All shook up

 Well, it was either than or "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."  It looks like the NY Post went with "Yankee Poster Free Inside!" above a story attacking Governor Hochul.  Some red faces there, I'll bet.

America woke to the news of a 4.2 magnitude earthquake shaking New York, although it was centered in Lebanon in western New Jersey.  (ESPN:  "Yankees feel earthquake, keep preparing for game."  I'm proud to be an American.)  There are no reports of injuries or fatalities, which means we're doing better than Taiwan (7.4), Saipan (6.8), Miyagi, Japan (6.1) and Magalia, California (4.4), all this week.  Ordinary tectonic activity?  Of course not.  Margie Greene got in ahead of the other experts with "God is sending America strong signs telling us to repent.  Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come." So we're warned.  Although in fairness, some people predicted the eclipse.  

Did God tell Margie that Trump would get his motions rejected by two judges in the same day, an achievement for any career criminal?   First Judge McAfee refused to accept his argument that gangster-talking the attorney general into committing fraud was First Amendment-protected speech.  Then his boutique Judge Cannon rejected his claim that he had the right to keep any document that fell into his hands and stash it in the bathroom, although she also rejected Jack Smith's request that she get off the pot and set a damn trial date before all of us die.  

Serious questions were asked about the storied Israeli intelligence agency Unit 8200 after the terrorist attack of October 7.  Today we learned the name of its director because Yossi Sariel left his identity exposed online, a rookie mistake.  Three years ago Sariel jumped on the AI revolution when he published The Human Machine Team, describing the AI-powered systems the IDF uses in Gaza.  It seems the electronic edition included an email address that all but gives a photo of Sariel.  They tell me this doesn't happen in the James Bond movies.  (Never made it all the way through one.)

Pretty, aren't they?  These are by-the-wind sailors (Velella velella) which are washing up on beaches in California.  The "blue tide" is more abundant than usual though harmless to humans.  Warming water temperatures may be the cause.  Or God could be telling us to...relax and enjoy the wonder of nature?  Doesn't sound like Margie Greene's God.

It didn't take long for President Javier Milei to bring Florida levels of public health chaos to Argentina.  The country is seeing an outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease which has already killed 129 people.  The most sought-after item in the country is mosquito repellant, selling for more than a day's wage in some places.  Health Minister Mario Russo had this helpful advice:  "Be careful with shorts."  Apparently deregulating the economy has not solved the problem, nor the staggering inflation.  Argentina used to see little dengue but warming winters allow adult mosquitoes to survive.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., didn't select Nicole Shanahan as his running mate because she has a billion dollars.  He selected her because her ideas about science are as preposterous as his.  Shanahan calls IVF "one of the biggest lies that's being told about women's health today."  Her solution for women who can't get pregnant:  "two hours of morning sunlight," presumably repeated as needed.  She prefers to spend her divorce settlement on "longevity research."  Does anyone want to live 150 years in a world full of these people?  As for Bob Junior, already legendary for denying most of the bonkers things he has said about vaccines and 5G technology, he put out a campaign email calling the January 6 perpetrators "activists...stripped of their Constitutional liberties" and retracted it the same day, a new record.

Karl Rove -- yes, that one -- had some free advice for the Biden campaign:  "Go hard" at the January 6 coup attempt.  The Biden campaign replied, "Thanks, Turd Blossom, we're sticking with reproductive rights, student loan forgiveness, infrastructure, the 303,000 jobs added in March, and Trump's promise to tear up the Constitution and rule like Mussolini, 'kay?"

As the stock price continues to plummet like it's 1929, Trump apparently spends most of his time on TRUTH SOCIAL promoting TRUTH SOCIAL and making it sound like a miracle weight-loss product that also cleans gutters.  People "want to hear what I have to say, perhaps, according to experts, more than anyone else in the world."  That will be news to Taylor Swift.  Then he graciously allowed Hugh Hewitt to fawn over him so he could 1. Advise Israel to hurry up and "get it over with" in Gaza to avoid more "bad publicity." 2. Call Biden a liar. ("This guy lies.  What he lies most about is his golf handicap.  Not only is he not a six, he's not a thirty-six.  Thirty-six is the worst handicap you can have to qualify.")  3. Praise some Navy frigates being built in Wisconsin.  ("They look like yachts with lots of weapons on them, lots of weapons.")  So he keeps up with the important stuff.

This is Justin Allen.   Justin is famous because he was undergoing a vasectomy in Horsham, Pennsylvania, when the earthquake struck this morning.  Justin would like everyone to know he's fine.  No word from anyone who was having a laser eye procedure.  It's a man's world.