One of the confounding things I encounter, is people who understand the threat of the extreme right wing that is embodied by the Trump candidacy, who continue to engage in the same behavior that got us to Trump 2016. I deal with them every day in my activities in Florida. Today's Edition is about media mistakes. Why in the world would some in the NY Times, Washington Post, the Sunday interview shows, mainstream media, continue to engage in the same type of journalism that normalizes Trumpian racism, autocratic policy and behavior, including threats and actions designed to destroy the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate?

One oddball detail caught my eye in the Times obituary for William Friedkin this morning: He cut his teeth directing “Bozo’s Circus,” among other TV shows, for Chicago station WGN.  What went through the mind of the man who would give us “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” as he filmed kiddie hijinks on a local soundstage? Bozo vomiting pea soup on the peanut gallery? Bozo going rogue for a high-speed car chase underneath the El?

More than a year ago, I explored the topic of woolly dogs, the unique, domesticated dogs of the Salish Sea. I would like to return to the subject, in part because I like dogs, but also to highlight some recent encounters with them. The first was at the Burke Museum, where I was privileged to see an amazing basket collected on the Skokomish Reservation and donated to the museum in 1932.

I’ve wanted to do this for a while and what better time than WrestleMania? If you subscribe to this blog for music - sorry (if you know someone who enjoys wrestling well then feel free to forward this to them). But if you are that Venn diagram between music and professional wrestling then this is for you! I haven’t been this excited for a WrestleMania since WrestleMania 30 in 2014 - an event that ended in the culmination of the Yes Movement with Daniel Bryan overcoming the odds to become WWE Champion.

Hey there, It’s been a while since I’ve sent out a message, but I like to make sure I have a good amount of content or something really cool before I send out a message. Recently, I took on a big project and I wrote an emulator in JavaScript for a system called Chip-8. Here’s a demo of the project. I finally got around to documenting the whole process, so please check it out here: