Friday, August 8, 2025

What a not-so-beautiful noise...

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  ... with apologies to Neil Diamond , of course. This morning, friend Alma Boykin put up this video clip of the sounds of cicadas in Texas...
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Well, excuse ME!!!

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  I had to laugh at this photograph, found on Gab : I'd love to hear a translation of the thoughts of the hummingbird on the bottom... P...
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Thursday, August 7, 2025

That's one way to get there...

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  From XKCD a few days ago.  Click the image to be taken to the original at the comic's Web page. The mouseover text at the original s...
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Tourniquets: they work, but they have dangers of their own

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  I was interested to read an article about the use of tourniquets in Ukraine , particularly because it contrasts between their use in a rap...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Prison reform? Start with the basics

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  City Journal published an article recently advocating that America adopt the Japanese model of prison reform. America’s federal prisons a...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Rather shorter than my driving time!

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  It seems there's a new world record for the longest distance covered by a single flash of lightning . The World Meteorological Organiz...
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A sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and white-collar jobs

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  Basically, any white-collar job (management, technical, administrative, whatever) is under threat. Mo Gawdat, the former chief business of...
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Monday, August 4, 2025

The Netanyahu trial in Israel: is this anti-Trump lawfare redux?

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  Tablet magazine has published an interesting overview of the trial of Israeli prime minister Netanyahu on various allegations of corrupti...
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Memes that made me laugh 272

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  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Sunday morning music

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  Last week we lost a giant of comedy musical theater.  Mathematician and entertainer Tom Lehrer died at the age of 97.  His obituary (at t...
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Friday, August 1, 2025

Weapons development: lessons from Ukraine

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  An interview suggests that old-style US defense manufacturers are ignoring lessons from Ukraine in rapid response to battlefield needs an...
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Did ActBlue use mortgage chicanery to disguise money laundering?

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  If a newly released report is correct, that may be the case.  For those who don't know it, ActBlue is a major fund-raising operation ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Late start today

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  Working on a couple of issues, so no time to blog today.  Check back tomorrow.  Thanks! Peter
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Another illegal alien problem - massive fraud and fiscal abuse

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  Following my thoughts yesterday about the seemingly insoluble illegal alien problem, a report from California illustrated yet another asp...
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I don't want to hear him ask me that, either...

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  From the inimitable Stephan Pastis.  Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the "Pearls Before Swine" Web page. I th...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Why illegal aliens will keep on coming

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  I've heard and read a lot of comments about the illegal alien problem in the United States.  Many say - and I agree - that they should...
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Tough kid!

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  We've all heard the expression "Man bites dog" as an example of a strange newspaper headline.  Well, how about "Toddler...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

Sounds like a public service homicide to me...

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  An Arkansas man is to stand trial after killing the man who, after already being charged for abusing his daughter, apparently kidnapped h...
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Memes that made me laugh 271

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  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Sunday morning music

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  I came across an article at the BBC's Web site discussing the dying art of making the santoor or santur , a traditional Persian stri...
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