I don’t eat higher on the food chain than fish, but I don’t resent people who do, especially if their meals are based around animals that lived decent lives and were killed humanely. In large measure, game hunting meets those criteria.  I couldn’t do this myself, but hey, go kill a deer, one that may live in overpopulated circumstances anyway, and enjoy venison steaks and chili for a few months.

Having said all this, the pic of the big-game trophy hunter here made me smile, and I hope you enjoy it too.

 

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If Trump weren’t so totally incompetent, we would all be wondering what his master plan is. However, after four years we’ve learned one thing above all others: there is no master plan. Just one ill-conceived outrage after another.

Being fair, it’s easy to see why he takes this tack, i.e., it’s what he’s done all his life, and it has never once failed him.  (more…)

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This woman would have won my vote for best hat, even had she not adorned the chicken with a bow tie.

Just wanted to post a reminder that frivolity, whimsy, and just plain fun have not been removed from American life.  We take all our challenges very seriously, as we should, but in the end, all we have is each other and the joy of life itself.

 

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Wishing Trump would die?  You’re not alone.  How do I know?  Because I live with my wife, and this is one of our most frequent topics of conversation.

Having Trump die, via heart attack, assassination, or whatever would get us nowhere. (more…)

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How do we come to know things?  What information sources do we trust?  These are important questions, since we live in a world so large and rapidly changing that we’re able to personally verify almost nothing we believe we know to be true.

One important difference between life on Earth 500 years ago and what we experience today is science.  (more…)

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The photo here not only shows a fabulous sense of humor, but a willingness to admit that the contest is over.

The country would be in a better place if Trump were to do that with his foundering bid for re-election, but it appears that this isn’t happening, something anyone could have predicted since the day he came to office.

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From this article:

The Justice Department’s top election crimes prosecutor resigned Monday in protest after Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors that they should examine allegations of voting irregularities before states move to certify results in the coming weeks. (more…)

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Whoever wrote this sure captured my fears.

If this were any other president, any other justice department, and any other Supreme Court, no one would be talking like this.

We’re used to rule of law kicking in and restoring justice, but in the back of our minds we know Trump’s capacity for his own survival and enrichment at the expense of  everyone else on the planet, and it has shown itself, thus far at least, to be limitless.

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According to bipartisan studies, voting, both in person and by mail, has a long history of reliability in the United States, with incidence of fraud very rare.

That Trump is not conceding isn’t because he has any facts on his side, it’s because it’s something he simply lacks the capacity to do.

At this point in most of his dealings over the past few decades, he would normally declare bankruptcy and stiff a few hundred contractors.  Given that this isn’t a possibility here, he finds himself flummoxed.

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Here are some reasons why this election will not be overturned.

• The first and most important is that there is no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud, at least at any scale.  As three-term Republican Senator Rick Santorum said about his home state, Pennsylvania, “The idea that there was a conspiracy to cheat on a massive level across 67 counties is just ludicrous.” (more…)

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