Sunday Reads

At least Trump is doing something right with regard to the California fires.

Lots of smoke in the valley this afternoon.

I talked with family this morning, and some of them went to Henley-Hornbrook Cemetery recently to see how my dad and other family members' gravesites fared in the recent fire.  Apparently they are okay, just some burned trees and some grass here and there.
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What a completely fucked-up society we live in.

Women aren't even supposed to have wrinkles at all for quacks to say Botox treatments should start at 30 to "prevent" wrinkles from forming in the first place.

Women--and it is almost always women--are going to these quacks for Botox even in their twenties.

This fucking porn sick culture has got to go.
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Obituary:  Actress Charlotte Rae, 92, known for her roles in sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, died today at her L.A. home.  She died of bone cancer, which she announced April of last year, when she was a mere 91.  She had some years prior battled the deadly pancreatic cancer, which appears to have run in her family.

Born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rae got her start doing theater and radio (where she was told to drop her last name). She broke into television playing Sylvia Schnauser, the wife of Al Lewis’ Officer Leo Schnauser on Car 54, Where Are You? While she earned Tony nominations Pickwick, Morning Noon and Night, and an Emmy nom (Queen of the Stardust Ballroom), it wasn’t until 1978 when Norman Lear, a longtime fan, cast her in Diff’rent Strokes, that Rae’s career took off.

Rae played the kooky but kind housekeeper Edna Garrett, unmissable thanks to that mound of bright orange hair, on Diff’rent Strokes, and when she became a popular breakout character, Rae herself proposed the spin-off. That spin-off became The Facts of Life, a sitcom about a girls’ boarding school and their (once again) kooky and kind house mother. Rae’s Mrs. Garrett (or Mrs. G, as Nancy McKeon’s Jo liked to call her) helped guide the girls through every very special episode theme imaginable, from depression to dating, AIDS to alcohol. Rae left the show in 1986 for health reasons, and though Cloris Leachman stepped in as Mrs. Garrett’s sister, the show was canceled two years later.