2024 Olympics Opening

Highlights: Gojira, Lady Gaga and dancers suspended from Notre Dame scaffolding, 10 statues of women from French history, LGBTQ+ Last Supper, Snoop Dogg as torch bearer, masked torch bearer, Phillipe Katerine's blue Nu, glittering metal horse gliding across the water, Aya Nakamura, operatique Marseillaise (by Axelle Saint-Cirel), countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński, Beyonce performance, Zizou and Nadal torch passing and dazzling Eiffel Tower light show, Rafael Nadal/Serena Williams/Nadia Comaneci/Carl Lewis escorting the torch on a boat to French athletes that carried it from Tuileries Garden past the Louvre to oldest living French Olympic champion Charles Coste (100) who passed the flame to Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec who ignited the official flame on a Jules Vernesque balloon and Celine Dion closed the ceremony with Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l'amour”.

Trump jumps the shark declaring that 2024 is last US election if he wins

Yesterday, Trump declared at Turning Point, FL, that if he gets elected, this is the last time people will need to vote in a US election (shortly before admitting to a Christian audience that he is not a Christian). What's sad is the contortions the CNN interviewee went through to explain away the cynicism and absolute darkness of that "promise".