2023/02/27: Smartest Person in the Room

It is about time to wrap up February! Anyone else feel like it has just dragged on? I need suggestions for how to decorate the March calendar. It has been a crazy weekend as far as weather goes. International news is concerning, IMO, when taken as a whole. So, let’s get started. Colorado sheriff honors

2023/02/21: Smartest Person In The Room

More news about the Ohio train derailment. The government is saying it’s fine, but the people of Ohio are unwilling to take their word for it. Putin is blaming “the west” for the war in Ukraine, and has pulled out of the last nuclear treaty with the US. China is retiring some of their jets,

History Today: American in Orbit (1962)

The Headline: Glenn Orbits Earth 3 Times Safely;Picked up in Capsule By Destroyer;President will Greet Him In Florida John Glenn was 40 years old when he made his historic orbit around the earth. 80,100 miles in 4 hours, and there was fear the capsule would disintegrate upon re-entry. He landed safely near Grand Turk, the

Today in History

It was maybe 8 years ago when I wandered into the Barnes and Noble, hoping to stock up my reference library, and found this book with a big red $5 sticker. I bought it for my own enjoyment, never dreaming one day I’d have people reading my own words on the news. I pulled this

2023/02/20: Smartest Person In the Room

There is so much news out of Florida today, it’s depressing. But, things have really quieted down the the Earthquake, train derailment and weather balloon front. But, I went looking for them for you. I also had to go searching for the covid numbers today, which seems to be happening more and more. I’ve already

2023/02/17: Smartest Person in the Room

Another week in the books. It’s been a busy week, between the weather balloons and the train derailments. A lot of news, and everybody has something new to add, so I just feel like I’m repeating myself a lot. Here are the links for this week. I really appreciate when you click through to the

2023/02/16: Smartest Person In The Room

This whole train derailment thing is bad. I know I keep reading it will be fine, everything is fine, and I’m just having a hard time buying it. I’ve added red exclamation points to the articles I think are the most important. If you only have so much time to read today, read those. Bad

2023/02/15: Smartest Person In the Room

Today there is SO MUCH news, I think at the end I had over 80 articles. But, first of all, I want to highlight these articles about Russians basically kidnapping Ukrainian children and keeping them in Russia. It’s hit the news big time today, but I’ve been telling you about it for MONTHS. I keep

2023/02/14: Smartest Person In the Room

Hey y’all, as you know, yesterday we had a minor dog emergency that stopped me from finishing up the news. So, I’m going to go ahead and post it today. This is for TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023. You get a headline if you want an overview. A line to sum up the article where I

Scandals of Santos, Week 6, 2023

This week’s scandals: George Santos accused of sexual harassment by congressional aide On Friday, the former aide, Derek Myers, published on Twitter a letter to the House ethics committee in which he claimed to have been put to work in Santos’s office as a volunteer, in violation of ethics rules, and to have been harassed.