He fits right in. Great trade for Cleveland! 🤗 "Jo Adell left 8 men on base tonight during the Cleveland Guardians game against the New York Mets.Adell went 0-for-5 with a walk and two strikeouts as the Guardians lost 6-5 in a 10-inning matchup."

“It is sung and written for the most part by cretinous goons… it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. It is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear." Frank Sinatra on Rock and Roll, 1957.

"Life after enlightenment is lived by maintaining the exact same outward routines while experiencing a radical inward shift in consciousness. A Zen proverb that summarizes this reality... "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." Sue Tzun.

"Applying an actuarial lens to life's variables at 87 is the ultimate form of practical logic. It strips away emotional noise and replaces vague probabilities with hard, data-driven realities." Señor Sid Izzen.

"Because raw, untreated waste still mixes with canal water in residential areas, it is highly illegal—and an immense health hazard—to swim, wade, or dip your feet into the canals of Venice, Italy." The Useless Information Almanac.

"As a teenager in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II, Audrey Hepburn survived the "Hunger Winter" of 1944. She nearly starved to death, subsisting on tulip bulbs and grass." The Useless Information Almanac.

"Big Pussy," Vincent Pastore has died at the age of 80.

"While a fart filled blimp would technically be lighter than the surrounding air and possess a small amount of positive buoyancy, the lift generated would only be about 3,112 pounds. This is far short of the nearly 20,000 pounds that a modern Goodyear blimp weighs when empty." Cliff Klaven.

My current earworm is, "Serenade In Blue. It's been locked in for a couple of days now. This one is odd because the more I listen to it the more beautiful this tune is. 😎

"While institutional abuse exists in specific facilities, international and domestic frameworks do not classify public political figures' speeches or policies as systematic psychological elder abuse." The Useless Information Almanac.

"In quantum mechanics, observing smaller particles requires light of shorter wavelengths. Because shorter wavelengths have higher frequencies, the light inherently carries more energy per photon, which violently disturbs the very particle you are trying to observe." River Styx Gazette.

"Max Roach to Albert Einstein.... "Timing is everything." Einstein replies to Roach..." Agreed!" 1952. River Styx Gazette.

"Will Trump's tarrifs and inflation make America heavier or lighter? Millions of low-income families are losing food stamps. The loss of nutritional food aid heavily favors an increase in obesity. Consumers will pass on healthy whole foods and buy ultra processed foods." River Styx Gazette.

"The combination of massive Medicaid cuts, tightening SNAP restrictions, and rural hospital insolvencies under federal spending laws has triggered a cascading failure across vulnerable regions like Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee." River Styx Gazette.

"On my birthday when I turned 103 I found myself in a tank in a Kroger's in Elkins, West Virginia. Life ain't fair!" 🦞

"Every day and every hour, every minute, walk around yourself and watch yourself." Fyodor Dostoevsky.

"lost by a score of 12 to 3." Incomplete News Service.

Louise Lasser, the deadpan comedic actress who began her screen career in Woody Allen movies and became a star as the wrenchingly sympathetic title character of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” Norman Lear’s off-center 1970s comedy, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87.

"The iconic “Kissing Elephants” rock archway, located on the southeast coast of the island of Comino, catastrophically collapsed, claiming the life of a 26-year-old Chinese tourist. It happened moments after a 32-year-old American tourist jumped from the top of the archway into the sea." Zog News.

Mel Brooks is 100 years old today! 🤓🤗😎👍💯

David Clayton-Thomas, the powerhouse lead singer of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, died on June 24, 2026, at the age of 84. He passed away peacefully at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

"If you could drive a car straight up into the sky at highway speed, you would reach the edge of outer space in under an hour." River Styx Gazette.

Legendary music executive and industry titan Clive Davis died on Monday, June 22, 2026, at his home in Manhattan at the age of 94. Clive Davis won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

"An estimated 26,000 pounds of human waste is accumulated on Mount Everest each year. Because the extreme altitude and freezing temperatures freeze the excrement solid, it does not decompose naturally, turning sections of the mountain into literal fecal time bombs." The Useless Information Almanac.

"As a special treat for our commander in chief, I asked one of his all-time favorites, Rosie O’Donnell, to be here to keep the hits coming,” Jimmy Kimmel said while announcing his vacation."

Ukraine target! "Saint Basil's Cathedral, situated right in Red Square, directly adjacent to the walls of the Kremlin.What look like colorful, swirling ice cream cones or candy-striped soft-serve scoops are actually a traditional architectural feature known as onion domes."

"The Dick Cavett Show featured surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, silent-screen star Lillian Gish, and baseball legend Satchel Paige on February 11, 1971. Dalí made a theatrical entrance with a live anteater on a leash, which he casually tossed onto a startled Lillian Gish's lap." Lou Stules.

"General relativity predicts that a collapsing star shrinks into a singularity—a point of zero volume and infinite density. Quantum mechanics forbids particles from being precisely localized to a single point due to the uncertainty principle, creating an immediate paradox." Cliff Klaven.

"Between approximately 50 million and 35 million years ago, portions of northern Zealandia rose 1 to 2 kilometres above sea level — high enough to support forests, lakes, and a substantial terrestrial ecosystem." Cliff Klaven.

"A plastic water bottle takes about 450 years to decompose, meaning every bottle produced since the 1970s is still essentially intact somewhere on Earth, slowly breaking down into particles now found in Arctic ice, Pyrenees rainfall, and the sediments of the Mariana Trench." River Styx Gazette.