The July ish of The Last Word is pub, and you can bubble with it. Just joking! Actually, it is published, and this edition talks about a local mayor picking fights with residents, more Flock camera abuses, a 4th grade mischief contest, one state's plan to distribute cavity-fighting gum, and more!
So point your pooper here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/881882242/The-Last-Word-7-2025
If that doesn't work, glide on over here...
You're not going to hear much about this story, because it was a crime committed by rich residents of some luxury apartments. If a homeless person had committed this same crime, you'd never hear the end of it.
Two men - a father and son - have been convicted of running a drug ring out of their luxury apartments in Cincinnati. The drugs included fentanyl, crystal meth, and cocaine. The apartments were in the Pendleton and Mount Auburn neighborhoods. These luxury dwellings were gentrification projects that drove out many of the neighborhoods' previous low-income residents. One of apartments cost $4,200 per month.
Federal court documents say the Pendleton apartment was "a major source of illegal narcotics in Cincinnati."
This is like how one of the richest streets in Southgate - a street where lots of right-wing politicians live - was known as the go-to place to buy heroin. The media of course never covered that.
Gentrification. Bringing drug lords to a neighborhood near you.
Today, to make use of the record heat, I went back to the pool at Ziegler Park in Cincinnati. Channel 5 was there! But if I got on the news at all, it was probably only briefly.
Also, some couple smuggled in beer - in stark violation of an Allowed Cloud. I also detected the smooth, airy vapors of a certain green herb.
The tradition of seeing celebrity look-alikes at this pool continued as I saw a Sinead O'Connor look-alike.
The far-right World Economic Forum agenda has crossed another threshold of stupid.
Some of you know that on the few days when we have suitable weather, I use the swimming pool at Ziegler Park in Cincinnati. A couple of times, people have pooped in it, causing it to be closed for a bit. Anyway, you used to be able to pay cash for admission and snacks. But a few years ago, this public pool began to accept only credit cards - for no apparent reason.
This was a problem today, because the card reader at the snack stand was broken, even though the stand only takes credit cards. So I had to walk all the way over to the entrance to pay for my chips.
This is idiotic beyond belief. If they accepted cash, we wouldn't have to worry about a broken card reader. Yet they will not accept cash, no matter how much everyone pleads. Cash is supposed to be legal tender, but that's lost on 3CDC, the WEF, and the right-wing media.
Why do so many venues - especially in close proximity to the far-right 3CDC - reject cash? It couldn't just be to exclude those who they want to exclude. Ever since apps and online retailers became popular, very few American adults today have no credit card, because it's impractical or impossible to pay cash for app or online purchases. That's different from paying in-person like at a public pool or a festival. Clearly, someone is using credit cards to collect data on customers. Otherwise, these in-person venues wouldn't require credit cards. Who knows who has our personal information and what they'll use it for?
Today's encounter was complicated by another factor. This isn't limited to young people who toil away at snack stands. It's afflicted almost everyone over the past 5 years. The problem is that everyone mumbles now. I could hardly hear a word they said at the snack stand today. How did everyone get in the habit of mumbling? What were people doing a few years ago that gave rise to this habit? Ponder, ponder. Again, this problem plagues all of society - not just a few people.
An otherwise fine pool is dampened by the expanding totalitarianism of 3CDC and the WEF. I may go back there in the very near future, so I'll be sure to bring my walking shoes so I can walk all the way over to the entrance when I pay for a snack.
On Tuesday, in front of a local restaurant, I saw an elderly couple who looked just like Joe and Jill Biden walking along the sidewalk!
The Kentucky division of Duke Energy - the powerful monopoly that controls utility service in greater Cincinnati and charges some of the most exorbitant electric rates in the nation - has been fined $120,000 by Kentucky's Public Service Commission. The commission found that Duke committed billing violations affecting almost 8,000 customers and that the violations were "willful", as they continued even after Duke was warned to stop.
"Willful" means deliberate and intentional. It was not an accident. It was not an oversight. They did it on purpose.
Anyone who still had a benign view of our major corporations and institutions can wipe the poo off their face now.
Today, I went Roads Scholaring over in Northside. While I was resting at Hoffner Park, I heard the sound of an LAP bunker blast.
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