Lotus-eater

Historic D.C. townhouse owned by JFK and William Marbury (of Marbury v. Madison) has sold for $6.1 million:
https://robbreport.com/shelter/celebrity-homes/jfk-dc-presidential-campaign-home-sells-1238060857/#recipient_hashed=d1c076ce027f6f576e2f6e744cebd8356ffc6e31ca901691e2401500b77c73d1&recipient_salt=fe9756824f82c003d9428447aad9c87cfcd5a74611f39545d44605355bb75958










 

Amazin’ Mets Foundation and America’s VetDogs raising Howie, their fourth service dog together
By Ethan Marshall   The Amazin’ Mets Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the New York Mets led by team co-owner Alex Cohen, and America’s VetDogs, a non-profit that provides specially trained service dogs to veterans and first responders with disabilities, are partnering to co-raise their fourth service dog together, Howie, named after Mets longtime announcer Howie Rose, who is retiring at the end of the 2026 season.
Howie the dog is an 11-month-old Labrador Retriever. For the next 14 to 18 months, Howie will undergo basic training and socialization with Amazin’ Mets Foundation staff members, as well as Mets players and fans. Throughout Howie’s training, he will have a home in the Mets front office. In an effort to expose him to various environments that will help mold him into a confident and calm future service dog, Howie will be attending select events at Citi Field. Howie’s Citi Field debut will come during the Mets game against the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday, July 8. America’s VetDogs was chosen as the beneficiary for that evening’s 50/50 Raffle program held by the Amazin’ Mets Foundation.
“America’s VetDogs is incredibly grateful to Alex Cohen and the Amazin’ Mets Foundation for their continued support,” America’s VetDogs President and CEO John Miller said. “The Amazin’ Mets Foundation’s generosity helps raise and train future service dogs for our nation’s and communities’ heroes while increasing awareness of the life-changing resources available to them at no cost. It costs America’s VetDogs more than $50,000 to breed, raise, train and place a service dog, and support from Alex Cohen and the Amazin’ Mets Foundation helps make that possible.”
Howie’s name was chosen through a vote by Mets employees, reflecting the deep appreciation for his namesake, Howie Rose.
Rose has worked as a broadcaster for Mets games since 1987. After hosting the team’s pregame and postgame shows from 1987 to 1994, he became the play-by-play announcer for Mets games on TV from 1995 to 2003 and has been the play-by-play announcer for games over the radio since 2004. The service dog being named after Rose is meant to be a tribute to his long and extraordinary career and lasting impact on multiple generations of Mets fans.
As of June 2026, the Amazin’ Mets Foundation has funded over $200,000 in grants to America’s VetDogs.
The Mets became the first MLB team to partner with America’s VetDogs to raise a service dog when they first partnered to co-raise Shea in 2022.
 
 

 
  Ethan Marshall
I was born and raised on Long Island and reside in Bayside. Graduated Cum Laude from Hofstra University. Big Mets, Jets and Islanders fan.

Arden Villa: The Pasadena estate, which has served as a backdrop for Hollywood productions from "Dynasty" to "Billy Madison," is now available for $45 million.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/dynasty-pasadena-california-home-b0d7d44a?mod=real-estate_lead_pos1
https://robbreport.com/shelter/celebrity-homes/dynasty-estate-pasadena-1238321721/











 
 

Living in any country carries inherit risks.  Even if you are fluent in the local language, you stand apart no matter how you try to blend in.  The US is the only developed country in the Top 50 murder rates.  S. Korea is next at 52.  Mexico is #3.  
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violent-crime/Murder-rate

Yes, even in the US some local policing is useless against crime in certain cities. And living in the US, one must be careful to avoid scams from merciless foreigners who prey on US victims with online and telephone scams. Beware illegal foreigners, and beware cities with light-on-crime police forces.
When I visit Mexico, I stay only in the highly policed tourist areas and leave account information for my largest accounts at home.  Even if someone forces me to drain my debit card at gunpoint, there won't be more than about $1000 in there.
Don't make yourself a target.  Foreign cultures don't have the same values or ethics that we have, as do some cities and neighborhoods in the US.

The Panamera was designed to resemble a 911 with a low sloping nose and apparently the best way to do that with a front engine was to put the engine air filter at the very front.

Your characterization is long on moralizing but short on facts. For one, children may not trade because these are financial contracts (derivatives) regulated by the CFTC and as such only enforceable among adults, which means that traders must verify their age. The primary problem with insider trading is when the insiders themselves can manipulate the outcome, not merely that they have more information. Their trading in fact increases market efficiency. Because all trades are public, other traders can detect whales who make big bets against the odds.

That was the only practical way to keep the classic Porsche design with that engine. It may cost $1K to replace the air filter but it only requires replacement every 4 years.

A case can be made that Greenspan had a role to play in the policy of not being aggressive enough in combating "irrational exuberance" (to use his famous phrase), though Ben Bernanke and others doubt that the Fed could have done much (the critics said that Greenspan should have raised interest rates by .25% or .50% to discourage speculation but the Fed has raised interest rates by ten times that amount since 2022 and yet the AI-fueled stock market has reached near peak valuations). On the other hand, politicians across the political spectrum promoting home ownership to expand and enrich the middle class was what created the conditions for the housing meltdown to occur in the first place. 

Speaking the truth about someone who was enormously influential in destroying the New Deal era economy which has led to precarity not seen in this country since the Giffed Age, is not tacky. Lionizing someone who largely created the dot com Bubble and the 2008 housing crisis which managed to enrich the wealthy while impoverishing the middle class is just keeping the record clear. 
 
Death does not absolve someone of their life’s work. 

Honestly couldn’t be happier to see this ghoul finally shuffle off this mortal coil. 
 
That said, he died from pneumonia, which is a largely preventable infection. 

Shouldn't this be in the 'Cute Critters' thread?

Courtesy of @BuffaloKyle

Vacation abroad this summer!
In 2 months, I travel to Lisbon, 3 nights in Lisbon, 14 nights cruise on an all-Gay charter on Azamara Quest, then 2 nights in Barcelona.
I booked my business class flights the week Iran started its current war, just one day before flight prices jumped.  My cruise and hotel prices were locked in last year.

Kinda funny…kinda true! (From Instagram)