What was that again?

It's Perseid time!

For those who dismiss the Q Continuum as a bunch of harmless crackpots waiting for Trump's "reinstatement" we offer the story of Matthew Coleman, the Santa Barbara surf instructor (whatever that is) who killed his two young children with a spearfishing gun because his wife had passed her serpent DNA along to them.  He had to save the world.

Tonight in Tulsa, Nico Ali Walsh will make his professional boxing debut.  The 21-year-old middleweight is the grandson of Muhammad Ali, and I am now officially Old.

Ken Loach, director of such films as Cathy Come Home, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake, says he has been "purged" from the Labour Party for refusing to disown other Corbynites previously thrown out.  Not even a show trial, Keir?

Jake Davidson treated the UK to one of its exceedingly rare shooting rampages, including his mother and a three-year-old, before shooting himself.  Jake has never been able to get a date because women "treat men with zero respect."  His photo suggests he could have smartened himself up a bit, maybe talked to a surgeon about that superfluous thumb...

Incredibly, Polish Jews and their descendants are still trying to recover property stolen during the German occupation, and President Andrzej Duda just signed a law which will make that more difficult by setting a thirty-year limit on filing claims.  

I have to admit I have no idea where Yakutia is, except that it's in Russia and it's on fire.  So is a large portion of the country, apparently.  According to the Daily Beast Yakutia is getting no help from Moscow, where they're concentrating on politics.  And yet, to promote the image of Russia as a world power, Putin sent a firefighting plane to help Turkey, also battling wildfires.  It crashed, killing the eight crew members.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (in Texas that's a county executive) is the latest official to tell Governor Abbott where he can stick his ban on school mask mandates.  Houston public schools will be a little safer when they open.

The "murder hornets" are here (Washington state) and they're attacking WASPS!  Alert Tucker Carlson!  No, wait, that's wasps' nests.  Sorry.

Murder hornets are about the only sorrow not visited on Haiti:  covid, political violence, and now over 200 dead in a 7.2 earthquake.  Did I mention the possibility of Hurricane Fred?  Well, there it is.

Enough.  I'm going to look at meteors.  Once again...