It's not all Mickey Mouse . . .

Tuesday, November 18, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Moderate Westerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today, mixing sun and clouds, along with an unseasonably warm upper 70's. Rain is indicated likely Thursday.

Margaret Atwood is 86 today. The novelist and poet author of The Handmaids Tale was born in 1939 Ottawa, Ontario.

Does Trump really want to release the Epstein files? If not, what’s Trump REALLY trying to hide? Regardless of what he says, he could release the files himself rather than direct Justice to release them, which they might well not. – – Robert Reich, Office Hours, 11.18.25.

Misconduct in the Comey case? What happens when the Feds lose their credibility? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse. 11.18.25.

Channel your inner Lorax: Speak up for the trees and rivers.

“Mickey Mouse” has become a standard write-in name on U.S. election ballots as a protest vote. Mickey has been a contender in nearly all the American presidential elections since his birth, which as it turns out, was on today's date.

At the River Clarion

. . . I was sitting in the river named Clarion, on a water splashed stone
and all afternoon I listened to the voices of the river talking.

Whenever the water struck a stone it had something to say,
and the water itself, and even the mosses trailing under the water.

. . .

– – Mary Oliver, “At the River Clarion” from Evidence: Poems , Beacon Press. 2009