“'A House of Dynamite' isn’t really about nuclear war. It’s about what a government looks like when everyone in it is competent."

-- My WaPo review of Kathryn Bigelow's new doomsday drama. (free link)

Hey, remember that time a madman was president of the United States?

All-Bodhi timeline cleanse

The “spread evenly” is the tricky part. Credit goes to my friend Lisa who has a kickass food blog www.panningtheglobe.com

One 1/4 cup each of sesame, pumpkin, flax, sunflower seeds, arrowroot, add 1/4 cup boiling water, add 1/2 teaspoon of black sesame seeds, stir to coat, let set for 6-10 minutes, pour onto parchment paper sheet pan and spread evenly, sprinkle 1/2 tsp kosher salt, bake at 300 for 1 hr.

The world’s going to hell but at least I learned how to reverse-engineer those really expensive seed crackers

LAST MINUTE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES: a thread (1/?)

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Be thankful he lives in Paris; they’d be putting him in charge of ABC News otherwise.

Yep. I was there (I.e., alive and just getting out of college), and the wreckage he committed is the start of what we’re now living with.

Like 1980.

Just laying a little prediction down: No matter what happens in the midterm elections, these people are not going to let go of power willingly. We are going to have to go in and physically kick them out. With everything that that entails.

Watching an old school chum slowly become unhinged over months of Facebook posts sums up this timeline in the most depressing way. It’s like watching the Horseshoe Theory unfold in real-time.

I cannot begin to express my horrified delight at this litany of dire dating–app come-ons that literally goes on for days. Read it while walking my dog and just about stepped into traffic.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

*sigh* One of the truly good ones and a huge loss -- Goodall was conservation's ambassador to generations upon generations. Not sure who, if anyone, can take her place.

Hegseth’s warrior peacocking is simply disgusting. You want to see a warrior? This man landed at Anzio to kill fascism and anyone who defended it. Then he came home, married my grandma (who died this week at 101), and never touched a gun again.

As a great poet once said, be a simple kind of man.

"That’s the real drama of this movie — that the fight’s just beginning, and also that it never ended. That this is what it takes to truly be free in America and what it has taken for all of our 250 years: one battle after another. Snap, crackle, pop, baby." My PTA review in WaPo. (free link)

When a society doesn’t learn from history, it is doomed to repeat it.

Nope.

My appreciation of Robert Redford (free link). "His was the drama and dilemma of the handsome man who doubts his own handsomeness and feels the urge to do more. 'When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking,' Redford once said. 'I wish they had. I would’ve had a better time.'"

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Listening to old bootlegs and I’ve never understood why some people spend money to go to a concert to talk.