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Headline from nypost.com: “Popular supermarket to close numerous ‘underperforming’ stores in the Northeast.” I hope our local Stop n Shop isn’t one of them. I suspect the new Russian and Uzbeki stores that have opened recently in our neighborhood have siphoned off S&S customers.
News out of Kentucky, from NYP: “High school student denied diploma after praising Jesus in his ‘off-script’ graduation speech.” Free speech only goes so far, I guess. I wonder if he would have been punished had he praised entities of which the left approves.
Cue Lou Christie. Both the Empire State Building and the Freedom Tower were zapped last night. Photo from NYP:
Competition is good. From NYP: “Walgreens to slash prices on 1,300 items — following Amazon, Walmart and Target — as inflation rages.” Let’s not forget McDonalds and Burger King. Kudos to all of them.
This may be the most amusing headline of the day. From NYP: “Judge stunned to see man with a suspended driver’s license on courthouse zoom call driving a car.” The guy should be a 2024 Darwin Award nominee.
Headline from foxnews.com: “UN slammed for honoring late Iranian president notoriously known as ‘Butcher of Tehran’.” Why would anyone be surprised by anything that useless body does?
Headline from wsj.com: “U.S. GDP Growth Slowed More Than Previously Estimated in First Quarter.” Revised from 1.6 to 1.3%. I’m surprised. I thought AI would boost growth significantly. Then again, without it, who knows where GDP would have come in? It may be preventing recession.
I don’t suffer much envy in this my 74th year, but I do here. What a feeling this must be. Tahiti, photo by Jérôme Brouillet/AFP/Getty Images, posted at theguardian.com. Cue The Chantays’ Pipeline:
Not much action at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop on this unusually cool, breezy day when the air seemed so fresh. My thanks to the gentleman who’s been on a Neil Gaiman jag, who delivered another of the YA master’s novels; and to Sam, who donated Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion by Robert Morgan; and to Wolf, who bought it; and to the woman who purchased a hardcover in Russian. The most surprising aspect of this day was playing the guitar better than half-assed, suffering minimal betrayal from my shaky hands, even while covering the Rascals’ Good Lovin’, which requires a speed that challenges hacks but must seem tame to real musicians. Photo from Google Images:
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