For decades now, when young people go out on first dates and want to learn about each other, they might ask: “What is your sign?” But starting today, there is a new question: “What is your font?”

It seems clear that if someone whose font is Calibri (meaning they are a “left wing lunatic”, as our President might describe them) learns that their date is New Times Roman (a true American font, regardless of the name), they might as well take the next Uber home. They are totally incompatible.

It turns out that Calibri is a DEIA font, easier to read than New Times Roman, and therefore makes immigrants from countries where English is not widely used more comfortable, as well as persons with certain disabilities . For this reason, Secretary Rubio is insisting that all official communications from the State Department be written in New Times Roman. Take that, Anthony Blinken!!

Now, I have never been font conscious until today, but I will be more careful from now on. For example, I now have learned, if I can believe what I read, that this blog is being brought to you in Samsung One font, and that when you Google something, your response comes in Roboto font. There is just so much to learn.

Did you know, for example, that Substack let’s you select your own font out of several they offer? Fascinating, no? No?

A tired looking, but persistent, Donald Trump rallied at the Mt. Airy Casino in the Poconos last night. He did about as well as he has historically done in casinos, I thought.

While I haven’t seen the fact checkers yet, and only watched some of his talk, there did not seem to be many new lies, only ones he has told multiple times in the past. One that I did focus on had to do with wind farms, which of course he hates. His claim was the almost all of the products that are used to make windmills come from China, but that China has no wind farms itself because the Chinese are too smart.

I thought that was worth a Google. Here is a map which shows where you can find wind farms in China.

I also was interested in how much he loves miners. You know what a miner is? According to Trump, it is someone who goes to work every day 10,000 feet underground. That was worth another Google. Yes, there is a 10,000 foot deep gold mine in South Africa. But in the US, most coal mines seem to be fewer than 2000 feet deep, and certainly none approaches 10,000 feet. But what is a little exaggerating among friends?

By the way, Trump also said that our miners love mining, and love burrowing 10,000 feet. I paraphrase slightly: “I could offer them a beautiful penthouse in midtown Manhattan, but they would turn it down because they love their mines.”

While Rubio was reporting, and Trump was mining his own business at the casino, Miami was electing its first Democratic mayor in 30 years, and electing her by 20 points. And the Democrats flipped a seat in the Georgia state legislature in a district that Trump won by over 10 points.

November 2026 is still 11 months away and much could happen, but…..

Signing off in Samsung One.