𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟭𝟮𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥, 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢 𝗗𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜

Benjamin Rich's Walk through the Darien Gap

We're certainly a divided household in terms of media . . . . Analie Adiong Barton is into Netflix, plus her NFL app. . . She brought her love for the Green Bay Packers with her from the Philippines, thinks the Cowboys are "losers."

My attention span is too incredibly short for Netflix unless Denzel Washington is beating the everlasting shit outta the Russian mob.

Give me the "information highway" on a big screen, yes, the internet. . . and, speaking of Russia, I know I'm preaching to the choir in even mentioning Benjamin Rich, AKA bald and bankrupt, the Brit who walked across Russia in 2022, arrested and briefly detained for trespassing a guarded site, etc.

Timmy Karter from Greece

Well, the guy has video-taped his walk across the Darien Gap, the cartel-controlled, mosquito-infested jungle 'tween Colombia and Panama, taking the curly-haired Greek kid, Timmy Karter, along, you know the young guy who speaks fluent Spanish and just took us through Cuba.

Ben and Timmy, certainly an odd couple, were caught after their first day and "sent back" via boat by police, just to rejoin the caminantes, crocodiles and manatees in finishing the 97 km jungle trek.

In other news, former Clinton sidekick James Carville, wearing his LSU ballcap, does an insightful breakdown of little Christian nationalist Michael Johnson, the new boy at Speaker of the House.

Carville analyzes Johnson's New Earth creationism, his absolute core belief that Planet Earth, the solar system, Hell, the universe, are but 6,000 years old. Think around 4026 B.C. or James Ussher's 4004 B.C. for Biblical literalists.

Author/Attorney David Bercot

My old friend, Harlingen's own David Bercot, the world's leading author on primitive Christianity, would be the one to consult on all that.

For me, the absolute irony, with no disrespect intended for Michael Johnson's firmly held belief system, is his affection for fossil fuels, scientists say developed from plants and organisms dating back 280 to 360 MILLION years ago.

Someone, either the Jerry Falwell's and Michael Johnson's of the world, or the geologists, etc., are a bit off in their math.

Anyway, I'm a bit rusty on carbon dating, half-lifes, etc. or is it carbon-argon dating that's in vogue now? Our newly-installed Speaker of the House says all the answers are to be found in the Bible.  A toothless old lady I met in Arkansas would agree as she told me 50 years ago that the Holy Bible was "a fulfillin.'"

Muchas gracias to Rene Torres who submitted the historical piece below; Rene called while Ana and I were rumbling around the Ottumwa, IA Walmart while our Ford Explorer was being oil changed.  For an additional $26.88 a technician tried his best to scrub some discoloration from the headlight lenses and was largely successful.