Torn between two events

A friend got me a ticket to tonight's White Sox game, but a bunch of my other friends are going to the Grant Park Music Festival to hear the Levin completion of Mozart's Requiem. Possibly I'll go to that tomorrow, except...none of my friends can go tomorrow. Le sigh. Either way, I get to ride on the Red Line! Joy, rapture, etc.

Meanwhile:

• The Government Accountability Office has released shocking—shocking, I say!—data that shows the Clown Prince of X exaggerated DOGE's cost-cutting from cancelling government leases by about 100%. That's not a typo; it's one hundred percent, plus or minus a few thousand dollars.
• It also should surprise no one that the OAFPOTUS is refusing to fund transportation projects in states that voted against him.
• The problem with our lying administration is that they all lie to each other, too.
• Why the hell did the OAFPOTUS just pick a fight with the French? My god they're all stupid over there.
• Believe it or not. there is one world leader even worse than the OAFPOTUS: Vladimir Putin, whose military is now chasing civilians with drones and posting the video online. (How far are we really from "The Arsenal of Freedom?"
• Andrew Sullivan knows hope that the twin cults ruining American life right now—the OAFPOTUS and the Woke—are finally starting to die.
• A truce between progessive Democrats and party centrists is still possible, and in fact is probably happening despite what you see on social media. Regardless, Josh Marshall warns the party against fighting this fight.
• Eric Zorn predicts the Chicago Public Schools will lose the game of chicken they're playing against the Illinois General Assembly. I hope he's right.
• The South Shore Line has proposed a new stop in Hammond, Ind., to accommodate the Hammond Bears, should the team decamp to the ugliest bit of land in the tri-state area.
• Which is better, a good restaurant or a consistent one?

Finally, Ask the Pilot's Patrick Smith describes QANTAS's "Project Sunrise," which involves flying a super-long-range Airbus A350 from Sydney to London. That's a 17,000 km, 22-hour trip along the great circle route, longer (and possibly both trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic) if they avoid Russian airspace. Now, I actually didn't mind my 14-hour flight from Dallas to Seoul in 2013, even though I sat back in coach. (It helped that no one sat next to me.) But 22 hours? I'd need at least business class. And some nice drugs that aren't legal in either Australia or the UK.