Random Notes

A few items too short for a complete article, but too good to leave unnoticed...

• Okay, this is the funniest thing on Twitter/X today:

I say is it high time that South Korea catches up to John Marshall and his law.

• So the Greenland acquisition thing is going to happen, isn’t it?

Greenland’s leader wants independence from Denmark as Trump hovers over Arctic island

The prime minister of Greenland called for independence from Denmark and removing the “shackles” of colonialism in a strident New Year’s address this week.

Greenland, the world’s largest island with a population of around 60,000, was a Danish colony until it became self-ruling with its own parliament in 1979. It remains a territory of Denmark, with Copenhagen exercising control over its foreign and defense policy.

The renewed call comes after United States President-elect Donald Trump once again suggested buying Greenland from Denmark — a proposal he made during his first term and reiterated last month, calling the U.S. acquiring the Arctic territory an “absolute necessity.”

I visited Greenland briefly last summer. Not quite sure why we’d want it.