Beastly sanity . . .
Friday, May 29, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . A cloudy start to the day. There is a 50/50 chance for thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Winds are to be Southerly, moderate, but gusty in any stray storm. Upper 80’s are forecasted for TulseyTown and Green Country.
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. – Yasunari Kawabata
Now treating the nation’s capital as his property, Trump appears to be leaning on his past role as a real estate developer as a solution in Iran remains elusive, inflation in the U.S. climbs, and his popularity drops. – Heather Cox Richardson, in today's Letters From An American.
Trump and E. Jean Carroll. Trump’s vengeance is totally unhinged. – Robert Reich, 5.29.26
Is E. Jean Carroll being “investigated,” or not? – Joyce Vance, in today's Civil Discourse.
Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps — The Rite of Spring — premiered tonight in 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Rumor has it there was a riot. The rumor became a highly successful marketing meme.
President John F. Kennedy was born on this day in 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts.
The brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, was born in 1736, Studley, Virginia.
Today is also the birthdate of Bob Hope. The British-born American comedian was born in 1903 Eltham, near London, England. Inaddition to his famous comedic skills, he was also an actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years with achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54,
And G.K. Chesterton was born today in 1874, London, England. He was a sharp-witted English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories. He made his points with wit and paradox, and in such a large body of work, there is no shortage of quotable material. If you don't know him, you ought.
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist’s world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. – G.K. Chesterston, Orthodoxy, Ignatius Press. 1908.