For some reason, I’ve been thinking about this picture, taken near Annecy lately. Maybe I’m waiting for a thunderbolt to strike… 4:27:38 PM

Still no thunderbolts, or ideas worthy of the reader’s time. Sigh, a blog-clueless day marches into night… 9:23:03 PM

A good day’s blog would have a longish, pithy, thoughtful piece, with a bunch of thought-provoking snippets and links, BTW. In case you were wondering… 9:25:48 PM

Jobs elude ex-Bush officials. Hmmm… is this really news? 10:31:50 PM

Longish and Pithy (for thoughful, come back tomorrow):

pith |pi?|
noun

1 soft or spongy tissue in plants or animals, in particular
• spongy white tissue lining the rind of an orange, lemon, and other citrus fruits.
• Botany the spongy cellular tissue in the stems and branches of many higher plants.
• archaic spinal marrow.
2 figurative the essence of something : the pith and core of socialism.
3 figurative forceful and concise expression : he writes with a combination of pith and exactitude

verb [ trans. ]
1 dated chiefly figurative remove the pith from.
2 rare pierce or sever the spinal cord of (an animal) so as to kill or immobilize it.
Acchhhh… (from New Oxford American Dictionary/Apple Dictionary). We’re really struggling here… 10:53:00 PM

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