Babel Bulge
June 23, 2026Babel, bad babel: Ugly reality without an ounce of irony or shame, or just truthful good sense. And a leap into the real ‘vandals’ of our DC heritage sites — one of the most interesting and actually the most obvious view: Dana Milbank at NOTUS: I made one more stop on my tour: the Capitol, […]
Reflecting Pool Psychotic
June 22, 2026The nightmare will be televised — green waste edition:: Further: An attitude — Michael Tomasky at The New Republic this afternoon: You’d think a guy who just lost a war would have bigger matters on his mind, but to Trump, matters don’t come any bigger than the Reflecting Pool and the Kennedy Center, because they […]
Another Algae Tale
June 21, 2026Embedded into our character nowadays: Horrifingly weird, a good majority of the shit fucking with the planet has its origin stories in the bowel-brain of the T-Rump — now: Details (Newsweek): A viral photograph of a dead duck floating in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has intensified scrutiny of the landmark’s recent $14 million renovation, […]
El Niño
June 20, 2026El Niño — Daniel Swain explains: El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the prevailing easterly trade winds weaken or reverse, allowing warm […]
Image
June 19, 2026First post since the day before the start of T-Rump’s Iranian adventure. An image: My longtime blog favorite of all the T-Rump mugs. However, one must remember the word ‘favorite ‘ does not mean in any form or fashion, as in ‘my favorite movie’ or ‘my favorite song.’ It’s more of an anti-appreciation/like. Aptly titled, […]