Truer stories . . .

Friday, August 7, 2026, It's Frigg's day . . . The Summer pattern continues with 15-20% chance of a thunderstorm in the forecasts for Green Country. Moderate Southerlies, sun/clouds, 100's on the charts for TulseyTown.

Anthropologist and archeologist Louis Leakey was born on this day in 1903 Kabete, Kenya.

It’s Stan Freberg’s birthdate. The media executive and satirist was born in 1926 Pasadena, California.

Film writer/director Nicholas Ray was born on this day in 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin. He is remembered as the director of Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean.

And, Mata Hari was born today in 1876, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

Sixty-one years ago yesterday, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Heather Cox Richardson reflected on the moment in her Letters From An American.

The Democratic Party isn’t being taken over by Democratic Socialists. There’s no civil war between progressives and moderates. This isn’t about Israel or Netanyahu. We aren’t witnessing an ideological battle between the “left” and the “center.” We’re seeing America wake up. – Robert Reich The Real Meaning of El-Sayed's Victory.

For too long, America has treated the peaceful transfer of power as a laundering operation. The outgoing ruler departs. The incoming ruler blesses continuity. The nation congratulates itself for avoiding unpleasantness. Files close. Memoirs appear. Contractors move on. The architecture of abuse remains standing for the next occupant. Enough. A republic does not become vindictive when it subjects its former rulers to the same law that governs everyone else. It becomes a republic at last. No more American Caesars. – Ray Pearcy,

Make my body and life the soil that grows love stories. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 8.5.26

The story of Stan, Cavett, John and Yoko.