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Jake:

Wow! Not since Three Dog Night, Loggins & Messina, and Jefferson Airplane have I heard such a paean to the great outdoors! You should set that to music!

https://youtu.be/49bl6FrgZT

Jake:

I was unaware of that micro stuff Enco.

Not aware? Why, every politically aware teenager fantasizes about seceding from the house. The only things that get in the way are necessity for utilities like water, electricity, and natural gas, as well as delicacies like Hot Pockets, Pizza rolls, S’mores, and Coca-Cola, and use of the car on…[Read more]

Jake:

The Lancet needs only a few words in response to their boycott of the Israeli Medical Association: “First, do no harm..”

Or, if you really wanted to rub it in: “Andrew Wakefield.”

Reg:

So ChatGPT can write Bierceian? What about Bierceian and Bayesian? What are the chances? That of a batch of Botulism at a MAHA Conference?

Reg:

Is it a ‘Peace Deal’ or just a ‘Ceasefire Agreement’?

It is two new modern entries in Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.

The term used on Trump’s side is something like “Formation of a Concept of a Plan” a diplomatic way of saying “Trump pulled this out of his ass alongside his enbedded head.”

The Islamic Arabic word for this is Hud…[Read more]

Jake:

Interesting bit of little-taught American history there. First time I ever heard that.

Here’s something you never hear amid all the non-stop barage of anti-Israel hatred:

Israel actually has a micronation in it’s borders called Akhzivland, founded by Iranian Eli Avivi. Avivi legally resisted attempts by the Israeli government to seize…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s the latest of 39 proclamations of “Peace In Our Time.” Trump and whoever he’s negotiating with don’t agree on even a “Memorandum of Understanding” proceeding a “Deal,” with Israel not even in the loop except for Trump restraining Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah.

Oh. and…[Read more]

Reg and Simon:

Where Trump messed up is not taking out both the Mullahs and the IRGC first, preferably by inciting Iran’s regular Military to mutiny and/or parachuting arms to dissenting Persian citizens. Let the military and dissenters be the “boots on the ground.”

Without the Mullahs and IRGC, arms wouldn’t ship themselves to Hamas and…[Read more]

Reg:

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be useful, trampled up…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Iran continues to choose war over peace.

Until then, the IRGC will pursue its “forever war,” threatening regional stability, the global economy, and U.S. national security.

I knew it – neither side wants to back down.  Trump doesn’t know how to cooperate, the IRGC just wants to keep doing its thing.

Reg:

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints.

I guess The American Diabetes Association can make rules for admission to their little tree-house, but they sure can’t claim to be for the best interests of Diabetics, especially if they did this on behest of Trump stoolies. Well, they just Streisand-ed…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

When I first heard this, I thought that maybe Zero Hedge was doing some Bababooey media prank making fun of Girl Bosses, meatless “Soy Boys,” and DEI “Box-Tickers.”

Turns out Alpha Gal Syndrome is a real condition spread by ticks, it’s just that it’s surrounded with lots of silly conspiracy talk.…[Read more]

Jake:

The economic shutdowns and government stimulus packages responding to COVID-19 had all kinds of destructive effects, brought out the worst in tyrannies and tyranny-lovers all over the world, created inflation that distorted economics and broke a lot of people, including eventually me.

Prior to the vaccine, the best thing to have done…[Read more]

Reg, Jake, and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s someone Michael Shermer could talk to about Antisemitism, as well have a friendly, spirited debate on the comparability of Science and Religion:

Joel Kotkin
The Rise of the UnJews
Anti-Zionism is rising among diaspora Jews; the future of Jewish identity may be increasingly…[Read more]

Jake:

Rest unassured, the problem of Batya and Frau Megyn, is not Jewish-ness, but shrewish-ness.

It’s like they were hatched from Zeus’s head fully grown, but with no content in their own brains. It’s like they were never children themselves.

And Megyn Kelly herself has 3 children, all below age-of-majority, so what up with her flippance…[Read more]