Another Tuesday, more junk in the news. I don’t know why we call it health insurance. Having it does not insure that we will be healthy. It is easy to let the hard stuff slip off our radar while we get caught up in bullsh*t. We have a $40 trillion national debt. We are still at war in the Middle East. Somehow, we are in a trade war with Canada. Groceries and fuel costs continue to rise, and winter is just around the corner. The Armed Forces are under the direction of a …. what words describe him? Google is now calling Lake Ontario, Lake America. Silver Lake is closing after 69 years! More POTUS supporters are surprised that their loved ones are being deported. Just finished Regime Change. I highly recommend it. Lionel Messi retired from soccer. Dolly Parton left us, but her music lives on. What is socialism? The senator from KY is still AWOL. Don’t forget to support local and national NPR and PBS stations. Check out the Presidential Term Countdown Clock. 872 more days.
Wild Cooking Woman 9/1/26
The world’s four leading cardiovascular health groups agreed to change the definition and classification system for heart attacks. They upgraded the categories for three frequently overlooked types of heart attacks more common in women that are often caused by childbirth, exercise, and stress. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women.
Republicans control all the elected federal institutions and the Supreme Court; they generally bear the greatest responsibility for budgets, executive policy, appointments, and the legislative agenda. So why isn’t America great again yet?
Humans may not be the only ones who adore having pets to dote on, according to a recently published study.
Do you participate in Bible study?
John Galliano withdraws from Met Museum show after backlash. Is this the final straw for the career of former editor of Vogue magazine and 3+ decade fashion doyenne AW? “Anna Wintour still squats like an aging dragon atop the rapidly decomposing corpus of Condé Nast’s media empire, from which perch she presided over last year’s juiceless and embarrassing Lauren Sánchez Bezos Met Gala and Prom Dress Exhibition,” writes Rusty Foster.
People who obviously used ChatGPT almost always use 14 dead giveaway phrases.
“The modern white Christian nationalist movement is an ideological descendant of the Ku Klux Klan,” writes Dr. Jemar Tisby. (more)
RIP, Dolly Parton.
SCOTUS rejected the most recent challenge to Trump’s White House ballroom, allowing the 90,000-square-foot project to continue. The vote was 5-4.
From Cape Kennedy in 1963 to Lake America in 2026, the federal names of some of America’s best-known geographic features have changed, and in some cases changed back again. (more)
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My September reading list
- Foods of La Frontera: New Taste Frontiers and Recipes from Both Sides of the Border by Pati Jinich
- I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney
- The Blue Flame by George Pelecanos
- The Best Dog in the World edited by Alice Hoffman
- Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart
- The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
- Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
- Dèy: A Novel by Edwidge Danticat
