What else should you worry about?

 Do you suffer from shedding?  Like chemtrails and woke, it's hard to define.  If you're feeling a little bit Monday morning, a little under the tea cozy, if your testicles are losing their tan, it could be shedding.  Someone who got the covid vaccine or the dreaded boosters has been close enough to shed their spike proteins where you could pick them up.  Don't despair, Kash Patel has you covered.  For only $90 or three shares of Trump Media and Technology (this morning) you can get yourself free.  Warrior Essentials sells a three-dose detox to promote autophagy, increase endogenous polyamine production and inhibit autophagic dysregulation.  Probably won't kill you unless you're seriously allergic to dandelion extract.  Patel was chief of staff to Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, so he knows about these things.

It looks delicious.

Erika de Souza Vieira is under arrest and charged with fraud in Brazil.  She wheeled her uncle into a bank and tried to get him to co-sign her loan of about $3,250 even though he was dead.  An amusing human-interest story, right?  You know some Republican in the House is already writing a bill to make it illegal for dead people to vote.

Apparently we have ten years to save the west.  That's the title of Liz Truss's memoir of her seven weeks as prime minister of the UK.  From the first there were doubts about her staying power which proved accurate, though the lettuce was never checked for preservative agents.

Her sledgehammer approach to regulation, environmental concerns and taxing the rich displeased even the Tories, and her low-wattage Thatcherism ended after forty-nine days.  And now the score-settling book, published by (I swear) Biteback.  It makes you wonder if the west is worth "saving."

Last month The Zone of Interest, based on the novel by Martin Amis, won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.  It tells the story of Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Hoess and his family, who led a weirdly normal life just outside the hellish camp.  The director Jonathan Glazer upset a lot of people when he said, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.  Whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack in Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?"  This led to an open letter from prominent Hollywood figures demanding to know how Glazer could equate the Holocaust with "an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination."  California is still on edge, so it's sad but unsurprising that the University of Southern California chose to announce and then un-announce that Asna Tabassum will be class valedictorian next month.  She holds unpopular opinions about the present war, like Glazer and his colleagues.  Safety concerns were cited -- apparently USC can't afford as much security as the Oscars.  Tabassum majored in biomedical engineering and minored in resistance to genocide.  She will have an interesting career.

Thanks to Meidas Touch we know why Trump Media has steadily declined since it went public:  DEI.  Under "Corporate Governance Guidelines" it commits to "creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion."  That's for Wall Street.  In public Trump says, "We will terminate every diversity, equity and inclusion program across the entire federal government."  Before that happens, Trump Media will have gone the way of DeLorean Motors.

For those who still say climate change is a Chinese hoax, here's a picture of the hoax flooding Dubai International Airport.

"Cloud seeding" is blamed.  Yeah, right.

When Bill Clinton was being shat on hourly over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton got limited sympathy.  Most Hillary-haters blamed her for either being a frigid old bag or for refusing to abandon her no-good cheating husband.  (It's always the woman's fault.  In Slick Willie's case, two women.)  According to the New York Times, Melania Trump calls the election interference trial "a disgrace" (the usual anonymous source) but has yet to attend a minute of it.  She'll be thrilled, however, to read elsewhere in the Newspaper of Record that in Stephen Miller's unbiased opinion the Trumps are "the most stylish president and first lady in our lifetimes."  Miller was born in 1985, too late to remember the Reagans, much less the Kennedys.  This is his idea of a "style icon":

I really hope the Smithsonian has requested this one:

One style Trump has set is gratuitously comparing oneself to Abraham Lincoln.  He has asserted many times that he is the most attacked and undervalued president of all time, including Lincoln.  Now the habit is filtering down to other practitioners of self-pity.  Mike Johnson has decided he is a "wartime speaker," addressing challenges reminiscent of the Civil War.  As calls for his removal echo from one Putin-enabler to another, he insists he won't resign and anticipates his gavel turning into a serpent any time.  When you already see yourself as Moses, Schuyler Colfax represents something of a demotion.

I'm reserving my ticket for the remake of The Naked Gun.  Because when I think slapstick farce, I think Liam Neeson.