It's the stupidest kind of chauvinism, but I want to see these airplanes flying until I am gone.

I've written here about my favorite example.

• Five at a time.

• This video clip almost makes me wish I'd voted for him, even if he thought what he was saying wasn't true.

• Gorgeous population density map. The replies are as good as Twitter gets… There's a sense that everyone sees a distinctly interesting feature. (Do you suppose the sun ever sets at that angle?)

• Phootnote Phunnies.

• Jaw-dropping video of blind teen using her Iphone.

• A park in China.

ABC reports that an Oakland courthouse was set on fire "...after a peaceful demonstration intensified."

Huh? So, an intense peaceful demonstration resulted in wounded police officers, a burning courthouse, and damaged property? I guess Oakland residents can be glad that it didn't become a violent demonstration.

"It's the stupidest kind of chauvinism, but I want to see these airplanes flying until I am gone."

*Sigh* That takes me back. The first airplane I ever flew on was a 727. The second was a 747, later that day. I was 13 years old.

Ten years later, I found myself on the contract 747 flying GIs from CONUS to Okinawa. All coach seats from nose to tail, operated by Flying Tigers. Within a couple years, Federal Express had the contract. Same 747, same aircrew, repainted tail.

Anyone else notice how Jerry Nadler now kinda resembles Mr. Sweetchuck from the Police Academy movies?

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I was going to say my first plane was a 707 from Tuscon to Chicago, but that's not right. That is the first I remember clearly, as I was 7 almost 8. Red eye, I remember watching the sun rise at O'Hare.

I think the first plane I was on as a wee lad was a DC-3. I was told that I turned green and needed the bag.

I love Coney's attention to language.

I'm back in the college town where I grew up. In an article yesterday, the city paper (a pretty meager broadsheet at this point) had an article about one of the major figures in the school's history. It affirmed that he believed in eugenics, "a flawed pseudoscience."

Consider from the clumsiness of that phrasing…

It disregards both the true horror and humane attractions of eugenic thought.

It countermands it's own intent; as if a "tidy pseudoscience" might have been forgivable.

And it conveys an incredible amount of fear.

All I know is that to me You look like you're having fun Open up your lovin' arms Watch out here I come

You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round

https://twitter.com/soloxslim/status/1284242347400679424

Teaching a kitty how to use a keyboard:

https://twitter.com/compdadjokes/status/1287900207682916354

Why men have shorter lifespans:

https://twitter.com/HeadHatchet/status/1287877182291734528

My BS senses tell me that an autopsy could reveal that more than one nurse was actually hurting this old man:

The elderly man who was beaten up at a Michigan nursery home for clout dies after succumbing to depression.

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1288141497225940994

Maxwell the Younger's life has gotten more interesting. The plaintiff is Victoria Giuffre.

NEW:

A federal judged ruled that the files she ordered unsealed in an old lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell hit the public record by Thursday.

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1288159198916771842

"The best data from contemporary social science...suggest that the very persistence of the pervasive misogyny narrative is itself a manifestation of the opposite: society is largely biased in *favor* of women"

https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1287911930191990785

Completed in 2006, Three Gorge Dam began receiving floodwater on July 2 at 53,000 cubic meters per second, raising the water level to 149 meters. The maximum level is 175 meters.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Natural-disasters/China-warns-of-new-floods-as-Three-Gorges-Dam-under-pressure

https://www.inforney.com/crime/forney-mother-and-children-likely-perished-as-result-of-overdose/article_592c4ecc-cf6c-11ea-a1cf-1b885d4996ce.html#:~:text=Elise%20and%20Izabel%20Chambers%20were,back%20of%20their%20mother's%20car.

A missing Forney mother found deceased in Farmers Branch on Thursday most likely died of an overdose and her two children subsequently perished due to a heat stroke after being left in their car seats in the back of their vehicle for more than a day according to law enforcement officials and the family.

Here's the statement from her sister ...

She fiercely loved her girls and was an inspirational mother. I always used to tell her I’m glad she did it (motherhood) first so I can steal parenting tips from her.

I hope this parenting tip isn't one she steals.

Don't any of these cases ever end with a family member saying "We hoped it would never happen, but we all saw this one coming. Natalie was a Godawful mother who had no business reproducing or being around kids."?

Monday's news:

DNC platform committee votes down an amendment adding a Medicare-for-all plank.

125 no
36 yes
3 abstaining

France has begun assembling their fusion reactor experiment. Target date: 2025.

Because right now it's in a million pieces and the instructions are in French, that's why.

I like crossing the Atlantic in the smaller planes. The ones that only one aisle. It doesn't happen often. But someone in your group is guaranteed a window!!!