William Joyce, the infamous Nazi propagandist known as Lord Haw Haw, turned out to be immune to charges of treason because he was not technically a British subject when he made his pro-Nazi broadcasts. He was convicted instead of making a false statement when applying for a passport.
I wonder if Cheetolini sees the parallel.

Rule #1 of choral singing: show up on time.
Rule #2: For a dress rehearsal, when the director has sternly told everyone to show up on the dot, no excuses, show up on time and be prepared to wait.

Walking under pines on Capitol Way in downtown Olympia, hearing the strangest sound -- a continuous chatter like the rattle of cables under some streets in San Francisco, but also like a sound that living creatures might make -- my spouse said, Look up, there are nests up there. Egrets? Cormorants? No, great blue herons. At least half a dozen nests. A few blocks from city hall.

Happy Pride y'all!
Olympia had a little celebration of its rainbow-flag crosswalks with speeches from the mayor, who is a gay black veteran, and community members.
It joins Olympia's African Heritage and Trans Pride crosswalks. The city manager says more are in the works.
#Pride
#NeverGoingBack
Pretty good way to say "Whose streets? Our streets!"

I felt a great disturbance in the Force -- as if millions of voices cried out all at once, DRINKS ARE ON ME!!!

We've been lucky in my family: several enlistees but no casualties. I think none of them saw actual combat, just training and rear-echelon stuff.
But my uncle Bob joined the Merchant Marine, because they weren't as picky about age as the Navy was, and wound up on a floating warehouse in the Philippines. He came home OK, fortunately.
Both he and my dad signed up out of WWII patriotism, and maybe partly because home life was not so good. There's never just one reason.

I love it when judges troll each other. Here, Elena Kagan trolls Sam Alito.

(via https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/elena-kagan-makes-the-best-possible-dig-at-samuel-alito/, originally spotted by Gabe Roth on the ex-bird, https://twitter.com/FixTheCourt/status/1793653614298444117/photo/1? )

Nice wordo in the Zoom church transcript this morning: "Christ intervention services."

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

When someone starts quoting the Stoics, you're in trouble.
--me

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Connections
Puzzle #345
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@Alfred Can you please tell where this picture was taken?

This made me mad at first, but then I remembered they never do anything when they're in Washington but rag on whoever's Speaker this month and try to impeach someone (anyone!) so I guess it's fine if they spend the day fawning on Coupsolini like a pack of hounds.

That's a new one: blue-headed grosbeak at the feeder. Though they're sufficiently similar to rufous-sided towhees that I think I may have seen one before and misidentified it.

He's not shy, at any rate, or maybe he's tired. He's sitting in the feeder like he owns it. And given his size relative to the usual juncos and chickadees, he effectively does.
(Not my photo!)