Straight Line of the Day: Handy Tips for Camping in New York’s Central Park: …

NYC’s nature lovers can now go camping in Central Park — here’s how and where to pitch your tent
NY Post | 8-3-26 | Aurielle Weiss

Sleep under the stars as camping in Central Park starts on August 14.

The NYC Parks Department has just rolled out a lottery for family camping all around New York City, where lucky winners may camp overnight with its Urban Park Rangers as their hosts and guides. From August 8 until September 18, folks can post up for some good ‘ol family-friendly camping programs.

Some parks will feature Ranger-led nighttime hikes through the woods, storytelling and s’mores. The parks department will provide the tents and campers will only need to bring sleeping bags and bedding.

 

“… need to bring sleeping bags and bedding” — also known as “body bags.”

 

Friday Night Open Thread: Words I Made Up

Yesterdame: Self-explanatory.

 

Internnet:  Also self-explanatory.

 

Esshole:  Description of several countries.  Might get by censors.

 

Acendemic:  Peculiar to institutions of higher learing and impossible to eradicate.

 

Svelteschmertz: German term for the feeling of dissatisfaction with, or weariness of, well-toned people.

Straight Line of the Day: There Must Be a Way To Boost Wine Sales: …

California wineries forced to torch vineyards in latest drastic move for crippled industry
NY Post | 7/31/26 | Brian Gallagher

California’s wine industry has gotten so desperate that one vineyard owner torched his own vines after deciding they were worth more as ashes than grapes. …

“There’s literally no way for me to make money,” the 57-year-old Smith said.

Wine sales have reached a low point not seen in over two decades, which is largely due to American’s recent aversion to alcohol in general.

 

Straight Line of the Day: If a Pack of Coyotes Takes Over an Abandoned Condo Complex, What Comes Next?

Pack of coyotes takes over abandoned West Hollywood complex, locals plead for help as apex predators roam streets
NY Post | July 28, 2026 | Katie Jerkovich

A pack of coyotes have moved into an abandoned West Hollywood condo complex, forcing locals to live in fear . . . 

 

After realizing that the Land Court has exclusive, original jurisdiction over the registration of title to real property and over all matters and disputes concerning such title subsequent to registration, the coyotes bit them in the leg. This is called “packing” the court.  Registration of title occurs when the Land Court, after having jumped on top of a filing cabinet to avoid further attacks, has the title exhaustively searched by a court-appointed title examiner in a protective suit, and after due process is afforded to all interested parties, reviews and then adjudicates and decrees the state of the title. Thereafter the current state of the title, as it is sequentially updated by registration of future transactions, is embodied in a certificate of title which not only evidences title, but is in fact the guarantee of title, totally surrounding unsuspecting claimants, subject only to the exceptions provided by statute, threats of canine distemper and/or rabies, and matters of federal law. Subsequent owners of the registered land will be issued numbered certificates (which are useless) describing the coy-ownership of the property and noting any encumbrances (such as mortgages, claws, or slavering drool) or rights affecting the property. The initial decree of registration and the subsequent certificate of title are in rem, that is, against the whole world, and will be entirely devoured. 

Straight Line of the Day: Questions Related To Nations Leaving Their Doors Wide Open: …

The invasion of Ceuta must be the final nail in the coffin of globalism
Spiked| 31 July 2026 | Brendan O’Neill

Can we say ‘invasion’ now? What other word is there for the rough intrusion of tens of thousands of young men into the sovereign territory of a foreign nation? Surely not even the sappiest leftist in his tattered keffiyeh and ‘Refugees Welcome’ t-shirt would describe the thuggish gatecrashing of an independent nation as ‘asylum seeking’? That might be the one and only upside to the extraordinary events in Ceuta yesterday: the death, at last, of euphemism. The impossibility of any longer dressing up the West’s suicidal abandonment of its borders as ‘kindness’.

The scenes from the Spanish enclave at the tip of North Africa are staggering. An estimated 49,000 people, mostly Moroccans, mostly men, gleefully intruded upon the territory of the Spanish kingdom. That’s around the same number of people who illegally sail to Britain in a year. 

Q: Why didn’t Hitler just send his men unarmed (unarmored) to seek asylum in Stalingrad until they were Stalingrad?

Q: Will a circuit court judge in the U.S. order that absentee ballots be counted from these new Spaniards, who want to become new Americans? 

Q: How do you pronounce Ceuta?

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Things fall apart; the Ceuta cannot hold.

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Ceuta the action to the word, the word to the action. 

— Shakespeare