This is, was…

…National Cyber Security Awareness Month (Are you ready for this? NCSAM.), so…

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Common Internet of Things Devices May Expose Consumers to Cyber Exploitation

https://goo.gl/nLp6ih

Should have stopped with ping-pong

Pole dancing could be on track to becoming an Olympic sport - NY Daily News

https://goo.gl/mx5VhF

But no pennies though, right?

Man vows he's penniless in court; deputies find $4K on him

https://goo.gl/S5caEm

Soaring beyond the bounds if irony

Opinion | Trump beat Silicon Valley at its own game. Now it must prove itself.
The Washington Post

The tech world must fight to deepen our democracy.

Even if tech companies do not adopt the journalistic standards of newspapers, they must offer readers, particularly students, some way of distinguishing fact from opinion.

  Read the full story

One good thing Ronald Reagan did was…

I was going to say the good thing but maybe there was another one I missed, I'm trying to be conservative here. (Get it? Conservative?)

Anyway, one good thing Ronald Reagan did was make ketchup a vegetable. It's done wonders for my diet.

(Hot dogs for lunch.) 

Campaigning for the lawyers' vote?

Trump campaign's legal spending tops $1 million during third quarter - POLITICO

https://goo.gl/zj1SyE

Another big goose flyover

Every time I put my head out doors there's another flight of geese headed south. Do they know something I don't know?

Nope. I know it too.

Imagine the lab

Northern Michigan University offers marijuana degree

https://goo.gl/25B6Q4

Today’s quiz: How many of these letters are silent?

Word of the Day: Lagniappe | Merriam-Webster

http://bit.ly/2kPJuGL

Wait until The Donald hears about this

Scientists Can Read a Bird's Brain and Predict Its Next Song

In April, Elon Musk announced a secretive new brain-interface company called Neuralink. Days later, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared that "direct brain interfaces [are] going to, eventually, let you communicate only with your mind." The company says it has 60 engineers working on the problem.

https://goo.gl/FSBURk

Also: Of course we will totally trust Facebook's "direct brain interface." we can't wait for Twitter to do the same thing.

I didn't vanish…

…I discovered television. Who knew? Pictures, sort of like little movies about all kinds of things. And anxious people. Wore me out, looking at that television news. I mean, I know there are two sides to every story but do they have to shout at each other?

Also, cops and doctors everywhere.