Faust lives . . .

Friday, August 28, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . A hot week is in the Green Country forecasts in this 9 a.m. hour. 100's in the afternoons. The only respite might be found in that the humidity is likely a bit lower, making for indexes in the upper 90's. TulseyTown is forecasted to turn a bit cooler next week.

On this day in 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington. It was the occasion that featured Martin Luther King's now famous “I Have A Dream” speech.

Rita Dove is 76 today. The poet and writer who was the first African American to serve as U.S. poet laureate was born in 1952 Akron, Ohio.

Today is the birthday of the author of Faust and father of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in 1749 Frankfurt.

The American sociologist, C. Wright Mills was born on this day in 1916 Waco, Texas.

One of the greatest cinematographers of the American film industry, James Wong Howe, was born today in 1899 Canton, China.

And, among my faves, the Canadian novelist/essayist and playwright, Robertson Davies was born in 1913, Thamesville, Ontario, Canada.

If ever you needed a single reason to vote Democrat at the midterms, this would be it. – Robert Reich, You, or Someone You Love Could Be Next. Substack 8.28.26

Synchronicity abounds. Yesterday we spoke of creating a future. Miles Taylor offers a powerful blueprint: To prosecute Trump, Democrats should make Pete Buttigieg the next Speaker of the House. The Speaker can be an outsider who's not in Congress. – Miles Taylor, Defiance.