Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

Normally I only go to the San Diego Botanical Garden once a year at most and since I was there in May I didn't expect to be there again until next year at the earliest. But last Friday I got an email from them announcing one of their Corpse plants would be in bloom Fri, Sat, and Sun. So on Saturday I stopped by to check it out. Contrary to its name, it didn't smell like a corpse but more like a dirty garbage can and the scent wasn't very strong.

I hope everybody had an enjoyable 4th yesterday.

Everybody say hello to Uncle Fester

I gather its host Mark Helperin is a ConservaDem journalist. It lasted an hour. It was about the Biden snafu. I gather they're Democratic Party-leaning journalists. Apparently the video itself has been made private. So nobody can see it. Nonetheless, I saw it. It was kind of fun watching the participants panic.

If you just look at the headlines of the British and French elections you would never know just how important the political left factored into these elections.
In Britain, the Labour Party had an overwhelming victory over the Tory Party. However, it wasn't so much a victory for Labour as it was a defeat for the Tories.

Sometimes it feels like I'm witnessing a Greek Tragedy. One that even Sophocles may not have dreamed of.

Surely, the same human dynamics were at play in Sophocles' time as they are today, but if one wanted to pen a modern Greek Tragedy a seminal factor that would be beyond an ancient Greek's understanding would be, digital technology. That technology amplifies the modern stage exponentially, in which the ancient Greeks would have to invent a new vocabulary to explain the plight of the contemporary hoi polloi.

4th of July!
It's Thursday and it's the 4th of July! It's been 248 years since this nation was created, if one takes 1776 as the date of creation. And in 1814 the poem featuring the line 'the rockets' red glare, and the bombs bursting in air' over Fort McHenry during the battle of Baltimore was published by Francis Scott Key. This poem became the Star Spangled Banner. So that's 210 years old. And our enemy at the time, the United Kingdom, is now our best bud as we take over (took over) its role as the english-speaking Empire leader!

from: https://www.lovethispic.com/image/269745/happy-4th-of-july