As a professional librarian the idea of banning books is always off putting to me. But this story takes the cake, the biography of Jackie Robinson possibly being removed from the libraries at the service academies? l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%…

🚨NEW: Harvard University President Alan Garber has rejected the Trump Admin's demand to prohibit protests and cut DEI programs to receive funding: "[Harvard] will not negotiate over its independence or constitutional rights." RETWEET to thank Garber for standing up to Trump!

When will this lunacy end? washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

David Brooks always has something good to say: nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opi…

Happy Easter to one and all. He is Risen!

Musk has a 19 yr old working in his “reduce the government” group (from the NYT): “A 19-year-old employee of Mr. Musk’s government-slashing task force, Edward Coristine, who publicly calls himself “Big Balls,” is working in the State Department.”

Trump should be impeached just for this. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Well, as of today I'm no longer 68 😉

First it was a Surgeon General who isn't a medical doctor and now a Librarian of Congress who isn't a librarian.😠

Stan's son went off into the goofiness?

Another excellent essay by David Brooks: nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opi…

Has Trump bothered to make any statement about the wildly successful Ukrainian attack yesterday?

An excellent and clear article on the role of University research and how it benefits the government and American Citizens. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Trump’s tariffs are nothing but a wealth transfer from US importers, businesses, and ultimately consumers to the federal government. The governments who are the supposed “targets” of these tariffs pay nothing.

Oh no! I read Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys passed away today. 😟

And with curfews and various restrictions, the Giants travel to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers for a weekend series. It should be interesting as it always is.

Yes it does, and it's probably correct.

This needs to end: npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-…

Something for Trump to ponder from C. S. Lewis: “For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder

Sitting in a resturaunt where the power just completely failed is quite interesting 🙄