Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members

I’d be a lot happier if we could get annual brain function screenings for Cabinet secretaries.

“Giving the public shares of AI companies” is just another trick to siphon money from the 99.99…% to the billionaires pockets, where it will vanish when those stocks inevitably collapse. Any politician in favor of this nonsense is no populist. The real populist position is to tax the shit out of the billionaires.

“Charlton Lake Morning”

mountains and trees reflected in a lake

Trump wants Gulf countries on the hook for Strait of Hormuz ‘protection’

Nice strait you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

Hummingbird visiting in my back yard today.

#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #birdphotography #hummingbird

“Grass Seeds”

close-up of wild grass seed heads

“Nobody Home”

empty snail shell on a bed of moss

“The Long Train”

time exposure of tanker cars at a railroad crossing

Another piece of my childhood vanishes. At least I can still make my own split pea soup, which I first ate there many decades ago.

California roadside icon Pea Soup Andersen’s, closed for years, to be demolished