Club of Rome Red-faced! Tiger Woods Debased! California Waste! French Masons Disgraced!

By Robert Eringer

“Joe Rogan warns America faces dystopian ‘Children of Men’-type future because of chemicals in food” (Daily Mail)

Joe and his podcast guest—an epidemiologist—are referring to a decline in the birthrate due to plastics in our food.

Long before today’s climate-policy think tanks there was the Club of Rome, a gathering of scientists, economists, and industrialists, who warned in the 1960-70s that the planet was heading for a catastrophic breaking point because of overpopulation.

Which means the world has now moved from fearing too many people to worrying about too few.

Lesson: Don’t get too passionate about trendy beliefs and causes.

Mother Nature has been running the planet for 4.5 billion years. She doesn’t need our permission—and she rarely follows our forecasts.

“Kristi Noem weighs in on report husband lives cross-dressing double life: ‘The family was blindsided by this’” (NY Post)

A husband’s revenge for getting cuckolded?

“Tiger Woods boasted to cop he called President Trump before DUI arrest, bodycam video reveals” (California Post)

“Do you know who I am?” (Restaurant hostesses in Montecito hear this question more than they should.)

The correct answer: “Yup—you’re someone who could use a year in a monastery (and maybe stay there until your ego dissolves).”

Tiger takes it to new heights: “I was just talking to the president.”

Where did it get him?

Cuffed.

“Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud” (City-Journal)

California has lost at least $180 billion to fraud, according to officials and experts.

That figure is not merely embarrassing. It is Olympic-level embarrassing.

California collects some of the highest taxes in the nation and spends more than $300 billion a year. Yet basic services—from wildfire management to homelessness programs—often seem to produce more press releases than results.

Fraud, meanwhile, appears to have become a growth industry.

Fraud does not flourish because criminals are clever. It flourishes because systems are careless.

When oversight is weak and accountability is rare, the message is unmistakable: Take the money, no one is watching.

In Sacramento, the unofficial state motto increasingly reads: In Fraud We Trust.

Odd facts to consider: