The Catcher is in the rye . . .

Tuesday, June 16, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . .Moderate Southerlies return to Green Country today. Forecasts call for mostly sunny skies, low 90's in TulseyTown's afternoon. It's Primary Election day in Okieland. In addition to office holder candidates there is one state question on the ballot: establishing a new wage-per-hour and its future adjustments.

Today is Bloomsday, and James Joyce fans all over the world are celebrating. It commemorates the day on which the events of his novel Ulysses take place.

Entering our fifth year together. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

An honerable way to really honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. – Heather Cox Richardson. Week-3-in-250-to-250.

Tonal incoherence: The White House UFC fights showed us the America we needed to see. – Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6.15.26

Trump's “agreement” with Iran. This doesn’t look like a victory. Compared to where the United States and the Middle East were on February 28, when Trump began this war, it’s a terrible failure. – Robert Reich, The Non-victory. substack 6.15.26.

Today in 1945 the United States tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

NOAA: El Niño is here, and will intensify.

Today is the birthdate of Roald Amundsen. Born in 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norway, he was one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration.

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, was published on this day in 1951.

Today is the birthdate of Ginger Rogers. The stage and film dancer and actress was born in 1911 Independence, Missouri.

And its the 88th birthday of Joyce Carol Oates. The prolific writer was born today in 1938 Lockport, New York. In her career thus far she continues to be a novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor and editor.