Hedge Creek Falls and Lake Siskiyou

 Yesterday, I went with a small group hiking at Hedge Creek Falls and Lake Siskiyou near Dunsmuir, California.  Here are a few photos:

A Few for Tue

 The long, long, long New Yorker piece about the Tate brothers and their legal troubles is here.

A no-paywall link is here.

Any U.S. politician who supports these two should be run out of office on a rail.

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Obit:  Singer Freddy Cannon, 89, lost his battle with cancer a few days ago.

Cannon also had a long list of successful singles that charted.

The first of those was 1959’s “Tallahassee Lassie” which made it to No. 6 on the pop charts. He had another hit that year — “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” — which made it to No. 3.

He delivered another chart success in 1962 with “Palisades Park” which also made it to No. 3 on the charts.

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As people  know, Chuck Barris wrote that hit.

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Another obit:  Singer Jimmy Gilstrap, 79, died on July 18:

Gilstrap, a onetime member of Wonder's backing group Wonderlove and featured vocalist on "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," died Saturday, July 18, of natural causes. Aside from his collaborations with Wonder, Gilstrap was known for his 1975 R&B hit "Swing Your Daddy," as well as performing the theme song for the Norman Lear sitcom "Good Times."

Although "we didn't have the time [to] share together in conversation as much as we did back in the day, we still had great respect and friendship," Wonder, 76, told USA TODAY in an interview Monday, July 20. "I'm just happy that we were able to cross paths in our lives and do what we were able to do together."

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A Few Reads for Monday

 I wouldn't bet the farm the Tate brothers will be extradited to face justice in the UK, let alone Romania.  There are two reasons for hedging bets:  one is the brothers' connection to Trump via Barron Trump, and two, Marco Rubio may decide to refuse their extradition.  The brothers need to face justice, and it goes without saying they never should have had a forum to begin with.  They, along with the rest of the manosphere, have poisoned the minds of millions of men, making them completely unfit for any kind of relationship with women.  SPLC is right to call "men's rights" groups hate groups.

Links 

Time

The Nation

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More stuff about Hegseth's latest demented nonsense.

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It's a happy ending for a dog rescued from San Francisco Bay.

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Saturday Stuff

 It looks like Trump had another legal setback, and it can only be hoped any higher courts will follow suit.

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Disenfranchising women over something as stupid as "household voting" would have the effect of marginalizing the GOP for decades if not for all time.

Doug Wilson isn't exactly the brightest bulb on the chandelier.

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Friday Whatever

 No doubt the process of hiring for Trump's Gestapo (aka ICE) is DEI for unstable, violent white males.

Here is the AP article.

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The biggest asshole in D.C., and that includes Trump and Miller, got his ass handed to him in court regarding grants.

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A Few Things for Thursday

 Is there any doubt Russ Vought is the very worst and rottenest person in D.C.?

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An Idaho nitwit "academic" wants to see the end of Title IX in order to help young girls concentrate on having babies.  What a fucktard.  This guy has been an embarrassment to the southern end of Idaho, while Doug Wilson has been an embarrassment to the panhandle.

Here is his delusional screed from the Heritage Foundation.

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A couple of obits to note:

Actor Scott Bryce, 68, known for playing the original Craig Montgomery on As the World Turns, died July 12 after a long battle with esophageal cancer.

His father was Ed Bryce, who played the original Bill Bauer on Guiding Light.

Snip:

Bryce was born in New York and is the son of actors Ed and Dorothy Bryce.

He is best known for his long-running role as Craig Montgomery in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, in which he appeared from 1982 to 1991, 1993 to 1994, and 2007 to 2008. He initially had an onscreen romance with Meg Ryan, who played Betsy Stewart, on the series.

Bryce also had a recurring role as Mike McQueen in the 1999 teen show Popular, starring alongside Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope and Christopher Gorham.

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Television actor Hal Williams, 91, has died.

Snip:

He also made cameos in a bunch of other TV shows, including "That Girl," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Cannon," "Police Woman," "Gunsmoke," "Good Times," "Knots Landing," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Webster," "Hill Street Blues," "Magnum P.I.," "Night Court," and "L.A. Law."

Not only that, but Hal was featured on the big screen, too, securing parts in movies such as "Hardcore," "The Rookie," "Percy & Thunder," and "Flight."

A Few Reads for Tuesday

 Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, was appointed to serve out the remainder of her late brother's term.

Snip:

The Graham children grew up in a one-room house behind the Sanitary Café, a combination bar, pool hall and liquor store their parents operated in Central, South Carolina. Nearly a decade apart in age, the siblings forged a tight bond from the start. It was Lindsey who first taught her to spell her name, incorrectly as it turned out. Although her birth certificate reads “Darlene”, she continued to spell it with an I. He also taught her to ride a bike, running alongside her and shouting: “Keep pedaling!” After their parents died, Graham returned to college but spent the weekends visiting his sister, she recalled in interviews.

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I am obviously no fan of Trump, but this woman has no business diagnosing him since she isn't qualified to do so and has never examined him personally.  Those books were piled up in an awkward position given where his chair was, so of course he grabbed the book in an awkward way.

He embarrassed himself by not reading the book at all but going through a stream-of-consciousness adlib with Usha Vance.

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