Deep into my ninth decade, I still have a sense of wonder. Today’s post is about some of the recent wonders I have come across.
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Watching the World Cup, I have discovered that there appears to be a new geographical location on the East Coast: “NewYork/New Jersey.”
Of course it has the same reality as the politicians’ favorite sop to the Hebrews: “Judeo-Christian tradition.”(1)
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Did you know that your buying and selling stocks can be “finger-licking good”? (With apology to KFC)
Well, what would you expect from a website named “tastytrade.com"?
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I have learned recently that there’s such a thing as “distressed cashmere.” Any fabric psychiatrists in the house?
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I wonder if all the cranks who are against DEI realize that in Latin “dei” means “of god”?
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Tommy Tuberville (Republican Senator, Alabama): If we don’t do something with the filibuster and we don’t get things passed, it’ll be the last time we’ll have a Republican president or Republican Senate or a House. That’s how fast this country’s going down to communism.(2)
I’m still wondering where the Republicans find all those communists.(3)
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Michael Gove, a Conservative politician in the UK (he’s been made a baron, of all things!), was in the forefront of the push ten years ago for the disastrous Brexit.
He argued Britain would be "freer, fairer and better off" for leaving, and that "[t]he day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.”(4) (Notice the mixed metaphor. Also consider that Trump claimed to "hold all the cards" in his Iran debacle.)
An even better line to wonder at is Gove's 2004 statement in The Spectator that “Rudi Giuliani is a conservative, and a hero to conservatives like me.(5)
While we’re wondering at conservative heroes, here’s J.D. Vance: “Young senator, vice president, writes some bestselling books, is hated by the media” . . . “It kind of sounds like JD Vance. I’ve always liked Richard Nixon.”(6)
Ah, there’s nothing like the disgraceful gushing over the disgraced.
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On the food front there’s always something to wonder at. Here’s the haute cuisine at the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC: “The Original Liberty Sandwich” (peanut butter and marshmallow creme for $13).(7)
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I turned my back and, by some sort of wonder, my cleaners has morphed into something else:
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And to end this litany of wonders, here is something that is not a wonder—something that we all knew:
The Trump regime has granted permission to White South Africans to immigrate to the United States. At the same time the regime will stop funding for an H.I.V. program in South Africa, which has “the highest H.I.V. prevalence globally, with approximately eight million people living with the virus, according to World Health Organization data."(8)
In other words, if you’re White you live; if you’re Black you die.
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(1) https://drnormalvision.blogspot.com/2021/05/no-cohens-on-mayflower.html
(2) https://newrepublic.com/article/212326/transcript-trump-blurts-plot-rig-midterms-vile-jolts-gop
(3) https://drnormalvision.blogspot.com/2021/06/reds-under-beds.html
(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove
(6) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/j-d-vance-identifies-with-nixon-which-says-a-lot.html
(8) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/world/africa/southafrica-aids-pepfar.html
