Common sense has never been common . . .

Saturday, August 15, 2026. It's a slow start to the Satyr's day at 10:30 a.m. . . . Forecasts for Green Country : Moderate Southerlies, hot at 104º with an index of 109º this afternoon in TulseyTown.A whole degree cooler. Big whoop.

In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahlil Gibran

Stanford researchers have used AI to create 16 viruses not found in nature. – Matthew Brown, at SFGate.

Judge Sullivan has had enough. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discocourse. 8.13.26

Author Denise Chávez is 78 today, born in 1948 Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Uncompromising, often controversial film director Nicolas Roeg was born on this day in 1928 London. The English filmmaker was known for his striking visual style.

The “first lady of American theatre” Ethel Barrymore was born on this day in1879 Philadelphia, Pa.

On this date in 91 years ago in 1935, humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post, died in a plane crash flying from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Point Barrow. FYI — I went to high school in Tulsa, named after Rogers.

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects. All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.” – Will Rogers