The Poor Math Skills of Progressive Media Types

I guess you do not need to be a mathematics wiz to become a reporter or editor. The headline says: 

"46 shot, 4 fatally, in Chicago weekend shootings"(Source.)

That was including 4 who were killed but the number of those shot as stated in the first sentence of the article does not add up to 46:

"Four people were killed and 41 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago so far over the first weekend of May."

Seems to me the numbers in that first sentence add up to 45 not 46. Close but no cigar!

Oh - did I forget to comment on where the shootings took place? Where else but Chicago the windy city - all those bullets whizzing by create quite an air current!

All the best,
Glenn B

There's Nothing Like Fresh Eggs

I love fresh chicken eggs probably as much as the next guy but what I love even more is when my girls drops eggs. She essentially put four into a hole in the ground today. I found her trying to dig in the outside tortoise pen but its only got maybe an inch of substrate, at most, above concrete. So, I grabbed her up and put her in the inside pen, a turtle tub, that has substrate on both ends - one end shallow and one end a deep basin. She started to dig with a couple of minutes. Keeping my fingers crossed that this was the first day she was trying to deposit them and that they are fertile; her last batch was all duds. Makes me think maybe the male is shooting blanks since she is relatively young as tortoises go but I suppose she could be the reason. Then again, they may have sat at too cool a temperature last time before I got them into the incubator. Today I got em set up inside the incubator within 15 minutes or so and had put them out side where it was nice and warm until then. 







She, by the way, is a Hermann's Tortoise around 17+ years old, damned if I can recall her age. I got her when she was a at least a couple to few years old and have had her at least 14-15 years is all that the little gray cells can come up with. She won Best In Show at the Long Island Herpetological society's annual show in 2007; I think I had her about 2 years by then. 

I should be able to tell if the eggs are fertile within a week or so. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Saw What Was Coming

I knew what was coming as soon as he grabbed his shades but it still gave me a really good laugh. It also got me to thinking, with the responses he got from the ladies (not the guy) I may have to go get myself an ice cream cone!

All the best,
Glenn B

Serious But Sad

What is truly sad about Biden being run as the Dem candidate is that he was the best for whom they had to vote in the primaries - or so they thought. I cannot believe that they did not revolt against the DNC for the totally shit selection of candidates they put to the vote: from Spartacus, to Fauxihontas, to the the skin flute player, to the fake Mexican gun grabber, to a no good rotten commie/socialist, to a wanna be Musolini who instead of keeping railroads on time wanted to control your sugar intake, to a dipshit mayor whose actions spread Corona virus through mass transit, to several unheard of idiots, to a guy who apparently has full blown dementia (or a similar mental disease) and they vote for that guy the one who can't remember what office it is for which he is running! If he beats Trump, I hope there truly is a God because we will truly need his help.

All the best,
Glenn B