I decided to skip summarizing our city stops on our 60-day journey.  You can read those postings at  Seattle ,  Chihuly Museum ,  Amsterdam  and  Zurich. As would be expected,  Time' s  2024 Person of the Year will be Donald Trump .   Is it  because he was the most fabulous individual of the year? Nope.  To quote. A person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". [ 2 ] Time   points out that controversial figures such as   Adolf Hitler (1938);   Joseph Stalin   (1939 and 1942);   Nikita Khrushchev   (1957); and   Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) have also been granted the title for their impact on events. [ 16 ] Here, read the  Time  2January1939  article about Adolf Hitler .  Turns out that the just-elected president of the USA is now ALWAYS the Person of the Year. Other noteworthy selections. The first...

What is happening in the House of Representatives only draws comments of clown show and idiots.  Looks like no Speaker until next week.  Bipartisan solution?  On top of all that, former speaker Kevin McCarthy publicly blamed President Joe Biden's climate policy for catalyzing the Hamas attack.  Huh???   Read this . The  Arab World  is of course supporting pro-Palestinian protests, such as the one in Baghdad, Iran to the right.  Of course  Europe  had some of this, and police in Paris used teargas and water cannons to break up the banned rally.  However, there was also a sizable, but peaceful, gathering around Times Square in New York City.   Only in America . Israel is in a pickle.  They almost surely will expand their ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, but, as  The Atlantic  reported, Israel is  Walking into a Trap . You can't root out a terrorist group that runs the country. Israel has warned ...