Contrails near the Canadian border

Contrails from two jets near U.S. border with Canada over St. Lawrence. Maybe the dick pic skywriting with the US Navy over Washington State earlier this month was just an unfortunate coincidence? I couldn't find these jets on air traffic websites so I assume they were military, probably practicing interception.

Last roses of the year

Bye Bye Bob Mugabe

I remember in 1980 hearing a man in Canada holding up a newspaper with news of Mugabe's election and saying to his friend "That's good news - my dad says Bob Mugabe's  the best politician in Africa today!". And he was saying it with an Afrikaans accent!  Like  Aung San Suu Kyi you can't tell what an opposition leader will be like if they haven't held any office before.

Frankenly shocked!

Al Franken, 2017

Photo by Stephanie Moreno/Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications for Peabody Awards/University of Georgia, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

"Pee-wee Herman: There but for the grace of God go I." Al Franken as Stuart Smalley, Ironic quote of the day.

Mae West Sex

 I knew an elderly man who said he did wardrobe for Mae West's Broadway play "SEX", which she was arrested for in 1927 - he said they didn't show anybody having sex, but in one scene where it was implied that they were, the two actors just left the stage empty for a few minutes and let the audience imagine it.