Hot Riding

Howdy Humans.  How are things where you are?  At present, things are unpleasant here, and getting worse.  There may be limited riding until it cools down a little bit.

Today we parked on the Aubrey White road and rode out to the waste water treatment plant and then to the end of the parkway.  Then we rode to the start of the parkway, turned around and came back to the car.  It was toasty.  One needs to make a note of the fact that there is shade on the ride to the lake, and perhaps one should go that way when it's really hot.  Here is a marker for the parkway.  It sort of looks like WPA work, I could be wrong, though.

There have been rides to the lake as well.  Note the vicious geese congregating by the dock.  I think they're hoping for snacks.

We've had a sunset and a pretty cloud.

In things to be outraged about, there is Israel.  In the NYT we read:  Ultra-Orthodox members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition want to expand the powers of all-male rabbinical courts, and to bar women and men from mixing in many public arenas.  To placate the Ultra-Orthodox, there appears to be a move to segregate men from women in public spaces and make women sit in the back.  If this goes forward, the US should cut off foreign aid.  This is unacceptable.  In his continuing quest to hold on to power, Netanyahu is perfectly content to throw half the population under the bus. If you're pay walled from the NYT, there is an article here from Haaretz. 

Lawfare did an interesting piece on how Judge Chutkan is running her court room.  She's not tolerating any crap from the orange ectolasm's lawyers.  They keep arguing that he needs to be able to speak freely while campaigning, and she's telling them there are limits.  Lock him up.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be arrested for tax evasion, if nothing else.  This Propublica article brings the receipts on his malfeasance. 

The fire in Maui continues to be heart breaking.  One wonders how they recover from this.

Other than this, I have nothing to say.