California has begun issuing new driver's licenses with beautiful images of redwoods, poppies, and the coastline and incorporates enhanced security elements like a digital security signature. Name and birth date are stored in the barcode.
And while I have yet to verify this, rumor has it that new California licenses will soon have 3 other features:
That dog was Maya, registered to vote by her human companion, Laura Lee Yourex, 62 of Orange County. Maya voted in the 2021 California governor recall election and the 2022 primary election.
Mail-in ballots were used to cast Maya's votes and she posed with an "I voted" sticker.
Her 2021 vote was successfully counted, but her 2022 ballot was rejected. Until recently, Maya was still receiving her mail-in ballots but due to passing away, was unable to vote them.
Ms. Yourex joyfully shared this adventure on social media, and after there was no response from authorities, later turned herself in. She faces possible prosecution for illegally casting votes and other charges.
On this day in history, August 26, 1939 the first televised baseball game was broadcast. It was between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
On July 23, 1962, using the Telstar Satellite, the first Transatlantic Satellite TV Transmission took place connecting North America with Europe.
As over 100-million people witnessed this major scientific breakthrough, for the first time in history, live satellite transmission was broadcast, and it would soon include every continent on earth.
Instantaneously, the world could now see and hear events from everywhere.
As a result, on that day, there was another revolutionary change. Reported exclusively in this fable, here is what happened next:
A new Emory University study claims that psychedelic mushrooms added 30% to the lifespan of their test mice, a remarkable result.
In an interview exclusive to this fable, I asked one of the professors how they got the idea to give mice mushrooms to help them live longer.
Yesterday, June 20, 2025 was the 56th anniversary of the first moon landing, as Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin walked on the moon.
This journey captured the imaginations of the 650 million people that watched it that day on TV and it still captivates people today.
In a related story reported exclusively for this fable, while walking on the moon, Neil Armstrong lost his car keys somewhere on the moon's surface.
Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the first Corvette sports car rolling off the production line in Flint, Michigan in 1953.
In the news, Costa Rican prison guards apprehended a cat with 230 g of Cannabis and 67 g of Crack Cocaine taped to his little body, as he leaped the prison fence to bring the drugs inside.
Now the Fable:
Authorities became suspicious because the cat had become so weighted down with drugs, he needed help leaping the fence.
A new study at UC San Francisco claims female mice the equivalent of 65 human years of age have much sharper, more resilient brains than their male counterparts.
Is this true, I wondered.
In 2016, Brazilian physiotherapist Igor Simoes Andrade began “boto therapy” (In Portuguese, botos are pink freshwater dolphins) to help people with physical and mental disabilities. They benefit by swimming and playing with the botos.
Recognizing what a great idea this is, and seeing a need among botos who have physical and mental disabilities, I recruited people for them to swim and play with.
So far, my idea is not working.
Adjoining The Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the U.S. government is acquiring one square mile for $100 million, to be forever undeveloped parkland.
In a related story, in Beverly Hills, the U.S. government is acquiring one square yard for $100 million to be forever undeveloped parkland.
Because it is in the ultra exclusive Rodeo Drive Shopping Plaza, reservations to camp there are already sold out for the next 16 years. All the buyers are women.
With Love To All - Dick
