Miscellaneous Thoughts

I like this photo gallery from the L.A. Times of the California state flower, the California poppy.

I try and buy the seeds most years, although packages are hard to come by.
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Is "snark," which yours truly engages in on a regular basis, the ruination of the United States?

I seriously doubt it. This book sounds like yet another diatribe by a snob, just like those who wailed about the lack of "civility" in politics and dialogue were snobs.
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There's not much of anything going on worth commenting about. I have been uploading episodes of 48 Hours Mystery and watching them. As I've mentioned, I don't have television to speak of, so I have been watching the online or podcasts.

The show had reports of the Darren Mack and Chaz Higgs cases which were huge news here in Reno, and since I hadn't seen those episodes before and wanted to keep them, I bought and uploaded them on the iPod. Those cases were offbeat, but neither has anything on the truly bizarre "Black Widow of Lomita" case in California where a Filipina woman, Sonia Rios Risken, married two U.S. servicemen over a period of many years and apparently got both of them knocked off by relatives in the Philippines so she could collect on insurance money. Well, as they say, what goes around comes around, and Sonia herself got knocked off nearly two years ago at her home. All three murders are to date still officially unsolved. A 48 Hours episode about the case aired a month or so ago. It is worth posting the show here, I think, for future reference:


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You can't make these cases up.