Good show @mlb.com. Who doesn’t like fireworks, Ray Charles, and kids on bikes that look the rusty trusty Schwinn I still ride? Nice you played CN Anthem—go Blue Jays—but Fox did not show it. What about the 22 internationally-born All Stars, over 30%? Enough with all the American patriotic crap.

Susan Collins may be a dimwit & dipshit, a dope & dupe, a certifiable doofus & colossal dummy, but her act lacks credibility: she enables murderers and votes for murderous budgets & policies. The blood of this immigrant, worker, husband, father, neighbor is on her hands. Vote her into oblivion.

“Everything right now is being built. Everything is being built all over the country.” —DJT The only things obviously being built right now are those things in DC which will be dismantled (fairs, race tracks) or will need to be demolished (arches, ballrooms). How about the feds rehab some houses?

As a kid I read Fletcher Knebel & Allen Drury novels. Trump is out of Knebel’s Night of Camp David. Generously, maddeningly, Lindsey Graham is out of Advise & Consent (1959), Shade of Difference ‘62, Capable of Honor ‘66, Preserve & Protect ‘68, Come Nineveh, Come Tyre ‘73, Promise of Joy ‘75.

McConnell & Trump outlive Lindsey Graham! Confirmed first on BBC & now CNN. “A life and decades of public service.” Who did he serve? What did he stand for? 1) Lindsey Graham. 2) DJT. 3) Unlimited military budget. 4) Abandoned his own few principles. 5) Iran War. His dad, btw, died of heart attack

Guskiewicz is a clown and MSU is a clown show. Tom Izzo runs the athletic department and the athletic department runs a university with abundant resources but mediocre results. There is a reason Larry Nassar happened at MSU. Doxxing trustees? I hope Izzo is proud:

“America’s Global Standing Now So Poor That Entire World Celebrates Their loss to History’s Most Barbaric Colonisers”

“The analytics firm’s assessment was calculated this week after Mr. Trump signed an annual financial disclosure showing that he walked away with a $636 million payout on the same crypto bet, part of a haul of at least $2.2 billion from all of his business ventures in 2025..”

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Never mind the corruption, the rapes, the protection of pedophiles; the murder of Iranian schoolchildren, Venezuelan fishermen, and those supported by USAID; never mind the attacks on allies and abrogation of international treaties, this rank ignorance alone ought to be an impeachable offense.

Brave DR Congo led the whole way and then lost. This football with the feet is a cruel sport. Inspired unknowns taking it to and then holding off some of the greatest footballers in the world, only to run out of steam, not have the subs that England has. Kane’s second goal a cracking good one.

What part of “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” does JD Vance not understand? Apparently all of it. There is somewhere between 135 years and two centuries of Catholic Social Teaching which Vance has missed. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

How many weeks paid vacation, what type of raise would you need, and who would it take to attract you to DC right now? I spent a 4th in ‘81 in the mud and the beer, no blood, plenty of rain, heat, and humidity to see the Beach Boys. What has Trump done for anyone? People voting with their feet.

The faces of corruption.

And CPS and Traverse City PD considered this credible? 1) Anonymous caller; 2) receives hearsay from 3) a person who claims to have met Mayor Pete at a place in Alabama he’s never visited; 4) and Pete confessed to having committed “unspeakable violent crimes” to a complete rando? C’mon, CPS and PD.

Fauci ought to sue both Navarro and Fox News; both are a pox on the nation.

The “evidence” used to convict the “conspirators” in the Prairieland case is really something: inter alia, packets of seed for garden vegetables, No Nazi Swastika stickers, and a cache of non-alarming activist literature all more than protected by the first amendment.

Messi was the GOAT long before he won a World Cup, retired to the MLS, became the WC leading goal scorer (a record he may relinquish before the ends of this WC). People who never watched Messi’s club play at Barcelona cannot judge. Messi has eight (8) Ballon d’Or wins. Mbappe not yet one.

Who loves a press which is not afraid of appendices and tables?! Latest volume, no 146, in our “Medieval Mediterranean” Series: George Terezakis, Thessaly in the Later Middle Ages: Social Composition and Spatial Distribution of Population (Leiden: Brill, 2026), 773 pp. #medieval #medievalsky

Who needs four goals? Leo Messi, age 38, 39 in 8 days, playing in his 6th World Cup, for the defending World Cup champions, no doubt past his prime, scores a hat trick and gets subbed off in minute 80. But for 1 offsides and 1 great save, he’d have five! And best of Messi was some of his passes.

The low-life Trump grift and rebranding of our nation—Trump Org., btw, never built a damn thing, his real estate business was a rebranding business—just never ever lets up. This just now:

I personally am not, but USMNT is competitive because it is multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, with immigrant players, many African Americans, many players who have honed their craft in Europe. It is the best of the U.S. This is the hero of the night and the face of the U.S. team

Career in investigative journalism? Who knew? He needs to be updating his Wikipedia profile. Are people like Weiss and Bilton that ignorant or that arrogant? The double combo is quite amazing.

No.

The world was so shocked by her death that its anniversary has always overshadowed her birth. I did not even know her date of birth; I think celebrating her birth is the better option.

We live in alarming times; this is the most alarming thing I’ve read in months. I’ve not received fed money in 15 years but anyone working at a university or a company which does, or living in a nearby thriving community, this means, then, pretty much everyone, has a vested interest in stopping this

The Coolidge coin was a scam as it was worth 50 cents but sold for a dollar to help fund the 150th celebrations in Philly. And it was a bust long before the market crashed six months after Silent Cal left office. Of the one million which were minted, 850K plus were returned to the mint and melted.

St. Benedict and St. Bernard were full of things to say about humility. Cistercian Publications was once a press housed at my university but is now an imprint within Liturgical Press. They have a great back catalog. Last book recommendation:

I probably got this from Jean Leclercq OSB’s Love of Learning and the Desire for God. I’ve included a couple of other highly recommended books.