Miss Piggy gives a black eye to an ignoramus . . .

It's Thor's day . . . and the expected heat dome isn't. Forecasts indicate cooling after today's clear and calm upper 80's.

If life were easy, it wouldn't be difficult. – Kermit The Frog.

Having shot themselves in in their own capitalist tech's feet, now researchers are responding to parental, social and governmental concerns that children’s health is paying the price for tech companies’ profits. Next steps, expand the research into adult populations.

Werner Herzog turns 82 today. The innovative film director was born in 1942, Munich, Germany. One of his films, Fitzcaraldo, was a docudrama about a rubber baron's attempt to move a steamship up a mountain. A train wreck of a film with typical Herzog environmental mixed with psychological tension.

Speaking of train wrecks. One is unfolding across the U.S. these days. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from An American

Speaking of innovators . . .

Today is the birth date of John Cage. the avant-garde composer was born in 1912, Los Angeles, California. His inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.

The novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac was published by Viking Press today in 1957.

And, The Muppet Show premiered in the UK today in 1976. The series was produced by ITC Entertainment and Henson Associates. If you are so inclined, you can watch most all of them on YouTube.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye … Beauty is all about loving who you are. And if you have a problem with that, may I suggest you try loving who I am? – Miss Piggy