19. Depends on what they were brandishing menacingly.

He's building his triplex, gold-plated apartment at 1600B Pennsylvania Avenue.

Until it's bulldozed by some clearer thinkers.

Private contractors going to be building this, or Corps of Engineers?

[question mark misplaced. I'm off duty]

Why didn't Thompson jump up and say, "Fight, fight, fight?"

FTA: Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges stemming from the Dec. 4, 2024, fatal shooting of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel. If convicted, he could face life in prison.

I might be a Luddite in a lot of respects, but I just have no application for vast swathes of tech.

Privacy isn't the issue. I presume my life is an open book. I presume that between the government and whoever else has cameras (Do you have a doorbell Ring device?) could track me right now through existing facial technology, going back months if they wanted to, and I live in comparatively small-town America.

If I gunned down a healthcare CEO, that is.

Put cameras on everyone's faces? Not on mine. That's a personal choice. Lotsa things I don't need to experience in real time, or at all.

Baywatch. Oh my god.

The Dodgers and the Giants left New York in 1958. People got over it.

"Suddenly the show was at risk of becoming the wrong kind of symbol."

Yeah, when The Hoff showed up.

Lewzer can't even find plausible lie composers.

I've posted it recently, but if you've not yet enjoyed: Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddam."

2. G7 leader cage fights. Right along with the World Cup.

Was someone going to get in the cage and beat on Qusay?

That's entertainment.

6. Kickbacks from reconstruction expenses paid to US contractors that Iran can bleed from us?

How many Americans got wealthy building hugely in Iraq after the conflict ended, and not to US benefit?

Doesn't the paragraph following the headline usually relate to the headline?

Low energy.