High & Low Flyers

Denver-based Boom Supersonic has designed a jet that will reduce overseas travel time considerably and do it with “100% sustainable aviation fuel.” It will carry 60–80 passengers. Travel time to London will be 3:30 rather than the current seven hours. The Concorde, retired in 2003, did it in three but wasn’t profitable despite an average round trip price of $12,000. Photo from Google Images:

Excerpt from nypost.com article by James Bovard: “… 30 million pages of Obama administration records had been trucked to Chicago. The Obama Foundation, working with the National Archives, promised to digitize and put them online. Almost six years after the records arrived at a Chicago-area warehouse, that hasn’t happened…” Not surprising.

A UFO photo missing for 30 years has been recovered. It was taken by two hikers in Scotland and is said to be the best ever. Photo from GI. I edited it, enlarging the object a bit:

Unsurprising headline from newsmax.com: “Monkeypox Deemed ‘Racist,’ Name May Be Changed.” How ‘bout Politicianpox?

Excerpt from an article by Kelsey Koberg at foxnews.com: “An agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union and the school district states that white teachers will be laid off before teachers of color, regardless of their seniority.” So much for the colorblind society.

The upper echelon of the FBI has rightfully been bashed for its leftwing bias, but let’s give credit where it’s due. Headline from FN: “FBI operation locates over 100 missing kids, child sex trafficking victims.”

RIP basketball legend Pete Carril, 92. The son of Spanish immigrants, he was All-State as a high school senior in 1948, then played collegiately at Lafayette College. He spent a year coaching at Lehigh before moving to Princeton, where he reigned from 1967-’96. His teams won 13 Ivy League championships and the 1975 NIT Tournament. His overall record is an astonishing 525–273. Although the Tigers won only three March Madness games, they threw a scare into elite NCAA powerhouses, who hated the low-scoring affairs. Carril’s last victory came in the first round of the 1996 big show against defending champ UCLA, one of the greatest upsets in tourney history. He later became an assistant with the Sacramento Kings. He is enshrined in both the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He is a dad of two. Awesome, sir. Photo from GI:

The floating book shop enjoyed a nice rebound from the weekend’s disappointment. My thanks to the woman who donated four books in Russian, two of which were bought by Wolf, along with a DVD in that language, the DVD of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne; and to the gentleman who purchased Camino Winds by John Grisham; and to the woman who took home two kids’ books, giving one a sniff test before finalizing.

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