SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

I WEEP, I WEEP – FROM REUTERS:    SEOUL (REUTERS) - Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country's tightly controlled state media, after watching recent video footage of Mr Kim.  The rare public comment on Mr Kim's health comes after foreign analysts noted in early June that the autocratic leader, who is believed to be 37, appeared to have lost a noticeable amount of weight.  "Seeing respected general secretary (Kim Jong Un) looking emaciated breaks our people's heart so much," the man said in an interview aired by state broadcaster KRT last Friday (June 25).  "Everyone is saying their tears welled up," he said.  I don't know if I can control myself.  If I'm off the air, you'll know I'll be in mourning, or maybe Whole Foods.

LET THE VIRTUE SIGNALING CONTINUE – FROM LEGAL INSURRECTION:  A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, is returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard.  The university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it’s been working with members of the Ponca Tribe in Nebraska and Oklahoma to repatriate the artifact.  Larry Wright, Jr., chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, said Tuesday the return of the historic weapon is a powerful symbol of homecoming for the tribe, which was among many forcibly relocated from their homelands to other territories by the federal government in the 1800s.   I'm sure every Native American will be eternally uplifted.  Next stunt please.

July 10, 2021