One of the many S&G songs I was able and willing to sing to my little children as I put them to bed. Lying down with them.
Now I sometimes sing it to my grandkids, but only a few times this year.
Ages: 4,4,2,0.3 years (4 months for little Teo).
Tho it fits the rhyme, I was often bothered by the Autumn wind in August, especially listening to it in LA.
—
Trump’s style is more like Fred Flinstone/ Ralph Kramden, boring, bragging, low class, get-rich-quick. If successful, very much the kind of classless rich guy the over-educated (thus over entitled) elite & elite wannabe folk claim to be intellectually AND morally superior to. So Trump’s an easy target to hate.
There’s been a recent chimp war where a big group split into two, with the smaller group ambushing & killing adult males of the larger group, and more recently also killing younger males. Why? Not religion, nor voting politics, nor ethnic differences. (Don’t know why) Do the killing chimps hate? I think so.
Hating is fun, and bonding with 3rd level friendship—my enemy’s enemy. Most protests always focus more on the bad reality that all protesters are against.
How to improve the USA:
1) Talk about how the Dem Demonization is a key root cause of creating political violence, thru making some Dems so full of hate they become deranged. This Dem Derangement Syndrome too often becomes strong enough in some folks that they try to use violence.
2) All elite colleges lie about being non-partisan, so as to qualify for tax exemptions. They are partisan & should be paying their fair share. Only those with 30% Reps & 30% Dems should qualify as non-partisan.
3) Term limits, like 8 years, for govt employees. Far more folk should spend time as Fed employees, and especially become tax paying workers after spending a few years. Most govt jobs don’t even have a metric for showing one is doing a good job, new folk are more likely to be good than job-for-life entrenched bureaucrats.
Just saw some more video of the shooter. You can see an agent firing at him as he ran through the security device. That agent shot at least 4 times, so SS/FBI reacted quickly. Just that hitting a moving target isn’t easy, but some more training is needed. I have noted before the quick response of agents in full tactical gear reacting quickly too, protecting the President and others.
Lets hold off criticism of the agents until more is known. The first video does not show the agent shooting, he is out of the frame.
Nice to hear a sweet song I’d long forgotten. Tom, I think the “autumn wind” can be tied to the September line that follows, though one has to be pretty far north before September can be “chilly and cold.”
Yeeesh. August to me is hardly “chilly and cold.” It’s always been generally hot, sweaty, and (for me at least) miserable. “Chilly and cold” is November.
In fact, to my sense August is even worse than July because come August, I’m really, *really* sick-‘n’-tired of hot-‘n’-sweaty-‘n’-miserable. Like, enuff’s enuff, y’know?
But it was/is a great, nostalgic little tune. Good to hear it again. Thanks, guys.
Yahoo headline: “A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 3 Years”
What the Popular Mechanics (!) article actually asserted was that within three years, the rate of human longevity increase will be greater than one year per year. Going backward in time? Right, and an example of why reading Yahoo is going backward in intellectual development.
Yes, August can be chilly and cold. I remember one August 16 during my prospecting years in the Yukon when I peered out of my tent flaps to see everything white, covered in snow.
Ask John Guilfoyle, he is in winter there.
How is this going to play out with the looming war powers deadline?
August, die she must The autumn winds blow chill and cold
September, I’ll remember
A love once new has now grown old
–Paul Simon, “April Come She Will”
_________________________________
In 1965 Simon moved to London and spent a year in England absorbing the English folk scene. He learned some of his intricate guitar picking style from masters like Martin Carthy and Davey Graham.
He was in his early 20s and it was an influential time. He wrote many of the songs there which appear on the breakthrough “Sounds of Silence” album.
I imagine one can have August winds, chill and cold, in England.
Richard Cook, thank you for the link to the final days of Constantinople. Jon Baker, the fall of Constantinople was truly a dark day for Byzantium and the western world. For summer reading I would highly recommend John Julius Norwich’s magnificent Byzantium trilogy- The Early Centuries, The Apogy, The Downfall. His highly entertaining and informative writing style brings life into this important but often neglected historical period.
David Allen Coe passed.
huxley (1:33 pm), it always sounded like “chilly and cold” to me, so I listened once again, and yes, okay, I can discern where the words may in fact be “chill and cold”.
But the singer [was that Paul or Art? I’m pretty sure it’s Paul on this] segued from “chill[y]” to “cold” in a way that always sounded like “chilly” — to my ears, at least.
War powers act is unconstitutional so…
Liked their early work. Haven’t paid much attention since, so maybe that’s all there is.
Always with the pointy-toed boots of the urban folk scene.
Their “Wednesday Morning 3 AM album cover really sets the scene. Hemingway said that’s the dark night of the soul. Before all this night vision stuff, it was military wisdom that’s the time to make an attack. Everybody’s blood sugar was low except the assault force had had an extra something or other late. They’d be “up” and the other guy is pretty sluggish, thinking mostly of sentries, I suppose.
Youtube has Sound of Silence by Disturbed. Interesting.
SPLC’s Indictment Prompts Loss of Donations from Vanguard, Fidelity Charitable Programs
Fidelity and Vanguard, two of the top three investment companies managing trillions of dollars of assets, have stopped facilitating customers’ donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a result of the Justice Department’s indictment of the nonprofit that purports to identify and combat “hate” in the name of social justice.
The philanthropic arms of the two companies, Fidelity Charitable and Vanguard Charitable, allow their customers to donate to a list of nonprofits via donor-advised funds (DAF). Fidelity Charitable, which has about 350,000 donation accounts, describes DAF on its website:
A donor-advised fund, or DAF, is like a charitable investment account for the sole purpose of supporting charitable organizations you care about.
“When you contribute cash, securities, or other assets to a donor-advised fund at a public charity, like Fidelity Charitable, you are generally eligible to take an immediate tax deduction. Then those funds can be invested for tax-free growth, and you can recommend grants to any eligible IRS-qualified public charity.”
However, both of the asset management giants have a policy of disallowing donations to organizations if those potential recipients are under indictment for a crime – as SPLC has been since last week.
I think been very cool in se PA, had a couple 90 degree days, was below freezing week later. 70s Monday
I’ve long hated SPLC. It’s good to see them facing this.
Garfunkel looks kind of like a Tolkien elf in that photo.
@M J R: huxley (1:33 pm), it always sounded like “chilly and cold” to me, so I listened once again, and yes, okay, I can discern where the words may in fact be “chill and cold”.
Hmm…checking the web, the lyric is “chilly and cold”. Maybe that’s what Simon wrote.
I hear it as “chill and cold” because it scans better, has a more final sound, and chill backrhymes to “come she will.” Chill can be an adjective as well as a noun.
I’m sure that’s Simon singing too. Garfunkel has an angelic choirboy register that’s hard to miss. Garfunkel wanted Simon to sing “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” Simon correctly insisted Garfunkel should.
CICERO on April 30, 2026 at 10:56 am said:
“Hard to believe it’s the last day of April:
WHY ?” Because time (whatever that is, really!) waits for no man, … or blogger.
@MJR: “August is even worse than July…” but in central FL this moves out to Oct. where it “should be getting cooler and drier” but really doesn’t until at least Nov. But even then, getting a low humidity day [at any temp] is pretty much catch as catch can.
@ Bob Wilson: “… have a policy of disallowing donations to organizations if those potential recipients are under indictment for a crime…” Also glad to hear that, as I was not aware of that policy on their part.
My experience with the Fidelity DAF is in transferring appreciated stock to their account/ system. You get the tax deduction (or reduction) as a reduction in your taxable income [not your AGI directly – a QCD let’s tax payers of a certain age do that directly and first]. Thus you avoid tax at the regular rate for your bracket, even though most likely your transferred assets would have been taxed at cap gains rates if sold on the market and then reported via Sch D and 1099B. [If anyone understands this differently, please advise, as I am not a CPA/tax attorney, but do now work with one.]
But the aspect to also note is that when you do that transfer, you lose control over that stock, as they sell it and use the proceeds to add to your account. Then THEY manage that account in accordance with how you select and allocate your DAF funds from among THEIR categories of tax risk. You have control over the timing and amount of the grants you make to various qualified charities but it is all “funds” then and not stocks, per se. Thus I gather if you want to make a donation of stock directly to an organization, you need to follow the Sch A process rather than via a DAF.
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One of the many S&G songs I was able and willing to sing to my little children as I put them to bed. Lying down with them.
Now I sometimes sing it to my grandkids, but only a few times this year.
Ages: 4,4,2,0.3 years (4 months for little Teo).
Tho it fits the rhyme, I was often bothered by the Autumn wind in August, especially listening to it in LA.
—
Trump’s style is more like Fred Flinstone/ Ralph Kramden, boring, bragging, low class, get-rich-quick. If successful, very much the kind of classless rich guy the over-educated (thus over entitled) elite & elite wannabe folk claim to be intellectually AND morally superior to. So Trump’s an easy target to hate.
There’s been a recent chimp war where a big group split into two, with the smaller group ambushing & killing adult males of the larger group, and more recently also killing younger males. Why? Not religion, nor voting politics, nor ethnic differences. (Don’t know why) Do the killing chimps hate? I think so.
Hating is fun, and bonding with 3rd level friendship—my enemy’s enemy. Most protests always focus more on the bad reality that all protesters are against.
How to improve the USA:
1) Talk about how the Dem Demonization is a key root cause of creating political violence, thru making some Dems so full of hate they become deranged. This Dem Derangement Syndrome too often becomes strong enough in some folks that they try to use violence.
2) All elite colleges lie about being non-partisan, so as to qualify for tax exemptions. They are partisan & should be paying their fair share. Only those with 30% Reps & 30% Dems should qualify as non-partisan.
3) Term limits, like 8 years, for govt employees. Far more folk should spend time as Fed employees, and especially become tax paying workers after spending a few years. Most govt jobs don’t even have a metric for showing one is doing a good job, new folk are more likely to be good than job-for-life entrenched bureaucrats.
No April 31? Where did it go?
It went to the same place as March 31.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/_CeUzm1t1MY
(Parks and Recreation)
Definitely not a Gen Z thing.
Hard to believe it’s the last day of April:
WHY ?
Just saw some more video of the shooter. You can see an agent firing at him as he ran through the security device. That agent shot at least 4 times, so SS/FBI reacted quickly. Just that hitting a moving target isn’t easy, but some more training is needed. I have noted before the quick response of agents in full tactical gear reacting quickly too, protecting the President and others.
Lets hold off criticism of the agents until more is known. The first video does not show the agent shooting, he is out of the frame.
Nice to hear a sweet song I’d long forgotten. Tom, I think the “autumn wind” can be tied to the September line that follows, though one has to be pretty far north before September can be “chilly and cold.”
Yeeesh. August to me is hardly “chilly and cold.” It’s always been generally hot, sweaty, and (for me at least) miserable. “Chilly and cold” is November.
In fact, to my sense August is even worse than July because come August, I’m really, *really* sick-‘n’-tired of hot-‘n’-sweaty-‘n’-miserable. Like, enuff’s enuff, y’know?
But it was/is a great, nostalgic little tune. Good to hear it again. Thanks, guys.
https://youtu.be/s15X3DM9Y9o?si=b5rqhliV8VvjFIR-
Yahoo headline: “A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 3 Years”
What the Popular Mechanics (!) article actually asserted was that within three years, the rate of human longevity increase will be greater than one year per year. Going backward in time? Right, and an example of why reading Yahoo is going backward in intellectual development.
Yes, August can be chilly and cold. I remember one August 16 during my prospecting years in the Yukon when I peered out of my tent flaps to see everything white, covered in snow.
Ask John Guilfoyle, he is in winter there.
How is this going to play out with the looming war powers deadline?
August, die she must
The autumn winds blow chill and cold
September, I’ll remember
A love once new has now grown old
–Paul Simon, “April Come She Will”
_________________________________
In 1965 Simon moved to London and spent a year in England absorbing the English folk scene. He learned some of his intricate guitar picking style from masters like Martin Carthy and Davey Graham.
He was in his early 20s and it was an influential time. He wrote many of the songs there which appear on the breakthrough “Sounds of Silence” album.
I imagine one can have August winds, chill and cold, in England.
Richard Cook, thank you for the link to the final days of Constantinople. Jon Baker, the fall of Constantinople was truly a dark day for Byzantium and the western world. For summer reading I would highly recommend John Julius Norwich’s magnificent Byzantium trilogy- The Early Centuries, The Apogy, The Downfall. His highly entertaining and informative writing style brings life into this important but often neglected historical period.
David Allen Coe passed.
huxley (1:33 pm), it always sounded like “chilly and cold” to me, so I listened once again, and yes, okay, I can discern where the words may in fact be “chill and cold”.
But the singer [was that Paul or Art? I’m pretty sure it’s Paul on this] segued from “chill[y]” to “cold” in a way that always sounded like “chilly” — to my ears, at least.
War powers act is unconstitutional so…
Liked their early work. Haven’t paid much attention since, so maybe that’s all there is.
Always with the pointy-toed boots of the urban folk scene.
Their “Wednesday Morning 3 AM album cover really sets the scene. Hemingway said that’s the dark night of the soul. Before all this night vision stuff, it was military wisdom that’s the time to make an attack. Everybody’s blood sugar was low except the assault force had had an extra something or other late. They’d be “up” and the other guy is pretty sluggish, thinking mostly of sentries, I suppose.
Youtube has Sound of Silence by Disturbed. Interesting.
Good
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2026/04/30/splcs-indictment-prompts-loss-donations-vanguard-fidelity
SPLC’s Indictment Prompts Loss of Donations from Vanguard, Fidelity Charitable Programs
Fidelity and Vanguard, two of the top three investment companies managing trillions of dollars of assets, have stopped facilitating customers’ donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a result of the Justice Department’s indictment of the nonprofit that purports to identify and combat “hate” in the name of social justice.
The philanthropic arms of the two companies, Fidelity Charitable and Vanguard Charitable, allow their customers to donate to a list of nonprofits via donor-advised funds (DAF). Fidelity Charitable, which has about 350,000 donation accounts, describes DAF on its website:
A donor-advised fund, or DAF, is like a charitable investment account for the sole purpose of supporting charitable organizations you care about.
“When you contribute cash, securities, or other assets to a donor-advised fund at a public charity, like Fidelity Charitable, you are generally eligible to take an immediate tax deduction. Then those funds can be invested for tax-free growth, and you can recommend grants to any eligible IRS-qualified public charity.”
However, both of the asset management giants have a policy of disallowing donations to organizations if those potential recipients are under indictment for a crime – as SPLC has been since last week.
I think been very cool in se PA, had a couple 90 degree days, was below freezing week later. 70s Monday
I’ve long hated SPLC. It’s good to see them facing this.
Garfunkel looks kind of like a Tolkien elf in that photo.
@M J R: huxley (1:33 pm), it always sounded like “chilly and cold” to me, so I listened once again, and yes, okay, I can discern where the words may in fact be “chill and cold”.
Hmm…checking the web, the lyric is “chilly and cold”. Maybe that’s what Simon wrote.
I hear it as “chill and cold” because it scans better, has a more final sound, and chill backrhymes to “come she will.” Chill can be an adjective as well as a noun.
I’m sure that’s Simon singing too. Garfunkel has an angelic choirboy register that’s hard to miss. Garfunkel wanted Simon to sing “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” Simon correctly insisted Garfunkel should.
CICERO on April 30, 2026 at 10:56 am said:
“Hard to believe it’s the last day of April:
WHY ?” Because time (whatever that is, really!) waits for no man, … or blogger.
@MJR: “August is even worse than July…” but in central FL this moves out to Oct. where it “should be getting cooler and drier” but really doesn’t until at least Nov. But even then, getting a low humidity day [at any temp] is pretty much catch as catch can.
@ Bob Wilson: “… have a policy of disallowing donations to organizations if those potential recipients are under indictment for a crime…” Also glad to hear that, as I was not aware of that policy on their part.
My experience with the Fidelity DAF is in transferring appreciated stock to their account/ system. You get the tax deduction (or reduction) as a reduction in your taxable income [not your AGI directly – a QCD let’s tax payers of a certain age do that directly and first]. Thus you avoid tax at the regular rate for your bracket, even though most likely your transferred assets would have been taxed at cap gains rates if sold on the market and then reported via Sch D and 1099B. [If anyone understands this differently, please advise, as I am not a CPA/tax attorney, but do now work with one.]
But the aspect to also note is that when you do that transfer, you lose control over that stock, as they sell it and use the proceeds to add to your account. Then THEY manage that account in accordance with how you select and allocate your DAF funds from among THEIR categories of tax risk. You have control over the timing and amount of the grants you make to various qualified charities but it is all “funds” then and not stocks, per se. Thus I gather if you want to make a donation of stock directly to an organization, you need to follow the Sch A process rather than via a DAF.