Words & Pics

Old adage we had to memorize at St. Mary’s Elementary School: “I before E except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh.” Someone had fun with it. Photo from Pinterest/Amazon:

Excerpt from a nypost.com editorial on the statistics controversy: “…violent crime rose 40% from 2019 to 2023; property crime, up 26%. And the survey doesn’t even measure ‘rampant shoplifting.’”

Predictable. Headline from newsmax.com: “Diddy’s Music Streams Jump After Arrest.”

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Headline from foxnews.com: “Joe Manchin says he won’t endorse Harris over support for eliminating filibuster.” Otherwise, her socialist policies are fine, I guess.

Headline from TMZ: “Macklemore Chants ‘F*** America’ Onstage During Seattle Concert.” And from the unattributed article at the site: “The singer-songwriter performed at the Palestine Will Live Forever Festival in Seattle Saturday night … benefiting a charity known as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.” Born in the state of Washington, his net worth is estimated at $25 million. He is part of the ownership groups of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken and MLS’ Seattle Sounders FC. The franchises issued a joint statement, gleaned from komonews.com: “We believe that sports bring people together and unite us. We are aware of Macklemore’s increasingly divisive comments, and they do not reflect the values of our respective ownership groups, leagues, or organizations. We are currently evaluating our collective options on this matter.”

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The incoming was more than the outgoing at today’s session of the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. My thanks to the donors, and to the woman who bought two cookbooks and two on grammar; and to 85-year-old chick magnet Lou, who purchased DVDs of Bad Lieutenant (1992), U.S. Marshals (1998) and Three Kings (1999); and to Lynn and Barbara, who I helped with minor chores, and who brought me a bottle of Poland Spring and a Hershey bar respectively.

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