40 Years In The Desert

The Further Adventures of Matthew Saroff,
Itinerant Engineer

08 December 2025

Linkage

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It’s Official: The Original Theatrical Cut of ‘Star Wars’ Is Coming Back to Theaters ( Gizmodo ) Han shoots first, no ring around the Death ...
07 December 2025

Was it Over When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?

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

Well Imagine That

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

The Hero We Need

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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...

Well, That Explains His Outrage at the EU

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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...
06 December 2025

How Can They Both Lose?

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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...

Important Context

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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 ...

Self Regulation is to Regulation as Self Importance is to Importance

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

A Stopped Clock Moment

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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...
05 December 2025

Yeah, This is Literally the Worst Thing to Do

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

Headline of the Day

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

Ecch (Tweet) of the Day

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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...
04 December 2025

I'm Moving Up in this World

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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...

The Nakedly Corrupt Supreme Court Needs to be Broken

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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...

Grand Juries are not Buying their Bullsh%$

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

It's Thursday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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...
03 December 2025

The Swedes Are Not Known for Their Senses of Humor

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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  ...

Well Deserved Fall

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After an entire career of failing up, and  the immiseration of millions of people, it looks like Larry Summers is seeing some incredibly wel...
02 December 2025

Bye Felicia Doge

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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 ...

Think of the Overtime Costs

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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...

You Need to Read This

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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...
01 December 2025

This is Manifestly a War Crime

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

Gee, Ya Think?

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

Linkage

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Antarctica’s Fastest Glacier Collapse on Record Alarms Scientists  ( Sci Tech Daily ) Nothing to worry about it's only a glacier about t...
30 November 2025

“Fake It till You Make It,” Huh?

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

Of Course He is Looking for a Pardon

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This one does not involve Trump, at least not directly.  Rather I am talking about  Benjamin Netanyahu demanding a pardon from Israeli Presi...
29 November 2025

A Great Holiday Gift Choice

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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...

Not Good

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Donald Trump has declared that  Venezuelan airspace is closed . Needless to say the government of Venezuela differs:  The Venezuelan governm...
28 November 2025

Headline of the Day

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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist — The Atlantic on why Elon Musk completely lost his sh%$ on the curr...
27 November 2025

Not Good

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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...

It's Thursday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

Linkage, Thanksgiving Edition

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Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe ( The Guardian ) They relocated in a systematic and ...
26 November 2025

Another Win for the US Military

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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...

All the Chinese Have to Do Is Wait for Us to Destroy Ourselves

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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...
25 November 2025

So, It Turns Out That My Prius Was Totaled

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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 ...

I Have Never Seen an Anvil with PTSD Before

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That is one seriously f%$#ed up anvil.'  
24 November 2025

When Quoting the UCMJ is a Crime

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

Fail

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

Clearly, Trump is Good for the Jews

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

Linkage

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