...it it still difficult to grasp how vain, prideful and foolish Americans can be...this attached Embassy Warning is as clear as it could be. Americans don't seem able to help their their much loved stupidity which they grasp onto with an insane ferocity...living in a bubble and not mindful at all of the resentful looks by the poor multitudes as they tool around cities and towns of Afghanistan in their beautiful Toyota SUV's and Range Rovers.

I see over on various twitter feeds people bemoaning having to leave behind much beloved pets...how about the much beloved soldiers they are putting at risk and in harms way by their continuing delay? (Shoot the cat and get out the door!)

I might also note, had they headed this very strong warning, the evacuation of deserving Afghans might be going even better than the fabulous way it is unfolding so far.

Just to keep the Front Page moving (if only at a pace only slightly faster than the typical glacier).

Fun fact: the American Declaration of Independence was actually voted on and approved* by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776: however, it took them another day to edit the language to their satisfaction, and send the final version off to the printer**, so the actual publication date was what ended up being immortalized as the quintessential American holiday. The rest, as they say, is history.

* Twelve out of the thirteen colonies, anyway: the New York delegation, as normal, abstained until they got the go-ahead from Albany. On July 10, they did: so "yea!"...

I've haven't been around much because I'm kind of burned out from politics, but here's is an excellent story on Russell Ramsland Jr., a Harvard MBA and complete huckster. He tried to sell his stories about vote-machine manipulation to other candidates but the only chump who took the bait was our recent one-term loser president.

It just occurred to me that if we are "saving" daylight during the warmer/longer-day/summer months, only to get the "lost" hour back in November, we ought to be able to quantify that "savings" on a numerical basis. And so, given that we have approximately seven months of "Daylight" (vs. "Standard") Time, that extra hour accumulates, by my reckoning, at about 17 seconds per day: or, another way, since last Sunday, roughly a minute and a half.

More time, I note, than I have spent composing this diary. So already behind.

Though prodding new Diaries onto The Forvm over inane stuff like this, I realize, is a better proposition than having to do so via chronic outrage over everything I read in the news, so there's that.