The buzzzz . . .

Tuesday, May 19, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . A rainy day in Green Country. Morning thunderstorms give way to strong Northerlies and cloudy skies this afternoon. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate tempertures falling throught the day into the 50's by sundown.

To be a writer is to write: To struggle through writing and editing, through periods where there is no inspiration. To outsource it to a machine or another person is a lie. A falsehood. A fraud.

Joyce Vance and Andrew Weissmann discuss the liars among us on Civil Discourse. A worthy half hour.

This week, the U.S. Senate will stage an argument so absurd it will be talked about for a thousand years. – Miles Taylor, Definance, 5.18.26

Trump's GOP is now a criminal enterprise. – Robert Reich, No Purpose But, 5.18.26

The United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation. The Founders were quite clear about that. Was not, is not. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Today is the birthday of Malcolm X, born in 1925, Omaha, Nebraska.

And, Blues musician Taj Mahal is 84 today. Born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. in 1942 Harlem, New York. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts.

A queen bee buzzing its way in the streets of New Orleans.