40 Years In The Desert

We Were Wrong, Years Ago. We Should’ve Rooted for the Jocks to Win, to Stuff Those Nerds in the Locker for All Eternity. — Atrios , on Mark...

But when fascists  demand a list of all the Jews in an educational institution , it makes me uneasy. I know that this could just be dismisse...

And we are still in the low hire low fire economy. Initial claims fell tp 202,000 and continuing claims rose to 1.84 million . I have no clu...

Trump just  fired Pam Bondi . I think that this is more significant than Noem's firing for a number of reasons: It's the second firi...

Byron Noem, husband, and cuck, of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, has been exposed as a cross dressing "Bimboification" fetishis...

Cleaning for Passover. First Seder is tomorrow. 

Did you know that the 2 nd most blocked account at Bluesky is their AI tool Attie ? Given that it's only been out a few days, I expect ...

It looks like our AI driven military  just bombed another school , only this time it appears to be the combat debut of a new missile system ...

This is about Canadian politics, which is something that I know little about, beyond the fact that there are two sorts of Canadians, those w...

Rather unsurprisingly, when advertisers decide not to buy ads from you because you have created a cesspool of racism, bigotry, and misinform...

And now we have to deal with  cocaine sharks . I hate remakes. The expression “coked to the gills” has never been more apt. Scientists f...

This time it comes from France, where the headline, " Murder trial involving Freemasons, French secret agents opens in Paris court ,...

Why Falling Cats Always Seem to Land on Their Feet  ( New York Times ) They are wrong.  Cats do not land on their feet, they rotate the univ...

Or not. Because of concerns about threats to travelers to the United States by immigration authorities, the Ig Nobel Prize will be moving it...

2 years after going all in on Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence, the listicle wankers  Buzzfeed   are circling the drain . Gee, h...

It now appears that we have evidence that  the Trump administration is manipulating economic data for their own political gain . Gee,...

Many years ago, a Jew was the most trusted minister to a king. The king said, "Moishe, I would like to make you my prime minister, but ...

Also kind of true There is a genre of AI slop on YouTube, a SCF-FI genre you could call human exceptionalism. Basically, it consists of a sp...

When Pete Hegseth Says “Lethality” He’s Talking About Killing Iranian School Girls — Dean Baker , stating the obvious about what it means w...

It was a dairy farm . Why am I not surprised?  As President Trump prepared to welcome conservative Latin American leaders to a summit in Fl...

The first production KF-21, South Korea's stealth(ish) fighter jet, has rolled off the assembly line . Considering that the program offi...

Scientists have repeatedly cloned a mouse.  Somewhere around generation 30, reproductive success dropped, and by generation 58,  all of the ...

Rapper Afroman, best known as the artist who produced the song, "Because I Got High," just  prevailed in a defamation suit filed b...

PZ Meyers, in addition to being an academic is a prominent Atheist.  As such he exhibits a bunch of chagrin when he felt the need to  praise...

Step one is to look for signs of corrupt exploitative rat-f%$#s, and then investigate them. Case in point, Zohran Mamdani has  instructed ci...

My bad, I have not checked the announcements from the FDIC and NCUA for a while.  Here are the commercial bank failures Metropolitan Capital...

America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets a Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations ...

None of This Would Have Been Legal If They’d Sent Competent Adults. But the Fact That They Sent Smirking Little Sh%$s Makes It So Much Worse...

It turns out that the emissions creating anthropogenic climate change may not just broil us, it mayd strangle us directly as well . Short ve...

Activist Who Pushed 2020 Election Fraud Claims Convicted of Election Fraud — NBC News Every accusation is a confession.

Researchers at Boston University have combed through the death certificates, and Covid deaths were severely undercounted during the height o...

One of the side effects of the increasing commerce in liquefied natural gas is the production of uelium. When you cool down the gas, the hel...

So,I came across this video about 80s SF movies that were considered duds when they came out and are now considered classics, or prophetic, ...

I am referring, of course, to the fact that  Markwayne Mullin has been confirmed as the new Secretary of Homeland Security , replacing Krist...

Is this the best timed trade of 2026? At 6:50 AM ET today, $1.5 BILLION in notional value worth of S&P 500 futures con...

With both my late (and not particularly lamented) 2025 Toyota Prius and my current 2026 Corolla, I have noticed a pronounced whine at low sp...

Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except in Wages  ( Wolf Street ) This is a feature, not a bug. Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Behavi...

A jury has ruled that  Elon Musk engaged in stock fraud in the run-up to his Twitter purchase . He lied about his early stock purchases, he ...

This apparatus is a profound mind-f%$#. It is fascinating, though I'm not sure of its strength or its physical robustness.  * Robert Hoo...

Palantir Is Nazi Cancer — Jim Stewartson , describing how Peter Thiel's monstrous enterprise is successfully inserting it...