One way that women are better than men

 

Throughout history and in our current modern era, particularly with numerous Republican-led states trying to put women's rights back into the Stone Age, men have had certain advantages over women.

But I'm not going to discuss that here.  What I am going to discuss is where women have a distinct advantage over men --

-- having orgasms.

Based on reporting and reading (because I haven't had the chance to experience it firsthand), women have great orgasms;  body-shaking, eye-rolling, toe-curling, wildly screaming avalanches of sexual pleasure. Furthermore, in one sexual experience, solo or duo or multiple, women can have several orgasms.

Men have one.  It's good (I've had quite a few), and they have their pluses, and they do have nice bonding aspects with lovely partners.  But after one, men have to recuperate and reload, and according to most sources, the actual orgasmic phase doesn't last as long as it does for women.

NOW it turns out women can have spiritually satisfying, sensually overwhelming, full-body orgasms.

It's not fair. Seriously.

Experts reveal what it's like to feel a 'full-body orgasm' like the LA Philharmonic woman, claiming it's 'like an earthquake inside of you'

(The 'LA Philharmonic' woman is described as a woman, unnamed, who released a keening wail of excitement during a symphonic performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.)

And the other thing is -- it doesn't even require sexual stimulation (though that helps).

It's truly not fair.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 28 - June 3, 2023: Miscou Island, New Brunswick, Canada

 

Finishing up a four lighthouse sequence, and back on calendrical track, this is considered one of the top lighthouses in New Brunswick. It's in the northern part, at the entrance to Chaleur Bay.  For a closer look at the location of the Miscou Island lighthouse, which is quite wild, click right here.  It appears to be a good place for camping and hiking. 

Here's an extended amount of information from the Lighthouse Directory (of course). 

"1856 (James Murray). Active; focal plane 24.5 m (80 ft); two white flashes every 7.5 s. 25.5 m (83 ft) octagonal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red trim; lantern is red. A rotating 3rd order Fresnel lens (1910) remains in use. Fog horn (4 s blast every 60 s). The keeper's house and barn were removed from the site after automation of the light in 1988, but the barn was returned in 2002. ... This historic lighthouse was built by the Colony of New Brunswick prior to the confederation of 1867 that created the Dominion of Canada. The lighthouse was extended in height by 1.8 m (6 ft) in 1903. The station was recognized as a national historic site in 1974. ... Miscou Island represents the northeastern corner of New Brunswick; it is accessible by a bridge on NB 113 completed in 1996. Located at the end of NB 113 on Birch Point at the northern end of Miscou Island, guarding the entrance to Chaleur Bay."

 As you'll see from one of the pictures below, in the autumn, the peat bogs of Miscou Island turn bright red, with a few other colors mixed in. Quite striking.

Pretty woman post, Silvia Funes

 

In a slight change from a pretty girl post (well, the dividing line between girl and woman is somewhat indistinct), this time I'm going to do a pretty woman post. The subject is an Italian woman named Silvia Funes, and she is a dancer, choreographer, and director -- here's the web site for the dance troupe, with her bio.  

She is also in superb shape, and she also HAS a superb shape. Fortunately for those who admire such shapes and shapeliness, she posts frequently on her Instagram page, SilviaFunesFifth (the dance troupe/studio is the Centro per Danzatori Fifth. 

At least one website findable by search labeled her a MILF (I'm not completely sure of the M aspect of that acronym, but I think she is based on some of the photos).  She is indeed quite attractive and certainly appeals to certain aspect of maleness.

You may peruse the captured pictures below make a personal evaluation. I chose one picture to show her professional activity as a dancing instructor and director. The rest of them, well, you can try to figure out why I chose them.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 21 - 27, 2023: Pea Point Lighthouse, New Brunswick, Canada

 

The third in the series of lighthouses in the Canadian province of New Brunswick is Pea Point Lighthouse.  This one is also on the Bay of Fundy, but considerably further southwest than Cape Enrage.  In fact, it's not very far from the U.S. - Canada border, which is also the state of Maine.  See where that is on this map. The lighthouse is on an island right next to the Connors Brothers Nature Preserve at Pea Point.

The Lighthouse Directory tells us more about it.

"1965 (station established 1878). Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); continuous white light. 10 m (34 ft) square cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, rising from one corner of a 1-story concrete fog signal building. Fog horn (two 3 s blasts every 60 s). ... Located on a small island near the Grand Manan Island ferry terminal near Black's Harbour. Although it is possible to walk to the lighthouse at low tide, treacherous footing and rapidly changing tides make this hazardous."

 Video and pictures of the Pea Point Lighthouse below.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 14-20, 2023: Cape Enragé, New Brunswick, Canada

 

Moving to the next lighthouse in our series, this post is about the Cape Enragé light. It's historic, and it also happens to be directly south of Moncton on the coast of the Bay of Fundy, which means it must have  a large tidal range.

The location of this lighthouse is right here.

Information about this lighthouse, from the Lighthouse Directory:

"1870 (station established 1838). Active; focal plane 38 m (125 ft); green flash every 6 s. 9 m (29 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red trim; lantern is red. Fog horn (three 2 s blasts every 60 s). 2-story wood keeper's house restored, beginning in 1993, by students from Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton. ... The light station now houses the Cape Enragé Adventure Centre, which offers a variety of activities. ... This is now the northernmost light on the Bay of Fundy's west coast."

For more history, here is the Lighthouse Friends page. 

The pictures are below.  The lighthouse is on a bluff above some daunting cliffs.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 7-13, 2023: Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick, Canada

 

You may notice that this Lighthouse of the Week post for the first full week of May is actually being posted during the last week of May. I missed a bit of time, and a couple of weeks, on this blog, not that it matters to the state of the world.  So I'm going to do a bit of backfilling for May, and provide lighthouses for the month.

I examined some past posts, and I discovered that I had never posted a single lighthouse from the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Now, New Brunswick has a lot of coastline, including the northern shores of the Bay of Fundy, the southern coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the southern coast of Chaleur Bay.

Therefore, the next several Lighthouses of the Week will be from the province of New Brunswick.

The first one will be a traditional style, inactive but restored; the Cape Jourimain lighthouse.

It is located here. It's actually on an island, Trenholm Island, that is one of two islands that makes up the Cape Jourimain National Wildlife Area. The islands also provide support for the bridge between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. 

Lighthouse Friends has a page on it, with history.  However, it doesn't show the restored lighthouse.

So let's learn a bit about it from the Lighthouse Directory.

"1870. Inactive since 1997. 16 m (53 ft) octagonal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. ... This historic lighthouse was deactivated in 1997 when the Confederation Bridge was completed to link New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. After being abandoned by the Coast Guard the lighthouse began to deteriorate. The nearby Cape Jourimain Nature Centre launched a drive for funds needed to repair and repaint the tower and began negotiating with Fisheries and Oceans to obtain ownership. The transfer of ownership finally took place in 2015, after the lighthouse was recognized as a Heritage Lighthouse. The lighthouse was threatened by erosion, so in August 2016 Mervil Rushton Building Movers relocated the tower 60 m (200 ft) back from the cliff. The lighthouse was restored in 2017-18 and in July 2019 it opened to the public for the first time."

Below are pictures of the restored lighthouse, followed by a video.

Video:

Well, I got excited (for a moment)

 

No, not that kind of excited.

When I read the headline on THIS article, I thought it possible, though unlikely, that an actual signal of intelligent life from somewhere else in the galaxy (pretty unlikely on this planet) had been detected.

Alien Planet Outside Our Solar System Is Sending Repeating Radio Signals Towards Earth, Scientists Say

Seriously, what would YOU think?

And if you read the article, it doesn't change your mind much, if you've jumped to a conclusion.

"The signals, which were detected by the Breakthrough Listen project, are coming from a planet called YZ Ceti, which is located about 130 light-years from Earth.

The discovery of these signals is a major step forward in the search for alien life. It is the first time that scientists have detected repeating radio signals from an Earth-like planet. The signals are also very strong, which suggests that they could be coming from an intelligent civilization."

 Wait just a minute, I thought. I can't believe that they would make a statement like this, and yet have this not be major news all over this planet.

So I looked up the research paper.

Coherent radio bursts from known M-dwarf planet-host YZ Ceti

So let's read the abstract:

"Observing magnetic star–planet interactions (SPIs) offers promise for determining the magnetic fields of exoplanets. Models of sub-Alfvénic SPIs predict that terrestrial planets in close-in orbits around M dwarfs can induce detectable stellar radio emission, manifesting as bursts of strongly polarized coherent radiation observable at specific planet orbital positions. Here we present 2–4 GHz detections of coherent radio bursts on the slowly rotating M dwarf YZ Ceti, which hosts a compact system of terrestrial planets, the innermost of which orbits with a two-day period. Two coherent bursts occur at similar orbital phases of YZ Ceti b, suggestive of an enhanced probability of bursts near that orbital phase. We model the system’s magnetospheric environment in the context of sub-Alfvénic SPIs and determine that YZ Ceti b can plausibly power the observed flux densities of the radio detections. However, we cannot rule out stellar magnetic activity without a well-characterized rate of non-planet-induced coherent radio bursts on slow rotators. YZ Ceti is therefore a candidate radio SPI system, with unique promise as a target for long-term monitoring."

What's an "M dwarf", you ask?

It took me a bit of time to find a good explanation. This page is pretty good. 

Class M Star

"A Class M star is the type that consists of some of the dimmest of the main sequence stars. Such main sequence Class M stars are known as red dwarfs, though the category can also include very late Class K stars that may be nearly convective and early Class L stars able to fuse hydrogen. They are typically described as red or red-orange. They are by far the most common type of luminous star, making up roughly 76% of all main sequence stars."

It notes that most M class stars are red dwarfs.

So, I guess, that the magnetic fields of the M-class dwarf YZ Ceti interact with the orbiting planet regularly, which generates these repeating radio signals.

Not quite as exciting as the detection of intelligent life in another solar system, but hey, it was interesting while it lasted. 

Here's a more explanatory article about all of this, and I grabbed their illustration, too.

Astronomers Detect Radio Emission Associated with Magnetic Field of Nearby Exoplanet

"YZ Ceti and one of its three known planets, YZ Ceti b, provide an ideal pair because the planet is so close to the star that it completes a full orbit in only two days.

As plasma from YZ Ceti careens off the planet’s magnetic ‘plow,’ it then interacts with the magnetic field of the star itself, which generates radio waves strong enough to be observed on Earth.

The strength of those radio waves can then be measured, allowing astronomers to determine how strong the magnetic field of the planet might be."

What comes naturally

 

Model, entrepreneur, Victoria's Secret Angel, Sports Illustrated swimwear model Josephine Skriver recently announced that she's adding mother-to-be to her extensive list of accomplishments. The tot-to-be-named-later (when born, I would think) is, to use a somewhat archaic term, legitimate, as she is married to the most likely father, Alexander DeLeon.  

[Well, that last part was needlessly cynical.  Of course he's the father.]

Not long ago, Josephine posted a picture on her Instagram account showing her in a period of downtime, aka, vacation. And when you see a picture like this, you pretty much can understand why in a loving sexual relationship, pregnancy sure seems like a likely occurrence.

Ahem.  Lucky him, lucky them.

Great, great shots

 

Another piece of coverage of a photographic contest from the Daily Mail.

From a sleeping baby chimpanzee to otherworldly 'Middle-earth' mountains: Twelve incredible images from a prestigious photography contest that will leave you awestruck

As is my practice, here is the actual contest Web site:

ONE EYELAND PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2022 TITLE WINNERS

There are numerous great shots in this contest.  Because I've seen part of the Dolomites in Italy (not nearly enough), I'm partial to this shot from Valerio Sbriglione, which is featured in the Daily Mail article.

Nature photographer Stue Rees of New Zealand took several shots of Alaska, including the brown bears feeding on salmon. This picture, entitled "Caught", captures the ferocity of their pursuit and consumption.

Swimming against the tide

 

Kudos and my admiration to the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, and the legislature of the state, for passing and signing real gun control laws.

Colorado Democratic governor signs 4 gun control bills into law (CNN)

"Under the new measures, Colorado residents must be 21 years old to legally possess a gun, increasing the requirement from 18 years of age. However, there are several exceptions. Among them, residents attending firearms safety courses, hunter’s education or authorized target shooting practice, or those participating in a shooting class under the supervision of someone who is at least 25-years-old, or those who are active service members.

There will also now be a three-day minimum waiting period before the delivery of a firearm that was purchased following a background check. A violation of this waiting period will result in a $500 fine for the first violation and up to $5,000 for subsequent violations.

One of the new laws expands the state’s red flag law, which currently allows law enforcement, family members or a household member to petition a judge to temporarily seize a person’s firearms if they are deemed a risk. Under the new law, more people will be allowed to petition for an extreme risk protection order, including district attorneys, licensed educators, licensed medical care providers, and licensed mental health care providers.

A fourth measure removes a liability protection currently on the books for manufacturers whose firearms or ammunition may have defects. It “requires each industry member that is engaged in the manufacture, distribution, importation, marketing, or wholesale or retail sale of an industry product in Colorado to establish and implement reasonable controls and precautions related to the industry product in its control,” according to the legislation summary."

All of those make sense, and are far from onerous.  What the f*** is wrong with the rest of the country?

This is quite impressive

 

Sometimes you just have to go where the Daily Mail leads.

In this case, I/we can appreciate the mature beauty of actress January Jones. After all, I don't think she posted the video strictly for her own entertainment.

January Jones, 45, shows off her very sexy dance movies in her backyard while rocking a tiny white string bikini

Here's an excerpt:

Florence Pugh plays Princess Irulan in Dune, Part II

 

Florence Pugh has been cast (and has filmed the part) as Princess Irulan in the second part of Dune, the movie, the new version, coming out in autumn.  For those familiar with the book, that's an important book because many of the quotes that precede each textual section of the book are quotes from the writings of Princess Irulan. 

She also plays an important part in the politics of the Dune universe, but that's about all I can say on that subject, lest I spoil it for those waiting to be surprised and entertained by the movie.

Here's Pugh in character.

Pretty girl post - Laila Hasanovic

 

Let's have another pretty girl post.  The subject of this one is lovely Dane Laila Hasanovic, Instagram address https://www.instagram.com/lailahasanovic/, a Top 25 finalist in Miss Universe Denmark 2019, and also a WAG (the G is for Girlfriend) of a Danish World Cup player, Jonas Wind.

Her WAGdom is described here:  Denmark star Jonas Wind dating 2019 Miss Denmark finalist Laila Hasanovic

As one might expect of a Miss Denmark finalist, she's curvy, blond, and blue-eyed, and stunning.

Here she demonstrates fine selfie style.

The April 2023 hybrid solar eclipse

 

Even though it was a "hybrid" solar eclipse, not fully total but almost total, it provided some great astrophotography.

To give full credit for this one, it came from this Spaceweather page:  

Wild Corona of 2023 Solar Eclipse

and the photograph is credited to 

Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), Josef Kujal, and Milan Hlaváč

It's quite astonishing.

Just plain wow

The United Arab Emirates put a satellite into orbit around Mars, and it's doing what satellites orbiting Mars commonly do, which is take pictures and collect data. 

It happened to zip by the smaller of the two small Martian moons, Deimos, and took some utterly spectacular pictures, reminiscent of the revelatory pictures of Jupiter moons taken by the Vikings and Galileo with Jupiter as a backdrop.

They have a very high "wow" factor.

What about the baby?

 

I happened to notice this article about Tuppence Middleton in the Daily Mail a couple of weeks ago.

Tuppence Middleton transforms into Elizabeth Taylor as she prepares to portray her on stage... sharing that she 'completely relates' to the iconic star

Glad to see she is continuing her professional career.  The article, however, reminded me that I had posted an article about Tuppence being pregnant -- father at that time unnamed -- but I had not seen an article about Tuppence post-pregnancy, otherwise known as having given birth.

But there was one.  And there was a named father, too.

Tuppence Middleton, 35, has given birth to her first child with Swedish film director Mans Marlind, 53, as they are seen heading out for a stroll with a pushchair in north London

So, they are now officially parenting.

New gem at the Smithsonian

 

A 116-carat gem is now on display at the Smithsonian, in the same room with the Hope Diamond.

It's a tsavorite -- a green garnet.

A stunning gem, to honor a slain geologist, unveiled at Smithsonian
Discoverer of a beautiful green mineral was slain in Kenya by robbers 14 years ago

The name of this lovely stone is the Lion of Merelani.

The discoverer of the mineral was murdered in Kenya by illegal prospectors (says the article) in 2009.

I expect that very few people had the change to hold it like this.

Great news for the Chesapeake Bay, but ...

 

This article from the Washington Post states that the oyster harvest from the Chesapeake Bay, from both Virginia and Maryland, is going to be a fairly big harvest.

Virginia expects largest oyster harvest in three decades

"Virginia estimates that commercial oyster businesses will harvest 300,000 bushels this season in public fishery areas. Maryland expects to harvest 600,000 bushels, marking the fourth consecutive year the state has seen harvest increases. Because Maryland has more public fishery areas, its harvests tend to be larger than Virginia, officials said."

But ... here's the other part of this.

"Oysters are an important part of the Chesapeake Bay’s ecology because they filter sediment and nitrogen out of the water. They also provide a habitat that attracts crabs and fish."

So, added up, Maryland and Virginia are going to harvest nearly a million bushels of oysters, which, if left in the Bay's waters, would help clean up the water going into the Bay, reduce eutrophication (a process that reduces oxygen in the Bay's waters), and generally improve the environment of the Bay for all of the other biota that live there.

Shouldn't they be left in place to reproduce until there are a LOT more of them, as historically was the case?  Wouldn't this growing population contribute to much improved water quality in the Bay?

What's the rush?  

Answering his question

 

One of Townhall.com's more prolific and dislikable columnists goes by the name of Matt Vespa. And I've kept one of his columns in case I ever had the time to address what he said.

She Can't Be Serious? Kamala Harris Really Asked This Question During a NASA Presentation

It took a bit of work, because Vespa's snark didn't provide it, but this is the actual question that Vice President Harris asked:

" “Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?” "

Here's the thing -- the environment does vary by neighborhood.  And more urbanized environments have less trees.  And yes, NASA satellites can provide information on greenness density, tree canopy height, the health of the trees (see vapor pressure deficit, very important) and other aspect of the faunal realm.

And they can look at the greenness of cities and neighborhoods too, and enterprisingly, determine the demographics of who lives where. 

Here's a paper that did just that. 

Race, Ethnicity, Income Concentration and 10-Year Change in Urban Greenness in the United States

"Background: Cross-sectional studies suggest urban greenness is unequally distributed by neighborhood demographics. However, the extent to which inequalities in greenness have changed over time remains unknown. Methods: We estimated 2001 and 2011 greenness using Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite-derived normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI) in 59,483 urban census tracts in the contiguous U.S. We fit spatial error models to estimate the association between baseline census tract demographic composition in 2000 and (1) 2001 greenness and (2) change in greenness between 2001 and 2011. Results: In models adjusted for population density, climatic factors, housing tenure, and Index of Concentration at the Extremes for income (ICE), an SD increase in percent White residents (a 30% increase) in 2000 was associated with 0.021 (95% CI: 0.018, 0.023) higher 2001 NDVI. We observed a stepwise reduction in 2001 NDVI with increased concentration of poverty. Tracts with a higher proportion of Hispanic residents in 2000 lost a small, statistically significant amount of greenness between 2001 and 2011 while tracts with higher proportions of Whites experienced a small, statistically significant increase in greenness over the same period. Conclusions: Census tracts with a higher proportion of racial/ethnic minorities, compared to a higher proportion of White residents, had less greenness in 2001 and lost more greenness between 2001 and 2011. Policies are needed to increase greenness, a health-promoting neighborhood asset, in disadvantaged communities."

So yeah, Matt, it wasn't a dumb question.

Here's a view of Southern California showing greenness over the region. 

This all occurred to me when I read the following article:

Report finds that heat, drought and fires worsen air in the West

The American Lung Association also found that minorities suffer from air pollution more than their White counterparts

" “Climate change is impacting the East differently than the West,” said Katherine Pruitt, the lead author and editor of the report. “The heat and drought in the West are driving pollution.” That burden is also shared unequally, and communities of color continue to be disproportionately affected by high pollution levels, according to the report. More than 64 million people of color lived in counties with high air pollution exposure, more than half of all those living with unhealthy air."

So yeah Matt, it still isn't a dumb question.  

And NASA can look at air pollution levels from space, too.

If you missed the "super bloom"

 

The Washington Post had a feature about California's recent super bloom of flowers, triggered by the series of atmospheric rivers that cascaded over the state this past winter.  It has views from the ground and from space.

California’s ‘super bloom’ is underway. Here’s why it’s so epic.

One of the satellite views shows a big area of purple Great Valley phacelia.  Since they don't have a picture of that from ground level, I looked that up.  Here are a couple of pictures of this floral variety.

And they get paid, too?

 

I'll just leave this right here.

Prior sexperience not required: Company wants to pay 10 lucky people $1,000 to MASTURBATE and review sex toys as part of its 'market research'

"Lovehoney [the company] is recruiting ten members to join its new Orgasm Advisory Board, where members will test out and advise on new sex toys."

"Lovehoney is setting out on a 16-city recruitment tour, starting out in New York and Los Angeles on May 6, 2023."

So how are they going to choose the candidates and make the final selections?  Auditions?

Here's more inside info:  Orgasm Advisory Board

If you are so fortunate to become a, ahem, member of the board, you get a new box of toys every month. Hurry;  applications close May 31, 2023.

This is something I think might work

 

Homelessness is a nationwide problem.  I was on a trip recently, and I saw an abandoned hotel, still with a solid infrastructure, and I thought that the hotel could be renovated and made into a dwelling place where homeless people could at least have a place to sleep and bathe.  (Food would be a question;  while suite hotels have kitchens in the rooms, most regular hotels don't.)

Apparently this isn't a completely dumb idea.

LA mayor Karen Bass wants to spend a record $1.3 BILLION on converting hotels and motels into housing for the city's sprawling homeless population

"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is proposing a record-breaking $1.3 billion budget that would see the city buy up hotels to house homeless residents.

The Democrat, who was elected in November after promising to take on the city's out-of-control homeless crisis, said the budget would also provide homeless people with treatment programs."

Not a new canoe

 

Three teenagers in North Carolina accidentally found what appears to be a 930-year-old dugout canoe made by southeastern Native Americans.

Nearly 1,000-year-old Native American canoe recovered from Lake Waccamaw

"The chief of the Waccamaw Siouan tribe, Michael Jacobs, said it’s rare to find pieces of history like this one. The canoe is a symbol of nearly 1,000 years of Native American culture in southeastern North Carolina."

Watch a video of the recovery: 

A couple of great shots from the Sony World Photography contest

 

The Daily Mail covered the Sony World Photography 2023 contest:

From a forest lit up by fireflies to raccoons prowling a San Francisco park: The spectacular winners of the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards revealed

Here is the actual Web site for the contest:

2023 Winners and Shortlist Galleries

There was a lot to choose from;  here are three I liked.

This one was featured in the Daily Mail article;  on one long trip, I was very close to these formations, but I didn't get to see them.  They are in the Italian Dolomites, photo by Robert Bilos.

This volcano-in-action shot was a Latin America regional winner by Kevin Moncayo. I don't recognize the volcano.

This picture of a floating island in Peru's Lake Titicaca (made of totora sedge) was from a series by Johanna Marecela Garavito Morales.  Interesting place to live if you don't need a basement.

What happened at the NRA convention

 

The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne had a commentary on the recent National Rifle Association convention.

Gun absolutists don’t trust democracy because they know they’re losing

"The nonsense floated in Indianapolis — based on the idea that our national addiction to high-powered weaponry has nothing to do with America’s unique mass shooting problem — speaks to a deep ailment in our democracy. It has both partisan and (perverse) philosophical roots.

Tennessee’s election laws allow gun permits as voter IDs but not college student identifications. There is no waiting time to buy a gun, but citizens have to register at least 30 days before an election. “It is absolutely easier to get a gun than to vote in Tennessee,” Democratic state Sen. Charlane Oliver told [Politico report Kathy] Gilsinan."

A comment on the Fox News / Dominion Voting Systems case

 

At this point, the case is over, and Fox News admitted, quietly and meekly, while shelling out more than three-quarters of a billion dollars, that they lied about, and promoted the lies about, Dominion Voting Systems machines altering votes so that Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election.

And so I'm promoting the op-ed column that the esteemed Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote about it.

When The Mad Lead The Blind

And particularly this quote:

"It’s hard for a journalist to argue that a news organization should be penalized, but Fox News isn’t a news organization. It’s a greedy business that freaked out when some Fox News reporters actually told the truth about Trump’s lies, and then it proceeded to broadcast the lies."

Exactly.  And yet so many people still tune in and listen to lies from Fox News.  Lies like the GOP being fiscally responsible while they are figuratively tying the U.S. and global economies to a wooden post, stacking up wood around it, pouring gasoline on it, and brandishing a torch while saying that if you don't do what we say about massively slashing the U.S. government budget, we're going to destroy our collective economic future.

And smiling while they lie.

Speaking of WAGs

 

After my recent post about the wives, lovers, and girlfriends of major league baseball players, I should note that occasionally the WAGs (as the Brit press likes to call them) of England's sportsmen sometimes come to my attention. 

In that regard, I wondered who Jack Grealish, the player with the best hair (and also, apparently, best legs) in the Premier League, was dating. And fortunately, the Daily Mail came through for me.

Jack Grealish's model girlfriend Sasha Attwood relaxes in a skimpy black bikini as she enjoys a luxury boat day

Here's more information about him (and them).

Who is Jack Grealish's model girlfriend Sasha Attwood?

You will find out more, including that she can be pretty darned glamorous.

And here's Sasha herself.

Be a god - but there are drawbacks

 

Couldn't help reading this article in the Daily Mail.

Did the men in ancient Greece REALLY have small penises? TikTok star reveals the real reason statues of athletes and gods have such small members

Why, you ask, WHY?

"In sharing another video on the social media site, Ms. Reign [Tik Tok star] explained that in ancient Greece, having a 'smaller package was considered a sign of virtue, of civility, or self control or discipline.

'Meanwhile, having a bigger one was a sign of lustfulness, of gluttonous appetites and barbarism, which is quite interesting because it's different to today.'

 So, here's Zeus, in at least one artist's conception. 

The "thing" is, Zeus was pretty successful in the seduction (ok, it's actually called "rape") of lovely human women, resulting in several demigods and semi-deities and lesser goddesses, something that wife Hera was never happy about.  So the Zeus depicted with the minimally-sized organ, in mythic reality, wasn't virtuous at all, and so perhaps he should have been more appropriately equipped with a prodigious phallus.

However, it should be pointed out that Zeus didn't take on a human form when mythologically assaulting human women -- he could be a swan (Helen of Troy, Pollux), a bull (King Minos), or a shower of gold (Perseus).  (According to the story, he really wasn't a bull when he did the deed that begat Minos.)

So, getting back to basics, you can be a virtuous god or a non-virtuous GOD.  Take your pick and pick your dick. 

Left someone out

 

Just wanted to draw my reader's (oh, I guess that could be readers') attention, as a public service, to an article about the lovely (hot), devoted (hot), motherly (hot), and understanding (hot) women who are involved, engaged, married to, or otherwise involved with major league baseball players in Major League Baseball.

A supermodel married to the Mets' new star pitcher, a USA soccer star - and the High School Musical actress with 50 MILLION followers: The VERY glamorous world of baseball's WAGs

Listed in the article are Kate Upton, Vanessa Hudgens, Mallory Swanson (formerly Pugh, women's soccer star currently recovering from a knee injury), Chelsea Freeman, Kayla Harper, Samantha Bracksieck, Meghan Murphy, and Charlise Springer.

It's a good list. But when I read the article, I noted that they left off the wife of current Arizona Diamondback and former San Francisco Giants/Tampa Bay Rays star Evan Longoria, who is married to former Playboy Playmate Jaime Edmondson.  (Yes, I have a picture, see below.)  I also remembered that Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson married former Tampa Bay Ray Reid Brignac, who is now a minor league baseball team manager.

It's likely, actually more than likely, that there are many other glamorous and relatively famous, also hot, wives and girlfriends of major leaguers that I don't know about or don't remember. We need a comprehensive list!

Now, back to Jaime Edmondson. Toned down for public viewing (she was a Playboy Playmate, you know there's more if you look):

"Mr. Rapist, before you put your pants back on, will you please sign this form for me?"

 

The new Florida abortion law supposedly provides for exceptions in the case of rape or incest -- provided that written proof it occurred is presented.

So rape victims could simply ask their rapist to certify that they performed the rape that led to the pregnancy.

Certification of Rape Event

I, the undersigned, certify for the purposes of obtaining an abortion that resulted from the unplanned emission of pregnancy-inducing fluids (aka sperm, semen) during the commission of a rape/incest event for which I take no responsibility -- she was consensual, even though she was (fill in underage age of pregnant person) -- that I was the release agent of these pregnancy-inducing fluids, which somehow resulted in the person participating in the rape/incest activity becoming, as the Bible says, "with child".

I take this action because if in the unlikely event I am convicted of what is legally termed a "crime", I don't want to be held responsible for the care and upbringing, especially the cost, of raising an offspring that I did not intend to be the source of male chromosomes for.  I was just letting off a little steam and she shouldn't have been wearing tight yoga pants.  

Signed ____________________________________________________ who was just a guy doin' what comes naturally, right?

That should work fine.

Rape, Incest Victims Must Show Proof to Get Exception to Florida's New Abortion Ban

"On Thursday, DeSantis announced that he signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law, which will now require a woman to provide proof that the pregnancy was a result of rape, incest or human trafficking in order to receive an abortion up until 15 weeks of gestation."

I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide

 

It's been awhile.  

There is so much to do.