Continuing the weekend, first, the University of Hawaii volleyball team lost to UCLA in the championship game.  Look for UCLA to repeat next year.  Had a nachos and beer, a follow-up to Cinco de Mayo. Had a  Woodford Spire  for the Kentucky Derby. The story of the day had to do with Cory...and his horse, Cody's Wish, which was running a in pre-race. Cody's Wish won.   Watch this story here . Heartwarming. I had mentioned getting Kentucky Fried Chicken to eat with the Woodford Spire to watch the Kentucky Derby, but heck, 15 Craigside also had fried chicken. What is the the most important matter in your life?  Some might say  family, others mention wealth, world peace, freedom, security, and hundreds of other notions.  Something called happiness appeals to me.  I am today very happy, and on the verge of  Euphoria #4 .  While on the recent Seabourn cruise  I almost attained that state , but never quite reached it. On this Sunday I can especially mention one other difference betwee

  I yesterday again cajoled the World Health Organization on what was holding them back from announcing the end of the pandemic.  Well, after I published, they   announced the ending of the covid pandemic .   Said T.A. Ghebreyesus, WHO director general: . ..even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t ended, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. One of WHO's biggest mistakes was that they recommended AGAINST mask-wearing in public during the early months.  They also were reluctant to warn people about the real danger of asymptomatic individuals. Mentioned was President Trump for his terrible response to the pandemic, with the U.S. experiencing the most deaths, more than a million.   While true, we were #1 in total deaths, with 1,162,403 deaths, the USA was #15 in deaths/million population with 3472.  Peru was #1 with 6537, Bulgaria #2 with 5601 and Hungary  with 5085. In total deaths, #2 Brazil with 701,833, #3 India 531,642, #4 Russi

Maybe you missed this, but Italy swore in its first female prime minister last week.  She is 45-year old Giogia Meloni, a white supremacist and first Far-Right leader since Mussolini.  Her party will partner with 85-year old former PM, Silvio Berlusconi's.  She caught the public's attention three years ago when a video of her   I am Giorgia  speech went viral because two DJs from Milan turned the performance into an electronic dance music track .  Worth a watch.  Meloni has been accused of being fascistic, ala Mussolini, who ran the country from 1922 to 1943, and defended Viktory Orban, Hungary's authoritarian leader, who quashed democracy in this country.  She is, however, pro-NATO, for democracy and supportive of Ukraine. Europe is more and more leaning to the right ( they would be called Republicans in the U.S .), with the recent election of Swedish conservative Ulf Kristersson to Prime Minister.  Maybe they're beginning to lean away from socialism.  One of their sci