WTF-Beta

Well this didn't age well.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/marco-rubio-prior-warning-tolls-203343581.html

Well, Sir Anthony does…

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/10/sir-anthony-hopkins-signs-recording-contract-and-drops-first-single-at-88

A new game to add to your daily game regimen.

https://anthropeum.com/

Graham's sister likely to be named his replacement.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-replacement-senate-south-carolina-governor/

This week Tony Wyss-Coray and I published an invited review paper in Nature Medicine entitled “Biological Aging Clocks in Health and Disease.” The concepts and content of the paper may be difficult to understand for people not working in life science, but they are groundbreaking and have exciting implications for the future of medicine. So this edition of Ground Truths is intended to make all of the progress comprehensible for you and to hopefully see the coming inflection point in medicine. I’ll divide this into 4 key sections: (1) the chronological illusion of aging; (2) aging is synchronous in our body—the value of organ clocks, (3) cell clocks and the master regulators of aging; and (4) impact for routine medical practice.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/medicine-is-moving-from-calendars?publication_id=587835&post_id=206616743&isFreemail=true&r=1v8sh2&triedRedirect=true

"My doctors have confirmed that I didn't break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn't have a heart attack or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages," McConnell said Sunday. "But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I've also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."

His doctors are trying to figure out what caused the incident, McConnell said, adding he's doing everything they ask to speed up his recovery.

"In fact, with signs of continued progress, I've been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I'll keep regaining my strength," he said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-health-update-pneumonia-unconscious/

Medical examiner says it was an aortic dissection.

It's interesting to read various views of Graham's life and political career.

Anne Applebaum in the Atlantic:

https://archive.is/YUTyn

And an interesting interview this morning with Chris Coons. Starts at 13:39:

Meghan McCain's thoughts.

https://archive.is/RQ3Ab

Emergency personnel responded to a call for “cardiac arrest” at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News.

Photographs reviewed by NBC News show that paramedics carried a person on a stretcher from Graham’s home to an awaiting ambulance. Police cars and fire trucks were also on site.

Graham was fresh off a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. He had been scheduled to appear on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-lindsey-graham-dies-71-brief-sudden-illness-rcna552722

‘A slap in the face’: small farmers say Trump is turning his back on them

The president wooed farmers in his campaign, but now the USDA is yanking funding, citing ‘DEI’ and wasteful spending

Trump wooed farmers in the presidential election two years ago with promises to be their champion in Washington DC, only for the side-effects from his tariff regimen and the war with Iran to rock agriculture nationwide. Small-scale producers of livestock and food say they have been uniquely affected by policy shifts at the USDA, which has laid off staff and dismantled initiatives created under Joe Biden, fueling accusations that it is prioritizing large, corporate-owned farms over their businesses.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/iowa-farming-trump-cuts-usda

A Japanese choir is touring Lithuania performing Lithuanian songs, the result of a cultural friendship between the two countries that began by chance more than a decade ago.

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2976341/japanese-choir-finds-its-voice-in-lithuanian-folk-songs

@AndyD

Oops. Turns out I'm behind the times. Grande used to be Starbucks' biggest size, but now...

The history of Starbucks drink sizes:

https://www.dictionary.com/articles/starbucks-trenta

@AndyD said:

Large Grande mocha

FIFY

I thought he might be in pretty bad shape, but I just read that his wife Elaine Chao left for a trip to China a couple of days before he ended up in the hospital and she didn't feel the need to come back immediately.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/10/elaine-chao-comments-on-mitch-mcconnells-hospitalization/90876522007/

Don't know what to think.

@shirokuro @bernard

I PMed @axtremus and alerted him about what's going on.

Zucchini pancakes today for lunch. Very nummy.

Hopefully you can see the recipe in the pic:

Tomatoes, cukes, and eggplants. Picking barely ripening tomatoes to beat the squirrels to them. Well, except for the one green one in the middle of the photo; the rats got to it first.

Eggplants getting to a reasonable size, creatures haven't found them yet. Cucumbers under seige; they're next to the tomatoes in the garden, so easy pickin'.

Same as @axtremus here. No FB, no Instagram, and my Google settings are the same as Ax's, including the YT history.