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My wife mentioned today that her friend calls her daughter "Dodo", and said "What kind of person calls their grown daughter Dodo??" Quickly I said "Maybe their ex stinks?" Got a laugh, for once!

I do wonder whether tRump has managed to get all the foil off his FIFI Peace medal, before he ate the chocolate.....

There seems to be some folk in Yew Hess Hay, who seem somewhat disenchanted with the incumbent *resident of the White House. One such kind soul recently suggested their next election preference thus:- "Once again, if a 'Flaming Bag of Dog Poo on my Doorstep, that Someone Left after Ringing my Doorbell and Ran off' is on my ballot, and the only other choice is Trump or some other bullshitter MAGA tool who sees Americans as his enemy, I’ll vote for the bag of shit that doesn’t pretend to be something else." (American eloquence par excellence)

The Climate Change Debate.... I am pretty sure that there is no debate to be had about Climate Change. It is changing. - That debate is over - Further, it is pretty much universally agreed that anthropogenic climate change is real. - That Debate is over - There seems to still be some relatively minor uncertainty about how much of this climate change is caused by human activity suddenly adding significant amounts of greenhouse gasses. Is that really a debate? The media attention focuses on CO2, mostly from the burning of coal and oils. There is a big fuss over CO2. There is a negative side to that. I think this is distracting the public from noticing the other greenhouse gas emissions and the othe massive global pollution problems. The way I see it, the human animal has evolved to react when an immediate crisis threatens. In the case of the above complex poisoning of our environment, the threat, although ultimately catastrophic, is gradually occuring and seems distant. So we sit at home in a comfy armchair, doomscrolling & watching cat videos.