Da Bears! Da Bulls! Da Pope! Pop a cork, because Chicago is celebrating its good fortune, having sired America’s first pope. It must take some broad shoulders to pull off this feat. Today’s Chicago paper crowed the headline, “Da Pope,” and the memes have flowed freely ever since. This includes silly TikTok videos of cats wearing bras on their heads like they are some sort of Mitre.

Meanwhile back here on the ranch, the sound of race cars can be heard from across the valley. Laguna Seca is hosting a Weathertech sponsored race this weekend. The cars arrived earlier this week in a line of semis that Anne mistook for a train. On our way west last week, we passed train after train full of shipping containers and these trucks parked on the ridgeline looked like them. It is warm enough now that some venting feels good.