Also.. it's hot

Oyster has a post up that.. in an abbreviated way.. tries to capture the prevailing mood around here by providing a few links to recent disappointing episodes. Here we go into another long hot summer/hurricane season with not much in the news besides a steady beat of same as it ever was.

The other day, Greg Peters wrote,

technically it isn’t really summer until the flying roaches return, covered with travel stickers and full of tales of adventure.

Well, the roaches are here. One of them visited me last night on the sidewalk in front of my building. It's summer. It's hot. And the news abroad is all bad.