Donald Trump has wanted something this large, but Chinese President Xi Jinping pulled it off yesterday.  Marking the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, Tiananmen Square was the location of  China's Really Big Parade .  More magnificent than  Trump's 79th Birthday Parade  in DC this summer.  Twice as many soldiers marched, and twice as many aircraft flew over Ji's parade. Maybe more important than the event itself was who were there:  Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, leaders of the Evil Axis.  Also: Besides Iran, North Korea, and Russia, heads of state or governments from more than a dozen other countries also   attended   the parade. These included a number of Southeast Asian countries—Cambodia, Laos,   Indonesia , Malaysia, Myanmar, and Vietnam—as well as Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia, and the Maldives. Others in attendance included l...

Today is Labor Day in the USA, a national holiday.  Other countries, too, have a day off, from Google AI Overview. Uzbekistan :   Celebrates   Independence Day . Iran :   Observes the   Martyrdom of Imam Hasan Askari . Kazakhstan :   Celebrates   Constitution Day   (in lieu). Vietnam :   Has its National Day Holiday. Eritrea :   Observes   Eritrea Revolution Day . Guyana :   Has a Public Holiday. Slovakia :   Observes   Constitution Day . Labor Day   The United States, Canada, and Bermuda all have Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday of September.   It celebrates the achievements of workers and the broader labor movement. What to do on Labor Day has changed.  For example: Labor Day   is officially here, which means the NBC Select team has found   tons of deals   up to 70% off on AirPods, sneakers and more. Plus,   Amazon’s Labor Day sale   has discounts up to 50% off on br...

I'll start with an old, but new, topic.  This past Sunday I posted on   eternal life .  Well,   Time   reported on   The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever.   Absolutely fascinating article about Bryan Johnson ( here below with Kate Tolo, the chief marketing officer for his company, Blueprin t), and to quote: Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who has spent most of the last three years in pursuit of a singular goal: don’t die. During that time, he’s spent more than $4 million developing a life-extension system called Blueprint, in which he outsources every decision involving his body to a team of doctors, who use data to develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls his “biological age.” That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections....