Very well presented.

Of course nobody will buy your home right now. Relax, you like your neighbors. Not the right time. The Stagnant Housing Market Is About to Face a 7% Mortgage The housing market is approaching the highest mortgage rate since January 2025, likely spooking home buyers and home builders even more By Nicholas G. Miller, WSJ Sept. 15, 2026 5:30 am ET U.S. mortgage rates are closing in on 7% for the first time since January 2025, threatening to further discourage prospective home

Ever heard of Gracie Kramer, the gymnast who's complaining about Sweeney? That's her next door on her TikTok channel (where she also poses in a host of bikinis, leotards and other trending fashion). Of course she's pissed because Sweeney can sell products than she can't. Sweeney is a fricking market juggernaut! And while I applaud Sweeney's physique I've decided to fight for women's rights by boycotting this sports betting site. I'm a social justice warrior. And don't wa

Authored by Ukraine's press secretary from 2019-2021. Zelensky’s strategy is national suicide By Iuliia Mendel, The Spectator Tuesday, September 15, 2026 For Americans who follow the Russian-Ukrainian war, the past few months must look very strange. In the first half of summer, the story from Kyiv – and the many western media outlets that repeated it – was that Ukraine was winning. Then, not long after the NATO summit in July, Kyiv announced it lacked the interceptors to prev

Yes, but they don't play travel soccer. Nor do they trend on Instagram. Chinese Students Are Lapping U.S. Children The latest global education comparisons show the real competitive threat. By The Editorial Board, WSJ Sept. 14, 2026 6:01 pm ET Politicians of both parties fret that the U.S. is losing ground to China, though their remedy is usually more industrial policy. A report last week from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) laid bare in dispiriting det

He's guilty of being a fine young man. Let's not rush to judgement simply because he's not Jewish. I assume he's not Jewish. Hmm. Perhaps I was hasty in suggesting that? Georgia mayor, 23, ousted 10 months after making history as state’s youngest administrator By Bonny Chu, Fox News Published Sep. 15, 2026, 2:59 a.m. ET Georgia’s youngest elected mayor was removed from office just 10 months after taking the job following allegations that he misused city funds and exchanged

Should we bomb the Houthis off the face of the Earth? That seems a little extreme. Let Israel bury them. And forge stronger ties with Saudi Arabia? Hey, I should be a diplomat? Unlikely power players Vivian, give me the 101 version: Who are the Houthis? By Katrin Bennhold, NY Times Sept 15, 2026 In the early 2000s, they were this ragtag militia in northern Yemen — rebels with guns who were fighting the central government. But over the past decade or so, they’ve become thes

Spot on!

I recently became the President of the local Tabloid Owners Union. Either you apprentice for 10 years and pay my exhorbitant yearly dues or you don't publish. Capiche? BTW, It's important to have a good lawyer. Nearly Half of Americans Want Unions to Gain Influence Line chart: Americans' preference for influence of unions, 1999-2026. The Data: Forty-seven percent of Americans would like labor unions in the U.S. to have more influence than they do today, a record high and ro

Listen, I've done a bunch of things to make the Report the leading Tabloid in the SE sector of Arlington Heights. Did I transgress the law at times? Perhaps. But here you are reading this dribble. I'd say it was worth it. Nobody's above the law...except the your's truly. At least I have some dignity. I'm not an elected official. Oh, wait a minute. I'm the President of our Condo Association in Steamboat? Ooops. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widesprea

In 2007 Al Gore won his Nobel Prize for predicting the Climate Apocalypse. Then Obama fired up the Dems program to go "Green". Remember the Green New Deal championed by Kamala and her buddies. Meanwhile China was calling on all nations to follow their lead on Green technology. AI is the same story repeating itself? I had Claude generate a graph of CO2 emissions below. Yep, China is leading the way...in polluting the earth. The Great AI Slowdown? Nothing is now stopping Anth

This is becoming more typical of mainstream media. The WSJ has a major story on Malls coming back but they don't really explain why or put the data in context. I had Claude take a look at this. Claude arguably did a better job. Gen Z is the biggest driver. WSJ reported that consumers aged 18 to 24 purchased 62% of their merchandise in stores last year — 10 percentage points more than shoppers 25 and older, citing data from Circana. The theory is generational: this cohort sp

If I must go, I'd rather do it myself than have Xi do it to me. Err...wait. That didn't sound right? I smell a dirty Dem rat here! It's fricken Bernie. I knew it. Trump dismisses warnings that AI could wipe out humanity, saying China is the real AI risk The president said the U.S. is leading China in AI by roughly a year, while researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI have warned of catastrophic risk By Cris Tolomia, Quartz Updated September 11, 2026 Trump dismisses warnings th

In inflation adjusted terms, taking into account the curvature of the Earth, The Report is 1.115% more expensive than at this time in 2017. Consumer prices are up 30% since 2019. Here's what got more expensive From steak to rent to car insurance, years of inflation have left nearly every spending category more expensive than before the pandemic By Cris Tolomia, Quartz Media Updated September 11, 2026 Consumer prices are up 30% since 2019. Here's what got more expensive Consum

Welcome to Dr Spritzler's Science YouTube Channel. What James May is getting at, in addition to some cool physics is the fact that trains and tankers are by far the most efficient way to move things or transport cargo (as Claude describes below). Here's roughly how they stack up, in BTU needed to move one ton of cargo one mile (log scale, since the spread is huge): F-150 pickup (gas): ~4,600 BTU/ton-mile — based on DOE/ORNL data for large pickups (~38.5 gal per 1,000 ton-mil

I'm with the Dark Lord on this one. Trump Sees Race Against China as Key Issue on AI Regulation President defends minimal regulation and stresses need to keep lead as tech executives raise alarms about breakneck development By James Romoser, Meridith McGraw and Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ Updated Sept. 13, 2026 President Trump and AI adviser David Sacks defended the administration’s minimal regulation strategy after top AI executives endorsed a slowdown. WASHINGTON—President Trump a

Ok, you pathetic children who've never heard of him. He was at one time the world's great and most pompous sportscaster. Billy Crystal capturing the true Howard. In fact Howard was so full of himself, he cast him in Bananas. Howard was a great sport and was happy to be lampooned. Anything to get his face in front of a camera.

I know this will seem odd, but our nation needs more people studying gender differences, diversity and mindfulness. China is missing the boat by generating armies of engineers and removing barriers for businesses to innovate. Sure they'll run the world, most in Gen Z & Millennials will work for a Chinese conglomerate but...we'll be more psychologically "centered". That is until we realize our economy is getting squeezed like Germany is experiencing now. Never mind. Forgot