of the country and the world, did you get kind of a light show last night? Apparently it's going to be better tonight. So I can't imagine what would be better than going outside and seeing this aurora borealis, like this natural wonder. That's like the best thing that ever happened. I mean what could really be better than that?

Oh, here's something that's better. It's the 2026 Dilbert calendar, which is now available at the Amazon store, but only the USA Amazon. You know, the one you use if you're in America. That's the only place you can get it. Not available in stores, only on Amazon. More beautiful than the Aurora Borealis. I know that seems like an overclaim, but wait till you see it. You'll agree.

All right. We have a little fact check. Remember if you're following any of the drama on the right side of the news, do you remember Ben Shapiro was on stage with Megyn Kelly and Ben claimed that Candace Owens claimed, and this is the part that's not true, that Candace had suggested that Charlie Kirk was somehow responsible for or involved in the death of her husband. And Megyn Kelly said, "What?" So yeah, I'm paraphrasing, but she basically said some version of "What? I do this for a living. I've never heard of that. How could I not have heard of that?" And I had the same experience, which is when I heard it I was like, I didn't think Ben Shapiro would be wrong factually. He's very fact-based. So I thought, really, how could that have happened? And I never would have heard of it.

Turns out it never happened. So now we have the final word. Yeah. Never happened. I don't know what Ben saw or believes he saw or maybe he just interpreted something differently than other people, but in case you want to know factually, there's no evidence that Candace did that. She has, I believe, and I think I'm accurate in saying this but I want to be very careful, I don't want to mischaracterize anybody's opinion, which would be easy in this case. I believe Candace does have some questions about Turning Point USA, one or more persons who may have been doing things that sort of didn't add up and that maybe that mattered. But that's a far cry from saying that either that person or persons or any other person was involved in planning and executing a tragic murder.

So moving on. That's your drama corner. I don't think the right side of the world does the drama as well as the left. The Dramacrats really have an advantage in that thing.

All right, here's one piece of science. According to PsyPost, Karina Petrova is writing that shared gut microbe imbalances, so if you have an imbalance in your gut microbes, it might be the same kind of imbalance for people who have autism, ADHD, and anorexia nervosa. Which would suggest that your gut, at least one thing it suggests, is that your gut changes your brain or influences your brain.

Now I suppose it could work the other way, right? It's not obvious how it could, but you have to ask yourself, is it possible that if the brain is doing a certain thing, let's say one of these imbalances, that it causes your gut also to be imbalanced in some certain specific way maybe? But doesn't it seem more likely that the gut imbalance would lead to some variety of brain imperfections temporarily or permanently?

Anyway, as I often say, this little reframe: your body is your brain. If you want your brain to be working the best it can, you have to take care of your body. That's diet and exercise.

People, do you remember that I was critical and lots of people were critical of Apple for being so slow with AI? And you thought to yourself, "Oh my god." Well, maybe you didn't think it, but I said it out loud as if I knew something. And I thought, "Oh my god, Apple could actually be at risk of just completely going out of business or being cut down to size if AI is the thing in the future, like just the thing. And if Apple doesn't embrace it or lead in it or buy a company, it's going to miss out on the thing." And you know maybe there's no way to catch up.

Well, as of today the opinions seem to be turning toward Apple. Meaning that Nvidia just went down because SoftBank sold all of their stock. But to be fair, SoftBank is putting it back into AI, just a different form, putting it back into OpenAI and building data centers, I guess. So they're still all in on AI. But th