[The above photo is a small skunk which wandered down the alley while I was building a raised-bed garden. They are cute, from a distance.]

Ugh. This week was so busy I never even got around to filling in this post before it went live. So here it is, in all of its minimalist glory.

Reading

All that is Evident is Suspect

Writing

Nuffin’.

This Week’s Writing Prompt

Subject: Espionage, Language
Setting: Urban
Genre: Weird Fiction

Listening

This is The Grass Roots singing their song “Let’s Live for Today.”

Interesting Links

• “Hoisted from Comments: The Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Origins of Modern Israel” (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) – Most comments on social media are utter garbage,  as are most comments on popular blogs. But there are some blogs which, through good moderation policy, have a generally excellent comments section. Naked Capitalism is one of those places. This blog post takes as its core a comment (from user “vu”) attached to previous blog post. The article/comment is worth reading, as are the comments within this post. To sum up, the Israel/Palestine situation is both terrible and inevitable, and the roots of the conflict were laid by Western powers well over a hundred years ago.