"Aw, turn Rush Limbaugh off!" (spot the MST3K ref...)

One of the unfortunate consequences of my having to be at work at 10:00 am (instead of 12:30 like I used to way back in the day) is that my mother is often in the kitchen listening to Rush Limbaugh when I am trying to make lunch or eat breakfast or something. This morning there was some kind of ad I wasn't really listening to that was for some kind of wireless service - "up to 100 users at a time". I assumed it was for some kind of small business installation. My mother seemed to think it was so you could take your own wireless with you, like that service I think it is Verizon has.

I said, "Mom, these ads are all aimed towards people with money to invest. The only people listening to this are rich, conservative Republicans." She says, "now, that's not true." And I suppose she's right: there are probably rich, conservative non-Republicans; conservative Republicans that are not rich; some Libertarians; people receiving therapy for low blood pressure; and let us not forget the people who just like to make themselves angry.

"Aw, turn Rush Limbaugh off!" (spot the MST3K ref...)

One of the unfortunate consequences of my having to be at work at 10:00 am (instead of 12:30 like I used to way back in the day) is that my mother is often in the kitchen listening to Rush Limbaugh when I am trying to make lunch or eat breakfast or something. This morning there was some kind of ad I wasn't really listening to that was for some kind of wireless service - "up to 100 users at a time". I assumed it was for some kind of small business installation. My mother seemed to think it was so you could take your own wireless with you, like that service I think it is Verizon has.

I said, "Mom, these ads are all aimed towards people with money to invest. The only people listening to this are rich, conservative Republicans." She says, "now, that's not true." And I suppose she's right: there are probably rich, conservative non-Republicans; conservative Republicans that are not rich; some Libertarians; people receiving therapy for low blood pressure; and let us not forget the people who just like to make themselves angry.

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Yesterday's good smell of the day: Spruce (?) needles on hard dirt baking in the hot late-summer sun.

Today's good smell of the day: Thunderstorm and rain.

There is definitely serious climate change going on here. Never mind how rare it is to have rain in September in this part of CA, we've had more thunder in the past 12 months than I can remember in like the 12 years before that. I may be exaggerating, but it's certainly been enough difference that I've noticed it. Lack of thunderstorms here is why I used to be scared of them when I chanced to be in a place where they occurred (such as southern Oregon, or the first few times I was in Ontario in the summer).