Why we are so “down” on each other. . .

Tuesday, March 10, 2026. It's Tiw's day … Strong Southerlies bring another warm low 80's afternoon to TulseyTown today. Slight rain chances are indicated for the afternoon and evening.

Remember: love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. Choose to entertain no substitutes for love.

Clare Boothe Luce was born today in 1903 New York City. She was an American playwright, politician, and celebrity, noted for her satiric sense of humour and for her role in American politics.

Bix Beiderbecke was born in 1903, Davenport, Iowa.

Playwright and novelist David Rabe is 86 today. He was born in 1940 Dubuque, Iowa.

It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

In Need to Know, David Rothkopf called out the madness of the fact world trade and global security is being shattered by a single man. “Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man.”

Americans are way out front of other nations on the we-hate-our-compatriots scale. – Robert Reich, Why do we dislike each other?, on substack 3.10.26

The choice…regardless of where we fall on the left-right spectrum … isn't left/right but top/bottom. The real fight we face isn’t with each other but with those who lord over us by manipulating the political system to advance their ends at our expense. – Democratic Senate nominee from Texas James Talarico.

Sunday night, Stephen Colbert accepted the Walter Bernstein 2026 Writers Guild Award. He took CBS/Paramount to the woodshed, and let us in on 'the beautiful sound.'