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Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
Happy Sunday, dear friends! Glad we can get together, break bread, and face head-on some of the portside’s continued mental-health breakdown — all with a side of chilled champagne. Was there anything more ridiculous last week than the ginned-up outrage that Stephen Colbert – who haunts the late night viewing selection with an audience of a couple million viewers :::snort::: how many of them were using his show as a dose of Ambien? — finally lost his job after losing his employer tens of millions of dollars a year. Oh perish the thought I have any sympathy for CBS! By golly, they deserve Colbert and his peak narcissism! That’s kind of the week we’ve had, dears. So fill your flutes and plates and let’s get to it. L’Chaim!
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Anaheim, California
A group of five cars carrying multiple thieves converged in front of the Al Amira Jewelry Store. However, the employees in the store allegedly opened fire on the robbers, causing them to flee. pic.twitter.com/b05mah8LUm
— The Daily Sneed™ (@Tr00peRR) July 19, 2025
The only thing that would improve that video is adding some Yakety Sax.
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Greasy Gavin in front of a camera is all shark-smile and trying to appear moderate, but his machinations are all radical Left.
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) personally secured $500,000 in 2023 for a nonprofit group that supports defunding police and recently launched a bond fund for illegal immigrants in ICE custody, according to state records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Newsom in July 2023 asked the James Irvine Foundation, a private foundation that supports low-income workers in California, to donate $500,000 to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), a group that supports defunding the police. Though the funds didn’t come from Newsom’s own pocket, the James Irvine Foundation cut its check specifically at Newsom’s request, according to California’s “behested payments” database, which discloses whenever state elected officials solicit donations to a third party.
Newscum is a busy little boy, what with junkets to South Carolina, barefaced trolling on X and trying to suck the life out of the Palisades/Eaton fire victims.
Remember this when he kicks his campaign into official mode sometime after mid-terms.
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Every 6 months my mind returns to this heatmap indicating that conservatives devote the majority of their empathy and care to family and friends and liberals devote most of their concern to plants, trees, and inert entities such as rocks. https://t.co/QYNAJg3D2I pic.twitter.com/BadhXrvsAd
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) May 7, 2023
The present research suggests they reflect core psychological differences such that liberals express compassion toward less structured and more encompassing entities (i.e., universalism), whereas conservatives express compassion toward more well-defined and less encompassing entities (i.e., parochialism). (snip)
In 2006, then Democratic Senator Barack Obama bemoaned the country’s “empathy deficit,” telling college graduates, “I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.” In 2012, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney said, “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.”
The distinction between Obama and Romney captures the distinct worldviews of American political liberals and conservatives, respectively. Romney prioritized the family unit, whereas Obama highlighted the planet broadly.
Or … as the Trump campaign in 2024 starkly demonstrated: “Kamala is for They/Them, Donald Trump is for us.”
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BREAKING: Hundreds of Christians in Munich, Germany formed a human chain around a synagogue to protect it from an Islamist demonstration that aimed to intimidate the local Jewish community.
pic.twitter.com/KQTOleG3x5— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 22, 2025
Whether on American college campuses where it’s open season on Jewish students or even within the NEA trying to erase Jews from the Holocaust, standing as an observant Christian is an act of defiance against the tide of anti-Semitism.
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Spot on Senator. Agree fully. Our team is already looking into this ASAP.
Foreign engineers — from any country, including of course China — should NEVER be allowed to maintain or access DoD systems. https://t.co/gQ9dirjxND
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) July 18, 2025
Xi has his fat-Pooh fingers in enough global pots that we should be aggressively getting all his meat puppets out of our business and out of our nation.
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This is what I came to the internet for pic.twitter.com/eJTfpWJZlh
— Beauty Of Nature (@ShouldHaveAnima) July 20, 2025
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Sometimes, heroics are done quietly
(Patrick) Schlott, a full-time engineer at electric airplane manufacturing company BETA Technologies, decided to approach the owners of his local general store with the idea to install old pay phones around town and make them free for public use. After he explained that there would be no cost to the host, North Tunbridge General Store owners Mike and Lois Gross let Schlott install his first phone outside the store.
“Everyone’s pretty surprised, and they’re like, ‘Is that a real payphone? Does that really work?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but it doesn’t cost any money now,’” said store owner Mike Gross. “We’ve had people use it that broke down. It’s a great thing because service is so spotty in Vermont.”
Patrick also covers the monthly cost of the phones and even acts as the operator for the lines, answering questions and assisting calls.
Bravo, Patrick!
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I’m sorry to say, dear friends, that time has gotten away from us again. This was our last Sunday of July and summer is almost half-way over. So go enjoy the rest of your Sunday! Have fun and I’ll see you next week. Cheers!
featured image original graphic by Darleen Click
Anna A says: For those who are interested in learning more about how conservatives and liberals approach decisions, etc. may I recommend Jonathan Haidt’s book “The Righteous Mind”. Very good and easy to read.
I also recommend his “The Anxious Generation”
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