Will Doesn't get Weird

Good afternoon, Stroock's Books leaders of the future. Once more we are at the Donut. The air is still. The coffee is good. Right on que at 2:25 the Chindian teenagers come in looking for their post-school coffee high. We'd take a pic and send it to Oldest Daughter so she could ID her friends, but that would be weird. 

New Jersey is unseasonably cold today, with temperatures more appropriate for February than early spring. Governor Phil Murphy has somehow angered Ganesh and Shiva (also Charleton Heston), and must repent. 

There's a lot of diplomatic wrangling, rigamarole, and kabuki between Joe and Israel. Important meetings are taking place. Netanyahu et al insist the IDF is going into Rafah. But 'going in' could mean a lot of things. Also, it could 'take some time' before the Rafah op begins. The al Shifa Hospital operation was extremely successful, netting terrorists and intel. There's a hell of a backstory there. Cleaning up the rest of Gaza is one of the reasons why the Israelis aren't rushing into Rafah.  An Israeli post war plan for Gaza is coagulating. Hostage negotiations continue. Best guess, no deal. 

More interestingly, it looks like House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, not yet a wanker) is going to invite Bibi to address a joint session of congress, and Chuck Schumer (the worst Jew in America) is on board. Oh boy, a Bibi congressional address has some landmines for Dems, no? Republicans will cheer thunderously, maybe even wave Israeli flags. What will Dems do? Exit Question: will the Squad (Omar, Tlaib, AOC, Pressley, Bowmen and the rest of the Jew haters) boycott or show up in keffiyehs and make trouble?

We've seen a couple of videos this week in which people talk about the 90's and how great they were. We agree. We'll do a 90's week soonish. It's a interesting time. The first few years have one foot in the 80s. There's a lot of bright colors and dayglo. The Grunge thing kicks in about 1992, but dies by the end of 95. From there the 90's see a weird retro 70s thing where disco, earth tones and baggy clothes make a comeback. We could have a field day just posting about commercials. Soon. 

We spent a good chunk of last night and this morning toying with the idea of beginning a new our Pancho Villa short story, centering instead more on MacArthur's destruction of Chihuahua. But we remembered that we are among the best there is at what we do, and got back to work on the original story.

The other idea would have four American railroad engineers lynched by Villistas in Chihuahua. The American army lead by MacArthur then converges on the city, cuts it off, and waits for the perpetrators to surrender. Meanwhile a Carrancista (Federale) army comes north and threatens MacArthur. The US army beats back the Carrancsistas and then goes into Chihuahua, fighting house to house to seize the city from the Villistas. This might sound kind of familiar 20 years after the fact to some of our reader(s). Twenty years. Wow.*

*Dang, that sounds like a pretty good story.