Does it make me a bad person if I laugh?

 Here's the illustration from a Washington Post story of famous mugshots in history.

Trump is flanked by Al Capone (on the right, of course) and Jane Fonda.

The state of political discourse in America

This is a screengrab from the very top of the very first web page of today's Washington Post, one of the nation's most prestigious newspapers, I'm told. The image leads to a story not linked here because it really isn't worth reading — just a few more diagrams and a word cloud, as advertised — despite its revealing who said the word, "crime," most often (it was a close thing but Ramaswamy won) and who was the only person who uttered the words, "small towns" (some guy named Burgum).

Whoever he is.

I didn't watch.

Never stop sweating (but don't let them see you do it)

"It hasn’t happened yet, at least as far as we know, but researchers say that if the world continues its pattern of prolific littering outside the atmosphere, there’s a 1-in-10 chance over the next decade that someone down here dies because of some junk up there."

– It's from a Washington Post newsletter which is online here. You may or may not be able to read it, depending on some rule I don't yet fully understand. 

Either way, it's pretty cool, right? There once was a TV show called, I think, Dead Like Me, in which Our Heroine was killed by a toilet fixture that had fallen out of a space station: Something like that could happen to you. 1-in-10.

The Op-Ed piece referred to here, written for the Post by some guy from MIT, also points out that most space junk falls in the Southern hemisphere, even though it is boosted aloft from the Northern. This is something, he says, that should be fixed.

Fair is fair.

What I've learned so far…

 …navigating the 21st Century: Cheap eggs (the $4.00/dozen kind) just don't taste as good as expensive eggs (the $7.00/dozen kind…plus).

How did I come to discover this? The state I live in (not naming names, but it's initials are Massachussets), with impeccable timing, decreed that all eggs sold herein must henceforth be cage free eggs at the exact moment an epidemic of chicken flu arrived to drive egg prices up even farther, resulting in, well, now.

Somewhere there are chickens (the chickens that survived the flu, I guess they would be) who are getting rich.