarrassment…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1719+ words) It's also Army's Birthday (on June 14, 1775, the American Continental Army formed, in order to present a unified opposition against Britain), Flag Day, International Bath Day (my father hated them, saying, who wants to sit in their own schmutz? ; and so…...