Chilly Thursday

 I got a little worked up yesterday so I'm trying to achieve a more Zen-like calm today.  After all, it is what it is.

Elvis Francois of Dominica was lost at sea for 24 days before being picked up by the Colombian navy.  He survived on a bottle of ketchup mixed with garlic powder and bouillon cubes.  Ketchup -- is there anything it can't do?

As California experienced its worst storms in a decade, Julian Sands decided it was a good time to climb Mount Baldy.  Now he's missing.  You can't determine someone's intelligence by his work in films.  

Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will be tried for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins.  David Halls, the assistant director, pleaded guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon, a misdemeanor.

In today's installment of "Tales from a Deposition," Trump was shown a picture of E. Jean Carroll at the time of the "incident" and identified it, "That's Marla, yeah, that's my wife."  If he was in the habit of raping his wives, as the late Ivana said, his confusion is understandable.  Too vain for glasses?

More bad news for Elon Musk:  The Wyoming legislature plans to phase out the sale of electric vehicles by 2035, mainly because California is phasing it in.  I guess that'll show that uppity Gavin Newsom, you bet.  Meanwhile in heavily polluted Thailand, where more than 30,000 people die of respiratory and heart diseases every year, the gas-guzzling taxis known as tuk-tuks are being replaced by electric models.  I'll let you know if Wyoming bans visitors from Thailand.  They can totally do that.  The red states are practically sovereign nations.

Just ask Governissimo DeSantis.  Kinky-boots stepped up his hilarious campaign for president by demanding a grand jury investigation into "any and all wrongdoing" connected to covid vaccines.  It sounds a little vague but probably won't include quack doctors and anti-vax loonies promoting de-worming products or aquarium cleaners as an alternative.  They just want to get to the bottom of all these people suddenly dying because of "the jab" and the microchip that Bill Gates implanted in everyone who got it.  Florida Science!  

Nova the clouded leopard has been found and returned to the Dallas Zoo.  Police are trying to determine who cut the wire at her habitat and at that of the langurs.  Talk to the baboons.  I can say no more.

Speaking of primates, we're waiting to see if the Squeaker can persuade his zoo to raise the debt ceiling or drive a giant spike into the global economy.  Mitch McConnell says it won't happen on his watch but to the MAGAts he might as well be Dead Ted Kennedy.

The only normal, or at least non-criminal, thing George Santos ever did (as far as we can tell) was to perform as a drag queen named Kitara Ravache in Brazil.  Wouldn't it be perfect if that's what finally gets him booted out of Congress?

Perfect.