My driver’s license is expired. The DMV opens in 40 minutes.

I’ve only had one cup of coffee.

Current mood.

#autonews #dmv

Let the world know your best self, peeps!

#photos #flowers

‘You’re in such good shape’: Trump criticised for ‘creepy’ comment to Brigitte Macron

Donald Trump has been heavily criticised after passing comment on the physical appearance of France’s first lady during his first state visit to the country.

Standing in the marbled hall of the the Hôtel national des Invalides in Paris on Thursday, Trump was filmed looking Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, admiringly up and down.

“You’re in such good shape,” the US president told her. He then turned to her husband, newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron, who was standing beside him, and repeated: “She’s in such good physical shape.”

Of course he did. I say over and over again, “He’s the president” to those who defend him.

And it would be totally different if he didn’t have a history of being creepy.

#trump #suchacreep

Chicago Library Seeks Help Transcribing Magical Manuscripts

The Newberry Library in Chicago is home to some 80,000 documents pertaining to religion during the early modern period, a time of sweeping social, political, and cultural change spanning the late Middle Ages to the start of the Industrial Revolution. Among the library’s collection of rare Bibles and Christian devotional texts are a series of manuscripts that would have scandalized the religious establishment. These texts deal with magic—from casting charms to conjuring spirits—and the Newberry is asking for help translating and transcribing them.

In local new, anybody speak Harry Potter?

#helpwanted #enchantments

Q&A: FRANKEN, LETTERMAN TAKE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Letterman: Here’s what I keep saying: We know there’s something wrong, but what I’m tired of is people, daily, nightly, on all the cable news shows telling us there’s something wrong. I just think we ought to direct our resources and our energies to doing something about it. And other people have made this point: If the guy was running Dairy Queen, he’d be gone. This guy couldn’t work at The Gap. So why do we have to be victimized by his fecklessness, his ignorance?

But it’s just the behavior is insulting to Americans, whether you voted for him or not - and I feel bad for people who did vote for him because he promised them things that they really needed and one wonders if he’s really going to come through. I know there’s trouble in this country and we need a guy who can fix that trouble. I wish it was Trump, but it’s not, so let’s just stop whining about what a goon he is and figure out a way to take him aside and put him in a home.

My two cents…

He’ll come through very little for those who voted for him.

Businessmen can be ruthlessly self-seeking and they’re rarely out for the little guy. So I guess if that’s what it takes to get to the top, then whatever fine but I don’t see him changing all that much since he took office. Feels like he’s out for the corporations and not the best interests of the common man, the environment, or the country’s reputation.

Also, I know many people who’re out there doing something. Attending rallies, organizing them, protesting — all that kinda thing.

Me? I would but I’ve a misplaced tendon from the Great Football War and feel content to simply aid in the resistance by providing commentary from my phone.

#trump #letterman #politics

The Zoolander one will be the charm.

#photos #beard

I think cucumber should have two of the letter U — just like vacuum. Imagine the glory of cuucumber.

It would be more than triumphant.

#writtenword

Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg

A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, weighs more than a trillion tonnes. Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes.

In other words an iceberg bigger than Delaware just broke away from Antartica and is now freely roaming the ocean.

#climatechange

Audio (MP3): 20170712 - I've lit my life on fire

If you haven’t heard this story, you’re in luck.

The first week or so I was sober I was sitting in a meeting and said, “I’ve lit my life on fire.”

When I was drinking I wasn’t capable of caring because I was drunk and numb to my life burning. But being freshly sober I was like, “Oh my fucking god. My life is on fire.” I was freaking out, anxious all the time, having panic attacks… And I really, really didn’t want my life to burn down.

As I was talking during that meeting, I was looking around the room and most people were nodding because they, too, had set their lives on fire at one time or another. Knowing that others could relate to what I’d done and how I was feeling gave me some hope. It made me feel accepted, that I was in the right place. My whole life I’d waited to belong somewhere and now I finally had. On more than a superficial level.

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You’re not the boss of me.

#photos #nicetry