The View from Here

Today’s featured image is of Canadaigua lake.

It’s a sad day. The beloved childhood toy Mr. Potato Head is no more. The maker of the face-changing tuber, Hasbro, has announced a re-branding that will be less gender specific. Wokeness knows no bounds. . .

This editor has to wonder what’s next?


Echelon Insights, a polling and survey company, asked what things were of the greatest concern.

I mean. . . Seriously, those on the left are delusional. But let’s take a look at why they are. Constant media hype about ‘sedition’, ‘treason’ and ‘coup attempts’ by Trump supporters are to blame.


John Geddert, the former U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach charged with several crimes including human trafficking, died by suicide, the Michigan attorney general’s office said Thursday. He was charged with first- and second-degree criminal sexual assault, 20 counts of human trafficking, forced labor, six counts of human trafficking of a minor, forced labor, operating a criminal enterprise, and lying to police. Geddert was associated with serial pedo Larry Nasser, the former US national gymnastics team doctor, who was convicted of sexually abusing several young athletes and is currently Tyrone’s plaything in federal prison. It’s too bad Geddert isn’t going to get the same treatment. . .


U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton put the kibosh on Sleepy Joe’s border enforcement plan. Tipton was appointed by Trump: cue the outrage.

My Gran always said Ní faide gob na gé ná gob an ghandail. (what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander for those not havin’ the Irish). As that was the preferred tactic of the anti-Trumpers on both sides of the aisle, this editor hopes they choke on it now.


The State Department says that the Chinese authorities forcibly tested embassy staff for covid. Big deal you say, but there’s a catch; the Chinese used anal swabs, not the normal nose or throat swabs. (This editor is laughing his ass off as he types this item.) According to reports, the anal swabs are about the same as nasal or throat swabs, except, you know, location. That is, the swab is inserted about an inch or so and twirled around. I have to wonder how that story will be told on the Foggy Bottom cocktail circuit. . .