Decades of grapes . . .
It's Tiw's day . . . a mostly cloudy day in Green Country. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate to strong Southerlies bringing increasing thunderstorm chances by evening and tonight. Low 80's afternoon.
This evening in 1865 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the following day.
Tonight in 1912 the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its way from Southampton, England, to New York City. Of the 2,000 aboard, an estimated 1500 died.
Inflation is rising and likely to get a whole lot worse. The tip of Trump's ice-berg. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
Here’s a thought experiment: if your boss is a danger to himself and other people, who do you go to first? His family? His friends? The police? And what if your boss is the president of the United States? JD Vance should be asking himself these questions. – Miles Taylor, Tracking Trump's Mental Breakdown, Defiance, 4.13.26
Trump's God complex. – Robert Reich, It's Getting Worse, substack post. 1.13.26.
The Human Genome Project ended after 13 years of extensive research with the publication of results on this day in 2003. But that wasn't the end.
The international screen actor laureate Julie Christie is 85 today. born in 1940 or 1941 Assam, India.
The English actor, producer, and director, considered one of the greatest performers of his generation on stage and screen, particularly in his Shakespearean roles, John Gielgud was born on this date in 1904, London, England.
John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath was published on this day in 1939.
Ralph Ellison's debut novel, Invisible Man, was published in 1952. Ellison was born in Oklahoma.
And, it's Loretta Lynn's birthday. The country music singer and songwriter, in a career spanning six decades was born in 1932, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky.
April is Poetry Month … so …
Carbon Dating
He tried it once
as a last resort,
but most of the women
were a million years old.
– Billy Collins, “Carbon Dating,” from Musical Tables: Poems. Random House, 2022.