Saturday, December 06, 2025

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- EU fires a free speech warning at X. Have to wonder if this was a clumsy attempt by EU officials to get free "Blue Checkmarks" on their X accounts gone globally wrong? 

- Harvest Now Decrypt Later (HNDL). Was unaware of this cyber threat. (HT Tim Ferriss)

- How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy recourses.

- How AI can actually increase employment - like in radiologists.

Saturday Flotsam and Jtsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

Enjoy your championship Saturday of college football - I know I plan to. Too cold out for much work in the yard and only a few errands to run. Now for my first cup of coffee!

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Quotes for Today

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More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- CNN's Jake Tapper skewered over calling DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a "white man." That's OK Tapper will probably put his name on a book in a couple of years about how the Democrats and the media tried to deflect J6th blame onto white Republicans.

- More evidence of voter fraud and election interference coming from inside Venezuela.

- VDH: A Newsom nihilist nomination? Personally I'd like to see him run just to see other Democratic candidates bring up these points.

- NFL, union agree on new policy for picking playing surfaces. Met Life Stadium hardest hit.

Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

Trying not to get too worked up about the new Jan 6th pipe bomber news because I seem to remember just last month being told that the pipe bomber was a former female law enforcement officer now working for the CIA. Are we supposed to pretend that story never happened now?

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Quotes for Today

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Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

Has there ever been a better way to make money in America than being named a target for Penn State's head football coach search? Candidates reportedly have signed $370 million in new deals with existing institutions. If the Nittany Lions did that for every American we could all have a very merry Christmas.

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Quotes for Today

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College Football Thoughts

Some thoughts and observations after the latest playoff rankings and coaching carousel moves.


Was having these thoughts anyway so figured I'd share them on Substack. May the playoff odds ever be in your favor.

Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

Did not address the question of if we are at war with Venezuela because I honestly don't know. Is Maduro still in power? Did he resign? I'll be monitoring that situation. Also did not comment on college football or the latest playoff rankings. Plan a post on that later today.

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Quotes for Today

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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

The League

"In a widely lauded speech in New York in January 1922, Fielding Yost, head coach at the University of Michigan, said that paying men to play football 'robs the great American game of its greatest character-building qualities. The ideals of generous service, loyalty, sacrifice, and whole hearted devotion to a cause all are taken away. The game is robbed of the exhilarating inspiration of achievement merely for achievement's sake.'"

This quote seems quaint given the spectacle of Lane Kiffin abandoning Ole Miss in the midst of the school's greatest achievement to sign a $13 million per year contract with LSU. And Kiffin lacks the achievement of either SEC or national championships.

"At his [George Halas] suggestion, the APFA [American Professional Football Association] changed its name at an owners' meeting in Cleveland  on June 24, 1922. 'I lacked enthusiasm for our name,' Halas wrote, because the word 'association' connoted minor league status in baseball. He suggested National Football League, explaining that baseball's National League was the sports most established, respected circuit. The other owners approved unanimously."

Some history I did not know. From John Eisenberg's The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- VDH: The war in Ukraine - lots of questions but few answers. People can avoid the facts but not the reality.

- Dan Wetzel: Lane Kiffin is many things, but he's certainly no victim in move to LSU. He's not wrong. Fan of Wetzel's sarcasm.

- Keeping a close eye on AI. Everything in moderation - including AI,

- The case against an International Panel on Inequality.  Socialism by another name is still socialism.

Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

We're at that strange time of year where the calendar says its December but its technically still Fall. Yet it's getting cold but it's really too early to be winter or Christmas season. It's like a seasonal DMZ. We really should have a name for this time of year.

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Quotes for Today

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Monday, December 01, 2025

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The US Navy can't build a navy anymore. Disturbing.

- From the archives: Tim Ferriss on the 80/20 rule.

- US Air Force has a F-47 NGAD fighter math problem. Just like that next generation air dominance (NGAD) enters the lexicon. Get there firstest with the mostest.

- Interesting: Satellite images show Tehran's worsening water crisis.

College Football Thoughts

With Lane Kiffin choosing LSU and the coaching carousel spinning wildly needed to put down some of my thoughts.

As a person actively seeking happiness and appreciating things that make me happy - Lane's decision to ditch Ole Miss where he claimed to finally found happiness rankles me.

Monday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

Still digesting my thoughts on Lane Kiffin choosing LSU and abandoning Ole Miss where he proclaimed he finally found happiness. Can't help but recall that his dad Monte was known not just for his great coaching but also for his loyalty to one team - the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now Lane will be remembered for abandoning teams and hopping around from place to place.

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Quotes for Today

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