40 Years In The Desert

85 years ago today the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. John Belushi died way too young.

From  Reason  magazine, we have a report that shows that  mRNA COVID vaccines do not have increased mortality , in fact, morbidity, includin...

As you may be aware, Glassholes are back, but this time, it's the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™ that is selling spy sp...

As the reader(s) of my blog are no doubt aware, I am not a fan of the EU, but I am even less of a fan of Elon Musk, who  just got fined €120...

In this case, the entities in conflict are Amazon and Perplexity. The former is a retail and eCommerce giant, and the latter is one of the i...

For all the furor over what is clearly a war crime, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean in the name ...

Case in point, the Virginia Bar, which has refused to investigate a complaint against not-interim-US-Attorney for flagrant violations of leg...

Images from Wikipedia It looks like Donald Trump finds Kei Cars kawaii , (かわいい, meaning cute) and wants to make them legal in the United Sta...

In response to high pricing (not high cost, high prices) of pharmaceuticals, the Trump administration is  writing higher drug prices into in...

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says — 404 Media , noting just dysfuynctional his AI system has...

I'm thinking I may have some orthopedic issues. I'm going to cuddle the sh%$ out of my cats.  Scientific research has confirmed that...

After an oft delayed review of my blog comments, I spam flagged 3 posts. They were all just links to prostitution websites. Here is a hint t...

And it is not just the 6 conservatives. Doe the past 25 years, the liberals on the court have refused to call the bat-sh%$ insane rulings, p...

A federal grand jury  no-billed in response to the mortgage fraud accusations against New York Attorney General Letitia James . I think that...

I'm beginning to have doubts about the accuracy of statistics from a post-DOGE Bureau of Labor Statisticsx. The fact that their latest n...

But they should be. Even Ingmar Bergman, who is better known for his brooding films directed a very good comedy,  Smiles of a Summer Night  ...

After an entire career of failing up, and  the immiseration of millions of people, it looks like Larry Summers is seeing some incredibly wel...

So the White House is  shutting down Elon Musk's DOGE initiative . I'm stunned that they are doing this, after all the success that ...

It turns out that the FBI  was so busy covering up Donald Trump's role in the Epstein files that they had to stop fighting crime . Newly...

I just read this  essay on the shooting of the two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC , and you should do. The thesis is that the shooting...

Remember when I said that the obligation of servicemen to refuse illegal orders required that the order be, "Manifestly Illegal?" ...

The Guardian  is shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that  Donald Trump and his family is aggressively profiteering over his being Pres...

Antarctica’s Fastest Glacier Collapse on Record Alarms Scientists  ( Sci Tech Daily ) Nothing to worry about it's only a glacier about t...

In any other line of work, the driving philosophy of tech startups would be better defined as fraud. As we saw with Elizabeth Holme...

This one does not involve Trump, at least not directly.  Rather I am talking about  Benjamin Netanyahu demanding a pardon from Israeli Presi...

Penguin Random House released an Avatar: The Last Airbender  picture book , My Cabbages! It's intended to be for children aged 4 to 8 ye...

Donald Trump has declared that  Venezuelan airspace is closed . Needless to say the government of Venezuela differs:  The Venezuelan governm...

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist — The Atlantic on why Elon Musk completely lost his sh%$ on the curr...

The fact that I see the report of  national guardsmen being shot in Washington, DC  and my primary concern is that Trump will use this for h...

The report actually came out yesterday, I thought that it would have been tomorrow. In summary,  initial claims are down, but continuing cla...

Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe ( The Guardian ) They relocated in a systematic and ...

It looks like  the Department of Defense is planning to kick boy scouts to the curb , because they are too, "Woke." To quote not-T...

It's gotten to the point that the US Navy cannot develop ships any larger than a dinghy.  Case in the point the  recently canceled Const...

Remember when I wrote about someone side-swiping my Prius on I-83 ? (Reminder, neither Nat nor I were injured in any way) It turns out that ...

That is one seriously f%$#ed up anvil.'  

The Trump administration  is threatening to reactivate Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and prosecute him in a court martial  for the video that h...

In what is probably the least surprising of the year, Federal Judge Currie of the Eastern District of Virginia has dismissed all charges aga...

In response to pressure from the Trump administration the US Coast Guard has announced that  displaying nooses and swastikas will no longer ...

Radio Signal Crushes Alien Theory About Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS  ( Gizmodo ) Standard emissions from a profile. Silico...