Odd Man Out, 18th Day of Summer, 525 M.E. (Betelgeuse): I got my walk in today by starting early (for me), around 10:45 am, before the daily showers started. The current forecast is for this rain to continue through the weekend and all of next week until Thursday (a week from today), and sunny conditions are finally predicted for next weekend.

The only consolation of all this is that there's a 65% chance of thunderstorms in Washington D.C. for Saturday during Trump's birthday military-recognition parade. OTOH, it may also rain on the roughly 1,200 or so No Kings protests planned for Saturday.  They put on their bonnets and best clothes and take their umbrellas for fear it may come on to rain. Mother Nature karma's a bitch, but she's an equal opportunity bitch. I'll give her that. 

Today, California Senator Alex Padilla was manhandled, forced to the ground, and handcuffed during a Homeland Security press conference. MAGA folks will say he deserved it for barging in and interrupting Fascist Barbie Kristi Noem's talk, but that's still no way to treat a sitting U.S. Senator, no matter how much white privilege you think you have. Fuckin' Nazis, man.

A semi-ecstatic round robin

Inebriate, pale face like Gollum, 

On a blanket, they say,

Aujourd'hui, odelay.

It kick-starts my aortic goblin.