Antidote Candidate 1: The full list of daily rituals, to include cat care and as of today, to include getting them off the streets through the local TNR program.

Antidote Candidate 2: The king is the lion is Jupiter

Antidote Candidate 3: For now it’s enough to say “there are others”.

Also and unrelated: The family team so-called lost, the 9ers survived for another week but lost Kittle … and so-what, to any of it, except as a way to have something on in the background while time slips away.

For decades, that alleged hole was filled by NPR, but NPR is almost 100% dead to me now. They reported on the latest Oil Coup in Venezuela, but tipped the story to reflect zero outrage at the fact that yet again, ‘our’ government is routinely committing war crimes for profit.

They reported about there being more protests in Iran without mentioning that the protestors are motivated by cash provided by the same old three-letter-agency sources that have been attempting and often succeeding to change ‘regimes’ all over the world for decades.

They reported about ICE gunning down the woman in Minnesota, but twice in one minute repeated the agency’s claim that it was self-defense, which is laughably sick, without even considering any other version of events.

In other words, it stands, anymore, for the National Propaganda Radio. And, even if you cut out the garbage ‘news’, and stick with Fresh Air and Terri Gross … what practical good is it doing you, to be informed about showtunes, or the latest miniseries on HBO? Filler. Fodder. Junk food in the end.

I flipped the damn radio over to the AM dial and tuned in to the 1610 park information station.

Which, for most miles, just means listening to static.

Which, for most purposes, is at least better than filling your head with bullshit.