Sunday, June 14, 2026
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
What do you get for the President who has everything? Well how about a peace deal with a defeated Iran and a UFC event at the White House? Happy 80th birthday to Donald Trump.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Glenn Reynolds: Elon Musk is a Genius and a Litmus Test. Elon should be held in the highest of regards.
- More Pritchett, Less Piketty. The economics are clear.
- Our Achilles Heel. The point about college admissions will stick with me.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Tonight is game 5 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio and the Knicks have the chance to win their first championship since 1973. Have the feeling the Spurs (and maybe the NBA) won't let that happen which would set up a potential ratings bonanza game 6 in NY. Just saying.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope ay resonate with you.
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Friday, June 12, 2026
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- ESPN created this monster. "TV money and legalized gambling ruined college sports."
- Dan Wetzel: Sorsby ruling a temporary injunction that will cause permanent damage.
- What would it look like if the AI bubble burst?
- How three economists built blueprints for taking your stuff.
Filling the Ocean
Isaac Newton once said that what we know is a drop but what we don't know is an ocean. He's right of course but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try in our own small way to fill that ocean.
That - in part - is what I try to do with trying to absorb some of the lessons from the quotes I examine and try to take to heart each day. And also with my thoughts on what's going on in the world and what they may mean. Not to mention the reading I try to do each day.
In the movie The Shootist John Wayne buys a newspaper the day he learns he has terminal cancer and is intent of reading that paper cover to cover so he knows what happened on that particular day. I don't have terminal cancer (thank God) but death does come for all of us - memento mori. Shouldn't we use the time allotted to us in our short span and try to fill the ocean of what we don't know but at the same time enjoy the fact we are alive and appreciate the present moment?
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
A cease-fire /peace deal was reportedly reached between the US and Iran. Again. The nuclear details are to be announced. Most of the details so far seem to favor Iran especially they part where their leaders get to finally come out of their caves and they won't get bombed.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- How America could become a high trust society again.
- Jonathan Turley: Democratic leaders swap "Me Too" for Maine.
- Man-Bear-Pig's Al Gore's inaccurate untruths distorted policy. It was always a hoax.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The two big stories this morning are the Knicks amazing comeback to win game 3 of the NBA Finals and the war in Iran devolving to just the US taking target practice. That the NBA Finals seems the top story shows just how little regard the average American is giving to Iran's military at this point.
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Quotes forToday
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026
College Football Thoughts
Was having these anyway and figured may as well jot them down and post on Substack.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The Brendan Sorsby ruling continues to soak up all the oxygen in the room when it comes to college football. I plan to have a separate post dealing with that situation later today.
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Quote for Today
Some quotes I hope ay resonate with you.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2026
The Killer Angels
"'This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. I don't... this hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set other men free.'" - Col. Joshua Chamberlain
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Big 12 discuss options as Brendan Sorsby trial gets February date. What a mess!
- And if anyone questions the results they're racist!
- From the archives: Karl Popper on the line between science and pseudoscience.
- Is the SpaceX IPO the reason for the $2 trillion stock market sell-off?
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Even with the Spurs beating the Knicks last night the big story of the day was Brendan Sorsby being ruled eligible for Texas Tech by a local Lubbock District Court despite being banned for life by the NCAA for gambling. You have to wonder if all the sports books will be pulling Texas Tech games from betting in response?
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Monday, June 08, 2026
Lessons of History
It was well reported that The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman was one of JFK's favorite books. But it was also reported in David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest that JFK may have sent those 18,000 "advisors" to Vietnam as a direct result of the bullying treatment he received from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. It's as if he didn't lean anything from Tuchman's book.
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
I've also long held that much of the tragedy of WW I was because military leaders failed to learn from the lessons of the American Civil War where trench warfare had it's seeds.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Tonight is game 3 of the NBA Finals and the first finals game at MSG since 1999. Look for any celebrity from New York or any who have shows on ABC or Disney to attend and get plenty of air time. If you did a drinking game of having to take a sip every time a Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, Timothy Chalamet, or other luminary appears on screen - you might be drunk by halftime.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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