Biggest news of the day?   The House of Representatives voted to oust Keven McCarthy as Speaker of the House, 216-210 .  Never happened before in our history.   So what's next? At the beginning of his speakership, McCarthy filed into the record (kept secret) a list of names in priority order to the House Clerk to act in the case of his vacancy.   The person highest on the list shall act as Speaker pro tempore.   The first task will presumably be to vote on a permanent speaker.  But not necessarily.  There is no legal time frame for anything. Could McCarthy run again? Sure. Probably won't win a normal vote, so could well work out a deal with Democrats. But he has said  enough , and won't run again. Could Democrat Hakeem Jeffries run? Sure. But he won't get that position. Could Matt Gaetz become the next speaker.  Nope. Why?  Republicans are not idiotic as Gaetz. The second big newsworthy item is that no one won the Powerball jackpot last night.  Thus, you have until...we

  I've lived for at least three years in Hawaii, Washington DC, California and Louisiana.   Born in Honolulu and, aside from college, three years working for the U.S. Senate and travel, spent most my time in Hawaii. Had whole summers in California with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( twice ) working on laser fusion and NASA Ames Research Center on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. 3 years and 7 months at Stanford University. 3 years and 7 months at Louisiana State University.  With close friends. Today, my nostalgic Tuesday topic will be LSU, for they just won the  76th college world series championship , in what might have been the best ever. Started with 64 teams in tournament play. #1 rated was Wake Forest, #2 Florida and #5 LSU. 8 teams survived the super regionals, those teams above, and Stanford, TCU, Oral Roberts, Virginia and Tennessee. The first time LSU and Wake Forest played, the Demon Deacons won, 3-2.  They faced each other two more times, and