Tropical Storm Ivo was a bust here in the Valley of the Sun. We got a total of about ten minutes of rain over two days. We did a get an unrelated dust storm on Monday night that passed just to our south and west that ended up turning severe and bringing some trees down in Tempe. I’m kinda glad we didn’t get much because my two remaining queen palms have new sprouts at their tops and I can’t afford to have them break.

All of a sudden the Red Sox are looking mighty fine in their chances to play some post-season baseball. And if they get Clay Buchholz back in the next couple of weeks I don’t think too many teams would want to face a rotation of Lester, Lackey, Doubront, Peavy, and Buchholz in any kind of series.

I’m nervous about Syria and think the Obama administration is playing with fire by even contemplating getting involved in that mess there.

Mark my words: the Hillary Clinton / Benghazi fiasco of last year is about to blow open in the next couple of weeks. And whatever political aspirations she has are going to be toast.

I don’t get all the hubbub over Miley Cyrus’s performance at the VMA awards show the other night. Seen a movie on Showtime or HBO lately?

Modern-day liberalism in action:

A former Billings Senior High School teacher who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old student who later killed herself has been sentenced to 30 days in jail by a judge who said the victim was “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as the teacher.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Don’t want you to think liberals have the corner on stupidity and incompetence. We have a couple right here in Arizona that need replacing ASAP. I’m ashamed to admit I voted for both. What a stupid I am.

This, I think, is very cool. Watch, some idiot will now cut it down.