[Zucchini blossoms in the plant which is slowly taking over our back yard.]

Less than halfway into summer, and summer seems to be almost over. The long heatwave finally broke and the outdoor temperature of the past few nights has been down in the fifties. I have slept better over the past three nights than at any point since early June.

Reading

I am about halfway through Dan Davies’ The Unaccountability Machine. Still both enlightening and infuriating.

Writing

The only thing I wrote in the past week was Javascript.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Apocalypse, Genius Loci
Setting: Urban
Genre: Noir

Listening

Tom Lehrer, “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III).” Lehrer died this past Saturday, July 26, at the of age of 97.

Interesting Links

• “Cruel Executive Order on Homelessness Is Also Ineffective Policy—Unless Goal Is to Discipline Workers and Boost Prison Industry” (Conor Gallagher, Naked Capitalism)