Lies…
Three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies & the GOP convention
Still a Hurricane
TROPICAL WEATHER STATEMENTISSUED: 4:18 AM AUG. 27, 2020 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEThis product covers Southeast Texas LAURA MOVES NORTHWARD THROUGH LOUISIANA AS A MAJOR HURRICANE NEW INFORMATION CHANGES TO WATCHES AND WARNINGS:The Storm Surge Warning and Tropical Storm Warning have beencancelled for Chambers, Coastal Galveston, Coastal Harris, andGalveston Island and Bolivar PeninsulaThe Tropical Storm Warning has been cancelled for Houston,Inland…
Garrison Keillor
I gave my love an Italian cookbook Saturday and she cut the plastic off it and opened it and found recipes for leg of kid, eel, pork liver, braised snout, sweet-and-sour snout, and I could tell that we will be eating vegan for the foreseeable future. I was just finishing up a nice helping of short ribs and she gave…
Hurricane Laura
ISSUED: 4:37 AM AUG. 26, 2020 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEThis product covers Southeast Texas LAURA RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING IN THE CENTRAL GULF, EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL NEAR TX/LA BORDER TONIGHT NEW INFORMATION CHANGES TO WATCHES AND WARNINGS:The Storm Surge Watch has been upgraded to a Storm SurgeWarning for Brazoria IslandsCURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS:A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Fort…
Baby, It’s Hot Outside
But, if you look at the top of the image it's just 70º in Banner Elk, NC. Ohhh to be in the mountains...
The Sound of Silence
Way back in the neolithic when I was in High School... You know... back when another President was doing things that woulda/shoulda got him thrown out of office, Simon and Garfunkel had a song out called The Sound of Silence. My team of English Lit Teachers... yeah, there were two of them... decided we should analyze the lyrics as if…
The COVID Death No One is Talking About
Over the last 3 years and 7 months, Trump’s incompetence and abject corruption has laid bare many weaknesses in our democratic republic which used to be known as the leader of the free world. 5 million Americans have been sickened by it and over 160,000 have died because of it. The one death we don’t talk about, though? The myth…
Prairie Home Companion
I turned 78 five days ago and gave a party, a pandemic party, it was on Zoom, 457 guests, nobody I know, they heard about it on Twitter, no gifts, just donations to your favorite charity, nobody sang “Happy Birthday,” thank you, it lasted about 28 minutes, and we played one game — Guess the Age of the Host —…