Swimming in that Egyptian river . . .

Monday, September 1, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . So much for the reliability of the weatherfeather trying to predict for TulseyTown yesterday. Other forecasts say today to be mostly cloudy until the afternoon, again with light breezes, low 80's and a slight chance for rain, especially tonight.

Some people are still in denial and disbelief. “It’s not as bad as the press makes it out to be,” they say. I tell them that it is — even worse. That said, the better news is that the seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought: Why Trump is Doomed, online, 8.31.25

The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 9.1.25

Lessons from “1984.” Joyce Vance has been exploring the novel and Saturday on Civil Discourse posted an excellent video summary for us with guest Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele . Its rather long, about :40 minutes, but worth it.

World War Two –the “great” war – started today in 1939 as Hitler invaded Poland and Britain and France declared war in response.

September 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright 
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night. . .

– W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939.