While out on our screened porch just this morning, I saw a doe walk out of the woods across our yard, followed by both a larger and a much smaller fawn. They couldn't have both been her own fawns, as they were of different sizes, indicating that one was considerably younger, but not enough younger to have been born in a different year. Apparently lactating does do actually adopt orphaned fawns, as possibly in the group of deer that just crossed our yard.
A female deer may be caring for more than one fawn, but human females are becoming less family oriented. The world is now undergoing a definite Malthus-in-reverse phase. It's certainly hard to achieve the right balance. Women everywhere are stopping after having 2 babies, with some even stopping after just one or none. Some countries now offer childbirth incentives and ample benefits which may have slowed the international birthrate decline, but not reversed it. A world population bust is already underway,
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NYTimes.com:
The Population Bust Is Coming Soon
| The Population Bust Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone Is Prepared For; America is not prepared for population decline. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/ |
People in the US, even all around the world, now know how to prevent having babies while still enjoying sex, so are doing just that. Some may plan to have children "later" but actually never get around to it or may find that they have waited too long.
China no longer has a 1, 2, or 3-child policy, allowing married couples to have as many children as they like, but nearly all are stopping at just 2.
Yahoo News, Another troubled firearms retailer files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
If fewer fiearms are being sold in the US, we are all now so much safer. Firearms are dangerous to everyone, including to their owners, as has been amply demonstrated, So maybe Americans have gotten the message, despite gun promotions by the NRA and Trump family members.
Lindsey Olin Graham (July 9, 1955 – July 11, 2026) was an American politician and attorney who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 2003 until his recent death. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented South Carolina's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He never married, and never had children, at least as far as is known. He died suddenly of an apparent aortic anurism at age 71.(My late former husband also died of an aortic anurism.)(Hint: Trump doesn't think much about it at all.)
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Donald Trump really doesn't like the Peace Corps, since it was the idea of Democratic President Jack Kennedy. So Trump has completely slashed Peace Corps funding and recruitment. It's the kind of international enterprise initiated by a Democrat that he wants to completely eradicate, so he's cutting support to the bone and not really promoting Peace Corps service any more. It's not a Trump initiative, after all,
Trump wants history to name himself alone as the greatest president ever since Abraham Lincoln, an assessment he feels he rightly and richly deserves, because he is really so very very great. Therefore, he certainly doesn't want to be supporting a Kennedy initiative. His face may never be on Mount Rushmore, he may never get a Nobel Prize, and he may be unable to ever take possession of Greenland, but he certainly wants to always be remembered! And Donald J. Trump surely will be remembered, as there has never been a US president quite like him. He is just one of a kind, thank goodness!
Yet, if we can get more Democrats elected and maybe even have a Democratic president (preferebly a female, as it's high time!), then a popular backlash against Trumpism could actually revive the Peace Corps, now just barely surviving, left only on life support.
A big backlash seems to be building up against Trumpism, as citizens have already endured more than enough! Trump had his chance, in fact, he's had more chances than a cat even has lives. Yet at this point, he could barely be elected as dog catcher. Trump had first avoided the military draft by submitting a phony health report, then won election against Hillary while falling thousands of votes short, afterwords managing to weasle out of a rape charge against E. Jean Carroll, even though his own Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. He doesn't want to pay what he owes her for "sexual assault," as he was successful in downgrading the rape charge or he would be president today. Whatever what he did might be called, she just had never been interested in him whatsoever.
But Trump has yet to pay up. He can certainly afford to pay Carroll, but he thinks that might indicate his guilt. Still, he is fortunate not to be in prison now, "So pay up, deadbeat," the women's signs say. A cat may have 9 lives, but Donald Trump only has one and he needs to get ready to meet his Maker by finally paying what he owes.
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The insect being shown below transmits Chagas, a disease common in Latin America. Chagas is a poorly understood illness that can lead to heart failure and other fatal complications. Symptoms may take decades to appear, so that most people with Chagas are unaware they even have the disease. While Chagas predominantly affects those in Latin America, researchers have now discovered locally acquired cases in multiple U.S. states. Researchers estimate 6-7 million people globally have Chagas, including some 300,000 here in the U.S.
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