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This Week's Episode of 'Jet Blasts in the News': A Rainy, Runny Night in Georgia (and Seventeen Other States)

E mail, July 3, 2026: At #2 , as it were, among the Trending Searches at th' Goog.

In The Times Literary Supplement for June 26: D.S. Lahti on James Bryce; Molly Ringwald on 'Last Tango in Paris'; Sappho on Lesbos, Homer on Marge and Marge on Odysseus, Genesis on Adam, Jethro Catullus on AQVALVNG, Sitting on A Park Bench, &c.

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Have a Baby, My Cigar Just Had a Wife In its issue for June 26, 2026, The Times Literary Supplement (London and, once a year or so, q.v., Marquette), leads its Letters page  with the thirteenth installment of " DSL. in the TLS" (1998- ; paywall-free this time 'cos, as the kids at YouTube say, "First!" ),   a series as irregular as its author and that of this email, as the cast of characters in my, I mean his,  archive therein  might indicate: Robert Alter, John Birch, John Cleese, Robert Crumb, Donald Duck, Umberto Eco, George Eliot, Encounter magazine, G-d, The Brothers Grimm, Henry Hazlitt, Eric Hobsbawm,  Eric Idle, Janis Joplin, Stanley Kubrick, John Lukacs, marmalade,  Paul McCartney, H.L. Mencken, Ludwig von Mises, Eadweard Muybridge, the nanny state, Robert Nisbet,  Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Salman Rushdie, Friedrich Schiller, George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa - and J...

A Very Special 'In Depends' Day Episode of 'Blair ❤️s Michael' (A Little Fourth Play): 'To Camp, by Gamp, or, Darling Dearest Wants YOU! 🫵, General Sweetie, for First Baby!

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  Now With Celebrity Cameos  - and Links! And featuring Henry Harris as The Dog A s a grateful nation prepares to breathe a great, full sigh of nat i onal relief after having managed, with the aid of a Constitution,  5,042 nuclear warheads and the television remote (look under the cushion) , to survive two hundred fifty years of red battlefields , White Ch ri stmas Sales and the Black -and-Blue Fridays that precede them, we join those adorable punning newlyborns Sweetie (Blair, one-named like celebrity guest Cher, below) and Darling Dearest (Michael Harris, new brand spokesman for Goodpop) as after several days strapped in the back seat of the Harris Family successor to the wood-paneled station wagons commandeered b...

In Gold We the People Are Thrust, or, A More Perfect Union Buster, or, 'There's No Want to Fear - Overman Is Here!', or, Gold in Congressman after Yale Law

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"Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor" is the concluding, defining vow of the United States Declaration of Independence. - Google AI Or, in the case not of the 56 Founding Fathers, Declaration Division, but of our current 100 Abolishing Mother[*]s, "Our Death, Our Dishonor - and Our Sacred Fortunes."  Google AI: "The median net worth of a sitting U.S. senator is nearly $4.4 million, and the average net worth is estimated between $2.9 million and $13 million, depending on how data outliers are calculated. Because federal law allows lawmakers to report assets in broad value ranges, exact figures are impossible to determine, but the upper chamber is heavily composed of millionaires. To compare, at least 73 of the 100 senators are estimated to be millionaires—more than 70 times the rate of the general U.S. population.  Breakdown of Wealth:  ...

'The saddest memory of his life'

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 9:43 PM Scott Lahti wrote: The local PBS station tucked this four-minute animated documentary as an interstitial after an exercise show: "Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah. Joshua's unique questions and Sarah's loving, unguarded answers reveal a beautiful relationship that reminds us of the best—and the most challenging—parts of being a parent." The creators, The Rauch Brothers, have a series of similar videos at YouTube . Source: PBS  July 10, 2026: Another StoryCorps animation by The Rauch Brothers   ...

Dustin Hoffman on opportunities we tragically miss ...

...  due to inherited social prejudices  - and why he had to make Tootsie : a classic. 3m 10s