Drastic Chapters of Crypt, 49th Day of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Deneb): Deneb is a walking day and I got an 8.1-mile van Buren in today, my ninth consecutive alternating-day walk. I haven't walked nine consecutive alternating days since March 22 due to weather, other chores and commitments, and my fat, lazy ass. While my sitting schedule - 90 minutes every other day between the walking days - has been near perfect (only one missed day since April 20), my walking has been more hit or miss. I keep telling myself I should cut down on the number of miles - there's nothing wrong with an occasional Monroe or even a Madison, so that the walking doesn't take up such an inordinate amount of my day. But once I'm out walking I think "well, just a few more miles," and off I go on a Jackson or beyond.

There was another tragic shooting today, this time at an ICE facility in Dallas. No police or Icicles were hit, but one detainee was killed. These shooting - Charlie Kirk in Utah, the ICE shooting in Texas - keep happening in trigger-happy red states, but the Stable Genius insists crime is out of control in blue states and sends the National Guard into Democratic cities like L.A., D.C., and Memphis. 

Also, the Stable Genius, with the hideous RFK Jr. at his side, declared that Tylenol causes autism, despite the lack of any evidence. Worse, he claimed there's a pharmaceutical "cure" for autism, and wouldn't you know it?, it's sold by a company owned by Dr. Oz, his director of  Medicare and Medicaid. The blatant corruption is just so nakedly apparent - they're not even trying to hide it anymore. Welcome to the oligarchy. 

At a U.N. Climate Summit today, the vast majority of the world's nations made pledges to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases over the next decade. Even China, the world's largest carbon producer, announced its intention to reduce emissions by 7 to 10 percent, its first-ever promise for significant reductions. The U.S. didn't even attend the summit, but on Monday the Stable Genius addressed the General Assembly in a rambling and largely incoherent speech filled with his own grievances from, of course, immigration to an escalator malfunction to that time years ago when the U.N. decided not to take him up on his bid to renovate the buildings. But somewhere in that embarrassing mess of a speech, he declared that climate change was a "hoax," and that the U.S. would have nothing to do with it. 

The Stable Genius is not "stable" and I'm starting to wonder if he's even really a "genius."