Doodling

3 min readAug 15, 2026

From 15 Funny Signs Brightening Up Your Day, and Confusing Your Commute by Leandro Beroldo, msm.com, ©Reddit:

Priorities. Headline from nypost.com: “Frozen debt: AOC’s student debt unpaid as she embarks on costly egg-freezing journey.” Her salary is $174,000 plus Cadillac benefits. Maybe she’s waiting, hoping for a Dem president to forgive all student debt.

Knock me down. From NYP: “Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer credits Trump for delivering project that Biden couldn’t get over finish line.” Other Dems may not be pleased by that. Let leftists whine.

Here’s an excerpt from an NYP editorial that flies in the face of the ‘planet is burning’ crowd: “This year, every continent is burning less than usual, reports Bjorn Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal, with North and South America both at a record-low burn since 2012. Smoke deaths, the deadliest aspect of fires, are also down…”

Here’s something else that flies in the face of the 23/7–365 news. From newsmax.com: “FBI: Homicides Dropped in 2025 to the Lowest Rate since 1956.” Are the stats rigged, or do news outlets simply revel in the reporting of bad news?

Will the mainstream media report this? From NM: “Drug Prices See Biggest Decline in More Than 60 Years as Trump Policies Work.”

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Headline from foxnews.com: “Exclusive: Israel seizes vast Iran terror axis arsenal with surprising foreign origins.” Is there a way to get the arms to Iranian resistance fighters. Then again, is there any Iranian resistance or is that simply wishful thinking or misinformation?

RIP Butch Huskey, 54, who succumbed to a blood clot in his lungs. Born in Oklahoma, he was All-State in football as a QB and turned down an athletic scholarhip to Oklahoma to concentrate on baseball. In 1989 he was taken in the seventh round of the MLB draft by the Mets, with whom he stayed through 1998. He also played for the Mariners, Twins, Red Sox and Rockies, his last season in 2000. Overall, in seven seasons he batted .267 and socked 86 homers. He made the post season once as a member of the Sox, who lost to the Yanks in the 1999 ALCS. He went 2–10 in the playoffs. He spent his post-playing days in various pursuits involving youths. Gone way too soon. He was easy to root for. Photo from Google Images:

Picture perfect day at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. My thanks to Sam and Ed, who each donated a large pictorial, and to the young man who overcompensated me for Doodling for Writers by Rebecca Fish Ewan; and to the woman who purchased A Painted House by John Grisham; and to the one who bought The Aftermath, 1975–85 (Vietnam Experience) by Edward Doyle, Terrence Maitland, et al.