When the fall season is in the air, the one thing many people expect to see is the falling leaf. In the case of my workplace grounds, however, one leaf became many. Trees begin to empty themselves to the weather changes as conditions get cool.

But it also gets a little messy, because joining those leaves in the fall ritual are a bunch of squigglies. I've been told that those things come from acorn trees, which we do have around the building. Those squigglies...

@ stanley-88888888 Thank you...

I just finished reading Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, by Walter Laqueur.

I submit that Russia's main "contribution" to the West and civilization was the export of its best people and genes to other places that didn't want to stifle them at best, kill them at worst.

I'll admit to more than a passing interest in the subject, because myself, and a substantial portion of U.S. Jews, including some of my closest friends and business colleagues have...

This was a State Marching Contest advancement year for Frisco, Texas, area high school bands. And what a year it was! Frisco Independent School District sure has plenty to be proud of this school year.

In particular, the aforementioned contest saw three Frisco schools participating in it. All of them are classified as 5A schools in Texas. This year was the first time ever that three entries got to go; it's never happened before. Every two years, Class 5A...

Plenty in the text of that interview for comment. I'll focus on homelessness problem only, in CA because that's what was mentioned. Quotes are per my memory, hopefully close as possible to actual statements:

Bill O'Reilly: "...and how, Mr. President, will you address the homelessness problem plaguing LA and San Francisco?"

President Trump: "The EPA will soon designate some of these encampments (LA, SF) as being in environmental abeyance. A letter...