First, there are the wars raging in Africa. These seem to always miss making the major news media. There are conflicts currently in Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. These wars account for some 24 million people being displaced, becoming refugees.
The major world conflict in the news for the past two years has been the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The attention to this conflict in North America waxes and wanes. But the war itself is hardly doing the same.
Currently the major news attention is with the Israeli invasion of Gaza. So far there are close to 17 thousand Gaza residents killed in the conflict with the majority being women and children. Israeli won’t commit to a cease fire until Hamas is eradicated. How will anybody know when that happens?
And now in South America Venezuela is on the verge of invading neighboring Guyana since large oil reserves have been found there coastally.
When will this insanity end?
So I have decided to ignore the wars and turn my attention to things that I find amusing.
First a couple of recent comics that are related to the Covid Pandemic.
It always bothers me when people try to refute science with what they read on the Internet, or by using a YouTube video. Nobody every cites a peer-reviewed journal article. That makes me cranky.
The Wizard of Id knows enough to put masks on the bast before they continue to spread disease. If only it was so easy.
Susan has been reading a lot this past year or two about Arctic explorers. Many of them end with bad results. I’d rather not court disaster for fame.
Yes, and then there is the English language. But as many of you already know that’s a pet peeve of mine. So we’ll leave this where it is.
The eighth of December 1981 was when Woodstock made their first appearence in Peanuts. I just love the friendship between him and Snoopy.
And finally Chiles! Fresh versus dried. You can never have too much on hand. I still have an habañero pepper on a plant that I potted and brought into the house for the winter. I’m hoping that the plant will survive and I will be able to replant it in the spring.
More later as time allows and sadness over the state of the world passes.
Michael's Place 
Like your pepper plant, I had a basil plant that wouldn’t give up when autumn came… LAST year. So I dug it up and brought it inside. Then took it back outside, in its pot, and it thrived through this past summer. I brought it in this year, but it’s given up the ghost. RIP my friend.
But on the other hand, I have a jasmine plant that I bought at Frank’s on Washtenaw (RIP Frank’s) and it’s still living – inside – and making fragrant white flowers.
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