Thursday Afternoon Links

Thursday Afternoon Links

DATELINE – UNDISCLOSED RURAL LOCATION: The boyfriend had to go into town today, so I got a break from the usual routine of sports, athletics, and other wholesome and manly activities. I can still hit the odd skeet after an hiatus of forty-some years! But...
More Bits and Bobs

More Bits and Bobs

Life in the Desert Update Turns out I did have a picture of Saguaro flowers.   Saguaro blooming. The seeds sprout and grow when they are under another tree called a nursery tree (usually, around here, mesquite trees).  I’ve been gathering up some of the seed pods from...
Thursday Morning Links

Thursday Morning Links

Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day! “The Atlantic” Writer Behind “Suckers and Losers” Hoax Is Out With a New Hit Piece – And It Got Debunked Instantly Kelly Amnesia: Democrats once questioned general’s ethics, but now embrace his anti-Trump...
The Hat and The Hair Animated: ReRun ep 35

The Hat and The Hair Animated: ReRun ep 35

This is the one that has become our annual Christmas Special. The Hat prays to Baby Jesusclaws to overturn the election for Donald. This will make for a special month, as hopefully on Halloween, the day after the next new episode should arrive, the Halloween Special...
Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Bite

Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Bite

Mexico announces food and agriculture plan that could take the country back to the 1980s MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s new president announced an agriculture plan Tuesday that could make the country’s food production and distribution look a lot more like it did in the...
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 205

The Hat and The Hair: Episode 205

“I still smell like french fries,” the hair muttered. “I like how you smell,” the hat said. “Delicious, you smell delicious.” “I want to go back,” Donald said. “I had a tremendous time, just a great time. I got to be a cook in my favorite restaurant, I got to run the...
Wednesday Morning Links

Wednesday Morning Links

The great Fernando Valenzuela has died. The Chiefs are getting D-Hop, the World Series is about to get under way. And the UCL went pretty much to script yesterday, aside from Real Madrid’s first half and the boys from Stuttgart getting a well-deserved win on the...
AMST 5

AMST 5

My Turn! [Author note – the other issues of AMST are probably worth a read to get full context. #1 – #2 – #3.] Summer, 1994 By summer, I’m closing in on PQM – and starting to get some of my “X’s” (graded flights) for...
¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces maxicanos!

¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces maxicanos!

The trouble is, if I put it off on Tuesday I am stuck taking care of it on Thursday or Friday. Which makes the Saturday piece a bigger pain in the ass. No matter. ¡enalces! Milei making non-Argies feel like this. We need to import Milei. Mexico does what we should’ve...
A tale of transport in interbellum Romania

A tale of transport in interbellum Romania

I am, as you know, openly Romanian. I claim to have been from these here parts since time immemorial. My maternal haplogroup H5 dated to this region since the times of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture. My paternal haplogroup being I-M253 is a bit sketchier. But it is...