Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

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• The National Retail Federation reported Americans spent a record $25 billion on Father's Day Sunday. My neighbor ordered his kids to stop playing Fortnight and put away their iPads, we're hanging out on Father's Day. The kids marched around the driveway with signs reading No Kings Day.

• The Los Angeles Dodgers drew 53,000 fans to Dodgers Stadium Friday with the team projected to set a new MLB attendance record. Dodger fans are notorious for arriving late and leaving early. During a quiet lull in the 5th inning a vendor shouted ICE cream! and there was a mad rush for the exits.

• NPR reported a survey which found college enrollment this fall rose 20 million students, finally matching the pre-pandemic level. College is the greatest time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend thousands of dollars a year for you to go off to a strange town and get drunk every night.

• The Coast Guard cited the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter James for offloading 45,000 tons of cocaine intercepted in the Eastern Pacific worth $510 million. If you see someone buying popcorn, candy and soda at the movies, they're drug dealers. There's no other explanation for that kind of income.

• The Palomar Observatory discovered the Dwarf Star 8,000 light years from Earth that feeds off the plasma of neighboring stars. Whenever I'm jogging at night and I see a light streaking across the night sky I'm never sure if it's a shooting star or if Iran is retaliating again. It's always one or the other.

• Modern Retail reports that many of the big box retail chain stores are starting to downsize in an attempt to make shopping a more personal experience. There's one huge exception of note. Israel just announced plans to build the World's Largest Costco on the site that used to be the country of Iran.

• President Trump hosted a spectacular parade and fireworks show celebrating the U.S. Army's 250th birthday Saturday carried live on Fox News. Dozens of cities hosted No Kings protest marches carried live on CNN. The latest poll shows 50% of Americans think the other 50% have lost their minds.

• No Kings protestors walked from downtown L.A. to Beverly Hills Saturday, testing everybody's sense of broad-mindedness. We can only be pushed so far. Americans will accept that a man can be a drug addict, a drunk or even a comedian, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

• The House of Representatives on Thursday passed Elon Musk's proposed nine billion dollars in budget cuts due to the fraud and deadwood discovered by Elon's DOGE team. Take the job of Senate Chaplain. As occupations go, only mind readers in Hollywood have fewer things to do all day.

• Greta Thunberg's sailboat headed for Gaza was halted by Israel's coast guard last week. Greta has a lot of fans in the Islamist fighters. Members of Hamas, ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Taliban say they wish more Westerners were like Greta Thunberg, which is to say an adult woman who looks 10 years old.

• Air India had a terrible airline crash last week when a Boeing 787 Dream Liner crashed shortly after takeoff, resulting in only one survivor who was seated in seat A11. All the major airlines were happy to hear about that one passenger surviving. They can now charge people triple price for seat A11.

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