stand with Ukraine

after four years of Russia's nonstop terror, Ukraine is still standing 

glory to Ukraine 

glory to the heroes 

Hate Monger by Jean Guerrero

i don't, normally,  write anything about the books that i read ... but this one? this one had me unable to sleep at night...

i MADE myself finish reading it and these notes are to remind myself WHY...

this book is an accounting of Thing One's piece of $hit deputy chief of staff before he began the current terror that he is orchestrating ... i hoped that reading it might give me even the slightest insight into why he hates with the fire of a thousand suns ... waaaaay too many hours of struggling with his life story has convinced me that there is no plausible explanation of why he is evil ... he just is

Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson

sign from february 22, 2026

 the phrasings on the new signs were a bit ... uhm ... colorful at today's protest... 

so... 

here's an updated yard sign...

LAVA

i just might hafta make a new sign...

red eye flight

first things first...

that red eye has gotta go...

green? 

oh yeah, that's better

bird flew