Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Fun day
Yesterday we took Maggie on the Ft. Fisher ferryboat for a return trip to the aquarium. I have a sneaking suspicion that she is at least as interested in cajoling grandma and grandpa into buying her another plush toy at the gift shop as she is at looking at the coastal and marine specimens at the park (which we did, of course).
Good to get out of the car and catch the breeze off the Cape Fear River...
It was still pretty hot, so we spent most of our time on the boat in the air-conditioned lounge...
I love these little guys...
I don't love these little guys, though they're pretty to look at (poisonous tree frogs)...
Imagining what it must have been like to wind up as a Megalodon's breakfast...
This feathered horror is an animated model of a Utahraptor, although it looks like the result of an experiment gone horribly wrong down on one of Tyson Chicken's farms...
As I say, it was very hot and humid, but one difference I note between here and Northern Virginia is that, when the sun goes down along the coast, thanks to the constant breezes blowing in off the ocean, the evenings are extraordinarily pleasant - whereas in N. VA, the nights can continue to be sticky hot.
Good to get out of the car and catch the breeze off the Cape Fear River...
It was still pretty hot, so we spent most of our time on the boat in the air-conditioned lounge...
I love these little guys...
I don't love these little guys, though they're pretty to look at (poisonous tree frogs)...
Imagining what it must have been like to wind up as a Megalodon's breakfast...
This feathered horror is an animated model of a Utahraptor, although it looks like the result of an experiment gone horribly wrong down on one of Tyson Chicken's farms...
As I say, it was very hot and humid, but one difference I note between here and Northern Virginia is that, when the sun goes down along the coast, thanks to the constant breezes blowing in off the ocean, the evenings are extraordinarily pleasant - whereas in N. VA, the nights can continue to be sticky hot.
Break out the holy water
Or maybe bring back the stake.
The NRA's newest foe? Witchcraft.
Update: History - learn from it or repeat it.
The NRA's newest foe? Witchcraft.
Update: History - learn from it or repeat it.
Monday, June 18, 2018
That's a relief
Following up on my earlier post on Washington: Psychopath Capital of the United States, here's more information on the country as a whole. Note that North Carolina is the fourth least psychopathic state (in anticipation of Steve Skubinna's likely question, no, I'm not aware that the state has slipped a notch since I moved here).
"Welcome to Connecticut!"
"Welcome to Connecticut!"
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Yeah, let me know how that turns out
House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy: "GOP WILL HIT DOJ WITH ‘FULL ARSENAL’ IF THEY IGNORE SUBPOENAS".
Bearing in mind the GOP Congress's track record in bringing Democrats and their sympathizers to justice, let's take a look at that arsenal...
Not overly intimidating.
Sorry to be so cynical, but I've watched with mounting frustration as a long, shuffling, uncoordinated conga line of Republican committee chairmen have proved to be long on talk and short on action when it comes to asserting their oversight responsibilities and getting results. Wake me when they put the cuffs on Strozk, Comey or McCabe.
Bearing in mind the GOP Congress's track record in bringing Democrats and their sympathizers to justice, let's take a look at that arsenal...
Not overly intimidating.
Sorry to be so cynical, but I've watched with mounting frustration as a long, shuffling, uncoordinated conga line of Republican committee chairmen have proved to be long on talk and short on action when it comes to asserting their oversight responsibilities and getting results. Wake me when they put the cuffs on Strozk, Comey or McCabe.
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