Reading the news has convinced me that there are way, way too many people writing about the election, which most people don’t want to read about because Republicans make them want to vomit. So I’m ignoring all that crap, and you probably should, too.
If you want something to worry about, the looming strike by the longshoreman’s union could fuck up the economy in the weeks before the election. Also, you might have to do without bananas for a while.
You might have noticed that today’s Republicans aren’t much like those Chamber of Commerce types from your youth. At this point, the freak show is attracting more freaks, which doesn’t say anything good about the people who vote for them.
Experts are trying to figure out what Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah will mean for the future of the Middle East. They’re having trouble because Israel has no vision for an end-game, so nobody knows what it would take to get them to stop the slaughter.
California tried to come up with a law that would protect the public from what the industry calls Artificial Intelligence. The legislature passed one, which Gov. Gavin Newsom promptly vetoed because it would chill the industry, which could do with a good bit of chilling. I’m pretty sure that if we ranked the deadly sins by destructiveness, greed would win in a walk.
The floor’s yours.