Buttermilk Sky

  Remember the murder hornets?  Well, forget them.  A nest of  radioactive wasps  has been discovered near Aiken, South Carolina, at a site where parts for nuclear bombs were made and where liquid nuclear waste is stored.  The radiation level of the nest is ten times higher than what federal regulations allow but officials say there is no danger to anyone, which is what they always say.  Basically, they sprayed it with Raid and disposed of it.  The Savannah River Site Watch remains unconvinced, with its executive director calling himself "mad as a hornet."  Tom Clements thinks the public should be told if there is a leak from the site's 43 underground storage tanks, but transparency is not a feature of present-day government. Radioactive wasps -- some comic book writer is doubtless at work on The Adventures of Waspman, with dumb loud movie to follow -- are the perfect symbol of our perilous condition.  One by one our once esteemed univer...

  This is the kind of thing you re-tweet when you are enjoying the most successful first six months of any administration in history: Orange and rested after five days of ignoring questions about his fellow pedophile, Trump is ready to arrest everyone who ever opposed him -- including all of us who have never held office.  That's what martial law means.  Even white citizens whose ancestors came here before the Revolution will be vulnerable to being disappeared off the streets and out of their homes like some cashier with a green card and a twenty-year-old arrest for weed.  The money Congress voted for other things has been repurposed for concentration camps and another risible stretch of  border wall.   (You thought he forgot about WALL?  Or how Mexico will pay for it?  He's like your great-uncle who wakes up and starts telling the story again about how he almost landed at Anzio.) Not capable of running a casino much less a branch of government, T...

  Yesterday's news:  A man shot numerous people in front of the  Grand Sierra Resort  in Reno yesterday morning, killing three, but he didn't leave a manifesto or a note.  Try and find anything about it today. Last night a different man killed four people in a New York City office building, possibly because he had a beef with the National Football League.  His note said he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain injury often seen in football players, although Shane Tamura never played in the NFL.  This is the kind of mass murder that brings them out of the weeds, and Greg Kelly already knows who's really to blame: How this guy's medical problems became an "Anti-ISRAEL, anti-Jew TERROR ATTACK" Kelly will likely explain in a subsequent screed, along with that beard, but "Blame Mamdani" season is here.   Laura Loomer  hurried to brand Tamura "a Free Palestine low IQ black jihadi" and to claim he shouted FREE PALESTINE,...

  In Scotland, Donald Quixote decided to lecture the world on windmills: Also, there is no way to store energy generated by wind or solar, according to Washington Post pundit  Marc Thiessen .  The battery will not be invented for hundreds of -- what?  Never mind, and I don't wish to re-subscribe, thank you. But if you go all the way to Scotland, you can find journalists who still do  journalism. "Was part of the rush to get this [EU trade deal] done to knock the Jeffrey Epstein story out of the headlines?" "Oh, you gotta be kidding with that!  No, had nothing to do with it.  Only you would think that." It had everything to do with it.  The trip itself, timed to distract from Todd Blanche's meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell.  The need for Fox News to have something beside Epstein to talk about -- and  they do.   If Trump weren't staging a triumphant visit to Europe they'd have to put together three hours a night about Monica Lewinsky, ...

  He can run, but he can't hide.   Blueamp  has the latest. The Wall Street Journal was not allowed to come along as Trump ran all the way to Scotland, but it continues to drip out information about Jeffrey Epstein's  fiftieth birthday present,  the "book" to which his friends contributed.  Naturally most of today's attention is focused on Bill Clinton, who has never denied knowing Epstein.  Fair enough, but how about the others?  Peter Mandelson, currently UK ambassador to the United States; fashion designer Vera Wang; Mort Zuckerman, Canadian-American media mogul who used to edit US News and World Report; Les Wexner, former owner of Victoria's Secret; other billionaire investors, Alan Dershowitz, and most startling, the eminent physicist Murray Gell-Mann.  He posited the existence of quarks.  All I know about quarks is that the word comes from Finnegans Wake. Before leaving the country Trump decided to kill two birds with one ston...

  Flash!  The world's most powerful biped is afraid of a cartoon. From the  Guardian:   "Since...'Sermon on the 'Mount' is a scorching critique of both Paramount's cowardice and Trump's eagerness to ride roughshod over his own voters, sting it does.  Trump himself is a character, as is his talking micropenis...Trump is there to try to placate the residents of South Park, who are angry that the person they voted for has become a self-interested dictator who probably appeared in the Epstein files."  Trump's good friend Jesus also makes an appearance.   "If Trump could get $16 million by suing Paramount...it stands to reason that he will go after a cartoon that depicts him trying to insert his micropenis into Satan.  And if he does sue, will Paramount risk destroying its already damaged reputation by capitulating yet again?" This is where it gets tricky, because Paramount Plus just signed a $1.5 billion contract with Trey Parker and Matt Sto...

  I leafed through Miss Manners's Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior  but there was nothing about what to bring to the second wedding of someone who shares your interest in statutory rape, which is probably why Epstein has no gift in his hands.  Also, is he wearing jodhpurs? The Macrons have been observed to spar in public but they're agreed on one thing:   Candace Owens  is scum.  Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron are suing the Fox nuisance for defamation because she keeps telling her audience that Brigitte was born male, that they are blood relatives committing incest, that Macron became president of France as part of the CIA's MK Ultra program, and various other things that pop into her head on any given day.  It's not clear why Owens is obsessed with the Macrons and not, say, the Grimaldis of Monaco or the royal house of Liechtenstein, but we may learn more in discovery. After the Iran bombing misstep in which she revealed actual intelligence...

  As Chuckles Grassley opens the 63rd investigation into  Hillary Clinton's emails,  it is important to remember that he will find no pictures of her and Jeffrey Epstein ogling middle school girls in a modeling competition.  Unless he has some made up by AI, but Grassley barely understands how the internet works.  All he knows is how desperate Trump is for any distraction. Item:  Trump is promising to bomb Iran some more, which always gets the top spot on the nightly news. He could have continued the initial campaign for three weeks, as CentCom wanted, but a plane could have been lost or an American killed.  It never occurs to him that the Iranian foreign minister might be fibbing for reasons of his own.  Also, it's another chance to type OBLITERATED in all-caps and rage about CNN and MSNBC and his obsession with their ratings. Item:   Mike Johnson  is obeying orders to shut down the House tomorrow to prevent any Epstein action unti...

  What went wrong?  As you can see, Trump's imaginary FBI has finally taken down Mr. Big, the source of all the treasons and whatnot.  Michelle was right to skip that funeral, or she too would be headed to Alligator Auschwitz.  Barry, all you had to do was play a round and let him win! Moreover, he has Hereby Ordered  Jimmy Comer  to clear the federal judiciary of all the people Biden appointed with his autopen, including Ketanji Brown Jackson.  All were confirmed by the Senate but they probably voted by autopen.  Anyway, it is decreed.  Comer spews subpoenas in all directions using a  digital signature,  but that's fine because he is not Joe Biden.   And now to pressing business.  Apparently "our great Indian people, in massive numbers," are demanding that racist names be restored to the Cleveland Guardians and Washington Commanders.  No one else noticed this, but the Great White  Orange Father has to keep ...

 What is Georgia's most worthless contribution to Congress?  Before you try to remember all three of her names, check this out: That's "angel martyr" Mary Jo Kopechne to you, Mike.  Question:  If Trump could inherit genius from his Uncle John, did Roadkill Bob inherit degeneracy from Uncle Ted?  Let's get the national debate started! Tulsi Always Chickens Out:  For a few hours she asserted what has now become clear, that the OBLITERATION of Iran's nuclear program was somewhat exaggerated.  When reminded that "intelligence" is whatever Daddy says it is, she changed her story.  Still sleeping on the couch, as it were, Gabbard is trying to win her way back to favor by proposing that  Barack Obama  be prosecuted for "treason" for revealing Russian involvement in the 2016 election.   Dig this:  "No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,...