Did you get to see totality? Most of you didn’t, but our own Chris Deaton was back home in the Midwest and posted this beautiful shot, just post-totality, from Elkton, Ky. Chris reports that “The total eclipse looked like the end of days.” In Washington, it was sort of a bust unless you had a really nice telescope or camera. If you missed it, there’s one in 2024 and it goes straight through my home town in Northeast Ohio. (By the way, a note for the White House: Whoever thought this eclipse photo op was a good idea, well… It wasn’t.)
P.J. O’Rourke opens shop! Contributing editor and famed humorist P.J. O’Rourke has started his own magazine, American Consequences. It’s free (though heavily sponsored), and you should check out Andy Ferguson on how the robber barons became Robin Hoods.
The boys are back in town. And playing, repeatedly on a jukebox. At a metal bar. The patron (read: writer) who pulled this prank, was asked to leave. And as a result: “This bar I will never enter again had removed Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak from its jukebox.”
How Alan Simpson and Norm Mineta became friends. I hadn’t known this story about how the two met at a Boy Scout Jamboree at a Japanese internment camp in Wyoming. Such a beautiful story about two great Americans and their very different paths to Washington: “It wasn’t anything mystical,” Simpson said. “It was just two boys — just two curious, inquisitive kids — pesky, good-humored, full of fun, who met each other and who remembered — at least I remembered.”
San Jose backs off tiny house plan for the homeless. It’s not just NIMBY anymore, now it’s “not near creeks, schools, or parks.” The California town had hoped to build homeless encampments in 70 sq. ft. sleeping cabins, but the little bungalows popular with environmentalists and reality TV fans didn’t seem to be popular with voters.
The president’s most loyal money man. Forget the CEO advisory councils, Mr. President, you have hedge-fund manager Jacob Wohl on your side. Wohl tweeted: “President Trump alone has succeeded in bringing the Stock Market, Small Business Index and Consumer Comfort to ALL TIME HIGHS! #MAGA.” President Trump gave the young man a retweet. Wohl is 19, and has already managed to run into the buzzsaw that is the SEC. Read BusinessWeek to learn more about Mr. Wohl, a fame seeking lad seemingly molded in Trump’s own image. (Which reminds me: Go read this fantastic 17 year old story at the Times about teenage investor Jonathan Lebed.)
RIP Jerry Lewis. With the death of the well known and long-living comedian, people are wondering… will the world ever see The Day the Clown Cried?
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