Sunday, July 2: Gabe Trujillo Remembered
The Associated Press published an article providing details surrounding Gabe’s death last month in Mexico. It’s well written, detailed, and honors his dedicated hard work and infectious personality. It’s been a tough week of trying to process the loss, and I’m sure it’ll be much longer before it fully sinks in, but it was nice to read about Gabe through the eyes of the people who loved him most.
Side Items
NYT Investigates: Like a useless detective incapable of actually stopping crimes, the New York Times investigated the recent migrant boat disaster that unfolded in the Mediterranean. The investigation comes too late for any actionable takeaways, and we don’t really learn anything we didn’t already know. From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio technology, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana first lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast of Greece in a slowly unfolding, entirely avoidable humanitarian disaster
Biden’s Secret Family: Apparently there’s a 4-year-old girl down in rural Arkansas who is directly related to Joseph Robinette as the daughter of his often-embattled son Hunter. This little girl is learning to ride a camo-patterned four-wheeler and hunt with her cousins while grandpa is falling asleep in state dinners and misreading cue cards. Her father Hunter Biden and her mother ended a yearslong court battle over child support earlier this week, agreeing that Biden would turn over a number of his original paintings to his daughter in addition to providing a monthly support payment. You must be thinking, “Hunter Biden’s a painter??” which is an extremely appropriate response. Biden has embarked on a second career as a painter whose pieces have been offered for as much as $500,000 each! The unnamed little girl will select the paintings from her father like some sort of strange hillbilly trade for child support
NASCAR Disascar: The inaugural NASCAR race in downtown Chicago has gone about as well as can be expected, which is to say, lethally horrible. A contractor died on Friday before the race even got underway, the rain delayed the start of the race on Saturday, and crowd turnout was already low because the ill-conceived event was destined to fail from the moment the bloated contract was signed. The only hope now is that the event makes so little money that whoever’s in charge decides to scrap the next two years this race is scheduled