Big Stick Physics

NYT: Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.

Use any metric you want, at best, President Biden was phoning it in.  Take autopen usage.  This is for substantive documents, not ceremonial letters or declarations.

• Joe Biden:  1400 uses
• Trump:  No documented uses
• Obama:  300 uses
• George H. Bush:  No documented uses
• Ronald Reagan:  120 uses

Fine, whatever, moving on.  Break with tradition, and instead of a Biden Presidential Library, build a Biden Presidential ice cream shop at Rehoboth Beach.  Somebody generated the image above, and what’s wrong with that? 

Joe famously liked ice cream and Rehoboth Beach.  Make it a little bigger, put a 1967 Chevy Corvette Stingray inside, and you’ve got the best aspects of Joe Biden.

These bastards showed up today.  This is maybe 10% of the group that descended on the compound.  They seem to have keen vision and are risk-averse.  Minor movement in the house was enough to get them to move along.  I didn’t even have time to let Sparky out to hector them.  Which is fine, Sparky was not eager to engage.

I don’t mind them.  My only complaint is that the phenomena is called a ‘murmuration’.  This is a murmuration of European starlings.  I don’t know who comes up with collective nouns, but I suspect it’s theater kids on Reddit.  I’ll call it a flock.

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting outside with friends when a flock of starlings landed in the oak trees, and started dropping acorns.  I doubt it was intentional.  The acorns were probably ready to drop, and the bird disturbance shook the acorns loose.

They landed near us, and it rained acorns.  Then they moved a yard away, and it rained there.  They moved once more.  It seemed intentional, but the weather had probably been mild with little wind around the time the acorns matured.