Quiet.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,819 

Still: 

 

Somehow the world felt more comfortable before the Internet exposed us to everything. You could be yourself. 

 

The Tids Punster Laureate has launched a pun assault on June. Its paradoxical that the ease of placing things on your kitchen surfaces is counter intuitive. 

 

Maybe Zelensky should launch pun assault on Moscow. The humorless Kremlin wouldn't understand sending them into state of mind stopping confusion. In reality, other countries are aluf ding UKrraine fore geirver yinnovative droneatatckaofnet russsu is a airfields. The Kremlin understands that. 

 

The news cycle seems to have evaporated now thta DT has stopped taking this week. 

 

The Question: 

Who was the first American to walk in space? Bonus: Maja Stark was the third Swede to win the LPGA US Open. Who were the other two? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Surprising Uptick in Jobs Openings Data Offsets Negativity of OECD Warning (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) that had Trade Talk Watchers Nervous This Morning; Stocks Advance Nicely after Slow Awakening due to Warning; (OECD Cut Growth Forecast for US and Global Economic Growth due to tariffs.) 

--US Senate Begins Discussions on “BBB”; Changes to House Version Expected. 

--Measels C Vaccinations Among US Children Plummeting, 

--Lee Jae-myung Projected to Win South Korea Presidential  

Election. 

--27 Palestinians in Line for Aid Killed in Israel Shootings’ Carnage Felt for Third Day in a Row; Israel Military Says It Fired after Identifying “Several Suspects.” 

 

A classic example of how people can be sold anything could be found in the tomahawk steak buying frensy. After all, a Tomahawk is but a rib eye with a large unwieldy bone crowding your plate. And actually, to me a good NY Strip tases better than either of them.  

 

There was a time when the CDC was a bunch of scientists working quietly in Georgia looking for ways to protect the health of Americans. Now they are a political football. Unfortunately, footballs take funny bounces. 

 

Stephen Miller makes me nervous. 

 

One of my favorite things each morning is laughing out loud at the comics in the newspaper. Then I think, what happens when all the newspapers go under, and they make us pay to laugh each morning through some Mega streaming Comics site. Yes, many things were better before digital things floating in air.  

 

It's about that time to compare the trajectory of Scottie Scheffler’s career to date with Tiger and Jack. Right now, Scottie’s career winning percentage (11.6%) is behind Woods (21.7), Hogan, Nelson, Snead, Nicklaus and McIlroy. But after his Memorial win, he looks like he can win any time he wants to.  

 

You know the human population is in trouble when so many of the News Headlines are written by celebrity gossip columnists. Check your feeds. 

 

Somebody has to teach Google’s AI to write shorter, pithier answers with a better focus on facts and fewer assumptions and irrelevant puffery. Search results were more informative before AI. But maybe that's me.  

 

There’s a 2,000 mile long Saharan dust storm set to bare down on the Caribbean before taking aim at Southwestern USA. The earth is interconnected. It’s better to make the connections work. ` 

 

The Answer: 

Ed Whie was the first American to walk in space during the Gemini 4 Mission 60 years ago today. Go Ed! How quickly we can forget the pioneers in this era of old is instant. Bonus: Of course, the great Annika Sorenstam i s one of the two. The other is Liselotte Neumann. Since we were looking earlier at men’s career wins how about some of the great women winners. The three women with the most career LPGA Victories are Kathy Whitworth (88), Micky Wright, (82) and Annika with 72. The others in the top ten are Louise Suggs, Patty Berg, Betsy Rawls, Nancy Lopez, Joanne Carner, Sandra Haynie and tied for 10 the great Babe, Didrickson Zaharious and Karrie Webb. 

 

It's a nice warm Tuesday here. Now I'm going out to fertilize the flowers. I’ll hum a tune to myself. If it is any good, I'll put it int the Tids tomorrow. 

 

 

 

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