Abortion: SCOTUS leak, Roe struck down 6/24, protest at justices’ homes, Respect for Marriage Act
AI: Meta, cameras, tracking, virtual world, humans infused with technology, smart phones
Border: immigrants, human trafficking (agree to be slaves so to get here, about 50k children smuggled in every year), Title 42 struggle, TX busing to cities/Martha’s Vineyard
Climate: electric vehicles, pipeline shut – buy oil from Venezuela, 9/20 here – 102 degrees and next day 64 degrees, 9/27 Hurricane Ian/ Fort Myers, flooding in KY in July, CA fires
China: the Uyghurs incarcerated, Formosa threatened, TikTok, Olympics least watched
Church: Southern Baptist divisions, Pope Benedict XVI died
COVID: China draconian lock down, Fauci retired, on-going fears and masking
Crime: cities are a mess, police department cuts, prisons overflowing
Culture: President’s 9/4 speech in front on Independence Hall (going forward not going back), compost human bodies, euthanasia, 1619 and reparations, words redefined, word of the year per Merriam-Webster was “gaslighting” (manipulate, mislead, use deceit), drag queens in libraries and schools
Drugs: Fentanyl flood and deaths, legal marijuana expanding, Rx shortages, pharmaceutical companies teamed with Congress, HIV treatment ads, star B. Griner in Russian jail for drugs
Economy: 5/6 Dow down 1100, 5/18 DOW down 1165, 6/16 DOW below 30k (Bear territory), gasoline prices, shortages (chips and baby formula), “Sacred Seven” stocks way down (Meta, Netflix, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet/Google)
Florida: “Don’t say Gay”, Disney gone WOKE and taking a hit, Gov. Newsome attacks
Genders: 76 choices, pronouns, transgender (Lia Thomas), homosexual scenes on TV, child gender changes without parental permission
Globalism: Davos – Gates, Crypto – FTX collapse, Finland joins NATO, China and Iran support Russia in the Ukraine war effort
Hollywood: “the slap” (3/27), “Top Gun: Maverick”, Johnny Depp defamation trial
Mass murders: Buffalo supermarket (5/14, 10 dead), Uvalde (5/24, 21dead), Idaho murders, 7/4 Highland Park parade shooting, over 600 mass shootings in 2022
Politics: Severe partisanship, Pelosi, “Brandon”, midterm red wave – NOT! (Fetterman defeated Oz, Warnock defeated Walker), Twitter bought by Musk and revealed its censorship ways, Babylon Bee in Twitter jail
Queen: Elizabeth II’s death 9/8, PM Liz Truss resigns just after beginning
School Boards: equity, inclusion, WOKE, elections
Sports: Aaron Judge hit HR #61 9/28 (breaking the single season AL record – ended with 62), 2/1 Tom Brady retired then didn’t, KY Derby winner had 80 to 1 odds, NU fired coach Scott Frost, soccer’s Messi of Argentina maybe the new Pele – who died
Trump: still “large”, Committee Investigating Jan. 6 “attack”, FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago 8/8
Wars: Ukraine invaded 2/24, foods for Africa, war crimes, US drone killed Zawahri on his deck in Afghanistan, Iran protests over death at hands of morality police
a PK Musing 
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