By one way of looking at it, today ends the first half of 2026, as the first six months end tonight at midnight. By another way of looking at it, noon on Thursday is the year's midpoint, as that's when we reach 182.5 days into a 365 day year.
However you slice it, the year is about half gone, shall we hope the next half is an improvement? I wouldn't place big bets on that proposition.
Murphy's law suggests humanity's propensity for own-foot-shooting has not diminished. However wounded by our own misdeeds, we will stumble onward in search of better days.
As the other DrC is fond of concluding, we're all in this mess together. And quoting economist J. M. Keynes, "In the long run, we're all dead" by which I believe he means "lets focus on the next few years."
