Good Thunderstorm!

 Hot yesterday but it got cloudy in the late afternoon and in short order we experienced a very good thunderstorm. Plenty of thunder and lightening. More rain this time, but still not enough. However, we have good rain chances almost every day this week. It was beautiful on the patio last evening as the clouds gathered and we began to receive cool outflow winds from all the storms around us. 

"First do no harm." That could be a great starting point for an ethical system. And it might be wise to view all creatures as victims, all suffering from the curse of sentience, which might be likened to a disease, and in our dealings with others see them as fellow sufferers and treat them as a physician would. Actually, "First do no harm" is not part of the Hippocratic Oath, but as a guideline one might try: "The physician must... have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely to do good or to do no harm." And if we take the view that we ought to be each other's "physician", then with regard to others our objectives ought to be: to do good, or at the very least, to do no harm. Those others, of course, amount to all creatures, human and non-human. 

Random thoughts on a random day...

Rain Midweek

 60% chance. Big words. Some changes here and there. Iced coffee on the patio this morning. Very nice. It's a jungle out there. Just the way I like it. It returns every year and never is it the same. Always surprises me. Lots of critters. Skunks, possums, a racoon. Box turtle sometimes. Mocking birds, Bluebirds, Finches, Pigeons, Sparrows, and the occasional Cardinal. Lots of Grackles. All are welcome.

Why Not Again?

It won't be too much, will it? Can one have too much of a good thing? And this IS the weekend, so this could serve as the official reveal. And speaking of reveals, gender reveal is one of the stupid things people do, one of many, and it's a rather conformist thing to do. We really need more nonconformity, more independent thought, more critical thinking, more literacy, more math literacy, more of an anti-herd mentality going on. Follow the herd and your destination might be a slaughter house. If it's popular, that means a lot of people are doing the same thing, and you have to wonder where those people are placed on the normal curve. You should strive to be among the very smartest people, and those people are not prone to do the things or think the things, that are popular. Popularity is frequently the result of some sort of manipulation, a kind of social engineering. Think of all those Tic Tac challenges. Nefarious, dangerous. You really don't want to be part of a "peer" group of half-wits. You really do not want to be "average". With that sage advice, I present, again, my shaving mug, brush, and soap. I do not present the razors because they are cheap Walmart branded, generic, double-edged disposables but they provide a great shave and they are cheap and actually last a long time. I buy store brands whenever I can find them. Frugality is an excellent habit. Frugality is simple and easy if you have high self-esteem and really don't care very much what other people think or do. 

 Ooooo! Ahhhhh! I think I should get in the habit of making my words big. And how about an update on the endless clusterfuck of a misbegotten war!  Daniel Davis/Deep Dive

What The Heck

 Here it is. The jokes wear thin, even for me. All I expect anyone to see is a simple improvisation that works quite well, for what it is. The brush is very old, acetate plastic, real hair. The mug has a lot of soap in it, and at my age, that'll probably last the rest of my life. 

I know how to find satisfaction in simple things, and that's the bottom line. 

WOW!

 At a press conference yesterday we learned from the top turd in the outhouse that the US military has destroyed Venezuela's navy and air force and ballistic missiles! Venezuela no longer controls the Strait of Hormuz! Mutt Rubio and another dunce sat in silence, listening "soberly" to the wonderful news. Cheers in magaland! We won! That certainly brightened my day. And the weather even looks fine. Rain for the weekend is still in the forecast, too. Brains of slush and brains of mush march on, off to a grand and glorious victory. And soon I will reveal my shaving mug, and even the brush I use, an old one, with genuine hog bristles, and even the soap with which I create the lather with which I shave. Yes, all of these. At any rate, that's what most people will see, but some few exceptional ones will see much more. It's kind of humid, so even though it is not all that hot by the thermometer the humidity makes it a bit uncomfortable, but if we must have that humidity in order to have that rain, then let humidity reign. I would gladly say that again, too. Unfortunately mosquitoes have made their appearance too. If we had only two mosquitoes, why, they would be spread so thin that there might as well be none, but in fact, their numbers are far greater and they grow fat on human blood, much like the average billionaire, growing fat on human blood. Sometimes metaphorically, but all too often in the literal sense. Vampirism and cannibalism as well as many other horrors and unspeakable perversions are available to the very, very, wealthy, and don't think for an instant that they don't indulge. They don't call them the Epstein class for nothing. No wonder, in magaland, they have so much admiration for such creatures. 

Someday soon, you shall see what you shall see! SOME day. Some DAY. It might even be Sunday...