Monday Musings - August 15, 2022

 

1. Welcome to the Ides of August. It is the third Monday of the month and there are 20 Mondays remaining in the year. I hope your vacation plans are complete!

2. Moving is tough--whether across the street or across the country. There is so much to do and my back has about been burned out between moving my stuff and helping Patrick and Jen.

3. Our house is becoming empty. There is nothing sadder than a now empty house that has been full of activity for the past almost 22 years. 

4. They are found! I lost the keys to our PODS, well misplaced them. It would have been helpful if I had actually remembered which shorts I was wearing, because when, in the middle of the night, I remembered I found the keys.

5. Espionage and treason are criminal, right? Even when a former president commits the crimes?

6. Why do a minority of people living in America believe they have there right and the mandate to determine how the rest of us should conduct our lives? 

7. Today in History. On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more. 

Republicans pressure Garland over search of Trump home - CNN

Florida students return to schools reshaped by Gov. DeSantis' anti-'woke' education agenda - CNN

A disastrous megaflood is coming to California, experts say, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster in history - CNN

Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy - Reuters

Iran says Salman Rushdie and his supporters are to blame for attack on him - Reuters

China to lift Aug fuel exports but 2022 shipments to drop to 7-year lows, article with image - Reuters

Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern - The Washington Post

At least six explosions rocked Crimea air base over course of an hour - The Washington Post

-- Bob Doan, Odenton, MD