Grandpa Dave here, and I get up way too early in the morning, probably because I am old, and start my day with a pot of coffee and my trusty MacBook Pro which I unleash on the news o’ the day. (OK, it’s really things that happened yesterday that get published today.)

I have been occasionally writing my thoughts about selected news stories and created this blog because I thought there might be other people also interested in what I considered to be newsworthy. It’s not “all the news” and it often is not “fit to print,” but half of it is before I have had enough coffee so I make no promises.

FYI, I start with the Washington Post (for overall coverage of things American), then Google News (which I’m sure uses AI to guess only those stories that a robot thinks I would want to read), then the UK Guardian (to get a more objective view from across the pond), and then wherever things take me. I have browsed the Christian Science Monitor (fewer stories but nicely crafted), the New York Post (shared ownership with Fox News), Fox News (or sometimes OneAmericaNews, which is a bit more to the right), BoredPanda (please don’t ask), Al Jazeera (to stay balanced, it’s actually pretty good), the New York Times (I have a print subscription), and you get the idea.

Grandpa Dave, November 2023