Random News: June 14, 2022

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Good morning. It’s June 14, 2022, and it’s a Tuesday. Various things…

• Yesterday’s House Select Committee session on the January 6 coup was focused on the damning evidence that the former President was (and remains) aware that there was no voter fraud in the election, and yet used his loss to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from his own supporters.
• Many of the witnesses that corroborated the accusation that Trump knew that his election fraud claims had no merit were from his own circle.
• Monday’s testimony against Trump came from former Attorney General William Barr, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, former campaign manager Bill Stepien, former senior campaign adviser Jason Miller, Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, and Trump campaign lawyer Alex Cannon.
• The next session from the Committee will be in regard to evidence of Trump’s “broader planning for Jan. 6”. It was scheduled for Wednesday but has been postponed, which tells me that there’s probably something coming worth waiting for. 
• Mick Jagger has COVID. He’s in remarkably great shape for being 78, but he did have heart surgery to replace a valve in 2019.
• Our heroes and icons may be immortal from a standpoint of their position in history, but the bodies that contain them have a finite end date. Hope Mick stays around for awhile.
• Speaking of ancient things, we may have found our earliest ancestor yet. Palaeospondylus gunni was a toothless eel-like creature about 2.4 inches long, and lived in the middle Devonian epoch, around 400 million years ago.
• I sometimes relate to being a toothless eel.
• I hope, for your sake, that none of you invested in any kind of cryptocurrency. They are falling hard.
• From the sports desk… The GS Warriors won a tough-fought game 5 against the Celtics and lead the series 3-2. Game 6 is Thursday night in Boston. In the golf world, things are absolutely fucked with two competing tours - the PGA and LIV - now in opposition.
• Whatever. Fuck golf.
• There’s a bright full supermoon going on right now. They call it the Strawberry Moon. It doesn’t look like a strawberry. It got its name from appearing during strawberry harvest season.
• Today is International Bath Day. No offense, but baths are disgusting. Someone once referred to them as “sitting in a tepid pool of my own filth”. I’m a shower guy.
• Other mostly-ridiculous celebrations on June 14 include Flag Day, Call Your Doctor Day, Family History Day, Magic Circles Day (what?), National Bourbon Day, National Strawberry Shortcake Day, Own Your Share of America Day, Pause for the Pledge Day, Pop Goes the Weasel Day, Ryan Moran Day, World Blood Donor Day and World Pet Memorial Day.
• Today in history… 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian troops in the English Civil War (1645). Settlers in Sonoma, CA rebel against Mexico and declare California a republic in the Bear Flag Revolt (1846). Hawaii becomes a US territory (1900). The House passes the Marihuana Tax Act (1937). The first monorail system in the Western Hemisphere opens at Disneyland (1959). Riots happen in Vancouver after the Rangers beat the Canucks in the Stanley Cup (1994).
• June 14 is the birthday of author and activist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer (1864), singer Burl Ives (1909), guerrilla leader Che Guevara (1928), sax player Junior Walker (1931), amazingly old current politician Steny Hoyer (1939), keyboardist Rod Argent (1945), guy who tried to destroy America Donald Trump (1946), drummer Alan White (1949), bass player Marcus Miller (1959), singer Boy George (1961), and tennis player Steffi Graf (1969).

I suppose that’s all for now. I’m going to do Tuesday things. That includes work, grocery shopping, and work. Try and do good things today. Something small is fine.