Rubus Leucodermis

Is there any objective data that would make you believe crime has gone down? If so, what?

A few weeks old, but still pertinent.

And yet… https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/us-crime-rate-still-dropping-says-fbi-rcna144100

We always get at least one. They used to just be called “heat waves” or “high pressure systems.” Even the famously cool and damp 1993 “bummer summer” had a heat wave in early August. As long as it’s not top tier torch after TTT all summer long, I will be happy. Even happier if smoke season is a no-show this year.

Rain and 47˚F. 0.51" for the day, 0.59" storm total.

Life comes at you fast sometimes.

At this point in 1988, the polls showed Dukakis handily defeating Bush. In 2016, one pundit was so sure Clinton would win (the polls were basically all saying she would) that he promised to eat a bug if Trump won.

“…never sell the app…” Otherwise known as bitching and moaning. “…will appeal that bill to be overturned” And when they lose their case?

But it won’t, because Biden won’t want to needlessly stir up controversy before the election by doing so. My guess is that TikTok’s Chinese owners will b*tch and moan for a while, then put their US subsidiary up for sale. Because money (sell subsidiary and pocket a wad of cash versus don’t sell and take a loss on US operations).

Not in my local library, but I do see there is a free downloadable PDF of that book on that page. (And not by error; it has a Creative Commons copyright that allows for free distribution.) It took me about three minutes to conclude it is Marxist garbage (the Table of Contents is your friend), and it gets to the core of (while I am a leftist) I am definitely not a Marxist. The guy’s theories of racism have nothing to do with it. In fact, I haven’t even read those parts of the book, so I am not qualified to comment on those aspects of it. Rather, it’s the crushing bureaucracy of his plan. He wants all his students to keep a gosh-darn fscking time sheet accounting for all the course work they do. I am just not into paperwork or bureaucracy. That already made me dislike college. I would never voluntarily be a student in one of this clown's classes. If I found I was, I would have dropped it and taken it via another section taught by another instructor. And then there is the whole work aspect. What happened to working smarter, not harder? Why should spending four hours on a term paper make the paper automatically better than spending two hours? What about taking a hike in the foothills above campus, getting a great idea, and then writing a paper? Because I spent two hours hiking and two hours writing, I get a worse grade than someone who stayed cooped up at a desk with writer's block for two hours, then spent two hours cranking out a mediocre paper? Bureaucratic garbage, very USSR-esque. Or, very Corporate Capitalist-esque (big business can be as stiflingly bureaucratic as big government). Right out of workers pretending to look busy for the boss. He probably wants students to study for tests, too (and tracks this time, and grades on it). That is something else that never worked for me. Either I learned the material the first time, or I didn't. If I studied for a test, all it would do is create test anxiety which would impact my performance on test day. Better to goof off and see a movie the night before the big final exam. Eff that guy and his micromanaging bureaucratic ways. But the racial justice aspect of his ideas has nothing to do with it.

Sure, if you get me a title and it's in the Vancouver Public Library.

5. I’d have to read the book to see if and how much I agreed with it, and if it is being summarized accurately and representatively above.

Saturday was really bad for pollen. I normally don’t notice tree pollen that much, but I was pretty miserable from it on Saturday.

Nothing about sending anyone to the guillotine, so no, not what I dream of.

Hard to get more into projecting weakness than to control the House and have your speaker get threatened with removal for standing up to an international bully.

Because just sitting around and letting a dictator gobble up various European countries worked just SO well to prevent war in the 1940’s. Let’s try that again!

The bog-laurel is just starting to bloom in Camosun Bog today.

I’m in the dark burgundy area! Bring it on! Was hiking today and some of the lowland forests are way drier than they ought to be this time of year.

Pacific dogwood, BC’s provincial flower! Nice to see one that is so large and healthy (there is an introduced disease attacking them).

Well, that sure didn’t take long. https://www.quesnelobserver.com/local-sports/wildfire-between-williams-lake-quesnel-prompts-full-response-7347822

Rain is wrapping up with an impressive double rainbow.

0.14" here so far. Will probably eke out a few more hundredths before it ends. Sky to the west is already looking brighter. 48.4˚F.

48.6˚F.

Go give your Putin doll another hug and have a nice cry about it.