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Guess I’ll root for Joe Ingles now. #bucks

Feeling that thing some of the bizarro Packers playoff losses delivered.

Lotta clanks by LeBron tonight.

“Since 1997, NBA playoff teams were 0-1,609 when trailing by at least 7 points with 40 seconds left in regulation/overtime.” Well, my team beat the odds and lost. And I’m not haunted at all by what we witnessed. Haunted? Nope. Not me. Those 40 seconds? Rear-view mirror. You bet.

Today in having a MAGA family member: “AOC is so dumb.” “She went to Brown.” “Probably got in on DEI.” “Are you willing to tell me with a straight face that Glenn Grothman is smarter than AOC?” “Yes.” That kind of night.

Please don’t mention 3-possession game. (Never mind—he missed the free throw.)

I got up on Moneen Hill today (the Burren region in north County Clare) and ran into some spring gentians.

Some more from yesterday’s wandering in the North Burren.

Any Irish raptor experts out there? I’m thinking buzzard… Moneen Hill, North Burren. If you stay to the end, I swing around for a scan of Galway Bay at sunset to a soundtrack of wind.

Quiet one tonight. #burren

The roses are up and running in year 28 of a bush on the edge of Galway Bay that gets blasted by gales all winter but keeps on ticking with zero maintenance aside from an autumnal height reduction. #burren

Galway Bay cove right now. #burren

Another psychedelic evening in the Burren.

I bring good tidings. The house martins made it up from Africa to their western Irish summer home. Late this year but they made it! Already building a nest above the drainpipe. A venerable tradition.

Got up to the Glen of Clab before the recent rain and wind. No peregrine this time but plenty of other birds. #burren

This fantastic biography is spookily resonant with its takes on demagoguery, demonizing, heartless functionary enabling, and the warping forces of zealous irrationality.

Cool headline. Super good to reach a place like this as a country.