Hot day

Smokey and 100°F in the capital city. Vicky is catching some Zs.

And Yoda is napping too, by the air conditioner ...

Two photos

Tried again to get an unfuzzy photo of Yoda, but that seems impossible. Here she is on one of her boxes ...

And here's an old deteriorated photo of me in Oxford, UK, on my 1976 family trip to Europe ...

Take on Me

Need something cheerful! The Norwegian band A-ha in 1985 doing Take On Me ...

Snowden

Edward Snowden was on The 11th Hour tonight. Here are a couple of bits of the interview ...





I hope he will someday be allowed to come back home, with no strings attached.

9/11

I live on the other coast, far from where the 9/11 attacks took place. Though I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the event occurred, I didn't really understand what was going on. This miniseries, The Looming Tower , helped me grasp the essentials.

Sixth mass extinction

While we're dealing with a global pandemic, and also dealing with a dictator trying to take over our country, it's easy to forget that we really have a much bigger problem, one we aren't dealing with at all ... the destruction of our planet's ecosystem.

The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame

Human activities have caused the world's wildlife populations to plummet by more than two-thirds in the last 50 years, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund.

The decline is happening at an unprecedented rate, the report warns, and it threatens human life as well. "The findings are clear," the report states. "Our relationship with nature is broken." ....

The report says that we could slow this devistation down if we wanted to. I'll add that I'm sure we won't. It also states that there are just too many people - the earth can't sustain us. But, as a former Catholic, I can tell you that people are too selfish to even consider limiting the number of children they have. We don't deserve this planet, and pretty soon will destroy our own ability to survive here.

If you think that's ok 'cuz we're moving to Mars, think again.

Heat Wave

Martha and the Vandellas do Heat Wave (1963) :)

Blue Guitar

For about 5 years, the Moody Blues broke up and Justin Hayward and John Lodge made some music just by themselves as the Blue Jays. The most well known song from then is Blue Guitar (1975) ...