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We May Have a Problem With Low Albedo

While our poorly equipped Secretary of Defense, Little Peter Hegseth is concerned about testing our military for low testosterone, there is another measurement to which this this country should be paying more attention.   It seems we are suffering from both low and dropping albedo.   I will pause here while someone tells Little Peter and his confused boss that “albedo” does not refer to levels or effects of testosterone.   For those of you who have never had the fun of a class on meteorology, the word albedo rhymes with speedo.   [Oh, there goes Peter again—he starts to hop around and giggle the minute he thinks of men in speedos.] Albedo refers to the amount of light Earth reflects into space.   It is measured on a scale from 0 to 1.   Zero means you absorb all light (like a black hood on a car); 1 means you reflect all light (like a field of fresh, icy snow).   As anyone who has rested their hand on the surface of a black car standing in the sun ...
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The Triune Festival of the Pearls by LAW Butler

The Triune Festival of the Pearls LAW Butler   Those who were members of the map were both self-aware and in constant communication with those who lived in the other spheres spread across the planet.   They followed the habits of their culture and obeyed the rules of the map. But the greater purpose of their being, they would only know after their deaths, and this, too, was something they had been taught from birth. Given the weight and wonder of that knowledge, it was natural that the prelude to their deaths was a celebration. The Day of Emergence, the Day of Sharing and the Day of Harvest, coming one upon the other, were considered a single festival.   And because their sun had the same glow as the pearl-like spheres on the planet’s surface, the festival had long been known as The Triune Festival of the Pearls.   The softly iridescent pearls, ranging from the size of a robin’s egg to the two-handed heft of an ostrich’s, formed a haphazard web across e...
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The Oval Office Crypto-King

  Trump has made millions in the crypto market while the fools that invested in it have lost billions.   Trump’s own crypto coin was shilled for an IPO of $74/per.   It is now selling for around $3.   If you bought it you fell for the pitch and lost everything, including your pride.   You have been had, but even now you do not know how bad.   Why?   Because Trump and his family made themselves the brokers for this coin, which means that not only did they get rich from the initial bloated (pick me, pick me) price, they also get a cut of every consequent purchase or sale.   You bought when it was high? They got a cut.   You sold when it was dropping?   They got a cut.   You decided to cut your loses?   They got a cut. If you are one of the crypto-crazies and among the ever-hopeful, but intellectually challenged devotees, thereof.    Here are some things that you need to know. Crypto is nothing more than the 21st C...
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