We are experiencing the effects of decades of declining standards in formal education - anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers & anthropogenic global warming deniers/trivializers.

Oops, typo - "frighting crime" = fighting crime - lol.

"Alec & Shanna" were frighting crime using a computer with 4 to 64 kilobytes of RAM - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 . It could have been worse. At least those TRS-80s did not require vacuum tubes or punch cards. 😅

The officer testified that the sandwich “exploded all over” his chest & that he could smell mustard & onions - essentially condiment shrapnel! The officer said he could feel the impact of the sandwich THROUGH his tactical vest. Sandwiches are the gateway weapons to water balloons & nerf blasters. 😂

I just finished reading it a few days ago and loved it - very well written. 🫠

"The UNEP's 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035..." & "Nations remain far from meeting the Paris Agreement goal..." - www.livescience.com/planet-earth... . NDC targets are promises which are not being fully met. ☹️

"Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal"? Sure but while we're discussing highly unlikely probabilities, there's also a chance that I'll soon be dating a Victoria Secrets model. The probability of either outcome is a non-zero number... with several zeroes to the right of the decimal point. 😅

The novel "The Great Gatsby" shows how the middle- & working-classes are exploited by the wealthy upper class. In that sense, tRump's Mar-a-Lago party's Gatsby theme was entirely accurate but that is not a compliment - it's an indictment.

Gates criticized focusing “on near-term emissions” & also wrote "...to make sure that the overshoot is as short as possible & as low in intensity as possible..." Near-term emission reductions are ESSENTIAL to minimize overshoot. Gates is contradicting himself. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"And now the Moon Dancers"? Which strip club is Batman and Superman visiting when they're not fighting crime? 😂

Wow - that report was more than a decade before Exxon's initial internal verifications of anthropogenic global warming in the late 1970s - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... . With those and other warnings, we've known for so long but failed to act with due urgency...

tRump's previous disapproval rating was 62% in January 2021 BUT people voted for him anyways in 2024. Voters were short on memory & intelligence. 37% still support him now. Considering everything he's done this year it's disappointing that his support is still double digits.

From those signs - "Batman unfair to marriage"... and Batgirl? Apparently those protesters missed the subtle psychological messaging of a middle-aged man who obviously prefers the company of a younger guy who wears tights. C'mon people - you don't have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out this one. 🤣

From the cover: "I'd rather lead a love crusade to your heart" - so profound & not at all schmaltzy. 😂

"Is this the man?" Foley disabled a police car with a banana - hilarious. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9XW...

Why does that bird need money? Drugs? Gambling? High-class call girls (or high-class call hens - more likely)? That cover art raises so many questions. 😂

Biden won easily in the 2020 Electoral College but by only 4.5% in the popular vote despite tRump's disastrous 1st term. That meant the EC votes were individually tight & could flip - as they did in 2024. tRump should never have won a 1st term, let alone a 2nd & many people still haven't learned.

Given the actions of the GOP nationally this year, it's depressing that almost half of those polled in Virginia (45.2%) STILL support the GOP, despite the Dem's lead. In a rational society, support for the GOP should be next to nothing at this point.