Now that Israel has decapitated Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, Iran itself has decided to get into the act, firing off almost 200 missiles at Israel. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see this won’t end well for Iran, or anyone else. Is a proportional response too much to hope for?
Media spin is that Tim Walz lost his debate with JD Vance last night. On the other hand, it’s hard to find anybody other than America’s millions of professional and amateur pundits who actually watched it, and they all know who they’re voting for already. Political debates are basically game shows, with each questioner trying to put each contestant on the spot. It has nothing whatever to do with the skills needed for the jobs the candidates seek. It’s infotainment minus the info, and as you can tell by the way they vie to host them, viewed exactly that way by the networks.
Everybody’s on edge, even the brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. For more than a decade now remote cameras in the park have documented the ursine feeding frenzy that accompanies the annual salmon run. They call it Fat Bear Week, but this year they had to postpone it because of bear-on-bear violence, after a 20-minute fight between a young male and an older matriarch ended in her on-camera death. Give it a few years and this will be the format for presidential debates.
The floor’s yours.