46 Degrees ...

and foggy out, here.
Make it a great week, there.

Carlos ... ?

Carlos Danger ?

Meet Rico. ... Rico Suave.

(Sorry, but those white Hispanic boys all look the same to me... ;-)

*Like Christmas in July...

Can't stress enough how odd it is to have the pea plants producing this late in the season. They're crisp and sweet, fresh picked -- with plenty of fiber too.

An Early Autumn.

A late spring, plenty of heavy summer showers, then the heat -- briefly -- and blessed sunshine in the cooler days of late...

Yesterday, we awoke* to temperatures in the upper 50s. That is cool.

Onions, lettuce, broccoli, peas, even the garlic, seem to be enjoying the weather this year.

Late July; sez** who?

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* the dog and I. They're loving the coolness at the dogpark too, especially the old ones out romping in the fields...
Dog days indeed.

** stylish hat tip: Royko.

System Failure.

You took a story that was fed to you,
and you ran with it.
And you ran right over him.

Attorney Mark O'Mara indites the media for failing to discern relevant facts earlier, and playing up the racial angle between blacks and Hispanics/whites.

His partner was more blunt, calling it "disgraceful" that charges were brought in the court of law based on emotion and not legal reasoning.
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* In a pre-verdict interview Friday with CNN reporter Martin Savidge, O'Mara summed up the prosecutor's case:

"It was a wonderfully created and crafted public relations campaign by the people who are assisting the Martin family,” O’Mara said. He named Martin family attorney Ben Crump as being responsible for creating this misleading PR campaign and said that he should admit to that.

“Do you think that George Zimmerman would have even been charged had Ben Crump not been pulled into this?” Savidge asked.

“No,” O’Mara replied flatly. “I think that it was a made up story for purposes that had nothing to do with George Zimmerman and that they victimized him.”

O’Mara said that there was a concerted effort to “smear” Zimmerman as a racist and a murderer “when he wasn’t.” He added that the state should have taken the charges to a grand jury, but they decided to hold a press conference and announce the charges instead.

“How much of this was politics,” the CNN reporter asked.

O’Mara did not respond directly, but noted that the more one focuses on the political angle, the more the case “makes sense.”

"E'rybody Get Up..."

The Subsumed blog is on summer sabbatical, and what a summer it is shaping up to be...

Eh?

If you can't hear what I'm trying to say
If you can't read from the same page
Maybe I'm going deaf,
Maybe I'm going blind
Maybe I'm out of my mind

OK now he was close: tried to domesticate you
But you're an animal, baby it's in your nature
Just let me liberate you
You don't need no papers
That man is not your maker

And that's why I'm gonna take a good girl
I know you want it
I know you want it
I know you want it
You're a good girl
Can't let it get past me
You're far from plastic
Talk about getting blasted
I hate these blurred lines
I know you want it
I know you want it
I know you want it
But you're a good girl
The way you grab me
Must wanna get nasty
Go ahead, get at me...