Vultures, etc.

 White Scavenger Vulture

Vultures—not particularly attractive birdies. They were, however, gods once.

• There’s Nekhbet, the Egyptian goddess, protector of Upper Egypt and its rulers. 
• Nasr was was the god of vultures who ruled over the deep desert in pre-islamic Arabia.
• Urubutsin was the Brazilian Vulture King and Hoarder of Light
• There are Harpies, also known as the Hounds of Zeus, with the body of a vulture and the head of a woman. They were the personification of storm winds.

I wonder if Cake would like a pet vulture. I’m not exactly scintillating company for him.
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Two days have passed since since the last U.S. mass murder by gun. Beau Wilson, in Farmington, New Mexico, killed three people— Gwendolyn Schofield, Melody Ivie and Shirley Voita. Six people were wounded and the killer was ultimately nailed by police. Beau bought his penis substitute, an AR-15, this past November—one month after turning 18.

Federal law sets a dangerously low minimum age for buying firearms. While the law requires a person to be 21 to purchase a handgun from a licensed firearm dealer, it only requires a person to be 18 to buy a long gun, including an assault weapon, from a dealer. The law is even weaker for purchases from unlicensed sellers, with an 18-year old minimum age for handguns and no minimum age for long guns.  (source)

So, he was too young to buy his own handguns and borrowed his old man’s, which were apparently readily accessible. Wasn’t that thoughtful of dear old dad to leave his guns and ammo where his kid could get them? Give that brainless clod a father of the year trophy!

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The US Secret Service is investigating a break-in at the home of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Officials are looking into how an apparently intoxicated man was able to break into Mr Sullivan's home, evading security agents stationed outside, according to BBC's US partner CBS News. (source)

So, the Secret Service is investigating their own agents failure to do their fucking job. Again. Are these particular agents part of the Orange Asshole’s faithful brigade?

Maybe the drunk dude who broke into Sullivan’s house was just booze befuddled and not actually a violent dirtbag, dimbulbed MAGAt (an oxymoron, I know). Who knows?
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In book news, I’m now reading Catherynne M. Valente’s Refrigerator Monologues.

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.

A series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero’s storyline will progress. (source)

So far, so awesome!