The devil you say . . .

Wednesday, June 24, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . Rain and more rain remains in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown until Friday.

Today in 1947, American businessman Kenneth Arnold saw a number of objects “flying like saucers” while piloting a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington. It is considered the first modern sighting of UFOs and gave rise to the term flying saucer.

The novelist Anita Desai is 89 today. The MIT Professor of Humanities was born in 1937 Mussoorie, India.

Stephen Dunn was born today. The multi-laureate poet was born in 1939 Forest Hills, New York.

Poet John Ciardi was born in 1916 Little Italy in Boston’s North End.

It’s Ambrose Bierce’s birthdate. The author of The Devil’s Dictionary, he was born in 1842 Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio.

The First Amendment is under a very real and sustained assault. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 6.23.26

This morning, 101 former judges filed a complaint, asking the New York State Bar Attorney Grievance Commission to “initiate an investigation into Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

“...a sense of impending mortality seems to be making our president even more unhinged than ever.” – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American,

Wave ashore: the birth of Ondine. – Jeff Krasno, Dairies of a Dance Dad.