Vegetarian discipline might not get you there . . .

Friday, August 14, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Hotter still. Forecasts for Green Country call for strong Southerlies, 105º real temperatures and 112º late afternoon indices in TulseyTown.

Worth considering this election season: Many members of Congress get elected as millionaires. AOC was elected as a waitress.

. . . silence is corrosive to anyone with a conscience – Miles Taylor, The real anti-weaponization fund, Defiance, 8.13.26

Today is Steve Martin's 81st birthday. The comedian, actor, playwriter and novelist was born in 1945 Waco, Texas.

Halle Berry is 60 today. The first African American to win the Academy Award for best actress, she born in 1966, Cleveland, Ohio.

Cartoonist Gary Larson , the creator of The Far Side, turns 76 today. He was born in 1950 Tacoma, Washington.

One of the best-selling authors of all time: novelist Danielle Steel is 79. She was born in 1947 New York City.

If you think you can attain enlightenment by insisting on disciplinary regulations and making vegetarianism fundamental, you are wrong. The best mental exercise for relinquishing egotism is contemplating impermanence. – Dogen