The Daily Parker

For Reasons, we have the dress rehearsal for our Saturday performance on Saturday. That means poor Cassie will likely go ten hours crossing her paws between the time I have to leave and when I'm likely to get back. Fortunately, she should be exhausted by then. Tonight's dress rehearsal for our Sunday performance won't put her out as much, thanks to Dog Delivery from my doggy day care. Still, I'd rather have a quiet evening at home than a 3-hour rehearsal and an hour-long car trip home...

Meanwhile, in the world of things that appear to matter more but actually will matter less in a year...

• US Senator Kyrsten Sinema (?-AZ) leaves office the way she held it: delusional.
• No matter how much you think the American government sucks, try living in Moscow.
• Ruth Marcus believes the Alabama Supreme Court's recent Bible-soaked decision calling 16-cell embryos "people" may backfire more than any other right-wing overreach so far this century.
• Stephanie McCrummen sees the decision as "about more than Christian nationalism."
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal had a hot take on why the Right believe the nonsense they believe, and it did not reassure me about the future of humanity.
• Who are the Houthi rebels of Yemen and why are they so pleased with themselves for now?
• Why does New York City handle waste disposal so badly?
• Speaking of New York, the myth of the Dutch buying Manhattan from the Lanape for 60 guilders doesn't really jibe with the documentary evidence. The truth is actually much more interesting.

Finally, perhaps the reason the Chicago Transit Authority has so many problems is that its governing board has only one member who actually understands public transit? (Welcome to Chicago: where the head of the CTA has a chauffeured car, and the head of the Chicago Teacher's Union sends her kids to private school.)