The Roe v Wade (1973) hypothesis has also been proposed.

Right out of Aardman!

Great poem to read aloud.

Interesting. Most people living in geographical France didn’t regard themselves as exactly “French” before WWII. A variety of languages or dialects persisted. There were distinct regional customs. Then the gov’t began a program to extend and enforce the Frenchness of the region around the capital.

Yeah, I figured. Still, any little bit (less) would help.

Thank you for a year of engaging images and thoughtful commentary.

“A Lost Lady,” Willa Cather.

Fewer cattle, a little less global hearing. There’s that.

I would speculate that he has no real sense of what “respect” means, as distinct from fear or desire for a favor.

“There goes Fred Astaire,” someone said. I turned around. He was gone.

B. He is Putin’s asset and does what he is told. Putin has something making it possible for him to control Trump.

What happens in summer?

The one who ran a brothel in Alaska?

I think, now, that sanity is the problem. We are all acting as decently as we can, and this paradoxically is serving as permission for the regime’s indecency.

But he is really good at being a sadist. Credit where credit is due.

It was never about “government efficiency.” Musk got what he wanted.