Supposed to be windy but dry today so some garden work is on the schedule. Everything, so far, looks good after the last day and a half of intermittent, sometimes heavy, rain. The strawberries are shooting up so fast you can almost see them grow.

This story illustrates what I see as a trend in our society: if you have the money to buy, you get the services you need. This deals with fire prevention/fighting services offered as part of an insurance program for properties worth more than $1million. The rest of us have to rely on overstretched and budget-starved public services. We see it in medicine: think concierge doctors. We see it in education: think private and charter schools.

A sad statement on what this country and the internet has become.

Our TV news noted that Bill Cosby had been expelled from the Motion Picture Academy but not that Roman Polanski had also been voted out. This story has that detail. I wonder if they finally acted on Polanski, forty years after he was convicted of raping a 13-year-old, merely to avoid the appearance of racism. One black male predator balanced with one white male predator--see,  everything balances out. NOT EVEN!!!

So some schools in the U.K. are taking analog clocks out of class rooms and replacing them with digital. Why? Because the kids can't read them.

Infidel753 provides a bit of sardonic humor while describing the current state of our this nation. I am not too sure I want to claim any part of it right now.