Q: Some? What about the other ones?

Potential hack for some Boeing planes fixed -researchers

A: The other ones aren't vulnerable. It's just the headline that's messed up.

Also not enough comfort dogs

Americans Are Too Pampered and Neurotic to Fight a Civil War

Are we, as a people, really going to fight each other on the beaches, in the fields, and in the streets? Shall we really fight in the hills, where there is no air conditioning? In the forests, without refrigerators? Do we hate each other enough to eat hardtack?…

It's good to be not red

Second rare, orange lobster rescued from Red Lobster restaurant

*No blue lobsters are known (by me) to exist.

The end of…[there is no word]

Amazon’s Ring, MGM to launch show from viral doorbell videos

"…presents a branding and marketing opportunity for the Seattle-based e-commerce and retail giant, which bought Ring in 2018 for $1 billion and has dealt with rounds of privacy concerns around Ring [really] and its relationship with police departments across the country."

Expect “interesting moments from communities across the country,” says MGM.

[Right]

Shady business

 

Full circle

Fargo school board drops Pledge of Allegiance over ‘under God’ phrase

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by a socialist named Francis Bellamy and had nothing to say about God or, for that matter, the United States. The words, "of the United States of America," were added in 1923 and "under God" — intended to poke an American thumb in the eye of those godless Commies in Russia — in 1954.

I was enrolled in a high school civics class that year. We were assigned to write essays on the "under God" phrase, for or against, and. as I recall, the class split just about evenly. I opposed it myself on constitutional grounds — the separation part. 

Now the Fargo school board has decided not to recite it before their meetings on exactly those same grounds. I imagine there may be some of my old classmates still around who are displeased by that.

I'm not.

Wot?

Chalking tires illegal, judge says, but city gets big break

After five years of litigation, including two appeals to a higher court, Ludington ruled in favor of Alison Taylor, who received 14 tickets. The judge said marking tires without a warrant violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking

One of the ‘worst people in modern American politics’ just made a great point

Mehdi Hasan: “If the man who was once dubbed the ‘prince of darkness’ and his right-wing daughter—if Dick and Liz say the Republican Party has gone off the rails, just think about how extreme that make must the GOP right now.” [sic]

OK then

Biden Praises "Inflation Reduction Act" For "Taking Care Of Everything From Healthcare To God Knows What Else"

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Catch this, we don't want to ask for too much. We're used to having neighbors help us out. We don't know that the rest of y'all, everybody else should be doing this. I said, what? You're kidding me. Not a -- seriously, that's is what he's talking about. And pointed out that here's the deal. It is true that the people here in this community in western Kentucky and the folks I met in the tornado, they're not just Kentuckians.

They're Americans. They're Americans. This happened in America, American problem, and we're all Americans. Everybody has an obligation to help. We have the capacity to do this. It's not like it's beyond our control. The weather may be out of our control for now, but it's not beyond our control. And I promise you, we're staying.

Wherein I confess…

U.S. Lawmakers Look to Digital Dollar to Compete With China

The bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Reps. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) and French Hill (R., Ark.), has sought for the U.S. to counter global competitors launching digital versions of their currencies.

…I don't get this. I haven't used a "real" (paper) dollar in years, except to occasionally shove one into the change machine at the laundry, because the machines there don't take digital quarters.

Also French Hill would be a good name for a park (in Ark?).

A little taste of summer

 

Civilization screeches to a halt

These vegetable ice cream flavors are packed with carrots, spinach and corn

Spinach ice cream? Really?

Experts say the whole experts thing is growing old

 And page after page after page more.

First look at a morning in August