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Any time a public figure dies, unless he or she was notoriously evil, there is a flurry of heartwarming human interest stories about what the departed person was like, replete with anecdotes and information that was previously little known. Pope Francis is no exception, and one of the things we have learned about him was that he had a great love for music.

Suddenly Dylan Mulvaney, the fellow who would once have been known as a “flamboyant” homosexual and is in today’s society known as a “trans woman,” is everywhere. He’s advertising Bud Light. He’s also currently the pitchman for Ole Henrikson, Urban Decay, Ulta Beauty, Charlotte Tilbury, and Mac cosmetics; the Plaza Hotel; Tampax; Crest toothpaste; fashion designers and suppliers Kate Spade, Aritzia and Mugler; the dating app Ok Cupid; Svedka Vodka; Walmart; and the designer clothing rental firm Rent the Runway.

The news item here can be summed up in a limerick: There once was a prez on Nantucket, and he couldn’t get ‘round in a bucket. He rented some cars, and drove under the stars, until each one, a car fire struck it. Okay, so I ain’t Shakespeare. But this really happened. As Fox News reported more prosaically Tuesday, “President Biden’s rented Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot Monday, just one day after he left his Nantucket vacation.”

The moon is all the rage these days. China wants to send people there. So too does the United States and NASA. In fact, just about every country with a space program has some sort of lunar ambition that they hope will play out over the next few years.