Wednesday, October 21, 2026

He shunted aside a bipartisan law, signed just weeks ago, imposing new tariffs on Russia. He cut a deal to purchase diesel from Moscow. His negotiators agreed on the vague outlines of a deal for much of Lukoil, a battered Russian energy firm. And he called for the replacement of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, whose success in taking the fight inside Russia deeply frustrates him.

Trump wants, has always wanted, Russia to defeat Ukraine.

President Trump’s intensifying effort in the past few weeks to rehabilitate Russia and usher President Vladimir V. Putin back into diplomatic society is remarkable for its speed, its characterization of Mr. Zelensky as the primary obstacle to peace, and its brazen denial that Russia is continuing the war that Mr. Trump says he is trying to end.

“Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine,” Mr. Trump said on Monday, speaking to reporters outside the White House as he left for a campaign rally. “They haven’t been doing much,” he said, making no mention of the Russian missiles and jet-powered drones that have been targeting apartment buildings in Kyiv and Ukraine’s surviving electricity grid.

In contrast, he said, “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. They’ve given nothing to us. Remember that.” He repeated the statement for emphasis. The night before, he wrote on social media that Mr. Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did,” because it brought him a flow of cash and arms from Europe, making no mention that Ukraine is fighting for its sovereignty and even survival in a war that it did not start.

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...what is different now is Mr. Trump’s increased determination to force a deal on Mr. Zelensky, telling him that holding out to retain occupied portions of the country’s eastern provinces is not worth it — and that there is money to be made for Ukraine, as well, if it would only drop its objections to an accord, even one written largely on Russia’s terms.

That will be the American message to Mr. Zelensky on Tuesday in Oslo, where Mr. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff is expected to meet the Ukrainian president.

3:00 pm

Witkoff Meets With Putin in St. Petersburg, Calls Him a "Humanitarian"

“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that.”

9:21 am:

Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions

Both Musk and President Trump have expressed anger at Ukraine for attacking Russian diesel refineries in recent weeks, which the president blames for high energy prices. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network...

Wally

I could spend the rest of my healthy days traveling the NBA circuit like some did the traveling circus in byegone days. The game is endlessly fascinating to me. I would rather fly to Sacramento to see the "Kings" vs the "Pelicans" in person than drive up to Joe Robbie stadium to see the Super Bowl. The NBA is without doubt my favorite sport.

In the late game last night...

Oklahoma City fairly routed the "Chaparrals" at the Alamo 116-104. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 32. Victor Wembanyama shot 1/13 and had 12.

"The ball wasn't sticking in Philly's new offense"--Windy

There was enough ball. Clap out to Nurse Nick and the Super Sixers.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Omg, "Knicks" FTO 100-106, 7.7". Good night Knickers and Sixers!

Brunson missed 3

Brunson 2, 100-104, :41.3, Nurse Nick FTO

They only get 18 per half but six extra in the last two mins.

Bockers 98 Phila. 104, 1:52 4Q, NYC FTO

Brunson misses, KAT 3!!!!! 98-100, 2:40 4Q

LeBron in for Kantankerous

Brunson misses, EMBIID HUGE THREE!!! NYC 95 Phila. 99, 3:27 left, NYC FTO

Embiid misses

KAT 3! 95-96, 4:08 4th

Brunson just missed

Brown and Embiid back in for Sixers

NYC 92 Phila. 96, 5:22 left to play

Is this Brunson Time or is that so last season?

NYC 86 (10-5 4Q) Phila. 88, 8:07, Nurse Nick FTO

Nine point lead! Man, in this game, that's put the fat lady up time.

It's mostly all Maxey, 24 points. Embiid is 3/12. Brown has stepped it up: 19 pts, 7/13 (2/3).

Brunson is having a poor shooting game, 5/14.

"SIXERS" BY 7! 0-11 RUN! WHOA.

I just had a moment of clarity: Mike Brown is New York coach.

Late Simons, Brown treys give Phila. rare lead, 80-76 end 3Q

They've only led for 32% of game. That was a superb quarter for Phila., 29-18, in a boring game. This is an important game for Phila. This is a brand new team and the basketball and sporting world are curious if this super-team is going to work. For Mamdani City this is the cliche of "just one game of 82". They're the defending champs.

"As Joel goes, so will the Sixers". Remember that from this summer?

Well, so far, Embiid has 10 pts on 3/10 (1/4) in 25'.

76-74, 1:37 3Q. This is as fun as edging.

Teams can't throw it in the East River now

Hart 3: 66-64, 5:59 3Q

PHILLY LEADS!!! LeBron makes it 63-64, 7:11 3rd

NYC 63-62, 7:55 3Q, "Knicks" another FTO

Now I can't remember who the "Knicks" coach is. Damn, I'm getting old.

The rebound gap has swelled to 10. Only fucking reason Bockers are winning.

"Knicks" 60-58, 9:46 3rd, "Knicks" FTO

The game sure hasn't changed much.

HT 58-54. Every time I checked the score, NYC was leading, but the stats say 76ers led 38% of the time.

"Knicks" are actually shooting poorer than 76ers.

"Knicks" won the first quarter by 2, on rebounding.

"Knicks" won the second quarter by 2, on rebounding. 27-19 at halftime.

Mamdani City 50 Brotherly Love City 46, 2:13 2Q

49-43, 4:12 2nd

44-37, 5:32 2Q, Sixers getting NOTHING from anybody not named Maxey

Brown 1/5

LeBron 1/4

Joel 3/8

Hoo doggie, Bockers like butter, they on a roll. 40-30

I am STILL pissed at Joe Mazz. I can't stand that guy.

At the end of one quarter in Peoples Square Garden, the World Champeens lead Phila. 25-23

Electric Maxey leads all scorers with 8, Jalen Brunson leads the Soshis with 5. The little diff. there is so far is on the glass, "Knicks" 15-9.

Mamdani City 19 Phila. 20, 2:32 1Q, Mamdani Full Socialist Meeting

My God that Philadelphia lineup is breathtaking.

Bockers Back! 19-18, 3:14 1Q

We're early on, it's Mamdani City 10 76'ers 12

Let's see who the starters are:

LeBron James
Joel Embiid
Jaylen Brown
Tyrese Maxey
VJ Edgecombe

They got the full deck!

OG Anunoby
Karl-Anthony Towns
Josh Hart
Mikal Bridges
Jalen Brunson

By far the most inn-teresting opening night game...

...is tonight at 7:30, Phila. at the World Champs, Mamdani City. Sixers with Joel, Jaylen, LeBron--who is living in Mamdani City and helicoptering to and from Philly!--Electric Maxey and VJ Edgecombe who, come to think of him, is out for awhile.

Can't wait for this one!!!!!!

Joe Mazz, COTY Joe Mazz, can I ask you a question?

Why the fuck did you have Jayson Tatum chucking up 23 times, bricking SEVENTEEN (0/7 range) in 38' for a little peepy 13 points when you had PGJR-13 scorching the cords, 12/21 (7/12), 38 points in 31'?

You just wasted PEAK PGJR-13 in his first game with you and lost the first game of the season, you fucking mutton head.

FT Fort Wayne 121 Boston 113

Z +7, :18.2, Jenius Joe FTO to draw up the old 7-point play ploy

PG cut it to fo' with a twee, now 6, :41

Z +7, 1:26

Zollner 112 Beans 101, 3:06 left, Z FTO

Oh my God, this is 🤮 22-0 run 112-99

20-0 FUCKING RUN! 109-99, 4:21. They led by TWENTY-TWO.

Swish has cooked Beans this quarter. 20 for game.

Joe Mazz FTO 5:10, 107-99

18-0, 107-99! Joe Mazz, you fucking MUTTON HEAD! I can't believe what I'm reading.

Omg, they're going to lose this fucking game! Z 14-0 run, 104-99, 5:36 left. OH I FORGOT, JOE MAZZ IS THE COACH!

PGJR in, 7:07 4Q, 97-99

What a beansbuster if they lose after +22, 8:07 3Q

95-99, 7:34 4Q, Beans FTO

Swish Family Robinson made 2/3 FTs and hit 2 straight treys

Pickled Peppers just fouled Donut shooting three🙄

87-96, 9:30. PGJR out. What a sublime start for him in green.

PGJR scored 12 secs into the 4th. 33 pts in 22'. Wow. 84-92, 11:03

PGJR-13 is THIRD in minutes (only 21) for Beans

Z 82 Beans 88, end 3

Okay, I was wrong...

PGJR played the 3Q up until 5:33 and Beans +14 when he came out for Peyton Pritchard Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. Z made their run with Pickled Peppers in.

Paul George is NOT in. Beans has Tatum from the first unit and I don't know the other guys.

"Pistons" on a BIG run now. 77-81, 2:21 3rd. Smh

Z on a mini-run, 24-20, this Q...

I don't understand why coaches are so rigid with their rotations. Beans led by 22 with their second unit in. Then I saw PGJR-13 check back in. Why? I know he's having a great game. WHY? Why not let the second unit go until the other team starts coming back on you. You put him and the others back in at the peak, they're cold.

Z cut it to 15. PG(JR)-13: 31

Didn't do any good: 50-72. PG(JR)-13 HAS TWENTY-EIGHT POINTS!!! :o

Z 47-63 Beans, 10:19 3Q, Z FULL😴

Beans Cranking the Zollner Pistons at HT 58-45

Guess who's game high-scorer? Paul George John Ringo.

Donut has 3 pts on 1/4 (1/4) for Z.

And today at 3 pm those same Zollner Pistons kick off the new season in the Malice Palace against Beans.

In other action...

The World Champions, the Bockers from Mamdani City, host the NEW! IMPROVED! Seven Foot Sixers.

Runners-up "Chaparrals" will be running all over Alamo against the Oklahoma City Rustless Bolts.

The Association wants us to wait and salivate before the Main Event:

Yes? Yes! YES!!! The New Miami Heat Freaks open the Bang Bus against Dire Wolves, tomorrow at 7:30 pm at night Normal Cop Time.

"Take Time Out and Do Something Nice for Yourself": The NBA IS BACK!

Monday, October 19, 2026

Public Occurrences October 19, 2026

Trump 'threatening to tip [Ukraine] war to Russia’s favor, imperil America’s security interests across the globe', Says Putin "has been fine", Blames Zelensky: “it’s time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine”

"Things look blacker than they ever had regarding this administration’s policy towards Russia and Ukraine”

-John Herbst, a former ambassador to Ukraine under President George W. Bush and now a scholar with the Atlantic Council.

John Hollinger, The Athletic: "Heat" to go 40-42

9. Miami Heat (40-42)

It may surprise you to see Miami here. Last season, the Heat went 42-40...

Hollinger

John...🤦Yo John, what up man? The "Heat" finished 43-39 last season, bruh lol.

You can't argue predictions. The future will take care of itself and someone will be right and someone will be wrong. In a sporting mood, I'll make my own prediction without putting specific numbers on it (specific numbers seem to trip John up, anyway). The "Heat" will not finish with a losing record; they will not finish .500; They will not finish 43-39 again. They will do better than that.

Take care of yourself, John.😂

No-Trey Klay

The "Heat's" great shooting hope Klay Thompson has had an ominous pre-season for a Great Hope. 0-fer 7 from field, 0-fer 6 from deep Friday night. Never could play defense either. John Hollinger, 40-42?

Jalen Hurts, NFL Quarterback, Blood Clots in Lungs

Extremely dangerous, blood clots. Hurts plays for Philadelphia. Docs first found clots in a leg, ruled him out of play until they could fully check him out, then today found clots in his lungs. The clots either moved or are systemic. They can kill you when they move.

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Public Occurrences October 18, 2026

-This is Israel-

JERUSALEM (AP) — The photographer with The Washington Post who was attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank so badly that several vertebrae were broken said Sunday she was increasingly angry that Israel’s military seems to protect settlers more than the Palestinians they threaten.

The attack on Heidi Levine and Palestinians during the sensitive olive harvest — followed a day later by an attack on European diplomats in a Christian village — again highlights the rampant settler violence that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed on a small number of troublemakers.

Levine, from her hospital bed, has told The Associated Press she was “shocked and insulted” that Netanyahu referred to the attack on her and others as “alleged"...

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Hundreds of Palestinians have been attacked and a few have been killed this olive harvest alone, which started in late September, rights groups have said. Olive trees, a central part of history and heritage for Palestinians, have been destroyed.

Levine blamed “Jewish terrorists” for Friday’s attack and added: “I’ve been covering this region for over 40 years, and I have never seen this country in such a state as it is today.”

Levine was recovering Sunday from injuries that included what appeared to be stab wounds in her buttocks, which required stitches. There was nothing new from police on the case, she said.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, whose recent comments have condemned settler attacks on U.S. citizens but not on Palestinians overall, called the attack on Levine a “despicable act of terror carried out by masked cowards” and said they should spend years in prison.

Netanyahu’s main rival in the elections, Gadi Eisenkot, said on X that “a handful of criminals is burning up the last shreds of legitimacy left to the state of Israel.”

[You're a liar. You're using the same "handful" term that your opponent, the at-home and abroad indicted war criminal has used. It's the State itself, which has been doing this its entire 77-year history, but yes that state has only "the last shreds of legitimacy left."]

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[Ms. Levine] said she has not heard from Netanyahu. His outgoing government is dominated by West Bank settlers and their supporters.

Levine did receive, however, a letter signed by over a dozen former Israeli security, intelligence and other officials, including former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, former Mossad director Tamir Pardo and former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon.

“We are deeply ashamed that Jewish terrorists in the West Bank continue to inflict suffering on innocent Palestinians, assault those who come to their defense, and target those who document and expose their despicable conduct,” said the letter, shared with the AP.

“Their brutality brings disgrace upon Israel and the Jewish people. Such acts undermine Israel’s security, its regional and international standing, and the moral fabric of our society. They represent a betrayal of everything we have devoted our lives to defending.”

The letter noted that “alas, with encouragement from the highest echelons of government,” only a fundamental change in policy can end the “disgraceful phenomenon.”

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...she and others have openly wondered who will protect Palestinians. Rights groups have said few settlers are ever punished for the attacks that have surged in recent years.

6:20 pm:

Riots in France Saturday, in Milan, Italy Saturday and Today Over Cost of Living, Fuel Prices, Gov't Services

The French riots Saturday were widespread with municipal buildings torched and damaged. They ended Sunday as suddenly and shockingly as they came Saturday; The Milan riots were less widespread but continued into a second day Sunday.

12:40 am:

This is Israel

This is what Israel has been and has done for the 77 years of its existence.

It is an outlaw, pariah nation.

No nation has been, deservedly, so hated, so shunned, for so long.

Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and European Officials in West Bank

Extremists assaulted residents and broke a European diplomatic vehicle’s window, witnesses said, as settler violence surges in the territory during the olive harvest.

NYT

Header: actual nameplate and real job title of "receptionist" at Baptist Hospital.

This is why I'm City till I die

"MAN CITY FAN"

My first interest in soccer was the Miami "Fusion". First soccer match I ever attended was a "Fusion" game at old Lockhart Stadium--in Fort Lauderdale.

I remember sitting there that first match watching and thinking, "I like this", I liked soccer.

I got SO into the "Fusion". Had a flag made; bought a shirt (that I still have); went to a lot of games; got on the message board after every match.

The most constant, most prolific, most effusive "Fusion" fan on the message board was a guy who went by the handle "MAN CITY FAN"

I asked MAN CITY FAN once, "Why are you such a "Fusion" fan?" It was because a former Man City player, Ian-something, I think, was now playing for the "Fusion". :o Now THAT was loyalty!

The "Fusion" folded, pardon me, was "contracted" in MLS-speak, after the ONE season that I became such a fan.

But I had been bitten by the soccer bug. Now what am I going to do? It was out of the question that I would adopt one of the "Fusion's" former opponents as the object of my passion. I also wasn't going to become a fan of a foreign language club, I never took to other languages, can't speak any other. I had to have an English speaking club with English-speaking fans so I looked across the pond to the English pyramid.

I couldn't do League One or League Two. Miami "Fusion" matches were NEVER televised and I saw that if you weren't in the English Premier League you didn't exist in media coverage, especially not here in the colonies.

I had a boyhood memory of Nottingham Forest, so romantic a name. They were in the Championship then. I had even attended a "Fusion"-Forest friendly. Forest then? I researched their history and they had been a big club, but alas, my boyhood memory was a false one. The name Nottingham Forest had stuck in my mind but just from fairy tales, not soccer. And they were not on the media radar. It would be difficult and lonely to follow even a club stuck in the Championship.

Thus, to the greatest of club soccer leagues and an English-speaking one, the EPL, I went.

I developed a criterion: I wanted to root for an underdog. Like underdogs. Despise frontrunning fans. I would not become a fan of one of the "Big Four", Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea. I looked at Tottenham, that queer little bird atop the soccer ball was different...It didn't take.

My people are from the Northeast. The Tyneside region. Coal miners. Mine were coal miners there and emigrated to become...coal miners here.

There were three EPL clubs in Tyneside, Newcastle United, Sunderland, and Middlesbrough. Could I conjure up a fandom that would stick for one of those clubs? I immediately nixed Middlesbrough, it sounded too pedestrian, too sensible brown middle class and stuck there. Those were the days of Alan Shearer at Newcastle and while they were not a historical "Big Four" club they were in the top four (as I recall) of the EPL table at the time. By no stretch were Newcastle an underdog, they would be too frontrunning for me. Plus I didn't like the striped prison shirtings unis.

I tried out Sunderland in my mind. The "Stadium of Light". Wow! Didn't like the red and white striped shirts but they weren't Big Four...Sunderland didn't take, either.

And then I remembered MAN CITY FAN. I looked at the Premier League table. Not there. Rats. I looked at the Championship. There they were, sitting atop too!, which meant that the next season, my first without the "Fusion", they would be in the EPL. I loved their simple, unique sky blue color, I loved their underdog status. Loved everything about them.

It was because of MAN CITY FAN that I became a Man City fan.

BOY, were they underdogs!

Division Two

Maine Road "Temple of Doom"

I jumped in with both feet.

Those first few seasons up tested my stick-too-it-iveness. Giorgio Samaras. Robbie Fowler. Shaun Goater. Calamity James. Joey Barton. We, I was now using "we" for City, had a good middle-of-the-table finish our first year up, but after that first season we had close encounters with relegation. I don't know if my new Man City fandom could survive the blackout of relegation.

We survived. Came then,

"The Manchester Revolution"

Former (and future) Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, "Frank" to local fans, bought the club. 🎵We're in the money/ We're in the money🎵 Frank sent us on our way, and then went away, back to Thailand. BUT Frank knew billionaires all over the world and sold the club to Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates. The Manchester Revolution kicked into overdrive.

I noticed that City fans were different. We were ecstatic, we were grateful, we couldn't believe we were "really here". We cheered whenever Frank appeared at Maine Road, we hung banners and chanted hosannas to Sheikh Mansour. We were happy.

We booed the Champions League anthem every time it was played. They threatened us. We booed more.😂

The Poznan

We played Lech Poznan one time in the Champs League, maybe Europa, in Manchester. Polish club, Lech Poznan. They cheered their teams' goals by turning their backs to the pitch, putting their arms around their mates' shoulders, and jumping up and down in place.

City fans adopted The Poznan. 😂

You gotta love fans like that.

The Bananas

Now the bananas. I don't know what it's about, supposedly it goes back to the late '90's but I don't know why. But now it has become a sign of our happy defiance of the Premier League's guilty verdicts (and we are guilty). Try as you might, you are not going to shake City fans' loyalty and joy in their club.

😂👏

In all of these ways City fans were, and still are, different from fans of Manchester United, of Arsenal, of Liverpool, the red-entitled-traditional-elite teams of English football. The red elites always have been, and are today even more so, bitter toward Manchester City. We broke up their Firm. They were "cheated" out of titles and lucre that were "rightfully" theirs. They direct their ire at anything and anybody that they feel have wrongfully displaced them.

United fans opposed Glazer family ownership from day one; they oppose it to this day with everything from banners to boycotts, to threats to establish a new green-and-gold club, to everything short of violence. I saw, just within the last couple of weeks, a huge banner inside Old Trafford castigating ownership for "the way you treat us". The "Temple of Dreams" has become a temple of nightmarish negativity. I could never, ever be a fan of a club with fans of such bitterness, of such relentless negativity as those.

Arsenal fans, it was always whining and bitching--at having finished in the top four, or the top three, or runners-up! Always complaining. Piers Morgan and others screamed "WENGER OUT!" Never happy. "The balls were different"-Mikel Arteta, current manager. When Arsenal won the EPL last season, there was joy of course among their fans, but it was more than a little tinged with relief, relief that they had "finally" got what they "deserved" all along and had been denied for...twenty years.😂 It wasn't good enough being a member of the "Big Four"; it wasn't good enough going to the Champions League every year. They wanted it all and they wanted it every year. Arsenal's stadium is so joyless that it is nicknamed "The Highbury Library". Arsenal fans' title "celebrations" were as much an avoidance of "pain"--which isn't joy.

Not us. Not City fans. Joy lives here. Joy lived in Maine Road; it lives in Etihad Stadium.

We ought to hold a symbolic ceremony for the grumpy Reds. Have life-size, blow-up Sir Alex Ferguson dolls, blow-up Piers Morgan dolls, blow-up Brendan Rogers dolls. Have real City fans on the platform, too. Here, poor wittle, bitter Unitard, here Arsie, here Slaverpool, here are your trophies! 🤭

Because they will never have our joy.

I found my soccer club, I found my people in Manchester City.

City Till I Die!

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Good night folks, the day ends on an exciting, fun note. Thank all of you so much for being here, not just today but throughout the years. I appreciate you.🫶

PASS INCOMPLETE! BRIGHAM YOUNG HOLDS ON IN ONE OF GREATEST COLLEGE GAMES OF ALL TIME!

ND 1ST AND GOAL AT 9, :04 LEFT. OH MY HEART!

4TH AND 5 TEN SECS LEFT! BYU FTO

3RD AND 5 AT THE 14, :15. THIS IS AN EPIC GAME!

FIRST DOWN ND BYU 19! :20 LEFT!

ND 3rd and 3 BUY 30, :26

NOTRE DAME 1ST DOWN BYU 37, :45! OH MY GOODNESS!

3rd and 10

THEY GOT IT! FIRST DOWN ND OWN 39, :54 LEFT

ND 4th and 3 own 32, 1:11 left. THIS IS IT!

TOUCHDOWN "COUGARS" PAT GOOD BYU 28 ND 24, 1:47 4Q

These two night games have redeemed the day!

BYU 3rd and goal at ND 1, ND FTO 1:53 4Q

BYU (8) is 1st and goal at ND (2) 2, 2' left, 21-24

FSU HAIL MARY INT FT UMG (3) 43 FSU 35. That was a helluva game and I got freude even without schaden.

BYU (8) 21 NOTRE DAME (2) 24, 2:17 4Q, BYU BALL ND 9!

Touchdown NULLIFIED. 4th and 31 from UMG 46

4TH AND 21 AT UMG 36. THIS IS THE BALLGAME!

FSU 3rd and 6 UMG 31, 2 OT

41-35 UMG!...NO 43-35! SO THIS IS IT FSU GETS BALL NEEDS TD AND 2-PT PAT!

UMG (3) 35 FSU 35 IN 2 OT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bee Why? Ew (8) 21 Notre Dame du Lac (2) 10, 9:36 3Q

Number 1 lost.

Number 2 is losing.

Number 3 is losing.

Number 4 is Ohio. "Buckears" will be no. 1 if the others hold up.

CRISTOBAL TURNED IT OVER ON DOWNS AGAIN--AT FSU 18!

Every year Mario Cristobal loses at least one game that he should have won. This reasonably could be it in 2026 and having it come to FLORIDA STATE?!?! would be the worst one-dumb.

End 3rd Q Miami (3) 14 Florida State 21 (UMG 3rd 6 FSU 20(

You can't spell SCUM without UM! Miami went for it on 4th and 2 at FSU 42 (TOTALLY defensible decision)...

...but threw incomplete. Four plays and 58 yards later and it's Miami (3) -21 14 FSU 21, 4:09 3Q.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

FSU just INT'd Miami👏

Oh fuck me up the ass

I finished the last post and went back to ESPN and just as I did Lewisville scored on a 46-yard TD pass with :28 left in the half in the Carrier Dome. 23-28.

Man, there is so much schaden today I can't find much freude

There's too much non-football stuff in college football today.

Take Maryland-Rutgers. Please. Two programs, whole athletic departments, that are in financial straits, RUT mucho more than UMD. And both football teams suck and they have sucky coaches. I can't take any joy from the Fire Bowl.

Something's wrong with college football when the villain at Penn State is the...athletic director. I can't take pleasure in PSU's stumbling bumbles when a first year head coach is doing his best under not good circumstances. I would have taken some small pleasure if loathsome, cheating mishigas had lost.

I don't feel freude that Indiana. Wouldn't have felt it if Ohio had.

Bee Why? Ew (8) leads Notre Dame du Lac (2) 14-10 in the Beehive, 2' left 1H. I like the "Lakers". Don't particularly want them to lose but what a dub for the "Cougars" this would be.

Rocky Top beat Alabama. Meh.

I feel bad for the Dookies who lost today at home to arch-rivals Apple Chills.

I can do self-schadenfreude. I do do self-schadenfreude. But man, the way my Beloveds lost last week and this, trying one QB replacement then another for Mason Heintschel, no, I can't make fun of my fandom under those circumstances.

Syracuse, I don't know if they won or lost but they were behind, is another football basket case that according to the president and AD has a shelf life of three years. Talk about QB probs: They lose their starter who was just coming off a year-long injury and then I think they are down to their fourth option. I think no.s two and three also got hurt. I've never heard of anything like that.

I have one shot at schadenfreude left. Miami (3) and Eff Esse Ew are tied at 14 at HT. I verily can't stand the "Hurricanes". They were 21-point favorites. GO SEMIHOLES!

PATERNOVERS! Mishegas hands PSU (3-4) FOURTH STRAIGHT L 21-18

Rocky Top (14) is going to upset Bama (6). It's 26-10, 1:56 left in the game.

DOWN GOES NO. 1 (agayne) FT IN A WILD ONE UGA 24 ALBERN 27

Top Dawgs Level at 24! 2:48 left

Kirby's really smart.

Mishegas 14 Paterno-Sandusky 3, 2:14 3Q. Hoo-eee Matt Campbell

No. 1 Jawja 14 Albern 24, end 3Q

RUT WINS! FT UMD 30 RUT 37

AT THE 11 (4th and 3) :21. RUT FTO

DOWN TO THE RUT 18! :42

UMD AT RUT 29, :51

FT Ohio (4) Upsets Indiana (5) 19-15, Ending "Hoosiers" 22-Game Win Streak

INDIANA TURNS IT OVER ON DOWNS! 1:02 LEFT

Michigan vs Paterno-Sandusky. Normally big game. Not this season. Just started.

Ind. at Ohio 27, 1:07 left!

Fire Bowl: UMD 30 RUT 37, 2:13 4Q, RUT with ball

SELF-SCHADENFREUDE SATURDAY FT Boston College 27 My Beloved Pitt "Panthers" 21

IND. AT OHIO 43, 2:03 LEFT!

UNRANKED FLORIDA UPSETS TEXAS (7) IN AUSTIN 27-24. Texas was -10.5.

Ind. 4th and 10 own 16, 4:21 left. They punt. Ohio ball own 41, 4:13 left

O A SPECTACULAR PUNT TO THE IND. 6!

Ohio 4th 18 Ind. 41, 5:23 left. WHAT DOES O DO?!

Ind. (5) 15 Ohio (4) 19, 7:28 5Q, Ohio driving

"Man City fans' inflatable banana craze sweeps defiant Etihad"😁👏👏

The stands were awash with yellow throughout Saturday's clash as the revival of a craze from the 1980s and '90s gathered momentum.

PA for ESPN

Personally, I missed that craze lol.

Today

Last week at Slaverpool

City Forever!

BC 27 Pitt 21, 8:08 left

Pigeons reeled off 21 straight to take a 21-12 lead. "Panthers" O has managed only two 2H FGs.

Ohio now 19-7 over Indiana in Indiana

Ohio has retaken the lead in Bloomington. IU (5) 7-13, 12:52 4Q

OMG FU HAS STORMED BACK AND LEADS TALARICO (7) 27-17! Only 6:22 left to play :o

Public Occurrences October 17, 2026

Trump waives new Russia sanctions in the "national interests"

President Trump waived new sanctions on Russia late Friday night, saying it was in the "national interests" to hold off on the sweeping levies under the Graham Act that he signed just last month.

Axios

He has always been all-in on Rus, Putin. There's a deal here coming.

Volo agrees:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa)

@ZelenskyyUa (https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa)

Sanctions relief will continue. I think the diesel deal and the move regarding the Lindsey Graham Act are not the end of it. Unfortunately.

Taking a suicide break

BC 3rd 6 Pitt 34...23-yard pass completion 1st down Pitt 11...TD BC 14-12, :55 2Q

BC has dominated T.o.P.

BC 1st down Pitt 38, 1:55 2Q

BC 9-yard pass, 2nd 1 Pitt 45, 2' 2Q. FTO Pigeons.

That is the third or fourth FTO of the 1H combined. Both coaches are eager to settle their guys down.

NOOOO!!!!! INTERCEPTION! BC INT'S DAILEY, 1ST DOWN BC 46, 2:37 2Q

Pitt out to own 45, 2:37 2Q

HE DID IT, NARDUZZI WENT FOR IT, 7-YARD RUN, 1ST DOWN. Great call. lol

LSU (22) 21 MSST 0, 6:03 2Q

Pitt 4th and 1 own 27, 4:49 2nd, Pitt FTO. DON'T DO IT, NARDUZZI!

Pitt 3rd and 10 own 18, 5:22 2Q. Pitt has had NINE penalties for 93 yards smh

BC takes FTO 5:22 Pitt 2nd 10 own 18

Ind (5) has taken lead on Ohio (4) 7-3, 12:08 2nd; Talarico 17 FU 3, 6:33 2nd

Oh thank God. Interception. Pitt ball. But another Pitt penalty. 1st down own 8, 5:55 2Q

I was just about to write the same thing!

Dominic Campbell

@DOMISMONEY

I've never seen a #Pitt team be this sloppy with penalties, especially defensively

Just ridiculous

1:05 PM · Oct 17, 2026

ANOTHER PENALTY PITT! 1ST AND GOAL AT 2!

4th and goal Pitt 10

Sack, 3rd and goal Pitt 10

2nd and goall at Pitt 4

BC 1st down Pitt 11

13-yard pass BC 1st down Pitt 25

PITT PENALTY HOLDING! BC 1st down "Panthers" 38. Pitt has lost their composure.

Another penalty. 2nd 21 Pitt 48

BC penalty 10 yards 2nd 16 Pitt 43

Pitt is rattled

ANOTHER PITT PENALTY! 15 YARDS PASS INTERFERENCE, BC DOWN TO PITT 37! FUCK. ME!

They did. BC 1st down own 48. A 15-yard FACEMASK PENALTY on 3rd down by my "Panthers". BAD WORDS!

BC 3rd 6 own 25 (predict they'll pick it up)

BC 1st down own 21

We punted to BC 35 but receiver fumbled back to BC 10. BC ball.

Dailey sacked 😂, 4th down

Pitt 3rd 15 own 23, end 1, BC 7 "Panthers" 12. Will it be Self-Schadenfreude Saturday for me?

Talarico leads FU 10-0; Elle Esse Ew is up on Cow Bell U 14-0

In short pants, City beat Inkwich 3-2 to stay perfect on the League season

And just like that, we have a game. Majestic Soaring Eagles 7 Pitt "Panthers" 12, 1:41 1Q

14-play 75-yard drive, 6' 12" clock and BC is right back in it. Deary me.

2nd and goal at Pitt 3

They went for it and got it! 🤦1st down Pitt 27.

It's only 0-12. Pitt started 7-0 vs UNCCH. It could have been very easily 0-21. If the blocked punt had been recovered at the 1: 0-14; if the drive hadn't stalled at the BC 10: 0-21. Now, BC's going to get points.

BC 4th 8 Pitt 40. What do they do? Too long for a FG, to short for a punt, if they go and miss Pitt good field position

Pigeons moving

Around Schadenfreude Saturday...

Ind. (5) 0 Ohio (4) 3, 11:45 1Q

Talarico (7) 7 FU 0, 7:17 1Q

Elle Esse Ew (22) 7 Cow Bell U (16) 0, 8:15 1st

0-12 Pitt, 7:58 1st

"Panthers" moved right down the field but stalled at the BC 10.

LOL PIGEONS! PUNT BLOCKED FOR A SAFETY! 0-9 "PANTHERS", 13:06 1Q

COREY DAILEY, TRUE FROSH, FIRST START, FIRST PLAY, FIRST PASS, 75-YARD TOUCHDOWN, 18" PITT 7-0

touchdown

It's Here: SCHADENFREUDE SATURDAY!

Just at noon:

Indiana (5) -2.5 Ohio (4)

Talarico (7) -12.5 FU

Elle Esse Ew (22) -17.5 Cow Bell U (16). Wow, 17.5 over a higher-ranked team. HUMONGOUS spread.

Pigeons "Panthers" -6. That's a drop from -6.5 and a drop from opening, -7.

At 12:30, the Schadenfreude GOTW, UMD -5.5 RUT.

Brotherly Love in Philly?

...Sixers coach Nick Nurse gave the closest glimpse of what his team may look like this season.

[Minus VJ Edgecombe, health precaution] The other active Sixers starters -- LeBron James, Tyrese Maxey, Jaylen Brown and Embiid -- all played preseason highs in minutes and well into the second half.
...
Still, the group never looked comfortable together on the floor, despite playing against Celtics reserves. After the game, players didn't shy away from their somewhat disjointed performance.

[Jaylen and LeBron both acknowledged the players were not jelling yet. Both were confident that they would eventually.]

...

"I'm against the concept of sacrificing. ...I don't think anybody has to take a back seat."

--Joel Embiid

Kris Rhim, Espo

And last night was four days after Kentavious Caldwell-Pope breathed his chemistry concern: "Our chemistry is gonna be the biggest part for us. Us liking each other, being able to be around each other and have fun on and off the court."

Everybody's right. This is a team of superstars put together opportunistically. This is the preseason. Of course, all of the superstar parts are not going to fit perfectly together as a unit. LeBron has been through this before (not without problems). Jaylen and Jayson Tatum had no non-basketball chemistry, and it didn't matter on the court. Everybody's right, except maybe Joel. Being part of a team means you have to sacrifice. Is there enough ball to go around? Another reality of the preseason is that this group's temperament has not yet been tested. The first losing streak in the regular season will do that. If there is to be a casualty, and I predict that there will be, it's not going to be a superstar, it will be head coach Nick Nurse.

"A war took place"; "people fled"; "harsh tactics"

"What I acknowledge is a war took place [in 1948] and during said war people fled because war does this and Israel used harsh tactics"

...

"The israelis don’t acknowledge that some harsh tactics were used to get Palestinians to leave during the war."

-Texts from "But I am Jewish"

He will not even "acknowledge" that Israel's War of Independence was Israel's war.😂. He can't even go that far! All that B.I.A.J. will "acknowledge" is that "a war took place." A war meteor hit the Middle East in 1948. An outbreak of war measles occurred. A series of unfortunate events came and boom! 10k-15k Palestinians are killed and 750,000 displaced--by Jewish Zionists...in the war that they started to establish their Zionist state!🤦‍♂️

"People fled"--all you saw in the Mid East in '48 was assholes and elbows (hmm, and 10k-15k bodies), 750,000 sets of Palestinian assholes and elbows...but B.I.A.J. doesn't say "Palestinians", he says "people". Palestinians fled, Zionists fled (in pursuit of the 'stinians), Christians must have fled, fucking Mormons, I don't know, it was chaos as people fled escaping the War Measles.

Nobody in particular caused this mass fleeing!, don't go blaming!, just "people fled because war does this".🤣 "Look Harris, maybe you don't know this because you're not Jewish, but when the War Measles starts everybody fucking runs. It's just what the War Measles do to the body, you fucking stupid, unclean Presbyterian."

So Israel's War of Independence just happened, nobody started it, I'm Jewish, you're not, I'm okay, you're an asshole, "people" fled "because that's what war does," maybe slightly more Palestinians than Jews because we Jews aren't real athletic and don't run too good but you ought to see those little brown Muslim Palestinians go hoo doggie.

Now we come to the BEEG concession B.I.A.J uses to reestablish his reasonableness and get him released from the mental hospital. Wait for it! DRUMROLL...

"Israel used harsh tactics."

"Some harsh tactics were used."

Sowy!😆

Okay, I will stop making fun of my friend--who may not be my friend any longer--I will use my reasonableness diagnostic test, turn his statements around. Let's say I say to B.I.A.J.,

"What I acknowledge is a war took place in 2023 and during said war people fled because war does this and Hamas used harsh tactics".

I continue (as the Antisemite Police move closer),

"Hamas doesn't acknowledge that some harsh tactics were used to get Israelis to leave the Nova Music Festival."

What if I said...EEK! Pardon me, pardon me, excuse me, I gotta run, I'm fleeing the Antisemite Police because they're chasing me and although I'm not Jewish I am 71 years old and don't run too fast.

-30-

Friday, October 16, 2026

https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases

question of being Jewish?

Golden Age?

Islamic Revolution?

just war?

Fill in the blank: "It’s Not a - - - - - -. It’s Misery, Starvation, and Death."

If you think I'm going to let a little thing like living in a shit hole country ruin Eleven's Friday night...

NEVAH!

Public Occurrences EXCLUSIVE

Sources tell Publocc that the Trump Rapid Response Team is already vetting six people to replace Katie Zacharia as White House Press Secretary.

"Some harsh tactics were used to get Palestinians to leave during the [1948] war."*--"But I'm Jewish" friend

*The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing[14] of Palestinian Arabs by Zionists through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations during the 1948 Palestine war.

Same "harsh tactics" to this day!

Israeli settlers torch cars and trees in West Bank villages, disrupting Palestinians’ olive harvest

ABU FALAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to cars and trees and beating residents and a foreign journalist, in the latest violence to disrupt the territory’s annual olive harvest this month.

Local officials and the Palestine Red Crescent Society reported attacks in at least eight villages in the northern West Bank...

...

As the group of masked vigilantes approached, several members beat Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was hospitalized for her injuries.

RAPID RESPONSE TEAM STAT!

As of 3:24 pm

K-Zach even had The Human Printer's SUPPORT :o

new twee times

SHE BROKE SCARAMUCCI'S RECORD!

K-Zach, the human air machine, is was fired as WH press sec. after five days and one appearance.😂

Whitehouse.gov, is this still good or no?

Trump: "If Ken Paxton loses...

"If Ken Paxton loses, it will be because of WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Political Hacks like John Cornyn and Karl Rove..."

He's already thinking beyond the loss to whom to blame for the loss. That's better than any poll to me!

Look, it's Friday, my favorite day, I'm going to force myself to see blue amidst black. And tomorrow is my favorite day in the fall, so there.

We should talk to them and try to understand them

The Picture

The Pictures within the Picture

Candidates to replace Katie Zacharia as press secretary

Little brown boy in a cage

Woke Autonepiophiliacs at Dallas convention

"Trump’s becoming an old, crazy man. He doesn’t care anymore.”

That's really it in two sentences.

Michael Johnson, Des Moines, Iowa, 2024 Trump voter who is voting Democratic this year.

Hap-pee FRIDAY!

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Public Occurrences October 15, 2026

Oil: Strait of Hormuz aka "Hormuz Strait" aka Strait of America

10-12M bbls of crude are flowing getting through the Strait under American escorts despite 26 ships being attacked so far just this month. The pre-war rate was 17-20M bbls. The price of Brent Crude, the international standard, is $105 today. The pre-war price in the last 12 months to date was ~$65, an increase of 62%.

Iran and its proxie Houthis have also been attacking the Red Sea (Saudi) oil route.

9:19 pm:

Three Children, 5, 8, 11, Adult Teacher, and 16-Year Old Shooter Killed at Oregon Elementary School

11:31 am:

Wholesale inflation jumped last month by most in four years as gas prices soared

This is a problem

"But I am Jewish and am gonna see certain things differently than you."

Solely because he is Jewish and I am not. We can look at the same thing, a car; he will see a Mercedes with Nazi flags flying from the front bumpers, I will see a Chevy hatchback.

He told me once that there is a Jewish joke in New York City. A 10-year old boy comes home after watching the "Yankees" play. "Dad! I saw Micky Mantle hit three home runs!" Dad: "And how is that good for Israel?'

It is single-minded and that mind is closed. The most important issue to the Jewish father in that joke, the only issue, and it could have been on any subject, is how does that, a positive, unrelated event, or it could have been negative, the touchstone of the joke is the only thing that matters is Israel.

"We cannot agree on anything on this topic."

I have to bold that: "We cannot agree on anything on this topic." Anything that I say goes into one ear and out the other with mediation. His mind is closed. We will never agree; we "cannot" agree; "on ANYTHING"; "on this topic".

"It's not something we are able to discuss."

Can't even "discuss."

So why did we? When the discussion is doomed to result in disagreement, when he knows from the outset that it is moot, because "I am Jewish" (and I am not), why begin? I'm 71 years old. He knows that. I loathe wasting the time I have left. He knows that. So, why doe he waste my time? And his? Say it at the outset, when those sensitive chords in the human art are touched. Just tell me at the outset when a topic causes these chords to vibrate in a hum that causes him an epileptic attack, "Harris, let's not both waste our time, I'm Jewish, you're not, end of discussion"?

Turn it around:

Him: "I like olives." Me: "That's because you're Jewish."

Him: "I don't like Mercedes." Me: "That's because you're Jewish."

Him: "I think Man City's guilty." Me: "That's because you're Jewish."

Him: "I'm a Democrat." Me: "That's because you're Jewish."

If I responded "That's because you're Jewish" to every topic of discussion that however tenuously and unintentionally touches on Israel or Jewish identity, he--and any Jew--would be insulted. I would be guilty of making an antisemitic presumption. "What, you just assume 'because I'm Jewish', that I 'am gonna see certain things differently than you'?! Harris, I thought I knew you better than that, you antisemite." Well, yes I do. Because those are your words, bunko.

That's a problem.

"I am Jewish and am gonna see things differently than you."

"You will never be Chinese."

"A communist today can be a capitalist tomorrow, but an Armenian can never be a Turk."

"I am Jewish" (and you're not). We cannot agree on anything on this topic."

The text discussion started pleasantly enough. My friend was in Spain (and I was not). The distinctive Moorish architecture was beautiful. He liked the country.

"You just like it because it was ruled by Muslims", I joked (after looking it up because I wasn't sure).

"Actually, I'm surprised that Muslims and Jews get along so well here," him.

"Did Jews and Muslims, and Christians for that matter, get along in pre-Mandate Palestine?" I asked insouciantly, not knowing that either.

"I think they pretty much did until the Arabs nakba'd the Jews."

"The 'stinians (my shorthand for Palestinians) kicked the Jews out? I thought it was the other way around, that half of the Arab population was displaced in the 'catastrophe' (had not committed "nakba" to memory).

"Let me do some reading because I'm not sure." Him.

"Okay, that's fair enough. Me too."

I then looked up "palestinian catastrophe". Read the first few paragraphs of the lengthy Wikipedia entry, copied and pasted and sent to him along with the Wikipedia page.

"I don't think Wikipedia can be 100% trusted on this." Him.

Which was true enough. Wikipedia cannot be 100% trusted. But it's a darn good starting point. I went back to the Wiki entry and checked if there was a warning or whatever, an advisory, sometimes they will put at the top something like "this entry needs verification or sources." There was none.

He then sent me his own quick and dirty research. From "Friends of Israel".

"You caution me not to rely on Wikipedia on this and your counter comes from Friends of Israel?" Me, irritated.

"A British general is a pretty good source, no?" Him.

Wikipedia's entry is supported by 230 footnotes, and a further "Bibliography" of hundreds (I didn't count) subcategorized into "Books", "Book chapters", "Articles", and "Further Reading".

"The truth is somewhere between the two sides". Him.

What "two sides"? I thought but didn't write. I cite Wikipedia, not "Friends of Palestine", he cites "Friends of Israel.

"Wikipedia brushes over the Arab expulsion of Palestinians", he replied, changing the subject from his initial, Arab expulsion of Jews.

I was taken aback by the turn that this convo had taken. My brain was frying with his Orwellian propaganda, my nerves were fraying, my ears were ringing. I was shaken. I couldn't reason with him, my friend of over thirty years, on this subject, on any subject touching however remotely on Israel. I could have read everything in Wiki's bibliography, it wouldn't have mattered.

"Enough for today". Me. I tried to end it. Too much unexpected on a relaxed afternoon that began pleasantly with him on vacation.

He continued sending me stuff.

"I'm not reading!" Me.

"But I am Jewish and am gonna see certain things differently than you. We cannot agree on anything on this topic. It's not something we are able to discuss."

"On an unrelated note trying to follow football on a scroll as you do...it sucks." Him.

-30-

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Didn’t Pass Bar Exam

Zacharia has previously referred to herself as lawyer in public appearances

Zacharia sat for the California bar exam after graduating from law school at Pepperdine University in 2011, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, but she didn’t pass. She took the exam around the time she was planning a wedding and preparing to move to China with her future husband, the person said.

Wally

So surprised. You can see the intelligence in her face.

It wasn't me

Homeless man accused of masturbating in front of children at Miami Beach park

WPLG

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Public Occurrences October 14, 2026

Texas Bull Elephant Charging on Tenuous Talarico

Tenuous Talarico

Texas Senate Race Tightening

6:53 pm:
TRUMP/MUSK RESTRICT STARLINK/STARSHIELD, BLIND UKRAINE IN RETALIATION FOR ATTACKS ON RUS DIESEL

"Starlink is a commercial service owned and controlled by SpaceX. Usage of Starlink is limited to civilian or defensive activities and cannot be used for offensive military action, as doing so would be inappropriate for a commercial company.

"Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS."

-Elon Musk

AXIOS

9:26 am:

Inflation worsened last month to 3.7% in sign that prices remain elevated as midterm elections near

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation accelerated last month as gas, clothes, and air fares got more expensive...

Trumponomics benefits the core demographic of nudist bicycle owners.

Last night, a blue wave of happiness washed over me...

Who was I kidding? Myself. The U.S. has not been the same since the Catastrophe.

I'll give a domestics relation analogy.

Immediately following a period of great tranquility and happiness a spouse suddenly leaves the other and their children. They're gone four years.

Four years later with a cheery "Honey, I'm home!" they They come back with profuse apologies and complete sincerity saying they don't know what got into them, saying they're changed now.

It's possible the jilted spouse and kids accept the apology and take them back, but anything's possible. I can't say I've heard of it after four years, but let's go with it.

There are going to be some problems in the reunification, right? That's just inevitable. That's just human. A lack of trust. Hard to overcome, it can be done, but it's hard. Resentment, especially by dependents. Wariness. Counseling, therapy, long talks, okay, let's say it comme ci, comme ça works out. "Daddy's home, oh daddy's home to stay."

That was Europe toward the U.S. 2021-2024. Relieved, glad, wary, but WELCOME BACK, UNCLE SAM! But wary. Hopeful, with doubts; relieved but realistic; accepting but suspicious; watchful. The Europeans had a word for Joe Biden's presidency, "interregnum".

And then after four years the motherfucker leaves the marital home and kids again.

What if they come back four years later again?

In my own analogoustically* imperfect way that was blue wave me last night. It's foolish but its human to squint hard and see blue peeking in the blackest cloud. It's human to distract oneself. What's the alternative? See prior post. And then you regain your rationality and it's still black outside. That's me too, tonight.

*"Analogoustically" is not a standard English word, but it is an invented adverb formed from analogous