@MitchW @JohnPhilpin yes, and Hunter S. Thompson, and Christopher Hitchens, and while we're at it, Robert Benchley, Richard Mitchell, Anthony Burgess, and oh...Richard Feynman, I guess.
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@Moondeer thx for reminding me how much I enjoy those exuberant fellows!
@Annie Yeah baby, that's the shit right there!—ahem, I mean...Yes! Efficient problem solving communicators, pay attention here!
@mbkriegh @pimoore @patrickrhone @denny
I'm not convinced there will ever be an “end” to rhetorical lunacy presented as “information” in what is now our baseline news manufacturing systems. We err when assuming Social Media is something new, something in addition to News. It‘s just more news. That news could be so local, and opinionated, and factually mistaken, and petty, and inconsequential, and believed by many, and easily discarded when new News tells a better story, well, that has been going on a long time.
And because there are now so many narratives from which to construct your lifestyle, no one has had to face too many serious challenges to the fantastical nonsense they have come to accept as reality. Witches are in Salem. Children eat laundry soap. Overeating is a disease. Race preempts individuated responses. Guns are natural.
We should expect more crazy shit like this on the regular for quite a while because it is journalism, not news, that is going away, at least the conception of it we‘ve developed from the mid 20th century to date.
But of course the “it” you meant was Trumpism, which can be reduced to cultism in my book, which can further be reduced to a natural culling of the population based on cognitive rather than motor abilities. So “it” will end when folks smarten up. I'm not holding my breath.
They say the fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live.
@Miraz Yes. This and your other posted images of local wildlife frequently remind me of those excellent marginal illustrations in many old-school reference works. ❤︎
@Miraz really like all that cinnamon through to the beak against grassy green ❤︎
@matti “...it's a life vest...don't try to take it...this raft is small...birch water everywhere...skwirl is sick...wait till we get to shore...its my vest...ok hop on...”
@iChris work from Ascend Anchor, a local designer. You'll see the same motif in b/w on my rearview... 
@Annie stamina building is a good tactic. your body will thank you come winter. mine gives me back handed compliments after the fact, ”Oh crispy rum butter, is that why we were doing all that ridiculous crap for weeks? Right..okay, good call! Let's go for another ride!”
