An airport, Mount Rushmore and the $100 bill: Inside the GOP effort to venerate Trump while he’s still in office

The latest from the Congressional Ass-Kissing Caucus. I hope all of these bozos end up at the top of the ex-Congressman list in a couple of years.

10 1/2 mile hike took me a ridiculous 6 hours. The fact that I shot 300 photos probably has something to do with that.

A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

I don’t think we are very many years from some small government or large billionaire pulling the trigger on large-scale geoengineering. Whether that will be a good thing I have very little idea.

“Beachgrass”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 41mm, f/11, 1/400s, ISO 400. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.

“Sentinel”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 30mm, f/11, 1/250s, ISO 250. ALong the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.

“As Above, So Below”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/200s, ISO 250. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.

“Life Finds a Way”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 200. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.

Didn’t finish: The Forgotten Man 📚

Revisionist history arguing that FDR’s policies didn’t help people out of the Great Depression. Tell that to the folks who fed their families thanks to the CCC or WPA. Stuck with it about halfway but the author’s “the liberals are full of crap” bias was just too much to put up with.

Finished reading: In the Garden of Beasts 📚

Larson’s dramatic history is always an easy read. This one, about the US ambassador to Germany in the 1930s, is also a sobering look at the rise of a fascist dictatorship. All too resonant with our own current circumstances.