5.06.2023

The nerve of those Brits…

…doing their crowning thing on Kentucky Derby day. And the press is positively giddy about the whole affair. (But it remains to be seen who wore the funniest hats. That one they gave the King is a pip, but Louisville is still to be heard from.)

Somehow I got the idea we didn't do monarchy here in the provinces any more.  But who's to argue with the NYTimes?

5.04.2023

Everything eventually gets dumped in the New Jersey woods

Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods

Mounds of spaghetti and piles of other pastas, including ziti, were seemingly dumped by the stream near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, according to images posted by resident Nina Jochnowitz last Wednesday.…

“You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,” she told the Inquirer. “That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply … It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here.”

Think of the planet! 

5.02.2023

The good news is…

The Super Rich Have Found A New Way To Skip The TSA: Buying Private Train Cars


If more of these guys start riding the rails maybe somebody will do some work on the tracks.

5.01.2023

It's come to this

The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Best Dressed


No longer the fabled ink-stained wretches, they.

Curious?

Harris was "evocative"; Fetterman wore pants; and what's with Julia Fox anyway?

Pays to be JP

First Republic Bank Is Seized by Regulators and Sold to JPMorgan Chase


Eighty-four branches in eight states.

I do a little (an extremely little) business with JP Morgan and I always think of him as a craggy old guy in a tricorne hat, with a peg leg and a long brass spyglass tucked under his arm.

Maybe that image is dated. He's probably got himself a nice homburg by now.

4.30.2023

And they want a cookie for this?

FBI’s Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Data Down 95 Percent in 2022


Ninety-five percent is not enough, Warrantless searches of Americans' data should be down 100%.

Period.

There'll always be an England

‘Woolly delinquents’ celebrate Charles’ coronation in yarn

The Hurst Hookers are part of a phenomenon that has taken hold across Britain in recent years, with guerrilla knitters and crochet enthusiasts celebrating holidays and royal occasions by decorating the nation’s iconic red post boxes and other public spaces with their handiwork.