Author: patd

The good news: Smoke from the Amazon, Central Africa and expected fires out west combined with ash from any number of eruptible volcanoes will blanket the earth and block out the sun cancelling climate warming.

The bad news: No one will be here to see it.

well, maybe a roach or two

More like ill-bred and inbred. No, not the people who voted for Mitch; though an argument could be made for that.
Behold Bu and a lineage enviable of a Tolstoy novel according to her genomes identified by the scientists at Embark:
23.2% Beagle
14.2% Siberian Husky
13.8% Labrador Retriever
12.8% Golden Retriever
8.8% Cocker Spaniel
8.3% Rottweiler
7.4% Australian Cattle Dog
11.5% Supermutt

Supermutt? Who coulda guessed.
Bu, the quintessence of doggie diversity.

Doggedly deep into the depressive dog days of summer that Wiki says

Various computations of the dog days have placed their start anywhere from 3 July to 15 August and lasting for anywhere from 30 to 61 days.

and the Iliad describes as:

Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky
On summer nights, star of stars,
Orion’s Dog they call it, brightest
Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat
And fevers to suffering humanity.