Where's the bad driver when you need them?

Where's the bad driver when you need them?  Via my CCPOAAGGM mom...

“This isn’t food! It’s violence!”

“This isn’t food!  It’s violence!”   Words fail me...

Rose hips and a weed...

Rose hips and a weed...  At left below is a 10x view of a rose hip, stripped from a bush right outside my kitchen door.  The other three are views of the fantastically intricate seed structure of a weed blossom, at various magnifications.  As always, click to embiggen.  The most magnified view includes a tiny little bug that I only spotted (even at 60x!) because it was moving.  Can you see it?

“Pennies from heaven...”

“Pennies from heaven...”  John Oliver on civil forfeiture.  It's an unlikely blend of comedy and injustice, very well done.

If police and prosecutorial abuse of civil forfeiture laws didn't already have you furious, watching this video should change this... 

Lunar eclipse...

Lunar eclipse...  It's still in totality as I write.  I went outside to watch it at around 4:30 am our time; max totality was at 4:55.  The sky was clear and the stars bright, and the dim orange moon at totality was one of the best viewings of a lunar eclipse I've ever had.  It was high enough in the sky to completely escape all the haze effects near the horizon.  While I was out there with binoculars, I also looked at the nebulae in Orion and the Pleiades cluster.  Beautiful viewing this morning!