Has everyone gotten their fill of rain? It is wreaking havoc in the vicinity. Evacuations, closed roads, closed lake, and a bit of history is now underwater. Conroe, Texas, never has the money to repair bridges, and now, they will never repair an iconic bridge, which you can read about below. They do have well-paid police, as cowardly as they were way back when.

After Joe won New Hampshire with a write-in vote, Moon of Alabama gives a preliminary assessment of the election: Election 2024 - Preliminary Assessment. Trump will win, and not much will change.

CityRocks and Privateers

I think the stress of the last few weeks has finally caught up with me. My thoughts and mind are completely blank it seems, and I can't get around that right now. So, let's do some fun music and this open thread is OPEN!

In Hungary there is/was this 'thing' called CityRocks (youtube channel). It's basically a flash mob, 500 musicians or so, that get together and play songs. They started in 2017. And... they rock .

Here they are playing some Queen - 'We Will Rock You!' And all I got to say is DRUMS!

"The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it's open.". - Frank Zappa

So here is a screen grab of NPR's coverage of tonight's New Hampshire Primary.

Bear with me as I explain why I find some of these numbers to be sus.

I'm looking at you Dem Party.

I long stopped paying attention to Grist magazine online. But someone posted this piece in one of my Facebook feeds, so I had to comment.

How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers

Subtitle:

I watch commercial TV off an antenna, 62 stations that come in fairly good.
I know...junk programing, much of it out of the last century. Reruns of old 60s-70s sitcoms that are essentially reruns from the Honeymooners and Life of Riley era. You know, when AM radio and green stamps were king.