Road computing, I mean actually changing to new and exotic places on a nearly daily basis, is fraught by comparison with hooking up in a pre-Scouted and prepared location which, frankly, is frustrating enough. Add the large chunks of time spent in actual travel and I’m surprised I get anything done at all. Yesterday …
July 10, 2019 archive
Jul 10 2019
Deader Than A Door Nail
I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not …
Jul 10 2019
Cartnoon
Canadian Lewis and Clark U.S.? A few guys (some soldiers and others not) and a pile of “money” to buy what you need along the way. Brits? A Thousand Soldiers with Baggage Train. If that was all you knew you’d think the U.S. more likely to have good relations with the First Nations. You would …
Jul 10 2019
The Breakfast Club (The Past)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Jul 10 2019
Six in The Morning Wednesday 10 July 2019
Hong Kong families are feuding as China extradition bill exposes generational fall in living standards By Jessie Yeung, CNN Updated 0352 GMT (1152 HKT) July 10, 2019 In the now widely-shared Facebook video, a young man in a Hong Kong restaurant stands up at his table and glares down at his family members. “You’re criticizing my friends, saying …