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The P. D. James mystery, A Taste for Death.

I have watched several Inspector Dagliesh mysteries, and this is easily one of the best.

If you can find it, watch it.

Off to drink liberally.

A no one could possibly be this stupid oh I stand corrected twit.

We are a society of stupider, striving for stupidest.

Scare tactics.

Yet another incident of passing politeness:

“On scene, the complainant stated a male was driving a white Nissan Armada and pointed a gun at him, and his 5-year-old daughter, during a road rage incident,” the probable cause statement says.

Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) traverses the turnpike with politeness.

They grow fiendlier every day.

(Warning: Mild language.)

For more about Trump’s bad day, see Liz Dye’s report at Above the Law.

The first thanksgiving in England’s American colonies was in Virginia, three years before any English boot stepped on Plymouth Rock.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune shares some tidbits about giblets.

The Saint radio show, with Vincent Price as Simon Templar.

I have been a fan of The Saint since I was a young ‘un.

I have read almost all of Leslie Charteris’s novels and short stories and watched all of that most excellent Roger Moore television series, some episodes multiple times.

Of course, neither the television series nor the radio shows were entirely true to Charteris’s Saint. Their Saints were much more law-abiding than the original; the original valued justice over law and was quite willing to break the law to achieve justice. The broadcast series feared to go quite so far.

But the Vincent Price series is a great listen.

Mangy comments at the Youtube page:

Donald Trump was supported by some of the most unhinged, racist, conspiracy-believing, anti-government, fascist-wannabe whackos of all time. The ‘religious’ leaders that supported him were much the same, although generally they tended to be mostly amoral grifters whose holy schtick was an easy way to pay for their luxury lifestyle and pool boys without doing any heavy lifting.

In the olden days, when I was a young ‘un and prowling the local library, I got much pleasure reading the works of P. G. Wodehouse. I know that the author himself was a living anachronism stuck in the Edwardian past, but the man knew how to write.

I look forward to reliving that enjoyment, as I have learned that many of his works are available at Project Gutenberg.

Project Gutenberg and Librivox are two of the most worthwhile projects on the inner tubes.

Off to drink liberally.