If you’re going to wake up with a song rattling round in your brain, it may as well be this little ditty.
One of Tull’s best.
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Quote Of The Day
From SOTI, talking about the recent Eurovision Song Contest:
The Palestinians sent a contestant, but the timer went off early and they were no longer available.
Back Then
Wasting time over at C.W.’s place there’s this little bit of nostalgia, with his comment:
Certainly, my Gran’s did, except her tabletop was covered with a single sheet of green linoleum (don’t ask).
Also at C.W.’s: he’s been on a tear about the wonderful Alfa Romeo Tipo 105 sports cars of the late 1960s and early 70s, like this one:
This might be my favorite model of them all: the Giulia GT Junior, with Alfa’s extraordinary 1300cc engine which performed completely out of its weight class.
Want.
Finally, and I hesitate to even say this, he has no business posting pictures of terrible things like this on his website:
Doubleplus want.
I’d call that a Texas BLT, but the bread’s a little on the thin side.
News Roundup
Let’s talk about something interesting.
...yeah, and when pets, joggers or children start getting eaten, then — aargh, I couldn’t be bothered even talking about this foolishness.
On to The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:
...sounds like an elegant solution to a problem, right there.
...and nobody cares, because CdM is just an excuse for amateurs to wear stupid costumes and drink too much.
#StPatricksDay
...basically, it’s a lab experiment for the U.S., only we’re already doing it bigger and better.
News from The Pulpit:
...and the AP (of course) thinks that this is a Bad Thing.
Then you have what the Catholics would call “the heathens”:
...but if it’s not to Allah, then one of those faiths is gonna kill you, of course. And speaking of foolishness:
…what the hell, they’ve allowed Commies into their clergy, why not the freakos too? And the final nail in the coffin:
...plans? I thought that program was pretty much in place already.
And speaking of evil teachers…
In the Dept. of Education:
...gets around, doesn’t she?
Some Pre-Insignifica:
...keyword: Floriduh.
...when it works on Harvey Weinstein, then she can make that claim. Unless, of course, she’s managed to combine the smell of money with the taste of chocolate, in which case all bets are off.
...basically, it’s a Train Smash trifecta: dubious hairstyle choice, intoxication and a cigarette.
And in even more 
...actually, having the Sun King’s genes splashing around in her DNA pool probably explains a great deal about her.
And in the Who She? Dept.:
...bikini by Shein, lips by Michelin.
And that’s the news.
Not Hotel Fucking California
Via Insty, I see this little story:
Hundreds of California cops are fleeing to Texas to escape ‘soft-on-crime’ policies they say have made their jobs ‘pointless’, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Rank-and-file officers up to department chiefs have hit out at state legislators, claiming a succession of ‘anti-law enforcement’ policies have made their work impossible.
Overworked and unsupported, they have instead taken up jobs in Texas and other states that are seen as tough on crime.
Well, if we’re going to have ANY Californians come over here, it might as well be cops…
…as long as they leave their California-law-enforcement attitudes towards guns behind them and act like, say, a country Texas cop from Bastrop, Mineral Wells or somewhere like that, where things like this aren’t eeeeevil.
Otherwise, they can just carry on through Texas and head up north to Illinois. Oh wait, that’s what they’re trying to get away from.
So come on over, folks, and have some Texas BBQ. Just behave yourselves, and we’ll get on just fine.
Update: I see that TxGov Abbott has also got into the spirit of the thing.
RFI: Post Topics
Okay, I admit it: I am thoroughly bereft of ideas for blog posts of any meaning or consequence for tomorrow’s offering.
Of course, there’s always a Gun Pic, or a Random Totty, or a Beautiful Old Car, or any combination thereof. (e.g. some young / older totty carrying a gun standing next to a car.)
But a topic worth discussion? Nada, bupkes, bugger all. I got, as the saying goes, nothing.
Not interested in Trump trials, 2024 elections, pro-Palestinian bullshit, none of what passes for news nowadays. Government shenanigans occasionally attract my curiosity, but all I want to do is hang all of them, almost without exception, and how many times can I write about that?
And I cannot be bothered to do anything about sports, because the EPL season is drawing to a close and the F1 season is even less interesting than usual — and anyway, both topics are regarded by my Loyal Readers as equivalent to having me deliver ball-by-ball commentary on a minor golf tournament, during a rainstorm.
I mean, WTF?
So unusually, I’m calling on you, my Readers, to give me some topic(s) you’d like me to talk about. If I get anything interesting before 6pm Central Whatever Time today, I’ll try to do something about it before midnight.
Otherwise, I’ll be forced to resort to pics of nude women, or guns, or nude women holding guns, or… you get the idea.
In Comments or by email, please.