Greetings! Movie of the day: The King and I, (the gramatically challenged Donald Trump probably calls it  “The King and Me”)…The MAGA-in-Chief has been non-stop bragging about his nonsensical $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the NY Times.  Late last night Trump posted on Truth Social that he’s “getting amazing feedback on my Lawsuit against The New York Times. The predominant feeling and sentiment is, “IT’S ABOUT TIME!”… Smart headline: “Are Conservatives Doing the Canceling Now?” (The Free Press)…Dumb Headline: “Hitler Never Killed Anybody” (Townhall)…Robert Redford, who passed away yesterday, was the embodiment of the All-American movie star.  Here are my three favorite Redford films where his understated onscreen power is in full view: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and All the President’s Men. Hollywood in Toto argues that Redford’s overt masculinity mattered and that it’s often missing in today’s movies. Worth noting: While American Spectator mourns the death of Redford, the outlet has no sympathy for his politics. “He was also a left-wing activist who too often put his activism into his work, which is almost never a good thing,” wrote the Spectator’s Bruce Bawer. “When politics weren’t involved, Redford was pretty savvy about picking projects.” I disagree with Bawer, but I defend his right to say it…Dept. of Very Bad News:  The new tome  If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares posits an AI  doomsday scenario. The authors, public interest advocates in the technology field, maintain that if superhuman AI continues on its current profit-fueled trajectory, it could  be the death of us all. I wonder if ChatGBT agrees with that nightmare thesis…Happy birthday to TheRighting.  We launched exactly eight years ago….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard