Lows & Highs

Politicians are expected to pander, but sometimes it is so icky it makes the skin crawl. Former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg apologizing for having kept Rudy Giuliani’s highly effective Stop and Frisk program in place is up there with the all-time panders. What’s worse — the pander itself or his contempt for the intelligence of the average person? What a phony. Then again, what’s to be expected of a lifelong Democrat who ran as a Republican and who conned his way into a third term despite term limits? The word “megalomania” was invented for just such a person.

A neat bit of NBA history occurred Saturday night in the game between Milwaukee and Indiana. For the first time, three different sets of brothers played and scored in the same game: Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo and Robin and Brook Lopez for the Bucks, Justin and Aaron Holiday for the Pacers. Very cool. Here are the Antetokounmpos:

The Lopez boys:

The Holidays:

What the heck is in the food at Popeyes? The latest mayhem was a brawl among employees at a Wisconsin venue. Seven were fired.

This was the first day I missed the scaffold that used to surround my regular book nook. Although only a mist was in the air, it’s still damaging to paper goods, so I packed it as soon as it began, less than an hour after I’d set up. The day was not a total loss, as I attended to a bunch of chores, one of them the mailing of a copy of Billionths of a Lifetime to a friend of my second oldest niece. It’d been so long since I’d mailed one that I asked the clerk if Media Mail was still an option. Fortunately, it is, which increases the profit margin by a buck or so.

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