My rule of thumb:

The side that is having fun is winning.

Online, I saw an anti-Trump T-shirt that made me laugh: “The only Orange Monarch I like” Picture of one Monarch butterfly.

Perhaps THIS explains their confufion equating Trump with inherited Kingship?

A month ago I sent an old San Francisco friend a link for The Charismatic Voice reviewing the Righteous Brothers’ classic, ” Unchained Melody.” It is one of the best reaction videos I’ve seen.

Today I heard back from him and he loved it too.

The Charismatic Voice is a young opera singer/vocal coach. At times she is a giggling schoolgirl in her love for the song, then she brings out her heavyweight analysis. She flat out says that Bobby Hatfield could have had a career as a countertenor opera singer.

She knows her stuff.

–The Charismatic Voice, “Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyXfCq1ix3g

BTW, turns out “Unchained Melody” was written for a prison movie, “Unchained” (1955).

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/08/manufactured-hoax-newly-declassified.html

The seagull flew right at her face, and she threw up her hands to protect herself, and it snatched the sandwich out of them.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/08/13/torontos-and-the-cultural-elites-shame-n3805773

If you don’t like the definition, just change it…

“UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Standards, Easing Way To Declare Famine in Gaza;
“The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification used a different metric for Gaza than it has used for other conflict zones, changing its rules to make it possible to declare a famine in the Strip”—
https://freebeacon.com/israel/un-backed-famine-watchdog-quietly-changed-standards-easing-way-to-declare-famine-in-gaza/
Concluding grafs:

…Richard Goldberg, a former White House and National Security Council staffer in both Trump administrations who spent a decade performing humanitarian aid oversight on Capitol Hill, told the Free Beacon the IPC standards are another example of U.N. malfeasance.

“If you keep pulling the thread here, you start to understand this is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the world,” said Goldberg, who now serves as a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank. “There is no famine in Gaza—the data thresholds don’t support that claim—and yet we have the United Nations changing the rules to fit the desired political outcome.”

Clearly, humanists gotta do what humanists gotta do….

(AKA, who cares if credibility, or trust, get thrown out the window?…assuming there was any of that In the first place?)

I had about a 2″ square piece of sandwich in my hand, and a gull swooped in from behind me and snatched it. It landed about 10 ft. away on concrete, threw the item down on the concrete where it separated into pieces. Then he picked up all the pieces except for the lettuce and flew away.

I could feel the lingering sensation of a line down my index finger where the point of his beak had grazed it. Then I noticed a yellow-brown smear on my pants. Did he poop on me? No, it was the mustard from the sandwich. I was rather entertained by it all.

Fortunately, another couple of groups had enough extra food to share.
We doubled down on the warnings after that, and made sure they took us seriously.

The gulls on the coast of Wales will also take your fingers off if you don’t relinquish their plunder fast enough.
Pirates ought to fly flags with seagulls on them instead of the Jolly Roger.