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Ah, I'll admit I hope that Musk does some real damage while he's interested, though. Wendy P.

It offers scant little hope to remember that those points have been offered up on these pages on what is nearly as regular a basis as the train schedule. And from what I can tell the points simply go in one ear, then straight out the other while, apparently, picking up considerable speed in the process. Bills a smart guy, so are others here, but even repetition has no impact. The conversation is continually dragged down with irrelevancies while the real conversation about how we finish the job of finishing Trumpism while we still have some semblance of a democracy limping along goes unaddressed.

The Roe decision was leaked two months ago. A weak kneed executive order after the decision is published isn't leadership. A hell of a lot more screaming and hollering could happen after any of the near daily gun massacres. He could with a command be on TV decrying oil company price gouging, food producer price gouging, health care price gouging, you name your flavor du jour it doesn't matter the idea is to get out there displaying leadership. He isn't doing it. Yes he's doing a lot of good elsewhere and yes he saved us from Trump 2.0. But he's not measuring up now and now it's time to look ahead to who we want to run in 2024.

Over the past few weeks I've been going through 25 Kodak carousels and 47 assorted boxes of 35mm slides (you know, those cameras that actually required film instead of a flash card) I made while I was doing skydiving photography during the late 70s and early 80s. The vast majority of them are freefall shots I made during various Freak Brother Conventions, Herd Boogies, Turkey and Easter meets at ZHills, Tubesteak Boogies, and at drop zones across the country. I've got several thousand slides to sort through, and I'm only picking out the best shots so that I can eventually digitize them and get them into a format I can see at a later date without having to use a dinosaur slide projector. One of them is classic Dave DeWolf. I made it at the Herd Boogie in the early 80s, and it shows Dave naked in a cardboard box that is suspended from his shoulders by ropes. On the outside of the box it says "Raffle tickets $1.00. Clothe a Herd Member." If you pitched in a buck Dave would raise up a little door he had at his crotch. Unfortunately, I made the photo at an angle that shows his johnson through the raised door. At some point I'll get it digitized and somehow pixelate out his johnson so I can post it on this website without getting locked up for distributing porn. And, oh, the toga party pics! The other photo is of Carl Daugherty and Charlie McGurr lying on the roof of the old packing shed at ZHills after their midair collision during on the the meets in the late 70s. They're being attended to by medical personnel, and if I remember correctly one of them was transported to the hospital and the other somehow avoided transport with minor injuries. Once I get them into a format that's usable I'll post them here.

Two words: Herschel Walker. Everyone has heard of him. Name recognition is very, very, powerful. Unfortunately, I won't be surprised if he is elected. I really hope I'm wrong. Wendy P.

He was highly leveraged without sufficient assets. You know the drill, forced to walk away. His interest went to zip, not the remaining value in the land.

Hi Wendy, I suppose in a really wide horizon look, that may be true. However, Pete G really shined back in 2020 during the Dem's debates when there was about 11-13 of them up there. IMO he answered every question asked [ and quite well ], he never got flustered, he showed me that he is up to the task of POTUS. Jerry Baumchen

Come on, man, you could make the same point about a 1st grader's Guinea Pig. If she sells it in the 2nd grade for half again more she's not gouging she's just a kid selling a Guinea Pig for a profit. That's in no way similar to BillVon constraining the worldwide supply of guinea pigs to create an artificial shortage and raise wholesale prices. I wouldn't put it past him, who would, but it's not the same.

It’s not that Californians love Democrats. It’s that they really dislike Republicans.

How about not living the one life you can be certain you have in gleeful anticipation of an apocalypse or reasonable facsimile thereof? You or Ron, in fact no one, has any track record or factual standard to believe what you apparently believe. No matter, waste your one life if it pleases you so much. While you are assembling your network of cave habitats in fear of unfounded concerns, I'll be traveling the world, seeing new things, meeting new people and just trying to enjoy my life. You're still alive, man, it's not too late to shake off what limits you.

An accumulation of shit. The guy with the fan. Someone downwind?

I'll take QE2 over The Donald any day/week/year.

You have a common misconception that seems to be rooted in the right. The Constitution does not tell people what their rights are. The Constitution tells the government what rights they may take from people. For example, Article 1 Section 8 tells us that the Constitution can tax the people to provide for an armed forces and for the general welfare; that takes away the right to not pay taxes. If the Constitution does not describe what rights may be taken away, then those rights revert to the states or the people. In this case, women had the inherent right to an abortion, just as they have an inherent right to marry someone who is not their race, or get cosmetic surgery, or sue someone, or become pilots. None of those rights are called out in the Constitution, nor do they need to be States may on occasion try to take those rights away, The Supreme Court's primary job is to protect those rights. We are now entering a phase where the Supreme Court will begin removing those rights for people in pursuit of the politiical ideology of their benefactors. They have already removed the protection on a women's right for bodily autonomy. They have signaled that they will try to do something similar with other currently-protected rights, like the right of women to get birth control, and the right of black students to go to the same schools as white students. Other republicans have signaled that the right to marry someone outside your race will be reconsidered as well - and given the political connection between the SC and the republicans, it's fair to say that that right is at risk as well. The US has had a long tradition of increasing rights for all. We ended slavery. We affirmed that women have the right to vote. We said that blacks to attend the same schools as whites. We guaranteed the right for blacks to marry whites, for gay people to marry each other, and indeed for gay people to exist at all. We have now reversed this trend. And if you think that they are going to stop at abortion - or that they will never get to a right that you value - you haven't been paying attention.

I have seen this problem with students many times. It caused by adrenaline rapidly burning through reserves of blood sugar. After students have burned through all their reserves of blood sugar, they faint. Back in the static-line days, we didn't understand it, just knew that one student per thousand was unresponsive under canopy and we had to pick them out of the trees. We only started to understand the problem after doing tandems for a decade or two. The problem is a complex interaction between adrenaline and blood sugar. Adrenaline rapidly burns through blood sugar, then they crash. After all the excitement of a static-line jump, they relaxed under canopy and relaxed so far that they fainted. We only started to understand this problem after we noticed tandem students passing out under canopy. Hypoxia, insomnia, poor nutrition and dehydration all exacerbate the problem.