Francis by Patrick J. Marrin for July 17, 2023

They’re setting heat records in Europe as well as stateside. Yes, climate change is a thing, and we need to act now.

There’s only one flaw: the entire world except this country, Liberia, and Myanmar uses metric. So, it must be 38 degrees on the plaza, or even 40 degrees. It’s hot enough to boil ethyl ether and n-pentane. Human body temperature is 37, so it’s become stressful.

That’s nice of the fire trucks.

I wish it only felt like 100° where I live.

I remember when kids would run behind the mosquito spraying truck in the summer.