If you live to my east, be advised the heat wave is faltering. This one, anyway. The temperature’s in the low 80s, the sun is behind clouds, it’s raining a bit and I can give the A/C a break. By Friday we’ll be kissing 90 degrees again, but any break is nice. Yesterday a brief, fast-moving storm moved through and took out our power. I had to wrestle the generator out of the garage, get it started, string cords, all the stuff we end up doing at least once or twice a summer so we don’t lose the contents of our refrigerator. I was almost literally pouring sweat and couldn’t even lie under a fan to cool off. The humidity was brutal. How the hell do you people in the south stand it? I would purely die.
The good news: The juice came back on after four hours. Did the whole generator thing in reverse. Settled in for some TV and it winked out again, for three minutes. It’s like DTE was playing a little joke. Bastards.
We all awoke to learn the news from New York City. I don’t want to read too much into it, because optimism is useless at a time like this. And this is only a primary; more will be revealed. But I will allow myself at least some glee that sex pest Andrew Cuomo will have more time to spend with his family. Is that good enough?
I don’t know what to say about much of anything at the moment, other than: Fresh thread for discussion. Have at it.
Jeff Borden said on June 25, 2025 at 4:57 pm
Maybe you have to be born in the South ’cause I lived in Charlotte for more than four years and never got used to the heat and humidity combo. And unlike the Midwest, a good storm doesn’t bring relief. It just adds to the mugginess.
I fear the Democrats –as usual– won’t rise to the occasion as tRump spirals out of control. There’s gonna be a civil war between the younger Dems (yay!) and the old guard (boo!). We need unity if we’re going to put these fascist pricks into the grave. Gimme AOC over Hakeem Jeffries, for example, but that’s too much to ask.
The more we’re exposed to the tumbling cognitive skills of tRump, the more we should realize the danger we’re in. The idea of a succubus like Hillbilly Elegy Boy succeeding him isn’t much comfort.
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Brandon said on June 25, 2025 at 5:42 pm
Cuomo considering independent mayoral bid.
Cuomo may not be out of the race just yet, telling The Post on Wednesday that he was waiting to make a final decision about whether to try his luck as an independent in the general election.
His campaign said last month that he would run on the independent “Fight and Deliver” ballot line in November regardless of the June 24 primary’s outcome — which saw the thrice-elected Dem trail the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman by a near-insurmountable 7 points.
“I’m looking at the numbers from last night. I want to get an idea of what the general election looks like and what landscape looks like, and what the issues are, and then make the decision,” he said outside of his home in Midtown East.
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ROGirl said on June 25, 2025 at 7:19 pm
I hate dte. My power goes out way too often and yesterday it was out for 8 hours.
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Julie Robinson said on June 25, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Not only did Andrew Cuomo lose, so did Anthony Weiner, whose bid for City Council ended in a distant fourth place. Too bad!
This Floridian only goes out in the wee hours or to the pool. When it isn’t surface of the sun hot, I’m outside as much as I can be. So it all evens out.
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Mark P said on June 25, 2025 at 10:44 pm
I grew up right here in NW Georgia. In the summer we ran around outside, riding bikes, running, playing games, all day long. I don’t remember feeling like my brain was baking, but apparently it was. My grandmother lived in a late 1800’s/early 1900’s house, basically a dogtrot house, with two rooms on each side of a central hall open on both ends. It had a wraparound porch. A bathroom had been added by the time I saw it, as well as a kitchen, both on what used to be the porch. It had floor to almost-ceiling windows and very high ceilings. That’s how the house was kept from getting too unbearably hot. There was also a sleeping porch, which was essentially a screen room on the porch off the main bedroom. It was a typical Southern house, built to try to make summers bearable. It didn’t work all that well.
I don’t know what I ever liked about summer.
Now I have to go outside to stand in the sun occasionally because my wife wants the house to feel like a refrigerator.
If we have a power outage in the summer, I have a generator that can save what’s in our freezer, but not the refrigerator. No AC, and no water. If it gets too bad, we can plug our travel trailer into the generator and sleep out there.
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Sherri said on June 25, 2025 at 10:57 pm
I grew up in the heat and humidity, but I am no longer acclimated to it. I remember the pre-air conditioning days, when homes and schools and cars weren’t routinely air-conditioned. I don’t miss it.
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Jeff Gill said on June 26, 2025 at 7:40 am
Anthony Weiner did NOT run for mayor. That’s got to be a joke, even in this timeline. [checks internet, slams laptop shut]
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Dexter Friend said on June 26, 2025 at 1:33 pm
It was Gatlinburg, in mid-July…no, it was Jackson, Mississippi, a Sunday , in mid-July, and it was max-humidity+98F. Our catcher feigned injury so I was pressed into the tools of ignorance behind the plate. A 1:00 PM game, no breeze, no clouds. And I had gotten polluted with bum wine and rot-got whiskey Saturday night. I was dehydrated in those days when finding potable water was a chore in itself. I had a sledgehammer banging my head from the inside. My heart was racing. I was still 18, so I survived, and after the game, the bus driver stopped at a gas station where we must have damn-nearly emptied out all the sodas.
Until I encountered the summer of 1988 in the factory, I had never had a worse heat-day. In 1988, every fucking day was just like Jackson, Mississippi, in 1968 on that one miserable hell-day.
I heard Curtis Sliwa is the only re-pugg in the race vs. Zohran. Cuomo and Adams are independents.
Was John Lindsay (the 60’s) the last beloved mayor of Gotham? Everyone since seems to have been ridiculed and hated.
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jcburns said on June 26, 2025 at 2:03 pm
I think, Nancy, if I live to your east, I live in Canada. Or Lake St. Clair.
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David C said on June 26, 2025 at 4:36 pm
I read this morning someone said NYC hasn’t had a mayor who wasn’t an asshole in the past 200 years.
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Jeff Gill said on June 26, 2025 at 5:23 pm
Fiorello La Guardia served to 1946, and he read Little Orphan Annie on the radio to New Yorkers, so he seems okay.
https://www.npr.org/2008/11/30/97621982/nyc-mayor-laguardias-legendary-radio-readings
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Deborah said on June 27, 2025 at 11:23 am
Do I have this right about the SCOTUS decision that extremist conservative Fed judges like Kasmarek in the 5th district can no longer make decisions that cover the entire country? That sounds like good news in that regard, but bad news for everything else? So Fed judge rulings only apply to whoever bought the suit?
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Deborah said on June 27, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Actually the multi-million dollar Venice wedding could not have come at a better time for Big Beautiful Bill opponents, as a very public extravaganza by Bezos and his fiance (or fiancee?) which highlights the decadent excesses of billionaires, and the difference between them and ordinary people. It’s a very Marie Antoinette moment. Have you seen the hilarious photos and videos online of the protest installations in Venice? They’re well done depictions using mannequins made to look like the couple as money grubbing assholes. Hysterical. Some people there are putting a lot of time and quality effort (and press attention) into these protests.
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Brandon said on June 28, 2025 at 2:46 am
Grosse Pointe Garden Society canceled.
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