Remembering the candy bombers

Berlin Airlift 75 years on: When 'enemies became friends'

The propeller planes, which were nicknamed "candy bombers" by Berlin residents, flew so low over the city when coming in to land that the crew and the residents could wave at each other. Some pilots threw down homemade parachutes containing chocolate and chewing gum for children.

Turkey burger*

Got tired of eating chicken.

Ground turkey from the grocery store…fried up a patty…made a sandwich with a little mayo and sourdough bread. Not bad at all.

*Homemaking tip. Caution advised.

"40-50% chance of above normal precipitation"

 Maybe it's just me, but this weather forecast from NWS Boston for the first week in July seems somewhat less than useful: 

A little less than maybe it'll rain more that it usually does.

Or maybe I should say, that's somethng that's 40-50% worth knowing. 

Mean fish

Killer Whales Are Not Our Friends

OK, they're not fish. They're mammals. Which maybe explains everything.

“The orcas are doing this on purpose,” Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, told LiveScience last month. “Of course, we don’t know the origin or the motivation…"

What they're doing is attacking — or maybe just "playing with" — boats off the coast of Portugal…and that's not all.

The whole story is here, at The Atlantic (it's paywalled) or here, at Apple News+.

(Or in the magazine. On, you know, paper.)

Time for a reminder…

…I've been hanging around on Twitter too much…a reminder that correlation does not equal causation.

 

On losing track of prepositions

 

NYPost 6/21

Good times as aircraft industy celebrates war

Paris air show takes off with historic plane order

Airbus (AIR.PA) announced a record 500-plane deal with Indian airline IndiGo (INGL.NS) on day one of the Paris Airshow on Monday, as strong demand for jets and air defences vied for attention with the industry's supply chain problems.

Somehow this just sounds Wisconsin

Wisconsin man reportedly makes friends with a fish, visiting his 'pal' every summer at a lake

The man and the fish now reportedly "see" each other each year when Colubra travels to the lake where Elvis the fish lives.

Bitter, the sweet

‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags

The resolution, which also prohibits the display of flags with ethnic, racist and political views, comes at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under assault worldwide, and other US cities have passed similar bans, with the vast majority driven by often white politically conservative Americans.

Utensils elsewhere

 

Good morning!

 It's the video.

“He got his nails in there and just ripped that window right open, and got inside and helped himself to my pork chops I had out for dinner that night, got some snacks out of the pantry and knocked over the plants — nothing too crazy,” MacFarlane said.

(And it happened during the day, so there's that. But imagine.)