Boaters kept calling it in. Trees on it. Grown trees. Drifting.

The man at the power company looked at the pictures and figured somebody had made them on a computer.

Also: a court sits down to define a word that nobody had to define four years ago. A king swears an oath four days after a funeral. Two governments using the same word to mean opposite things. A storm that could not make up its mind. A shot given on the first day of a life, and who is not getting it now. Somebody telling stories about electricity. A scalpel that met something it could not cut. A company that changed hands with nobody clapping. And a farm in Kentucky that a man never left.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.