Hot Stuff
Cue Donna Summer:
Headline from newsmax.com: “MLB All-Star Game Has Second Lowest Ratings Ever.” Woke this, butt-kissers.
From an article at NM by Zoe Papadakis, in my own words: Recently, when Donald Trump entered a venue to view a UFC match, the crowd erupted in cheers. Actress Megan Fox was there and mentioned it on a talk show, using the word “legend,” which drew the ire of social media trolls. She responded: “I do not align myself with any political party or individual politicians. I never said Donald Trump is a legend. I said he was a legend.. in that arena (key part of that sentence)…” And: “Really loving this uneducated, mid-evil, pitch fork carrying, burn a witch at the stake mentality though. The world needs more of that.” I assume the last sentence is ironic.
From an article at foxnews.com by Adam Rose, edited by yours truly: With three months left in the fiscal year, the number of encounters at the border has surpassed a million. In ’20 it was 458,000, in ’19 977,509.
Par for the political course in this FN headline: “‘Squad’ member Cori Bush, a ‘defund the police’ advocate, recently spent $70,000 on private security.” It covered three months.
Here’s another bit of humor my friend Marie emailed me:
I spent most of the time in the shade at today’s session of the floating book shop. Still, it was hot, although the breeze blowing up East 13th helped a bit. I didn’t step into the sun until it was time to return the wares to the car and put an end to the insanity. My thanks to Wolf, who bought three DVDs, and to the young woman who purchased Solving the Enigma: History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe by Jennifer Wilcox, New York City Trees by Edward Barnard, and a pictorial titled Archaeology; and to the young man who took home Hideaway by Dean Koontz and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean; and to Alan, who donated five works of fiction. Nadine selected The Thirteenth Tribe, non-fiction by Arthur Koestler, for a friend who was acquainted with a relative of the author, who passed away at 78 in 1983. She also cited a bit of trivia — Lilian Hellman left Koestler for Dashiell Hammett. I failed to find corroboration, but it’s possible since Koestler was a notorious womanizer. He wrote at least 25 books, his most famous the anti-communist novel Darkness at Noon, which I read in the mid ‘70’s.
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