Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observation.

The top three causes of death in the US (not including medical malpractice) are heart disease, cancer, and car accidents which make up roughly 67% of the deaths in America but you won't find any of those things widely covered in the NYT. In fact you'd find hardly any coverage of any of the major causes of death in the NYT. "All the news that's fit to print" my ass... Wait the ESPY's already took place? Why didn't anyone tell me? Oh yeah - because I couldn't care less... Reminder that London is the capital of the United Kingdom mainly because the Romans made it their capital of the province Britannia. The more you know… SAG-AFTRA joins the Hollywood screenwriters on strike. Once again nobody cares... Just as an aside - it is the summer months and college students are not in session. So just who was the Daily Northwestern printing their articles for? Whose attention was the Daily Northwestern trying to attract? Who's paying these "student" journalists to print articles while school is not in session? Seems like questions that should get answered... Strange entomology of the word “candidate” which means “whitened” in Latin. Strange how that’s never brought up these days… Amusing that Elon Musk is crucified by many for Tweeting daily on the platform he owns while at the same time remain silent about Mark Zuckerberg ignoring Threads for nearly a week just after the launch of the platform. Funny that... Many are commenting that Tucker Carlson ended many Presidential hopefuls on Friday but I rejoice that Tucker Carlson may have saved us hours of Presidential campaign commercial hours... Disembodied Phallus would be a good name for a band or a blog or Substack about genital mutilations… I was making jokes about how rich you could get short-selling Disney stock and this was before their disasterous new Snow White promotion... Reminder that North Korea developed nuclear weapons not to threaten South Korea and the West but as an insurance policy against aggression from China their traditional enemy. This helped insure they remained independent and did not become another Tibet... Reminder of how Julius Caesar and the Ancient Romans still play a role in our lives today - November and December literally mean eleventh and twelfth months in Latin. Great imagination those Romans…

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