Populations Rise and Fall. Who is Populating the World Now? 2026

    The world population is slowing down, so that when we peek at 10 million in a few more years we are supposed to slope downward to six million. I mean 10 billion to six billion. Some zeros of difference there. 

    South Korea is leading the charge in lowering the population. Japan is losing overall, reducing. Russia, too. Plus this stupid war. The Palestinians claime that they have more babies to replace all the poor souls wiped out the last few years in Gaza. Do Israelis have enough babies? They get a lot of immigrants.

    We are getting rid of, i.e. deporting many of our most fecund or baby-making populations. Latinos, Africans, maybe some Asian populations. They go back to Haiti or Mexico, or Nigeria, and they have more children back there. Or not.

    Expenses there or in the United States have their opportunity costs. Is it more expensive to maintain a child here, thereofore want less children within the confines of the Continental United States?

    Is Greenland growing? Or its semi-owner, Dennmark? Most of Europe is riding the wealthy demographic shift, following lessons learned from my social studies classes taken back in the 1980s, or the books I would read, including the magazines that I would at times read regularly like Time and Newsweek, and later the Economist. Moving past the Ensign of my church or Boy's Life of the BSA, Boy Scouts of America. Not the same world or environment now.

    Chile gains folks through immigrants, like Venezuela and Haiti. Chileans, like French, are proud of their culture and heritage, their language and tastes, so maybe more chilenos will have more children.

    The French have done that, to stay ahead of the immigrant waves from Africa and the Middle East. What of the Spaniards and Italians versus the Latin Americans and others?

    Or Germany? China is decreasing, which is significant. India is not. Nor Pakistan or Bangladesh.

    Ethiopia and Nigeria continue to grow. As most African nations and ethnic groups. Keeping up with the Bantus.

    Even the whites of places like South Africa, or Botswana or Zambia.

    Arabs of the north continue to have babies, even the crazy folks of Darfur or the Tigray regions, or the unofficial lands of Somaliand or Puntland. The Djiboutians are growing in number through live births, no?

    Polynesia? Micronesia? Melanesia?

    Indonesia and the Phillipines? South East Asia?

    How is Mongolia these days? Bhutan or Sri Lanka.

    Questions remain; the answeres are out there.

    Blog it. Blog on.

Who not to Win: Dodgers, Braves. Maybe: Yanks. Why not Rays or Padres or Brewers?

    The White Sox would be amazing. And if they do not make the playoffs, why not the Guardians?

    Poor Cleveland. Poor Milwaukee. Mistakes by the lakes. Maybe the Cubs? Yeah, they only have one since the 2016 season, whuch went like 80 some years before that.

    Red Sox? Nah. They have won enough.

    Who else? The Blue Jays slip in? Philly?

    No more Braves or Dodgers. We do not need beer adverts from the Brewers, but they are forlorn.

    Alcohol killls, but so do guns and cars and trucks. All very American.

    Welcome to our world. Baseball continues and remains.

    Go fall classic time.

Yes, I Hate Peacock, and Apple, and Netlflix. And likely Paramount. Sometimes Prime, too

 Yes, I Hate Peacock, and Apple, and Netlflix. And likely Paramount. Sometimes Prime, is awful

    I pay a lot of money to watch live sports. I have most of the options, because Hulu gets me a ton of sports options. This is main reason that I pay substantial money to have this streaming device. I also pay for Disney, which gets me Star Wars shows, and Marvel, and the occasional cool documentary from National Geographic or some other random documentary. Sometimes we watch some good shows on YouTube, which is free, with commercials (love you capitalism!) like El Cid with Charleton Heston, or the Slovak or Czech movie made in 1974 that finally debuted in 1988 that I watched in college and decades later, when asked at a Book of Mormon reading, what my favorite movie was, and I described it without knowing the name. It is called, if I can look it up... translated: "Pictures of the Old World." But maybe it means the pictures of the world of the old people.

    Anyway, the art and arts are cool. But sports are mostly my thing in daily or weekly entertainment.

    Enter Peacock. They hijacked the Indiana football game this Saturday, and I am not paying more money to get it. I hate that. I pay GOOD MONEY for Hulu, to see all the important games. Not sleezy Netflix, not putrid Paramount, nor rotting Apple TV, or  whatever other idiotic streaming device is fleexing the people. I pay for Hulu, and Prime.

    Maybe I am the stooge for caring. Part of the blame is Heber J. Grant, who procured college football team for BYU in Provo in 1922, but took decades to get Lavell Edwards, who turned the gridiron Cougars into one of the coolest programs of all time. We love them. I love them.

    I also love my hometown Indiana Fightn' and Hurry'n Hoosiers, who are similar but different to the Cougars, and at a different level with head coach Curt Cignetti. 

    What times.

    Thanks for your forced coercion and extorsion, PEACOCK.

    I hate you. Maybe I will hit up someone who pays for it and watch this Saturday.

    I disdain you for stealing the Hoosiers to your own selfish, greedy selves.

    Capitalist pigs. 

    Anyway, I have first world problems and priviliges. I know.

    Should I reach out to someone with Peacock? Borrow the code from my dad, which was how I watched some IU basketball in the past?

    I want to curse them.

    Okay, not a big deal. 

    I will find a way.

    Thanks for commiserating with me. Go IU. Down with dumb NBC-affiliated Peacock. Poppycock, pure pabulum. Me and you both, stupid streamer thief and horder.

Sox Have 10 More and the Guardians 9. Race to the Finish. (!!!)

    The White Sox lost head to head today, so they have to finish stronge to make the division playoffs. Chicago has four with Detroit, 3 with the Royals, and the last threee with Colorado. Threeeee. They need to win 8 if Clevelan wins 6. If 7 versus six, then it is a tie break. I think.

    The Guardians have: the Athletics, Boston, and the Royals. Three each.

    Who cane be hot? Is it easier for the White Sox?

    We shall see.

 Ze Pale Hose Might Be Good. Enough!

    I have had some favorite major league baseball teams that never won it all. And, I have had two, no, three, with my favorite players, that have won it all. The Yanks in 1996 with Tim Raines, the 2005 White Sox with Ozzie Guillen, or Paul Konerko, and the 2019 Nats with Soto and Rendon, and Turner. Et al.

    So we shall see with the almost of the radar Chicago White Sox. Earlier in the season my favorite among them was Munetaka Murakami, if I got it right spelling, because you know Japanese. Nihongo. My co-worker Chris is going to Japan, and denied my recent attempt at "Gengi des ka". But he is learning still. He loves One Piece. Oy ve.

    Perhaps my new White Sock favorite is Tristan Peters. He may have had the at-bat of the season. Tie game late in the match, he walks on 18 pitches. I took a screen shot at 17. Amazing. Got on base with a runner ahead of him with zero outs, Sox score 6 to go up six nil. Sox win a huge road win over Cleveland to arrive at 77 wins to Cleveland's 76. This the division and last spot in the playoffs.

    More later. Love it.

 Will North Dakota State Run the Mounttain West? 2026 is A Bit Open

    Welcome to the big time, Bison. You are the Bison, or no? Still figuring out your Division I status. And name. Maybe you go undefeated this season, and enter the CFP? And maybe you will play my Hoosiers or Cougars (Provo not Houston)? Good luck. See you then. I plan on being around at the end of the year. And maybe have a 40 inch waist... Maybe the Army will expand its standards from .55 to .60?

    Panty waist patrol. We want to be fight like the Air and Space Force. Great on us. Secure the Bab al Mandab and the Straits of Hormuz, for starters. Feed our sailors in the Gulf. Too political? This is not Stalinist Russia or CCCP, thank our Living God. amen.

    Ok, college football. Because I wish to publish this, and talk baseball and possibly pro football. And other stuff, like jungle fighting, and trekking in places, and stuff like AI Agents of ourselves...

    Lessee...

    52 lossless teams going into week 3.2ish. Some will knock each other out, like Houston or Pitt, or a few more. My Cougs and Hoosiers are looking good, minus a few key personnel injuries. Must overcome. Harris for IU, Sione or Moa for BYU. And, Esera. I think that is his name.

    I have learned a bit about the Marshall Islands lately. Cool stuff. 

    Ended it there.

    

Conferences After Two Point Twoish Weeks in 2026. College Football.

    How are the Conferences Doing So Far?

    American Conference. 14 Teams.  Only 3 teams undefeated. South Florida, Tulsa, and U. Texas San Antonio. Not that great. Maybe North Texas is the best one. I hope so, because I like the former Indiana QB Tavveon Jackson. And, my kids did some fun church time on the North Texas campus. Denton, I think.

    Army and Navy have taken some lumps.

    Atlantic Coast Conference. 17 teams. 8 left without a loss. They are: Miami, SMU, Virginia, Duke, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. Hmmm... My favorite of them? Virginia. But I have less reason to like them the last couple years. I kind of like Tech in some ways more. Things can switch outside my childhood favs. Not Duke. Not Pitt... Definitely not Miami. I do not like the ACC that much. Sorry.

    Big Ten. 18 teams. 11 left without a defeat. Indiana, USC, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Penn State, UCLA, Washington, Northwestern. (Only 1-0.) Ohio State and Oregon blew it this weekend. Minnesota looks bad. Illinois choked, and Purdue blinked. Rutgers lookes really bad, and I have tickets! Should be some cake walking.

    Big 12. 16 teams. 8-- half-- still with no losses. BYU, Cincy, Colorado, Houston, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Utah, West Virginia. Could BYU or Texas Tech be the national champ? Utah? Hmmmm... Likely not the Utes. Cougars, may not be good enough on defense. We need Sione Moa back as a runner.  Play better. Yeah.

    Conference USA. 10 teams. All have lost! Waa waa, as my son would say. Which one is the best? Maybe none. Not the Flames... I think.

    Independents. 2 teams. Notre Dame is 2-0. UConn lost this weekend. Fear that Turtle.

    Mid American Conference. 13 teams: Only UMass remains without a loss! They were picked 138th by Lindy's or Athlon! Haha. Magazines. What do they know? Not much.

    Mountain West. 10 teams. North Dakota State and New Mexico have not lost. Only two. This conference has changed a lot.

    PAC 12. Eight (measly) teams. Colorado State and... that is it. They should have invited Brigham Young in 2010. Or 2011. They imploded with no tv deals, too, but they tried to break up the Holy War. Their loss. Big Ten and ACC got you now. Plus the Big 12.

    SEC. 16 teams. Lossless? 13. Those WITH a loss: Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Sorry Boomer Sooners. Michigan does have talent. Despite the gift against Western Michigan. Broncos are okay. They look strong and good to win this fall.

    Sun Belt. 14 teams. Whoo. Appalachian State is it with 0 in the loss column.

    Tough day for the Big Ten. SEC is looking better overall.

    On to week 3.

    See ya, coach potatoes.

    Are we coach spuds? Maybe. Nah, we move and jerk. We are active enough.

    My waist line is going down. Sure.

    Thanks Hegseth for the Panty Waist initiative. I was warned to watch my digital footprint about these things. Sure, will do. Good loooking out.