The cold-hard-facts of the rabbit-hole . . .

Saturday, July 26, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . The heat-hammer continues to fall on TulseyTown. Forecasts include heat warnings with indices to 109º by mid afternoon. Walter, my go-to lawn tamer did his magic yesterday morning from 8 'til 10. He said he quits his gigs no later than noon these days. Wise man.

If a peregrin sees fifty times better than we, what do we look like to them?

– Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods, Copper Canyon Press. 2009

From the “cold, hard facts” file...

Gavin Newsom yesterday posted some stats Fox News would rather you not know:

52 million jobs have been created since the Cold War.

Democratic administrations created 50 million.

Republican administrations created 1.9 million.

Republican Presidents have one thing in common: recession.

In a stuffed maibox today...

The Nobel Prize laureate Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, was born today in 1856 Dublin,

The founder of analytic psychology Carl Jung, saw the light of day on this plane of existence in 1875 Kesswil, Switzerland.

It's the birthdate of Stanley Kubrick. The film director/producer/writer/cinematographer was born in 1928, Bronx, New York.

Helen Mirren celebrates her 90th birthday today. The Royal Shakespeare Company and multi-award laureat actress was born today in 1945, London, England.

Humorist Jean Shepherd was born in 1921 Chicago, Illinois.

And, the English author, Aldous Huxley, who gave us Brave New World, was born on this day in 1894 Godalming, Surrey, England.

Down a rabbit-hole:

Brave New World is often compared with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, since they each offer a view of a dystopian future. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. – Cultural critic Neil Postman, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Penguin, 2005.