Pulse, it proves that those who deride and sneer at what they call "identity politics," they are absolutely right. Because gay people, they are, like, totally safe and stuff. They are just like everybody else, gay people, and that is the way they are regarded and treated—just like everybody else—and by everyone, and all over the world. And so the gay people, they should leave off all that gay wedding cake dilettantism, and get down to what is really important. Like, you know: money. They should all be out auditing the fed, buying some gold, bathing in rubles. That Omar Mateen fellow, he did not kill all those Pulse people because they were gay. Heavens no. Instead, he targeted them because of . . . uh . . . uh . . . uh . . . uh . . . class! Yeah. That's it. That's the ticket. Class.

It is really so peculiar. How so many of the humans. They so order their lives. Around books written by people. Who are so . . . dead.

The country has been anything but peaceable lately, so we thought we would turn things around a little here. Warning: A little sad might creep in.

But first, The Recommendations:

June 13 is the 164th day of the year, there are 201 days left in 2016

13 is a prime number, it is the 6th prime

13 is also a prime if the digits are reversed (31).

13 is a fibonacci number (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13).

13 is the hypotenuse of a right traingle with sides of 5 & 12. 5, 12 & 13 can be used to test for right angles, like 3,4 & 5 can

I would have put this up this morning being it is Sunday but yesterday afternoon I had a sudden seizure and ended up until 2:30 a.m. in the Emergency. They still aren't sure what happened. My arms and legs are massive purple bruises. My right side is agony. My lower lip swollen twice its size. I don't remember falling. Reid says I was unconscious on the floor and having problems breathing. I tried to push away the firefighters.

Only the man who says no is free.

So servants of The Kenyan, they are asking the Congress to give them some laws that would explicitly permit the FBI to access people's intertubes browser history, and various other electronic data, and without a warrant.

FBI Director James Comey, he says the FBI actually already possesses such authority. Except said authority has been obscured by a "typo," introduced into the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. One that has encouraged certain Bad and Wrong companies to decline to provide tubular underpants-sniffing info that Congress clearly wished them to share with the FBI. This "scrivener's error," intones Comey, it is "needlessly hamstringing our counterintelligence and counterterrorism efforts."

Oh. Poor babies.

Friday Photography

Today's post takes a look at textures.

This week's assignment is: Textures (bet no one saw that coming).

Hey, there was no masthead on last week's open thread. I must have forgot.

Let's explore the memory and some hopefully memorable music.