Events

Lovely day in Chicago today;

Parker would have turned 20 today. Awww.

For reasons known only to my limbic system, I woke up way too early this morning, about 45 minutes before sunrise. I'm actually glad I did, because this was gorgeous:

The OAFPOTUS claims to have agreed a deal with Iran but, of course, neither side will reveal what the deal contains. One thing is known, at least: it's not going to be as good for the US as Obama's 2015 JCPOA, which the OAFPOTUS hated because a black man Obama did it. Other thoughts:

New Republic staff writer and author Monica Potts moved from Arkansas to Upstate New York three years ago. It didn't take her long to learn how a functioning, adequately-funded government is so much better than the alternative:

(Do we still call them mixtapes?)

For the next 10 months or so, I'm squeezed into 60 m² (646 sq.ft.) with about one third of my belongings. (Somehow all of Cassie's toys fit, though.) I have to say, though, this view is quite the salve:

[01] Steely Dan, Katy Lied (1975), "Black Friday" [02] Antigone Rising, True Joy (2021), "True Joy" [03] Portugal. The Man, Woodstock (2017), "Live In the Moment" [04] Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear (2014), "Chandelier" [05] Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart (2010), "Not Alone" [06] Tori Amos, Unrepentant Geraldines (2014), "Trouble's Lament" [07] The Civil Wars, The Civil Wars (2013), "The One that Got Away" [08] Red Molly, The Red Album (2014), "Clinch River Blues" [09] Sting, Dream of the Blue...

Today's SpaceX IPO has temporarily made the "human Ponzi scheme" (aka the Clown Prince of X, aka Elon Musk) the first trillionaire. In itself this is a sign that the arc of the moral universe is completely bent, and yet somehow the fraud and grift goes so much deeper.