Ed B

He says: “It’s totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say ‘I want to live next to people that I have something in common with.’”

Implied is that the gov't should enforce those preferences, not protect you from your neighbors' preferences.

... But also: I want to vote for skilled politicians, who will use those skills in office, and generally blundering into an unnecessary scandal is a sign of a politician lacking skill.

Interesting, but as you know I disagree—I don't particularly care what politicians believe in their inner heart, and in a general way I would rather vote for an ambitious politician whose ambition will provide incentives for serving consituents whether he wants to or not.

But also: I want to...

Brilliant blue sky, kite, trees, colorful leaves, brick building, bright green grass. Kind of garish, really, but magnificent, too.

Hawk kite a little more co-operative.

I've been trying to figure out any part of this connection between the White Rabbit and deportation and it has not been the best use of my morning.

Sky, clouds, and then at the very bottom of the picture treetops in yellow, orange and red.

I wanted to get some of the lovely fall foliage into today's picture, but the wind wanted the take the kite high.

Filmed abroad? Subject to tariffs?

More than that, though, he said that Trump should not be allowed to do the illegal thing that everybody said was illegal. I assume that's the part that will be overturned.

Sky, kite, clouds, treetops.

Now that feels like October.

I don't mean to pretend that there's meaning here, but doesn't "Biden FBI" just mean "FBI that was in the tank for Biden", which is an old (obviously false) claim?

This seems to me to match up with an assessment of sex as a pseudocommodity, or a sort of unit of exchange. If someone is "getting the milk for free" under false pretenses, then it's a kind of fraud? Or in the case of adultery in marriage, the, er, price of the milk was misrepresented?

The World Health Organization, clearly.

Also maybe the Time Lords of Gallifrey, but if so, clearly working with the WHO.

(By your town, I mean down the road from the Mark Twain House, in case that wasn't clear.)

If you would like to have access to a university library in your town, let me know. You can certainly come in and use the databases, if I can't get you set up for remote access, and I can make sure you have borrowing privileges, too.

Kite, sky, treetops. No clouds. Just the very tops of a couple of buildings in the bottom right.

New kite.

A poster for "Mr. Plaster of Paris"

Or, more accurately, part of the set dressing for a production of _The Ladykilling of Chattanooga_, which concerns a real production of that play. And the image may notionally be of the real actor who played the part, but who is presumably depicted in (fictional) character, so that counts, right?

I'm not entirely sure what counts, but the most recent picture I took that contains a character that is clearly in a work of fiction is a silhouette of John Plaster, formerly of the town of Paris, KY, in a poster for the comedy sensation of 1899, "Mr. Plaster of Paris".

Trump says US TV networks, which are not licensed by the government, should have their licenses revoked for mocking him Speaking to reporters on his flight home from England on Thursday, Donald Trump insisted, wrongly, that US TV networks have to be licensed by the government to operate, and suggested that they should lose those licenses, which, again, they do not have, if they continue to host comedians who make fun of him.

How's the Grauniad?

Sky, clouds, treetops, and a kite that appears very small because it's a long way away.

I'm gonna need a bigger kite.

Kite, sky, clouds, treetops, some of the tops of buildings down at the bottom of the image.

I was able to let out the string a little today.

I'm unfamiliar with this ACTS prayer model. Surely they don't intend for people to write their own brachas?

Kite, sky, buildings, treetops

Seems like summer out there.

First day of the semester!

Is that similar to the bit in the Mel Brooks remake of _To Be or Not to Be_, which opens with Brooks and Anne Bancroft singing and then arguing in Polish, and then there's a voice-over saying "The rest of this movie will be in English!" and they switch?

OK, George Strait is probably ten years overdue, Crawford is legit (except that I would prefer all-US), Gaynor is a legend, KISS is... you know, I can't even argue against KISS.

I hate to say it but... Stallone is a pretty reasonable Kennedy Center honoree. I dunno who else he's going to pick, obviously, but there have been a few honorees with less impressive resumés than Rocky-Rambo.

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales?

So, here's the thing—the bendy plate armor is exactly the sort of thing that the Pre-Raphaelites did. The sword that appears to be going through the body of the horse not so much.

blah blah "its worth" blah

Have they edited the thing? Because what I'm seeing on my screen is the correct possessive "its", and not the incorrect contraction.

I had, in fact, heard about this DHS image, although I'm pretty sure not from any of my lefty friends. But I'm an information professional! Or paraprofessional. Or something.