As for elephant dung, both parties are knee deep in the stuff. The big one in the room which the Rethugs are studiously not seeing is the values, attitudes and beliefs of American women. From "The Daddy Party", the Rs seem to have morphed into the Lecherous Old Men Party. The ideal of American womanhood portrayed by this generation's Republican Party is...Barbie Doll.

I have been reflecting on the constant sturm and drang, that is the Trump Administration.

G-d love the Twatter machine, I guess..

But then we come to the women. The MSM is really trying to get people to care about Stormie Daniels. CNN actually sent a reporting team to her recent Strip Club appearance to gain a "breathless" interview and get personal autographs with her post appearance.

No, not clickbait, but not guaranteed either, I suspect.

Boing Boing today had this headline
The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women's health advice at this link:
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/09/fizzle.html#more-545113

The Boing Boing article leads in to some material from another source as follows:

Though I am now "officially" a Crone, I am and always will be a Warrior at heart. No, I have never been to war and hope to never do so...but I would if it meant protecting the people I love. I am not aggressive in that I want to take over the world. But I will aggressively protect others AND myself if it ever came down to it.

Shaharazade had a fine OT going...but she didn't hit "save" and then accidentally navigated away from this page, losing everything and now she's cooking dinner so I (Shahryar) am going to take up the theme in my own way, not exactly wrecking it but giving it a slightly different emphasis, just because, as a male, I can't help it. I can't write it from the same perspective.

This evening's music features blues singer and piano player Tommy Tucker.