Cloudy and humid today. Picked up a 3 pack of begonias, a 3 pack of zinnias, and a lemon verbena. I treat all plants as annuals now. The little patio seems to have two settings: frozen solid and high oven hot. That doesn't really support over wintering and I have to be careful of what heat tolerant plants I put in.

Well, I'm not dancing in the aisles or releasing balloons or drinking a toast to celebrate the #45/Kim summit document. Why? Because it is basically a meaningless show. The only thing "historic" about it is #45's signature on it. It is full of grand notion and nothing specific. Oh, one specific item: cancellation of U.S.-S. Korea military exercises about which the S. Koreas had not been notified. So the tally as I count it is: allies pissed off=the whole G6 (-1) and S. Korea--dictators placated with meaningless blather=1 (Kim Jong Un). Infidel 753 as a good take on the whole comedy.

A long but good piece on "disease mongering" or how drug companies drum up business by convincing a hypochondriacal public they have some awful new disease that they have a pill for. That has been a tactic enthusiastically employed since Listerine invented halitosis back in the very early decades of the last century. I didn't know about the lead time of as much as 10 years advertising a malady to prepare the public for the release of the product--think "low-T" and "osteopenia".