Politicky

So, that George Floyd guy? Wasted on methamphetamine, and a possibly lethal dose of fentanyl. And, if you can yell "I can't breathe", and yell it repeatedly, then you can breathe.

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Great topical quotes:

“Washington has not changed Donald Trump. Donald Trump has changed Washington.”

WRT the hurricane - "Hefty carbon taxes and prohibitive energy costs could have prevented this storm."

The more! The politics!

OMG! Shinzo Abe just resigned! And only a few months before the end of his term.

Owl Crystals

A woman with a morbid phobia of fruits and vegetables. Srsly. Freedom fries were one of the things she'd still eat, though. Presumably no one had explained to her where those come from.

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Thieves break into the Ninja Museum, steal stuff, and are gone before anyone notices. Yeah...

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Early British law required every ploughman to make his own plough, and no one was entitled to use one unless they constructed it themselves. I had not a clue. I have to wonder at the rationale for that.

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So, Biden's handlers'll wanna keep him away from Mexico.

Lebanon

The hundredth anniversary of Lebanon. It started out well, then went right into the toilet. My uncle Billy was in the US Navy in (IIRC) 1960, when we sent the fleet around the Mediterranean to show the flag (and the associated Big Stick) after that debacle with Sadat and the Suez Canal. Beirut was one of the ports they put into. He thought that it was one of the most beautiful cities that he'd ever seen, but the people were collectively insane. He and his buddies were eating at an outdoor restaurant when they saw some guy get lit on fire with a molotov cocktail. Even back then, they were having sectarian problems.

France lays down the law to Lebanon. I've mean-mouthed France in the past, and I probably will in the future, but it must be said in their favour that they step up to the plate when an ex-colony oppresses its people.