Hiya, Corky ... Your daughter is in a fascinating field - one about which practitioners I've encountered feel a real passion. She's also covering a lot of territory when you factor in the traffic. People in S FL seem to handle that by zoning out, freaking out, or dropping out. And the heat you mention? This is the northern Caribbean, basically, and the midday blast reminds me of a beachside town in Yucatan ages ago (built up now) coming into summer: painfully bright light from an incandescent sun, deserted beach, no-dogs empty streets, closed shops, nobody in sight. Eventually, a bus came by. Its kinds like that. The weird never seems too far off. Lol.

Well done!

You as well

Gotta try!

#1
University professor for many years, and my experience absolutely mirrors yours.

"We called him Old Yeller. The name had a sort of double meaning. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called "yeller" in those days. The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he let out came closer to being a yell than a bark."
Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

How's the Epstein Coverup coming along?

Trump lies a lot. About as much, in fact, as he promises.

The 50,000-watt "flamethrower" KOMA (1520 AM) ruled the night in the 1960s along the lonely highways and byways of the nighttime Southwest.

#17
I'm sure they are.

There probably isn't a magical place on this (or any other) continent those sorry excuses for human beings wouldn't eff-up for a buck. Preferably stolen and unreported. That's what Trump, exemptions, legislation, exceptions, executive orders, and the Supreme Court are there for.

The regime is not in the least bit interested in education but, rather, threatened by it.

If this mook and his kid have beaten the crap out of at least one cop they are absolutely golden Trump Presidential Pardon material.

In the clips I saw, Ingraham really was begging, imploring Trump to ... well, who knows.

Better still was the clup of Bartiromo. Omfg, poor dear, she actually seems to believe the bs the regime feeds her about its defeat in Iran.

Why protesting?

Possibly because it's a conspicuous display of wealth by a smug oligarch representing a country in the grips of a rapacious regime that can't get enough of screwing other countries, waging war, and killing?

I mean, it's a start.

The seriously odd bods around Big Sur sometimes migrated up to that Mount Shasta country - a bit more wackdoodle-ish in them parts, buzzing night lights and tinfoil hat experiences aplenty in the offing - real rough hippie redneck types. This father-son duo sound about right, probably not doing okay economically since CA legalized ganja.

#8
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde

"They ought to swim out there and block it"

Block it? Limpet.

#4
Confirming the diagnoses, one post at a time.

QCP - Yeah, Pence to an extent. Although he had to have his arm twisted until it was nearly broken - with intervention by Dan Quayle (!?) - to take the correct course. I saw him today on the tube, pushing a book and probably thinking he's running for prez next time around. Mike, I thought, they were ready to literally hang you, you poor, dumb bastard.

But otherwise? Like you, I come up empty from the wellspring of integrity when it comes to this bunch.

"One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards."
Edward Abbey

Lying is the regime's default setting.

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, BELLRINGER.
~ Dean Vernon Wormer

Hard to believe Ed Abbey's been gone thirty-seven years.