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Today is Thursday, August 17, the 229th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 136 days remaining.
This is the 210th day of Donald Trump's presidency. There are 1,252 days remaining in his term, assuming he doesn't resign, is otherwise removed from office, or his unhinged, psychotic behavior results in the destruction of the republic.
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What happened on August 17 from On This Day.
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Among other things, today is also National Black Cat Appreciation Day. Research by the ASPCA shows that black cats are the least likely to be adopted from shelters than any other cat. This can be partly because of the superstition behind black cats, or because they appear dull next to more colorful cats.
This is Pumpkin, our 20-year-old mostly black cat. (She actually "rusts" in bright light, her coat turning a lighter brownish shade.) She is the senior quadruped mammal of the household, and, despite having recently developed diabetes, is still firmly in charge of the other cat and three dogs.
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Florida woman arrested for snorting cocaine in parent pick-up line at school.
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Quote of the day:
"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."
-Mae
West (August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980)
(More
Mae West quotes)
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"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."
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Pence to end international trip early amid Trump controversy. Pence's office said the vice president was returning to Washington on Thursday night instead of Friday morning to attend the president's meeting at Camp David. One can always hope there's another reason.
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Steve Bannon thought he wasn't giving an interview. He was wrong. "Here's what one of Bannon's colleagues- somebody who's not an enemy of his- told me after reading the piece: 'Since Steve apparently enjoys casually undermining U.S. national security, I'll put this in terms he'll understand: This is DEFCON 1-level bad.'" Here's the piece: Steve Bannon, Unrepentant.
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Robert E. Lee's descendants fine with removing Confederate statues. Background: Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified in the North during the Civil War only to be transformed in the decades afterward into a heroic icon of "The Lost Cause," admired by many on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Here's how that happened. There's also The Atlantic's The myth of the kindly General Lee.
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President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter "has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups." (The New York Times)
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Presidents are inevitably targets for late-night comedy; Donald Trump has become something more. He has inspired a new form of late-night performance: comedy-outrage.
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Children of Catholic priests live with secrets and sorrow. Their exact number can't be known, but with more than 400,000 priests worldwide, many of them inconstant in their promise of celibacy, the potential for unplanned children is vast.
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As if we don't have enough problems, fleas carrying bubonic plague have been found in Arizona. and North Dakota has the first case of a resident getting the flu from a pig.
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Interesting statistic to bring up at the water cooler: A quarter of people hurt themselves while grooming their pubic hair.
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Preview: what it was like in Chicago during the last full solar eclipse. I recall the last partial solar eclipse I saw: May 10, 1994. We were attending an honors lunch for my son who was graduating from high school that year. We stood in the parking lot of the restaurant and stole glances at it. It was almost, but not quite, a total eclipse. I recall it definitely feeling cooler, and that the trees cast strange, crescent-shaped shadows on the ground. And also the chicken at the lunch had the consistency of rubber.
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Aliens could conquer Earth by following 'dangerous' maps NASA 'foolishly' sent into space. Of course, if they've been monitoring our news broadcasts recently, they'll probably stay the hell away from us.
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What do you know- we made it through an entire week! Fingers crossed, see you on Monday...
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