Escape!

Amidst the absolutely absurd and the obscene news of the week, I bring Jen and Oni pics from their Maine holiday and some assorted memes and comics. I just can’t bear the fucking news every goddamn day.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
~ Douglas Adams 

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
~ Bill Gates

Dolphin rock

The cushion star is one of the few sequential hermaphroditic echinoderms. 
Younger and smaller individuals are males, developing into females as they 
increase in size and age. (source)

Chip Bok

Stephen Pastis, Pearls Before Swine