That is a picture by my daughter’s boyfriend in Helen Georgia. They have an annual balloon race that starts in Helen and goes to the Atlantic Ocean. Aren’t they beautiful?
I’m going to start with the cartoons via Cagle:
Be safe today, this is an open thread.
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The Sky Dancing banner headline uses a snippet from a work by artist Tashi Mannox called 'Rainbow Study'. The work is described as a" study of typical Tibetan rainbow clouds, that feature in Thanka painting, temple decoration and silk brocades". dakinikat was immediately drawn to the image when trying to find stylized Tibetan Clouds to represent Sky Dancing. It is probably because Tashi's practice is similar to her own. His updated take on the clouds that fill the collection of traditional thankas is quite special.
You can find his work at his website by clicking on his logo below. He is also a calligraphy artist that uses important vajrayana syllables. We encourage you to visit his on line studio.
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what the fuck?
Typical narcisistic behavior. Brush them off and insult them and leave.
BTW that cartoon on the Thinker was spot on!
Thanks for the much needed irony, sarcasm font, and spot on comics.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day speech in France on Saturday to criticize Europe over its migration policies, saying that “dangerous ideologies” were storming the continent’s shores, in what he compared to an “invasion.”
On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history, Mr. Hegseth made the speech at the Normandy American Cemetery before nearly 9,400 graves of American soldiers, most of whom died in the assault on June 6, 1944, and the operations that followed. The anniversary is usually regarded as a time to commemorate unity among Allied countries that fought against Nazi Germany.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/hegseth-europe-migration-d-day.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.FVQ8.CetypkmK9tbI&smid=url-share