Smooth operators . . .

Friday, January 16, 2026 Smooth operators . . . It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Roller-coaster weather is in the forecasts for TulseyTown's weekend. Starting today, moderate to strong Northerlies are indicated bringing a cold front to the area. Mainly clear conditions while temperatures vary in the extreme: Today 50's, hard freeze tonight, blustery fridged Saturday, harder cold Sunday morning but a milder day, followed by another cold Monday. The week following settles down into freezing mornings and afternoon 50's. Winter in Okieland.

A scholar tries to learn something every day; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. – Alan Watts

Aphrodite … seems less the goddess of human lovemaking, and more the goddess of the symbiotic fusions between species that create biological novelty. Aphrodite presides over a romance that transcends anthropocentrism. Or perhaps predates it. – Sophie Strand, “Aphrodite: Saint of Symbiogenesis,” in Make Me Good Soil, 1.16.26

What you can do to stop ICE's mayhem, outlined by Robert Reich, online, 1.06.26

Don't take the bait. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse, 1.16.26

Don Quixote was published on this date in 1605. The novel by Miguel de Cervantes is considered to be the first modern novel.

Novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Susan Sontag was born on this day in 1933 New York City.

The poet and memoirist Mary Karr is 71 today. The author of The Liars' Club was born in 1955 Groves, Texas.

 Sade is 69 today. The Nigerian-born British singer and songwriter was born in 1959 Ibadanin Nigeria . . .

. . . and, way ahead of Trump and Epstein.