June 22, 2026
"I remember one of the first things my parents would say about Americans when we immigrated to America, was that they always seemed so unhappy..."
Said Gary Shteyngart, in his interview with Ezra Klein, the "I" in the headline "I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel" (NYT). The novel is Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story" (commission earned).
"And beneath the bluster, Trump’s limited view of the American Revolution is very familiar..."
The pro-algae crowd...
... and the rubber rippers...More footage from the liberal ‘Pro-Algae protest” that took place in Washington DC
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 21, 2026
Liberals cheer for algae growth at The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to spite Donald Trump cleaning the area
Imagine this being your life…. I know what we’re all thinking, what are the… pic.twitter.com/i1Fo6Su8oQ
🚨 NEW: Fox’s Peter Doocy just asked Jeanine Pirro if ABC’s Jonathan Karl is in trouble after President Trump called him out for ‘sticking his hand in the Reflecting Pool trying to rip the rubber off the surface.’
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 21, 2026
Doocy: “Judge, is he in trouble?”
Pirro: “If you damage,… pic.twitter.com/zfaK2TJHHz
Alan Greenspan lived to be 100.
Even as Mr. Greenspan skillfully managed interest rates in a way that kept the economy humming along, he remained leery of confronting a danger he well recognized: that the low-inflation, easy-money environment he had helped create was putting the United States at risk by fueling unsustainable investment booms. And he remained reluctant to act as banks and investment firms adopted complex new trading techniques that would come to wreak great damage. At the Fed, he was remarkably successful at what he considered the central banker’s primary task of holding down inflation. He also helped the United States deal with periodic shocks, including a stock market crash just weeks after he took office, the near-meltdown of Asian financial markets a decade later and the aftereffects of the 2001 terrorist attacks....
From my blog archive:
October 23, 2008
And there was a time when I was reading Greenspan's autobiography:
There's a lot debris in the systems and we've got to break it without destruction.
Kamala Harris was asked about her thought process when deciding to run for president in 2028, her answer is some of the most retarded word salad you will ever hear. pic.twitter.com/Jj8nXBATZC
— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) June 21, 2026
June 21, 2026
"According to [David] Thomson, movies — especially American movies — have whitewashed history, glorified violence and made role models out of thugs, narcissists and murderers."
Writes A.O. Scott, in "Did Movies Ruin Everything? How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover’s quarrel with cinema — and America" (NYT).
"I was just a curious, concerned citizen. I guess I was there at the wrong place, wrong time."
"A possible referendum in Oregon on animal rights would end fishing, hunting, even pest control, just when Democrats are trying really hard not to be seen as 'weirdos again.'"
The measure, known for now as Initiative Petition 28... would give all animals the same protections from cruelty that Oregon grants dogs and cats.... Hunting, trapping and fishing would be outlawed, along with scientific research on animals, lethal pest control and conventional livestock production....
The fight is in some ways very Oregon, long a proving ground for ideas that initially seemed politically impossible only to enter the mainstream, such as medical aid in dying, universal vote-by-mail and legalizing the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms for therapy.
When people think of "animals" — as in "I love animals!" — they're not thinking about cockroaches and mosquitoes.
ADDED: According to Ballotopedia, the initiative "Applies to mammals (including vermin), birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish." So I think "lethal pest control" is meant to call to mind mice and rats, not the various troublesome insects. The NYT article says "all animals" and also, more than once, says "pest control."It often leads to the trivialization of serious subjects...

June 20, 2026
The last sunrise of spring.
Write about whatever you like in the comments.
The summer solstice arrives here at 3:24 a.m. There's nothing really to go out and look at. One can only find the solstice in your mind. Perhaps there is a ritual to externalize whatever spiritual feeling you have about the solstice. There is the idea of arriving at one's sunrise vantage point early — sunrise isn't until 5:18 — but the sign says the place is closed after 10 at night and before 4 in the morning.








