Britain braces for hottest June day on record
She seems nice. Probably a druid or some other kind of pagan.
The article says that it may hit 38o C in England this week. For countries that landed a man on the moon, that’s about 100o F.
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Sparky wants to play Juneteenth Charadethes.
Do we have to say it like that?
“Yup”
Sparky explains that for Juneteenth Charadethes, you have to act out a notable Black character. Sparky went first.
The way he was licking his chops, I had a pretty good idea.
On Morning Edition, NPR was talking about Juneteenth. It’s a big deal. They predicted that highway traffic may be reduced because everybody is off for the federal holiday. I was going to go to Aldi today, I should check if they have reduced hours.
Since Sparky is half Black, I wanted to do something special, but NPR was vague on the Juneteenth traditions. Breakfast in bed is always welcome and appropriate, so I went with that.
Here is my Gay Pride contribution.
When staging Verdi’s opera, Il Trovatore, in Los Angeles, it makes so much sense to get the ripped gay guys for The Anvil Chorus.
The RSVP online is a big improvement. Along with the response tab, there are additional tabs for the registry, travel arrangements and the couple’s backstory.
Is it typical for a wedding invitation to offer guidance on proper attire?
Activists Try to Remove 2,000 Beagles from Wisconsin Research Facility
On Saturday, April 18, at 8:52 am, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office responded to approximately 1000 activists converging on Ridglan Farms in the town of Blue Mounds.
This looks like a war zone. I adore beagles, but these chaotic people are violent thugs. If they had succeeded, they weren’t going to flee the scene with a beagle under each arm. The beagles would have been released into the wild to be eaten by coyotes or face some other grim death.
In the 1960’s, people dated, got married and had children. I don’t know if it’s related, but this Youtube video is a smoke-show compilation of popular TV shows of the era.
You get 1 point for the name of the TV show and 3 points for the name of the actress.
Answers after the jump.
Pew Research: What Do Americans Consider Immoral?
People were asked whether a variety of activities are morally wrong. They missed some activities that normal people1 consider to be morally wrong, such as:
- Painting over wallpaper, rather than stripping the wall.
- Fraudulently dressing by stuffing a bra with tissues or a sock in the trousers.
- Using glue traps for mice.
- Deceptively serving non-alcoholic beer or decaffeinated coffee
- Calling anything milk that didn’t come from the tits of a mammal.
This is turning into a list of grievances, so let’s go to the Pew survey results.
Human trafficking and under-age women are what landed Jeffrey Epstein in prison, but he was doing much more than that.
Six weeks ago, I watched, I Swear, after hearing about it on a round up of movies from 2025. There weren’t a lot of great movies, but the reviewer mentioned it as an impressive movie that didn’t get much buzz.