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24 hours in Marquette Township, four events: Yesterday: 95 degrees.  c. 3pm: toilet flushes silently with no pressure: water off for c. 45m due to a hitting of a water main at a nearby apartment site under construction. Today am: average daily kWh down from 38 on July 2025 electric bill to 22 in July 2026, 42% reduction, saving c. $68. Primary: reduced A/C with thermostat at 78. pm: smell smoke, see nothing burning in kitchen, open door to hallway to stronger smell, look out windows to smoky haze, search  Marquette smoke for story: c. 830 wildfires in Canada, others in Minnesota, thence across Superior to wide band across upper Upper Yooper Peninsula. First ever emergency alert blares from Samsung Android phone: air quality health warning.

H i, D.S. "Uncle Scott" Lahti here: you may know me from Gmail, Wik ipe dia , the TLS , the USPS, or perhaps  Blair ❤️s Michael ,  whose scripts I, in my capacity as Head Senser ( all six of 'em ) at USN (The Uncle Scott Network) approve for release into human populations. I can't tell you how many times that, while browsing the virtual aisles at Walmart.com for home delivery, I have been approached via text message by one awe-struck fan and fellow shopper after another, asking, " WWUSB ( What Would  Uncle Scott Buy ) in the way of [ insert food or gadget here ]?" Many's the ...

M onster best seller  whose messages kind of seem more than vaguely familiar to anyone acquainted, say, with Harry's "Blue Sky and White Cloud" , &c.

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

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...

  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...