Saturday, October 31, 2026
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark leaving in January for job outside college football. Wat's the new job?
- From the archives: Henry Miller's 11 commandments of writing.
- Some FUD on AI. Are FUD stories about AI bringing doom joined stories about murder hornets and quicksand?
- Noah Smith on the passing of Patrick Stewart. And the importance of Star Trek: TNG.
Halloween Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
When my kids were younger - my wife would go with some neighborhood moms and the kids around the neighborhood for trick or treating (while the moms enjoyed some wine). My job was to stay home and pass out candy (with one eye on whatever game was on TV). Sort of nostalgic for those days.
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Friday, October 30, 2026
More Linky Links
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- What Californians really want.
- Being a beginner is awesome.
- Sucker for stories of Daniel Morgan. And yes he deserves his own miniseries.
Linky Links
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- Marvel remember the passing of Patrick Stewart. No mention of Captain Pickard role (understandable).
- Of all Elon Musk's companies - Neuralink is often the most overlooked. But may prove to be the most consequential.
- How can Liberals effectively govern a country and a people that they hate? When people tell you who they are - believe them.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Yesterday was the 5-year anniversary of the death of Ernie Johnson's son. He says that anniversary had no role in his decision to step away from Inside the NBA but how could it not?
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Thursday, October 29, 2026
Linky Links
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- Entropy - a subject I find interesting. As an aside - Instant Entropy would be a good name for a demolition company.
College Football Thoughts
Some observations on the state of college football as we head into this weekend's action.
Was having these thoughts anyway and figured I'd just jot them down and post on Substack.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Don't forget the Panthers - Green Bay game tonight on Thursday Night Football. Don't forget to get your picks in or set you fantasy football lineup. Just FYI. And once again - congrats to the Brewers of their first World Series Championship.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Linky Links
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- Glenn Reynolds: Life today under Late Democracy. He's not wrong.
- Kevin Kelly: A proposal for universal national service. How is this different than a draft? Against the draft and compulsorily service.
- Anthropic bought Mithril, a one-man biotech startup built by an anonymous X user. I would so watch a doc on Professor Oak.
- Europe's share of tech R&D isn't collapsing - it has collapsed.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
What day is it? I have a new Hump Day post and if I have to have a camel's voice stuck in my head this early in the morning - well misery loves company.
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This Velma Costume Remains One of My Halloween Favorites
Just a couple of things I can't get out of my head.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Linky Links
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- NATO needs an emergency summit on this. He's not wrong.
- Databricks and the future of the firm. Lakehouse to Lakebase to agents.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post upon Substack.
Today's offering a little late as I stayed up to watch the Cowboys roll over the Eagles on Monday Night Football (or MNF as the cool kids are abbreviating it). Think this all started with Saturday Night changing their name to SNL back in the day.
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Monday, October 26, 2026
Linky Links
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- When Elon Musk (and Starlink) saved Ukraine. How long does an emergency fix supposed to go on?
- Walter Koenig, Chekov on Star Trek, dies at 90.
- This actually explain a lot.
- Elon Musk just delivered spectacular news for SpaceX stock investors.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Today's offering is politics and link free! Know that doesn't always sit well with some but that's just just the way it happens sometimes. These are organic thoughts after all.
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The 2026 Federal Budget
Sunday, October 25, 2026
College Football Thoughts
Some college football observations after another crazy Saturday of action.
Was having these thoughts anyway so thought why not jot them down and post up on Substack.
Linky Links
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- Jonathan Turley on Jury Nullification.
- France is an early battle for Western Civilization. He's not wrong.
- How the Elizabeth Holmes doc "You Can See Everything" is deceiving you. Interesting perspective.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Enjoy this offering in which I wonder if there are adult Trump Accounts? Would they be an employer with matching 401k funds? A discounted employee stock purchase plan? Or as simple as Christmas bonuses? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
Linky Links
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- Glenn Reynolds: The Coming Revolution. Scary stuff.
- From the archives: 12 books Elon Musk says changed his life.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
While you watch your college football games today remember the NFL front offices and the fans of both the Steelers and Saints are hoping Paris doesn't get burned to the ground and their game tomorrow morning comes off without a hitch. All for a buck. Can almost picture Roger Goodell saying, "Are you not entertained?"
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Friday, October 23, 2026
Linky Links
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- Are synthetic diamonds about to become a fraction of "real" ones?
- Notre Dame still getting flack for a weak schedule. Remember both Indiana and USC begged off already scheduled games.
- You can't have capitalism without freedom. To support one is to support the other.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
To get this out of the way - yes I did watch the Bears beat the Pats 30-24. I held out hope until about 1:30 left in the game when Chicago went up by 9 points. One team had to lose and last night was New England's turn.
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Thursday, October 22, 2026
More Linky Links
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- Matt Ridley: Can we make photosynthesis more efficient?
- Acting icon Tom Skerritt passes aged 93. He lived a full life.
Linky Links
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- Kevin Kelly: Most improbable agent of you. Does make a lot of sense.
- Elon Musk will have his revenge on Democrats.
- Interesting theory on Musk's strategy. Makes sense.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The Patriots play the Bears tonight on Thursday Night Football. Make sure you get your fantasy football lineups in - it would be a shame to leave either Drake Maye or Caleb Williams on the bench. Oh and make sure you have plenty of beer for the game (note to self).
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026
College Football Thoughts
Some college football observations as we deal with a shaken up top 10.
Was having these observations anyway and figured why not jot them down and post on Substack.
Linky Links
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- VDH: The Deep Midterms. It does come down to destruction vs creation.
- Jalen Hurts blood clots raise $500 million question.
- Royal Navy's submarine legacy's sad deathbed. The Royal Navy is in a sad state.
- Trump's midterm plan. A fool and in his belief in polls are soon parted.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Today is Wednesday - Woodin's day (aka Odin). This always makes me think of the bumper sticker "Odin promised he would get rid of the Ice Giants. Well where are the Ice Giants now? Vote Odin." Hard to argue with that logic.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Linky Links
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- Good points on the Tesla Roadster.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Today's offering seems mainly NFL related and I did not even mention last night's 23-17 win by San Fran over Washington. Was this head coach Dan Quinn's last game with the Commanders before getting fired for Jayden Daniels' brain farts? Curious minds want to know.
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Monday, October 19, 2026
Linky Links
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- Big 12 admits error in Notre Dame-BYU game - Fighting Irish should have had one more play.
- How crazy was the action yesterday in the NFL? And JJ McCarthy only played 11 minutes.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
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With Paris and France on fire, rampant looting and general chaos going on - would you be surprised if the State Department issued a travel advisory telling Americans not to travel to France? In a way it would also be amusing to see France try to invoke NATO Article 5: "Help us from our immigration problem and send us your NFL teams."
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Sunday, October 18, 2026
College Football Thoughts
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Linky Links
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- America's happiest states in 2026. Was surprised at NJ being ranked so high.
- Welcome to the new era of AI medicine. Long but interesting read. We're still a ways off but we are making great strides.
- Shakespeare, Dickens, and Your Intuition.
- Jonathan Turley: Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin says the quiet part out loud.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Yesterday truly was a historic day in college football with 5 top 7 teams losing causing chaos. Meanwhile today is an NFL day with the London game starting at 9:30. It's too cold out to do yardwork anyway.
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Hitch 22
"I would never have guessed at the time that conscription would be abolished by Richard Nixon, and still less that he would appoint Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan to the Presidential Commission on the subject. The two right-wing libertarians condemned the draft as 'involuntary servitude.' Today, almost the only people who call for the return of the system are collectivists and liberals."
This was from the 2010 edition but it remains so very true today. Either saying there should be a return of the draft or that Republicans will do it so "vote for me" seem to be the province exclusively of the Democrats.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Sanctions on Russian oil: Lessons learned.
- Glenn Reynolds: Flying Cars and Those Who Hate Them. He's not wrong.
- 39 failures on the way to abundance. The backstory of WD-40.
- The same AI got 1,000 times cheaper in 3-years. If it was government controlled it would have gotten 3-times more expensive.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Didn't bother with any anonymous sourced reports about Suzie Wiles or the rantings of anti-Semite Roger Waters because life is too short. Especially when the weekend's here and there's football games to watch - even a London game tomorrow morning.
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Friday, October 16, 2026
The Forgotten Man
"Hoover's wage idea sounded good to some. And they were indeed the opposite of federal policies in the last downturn. But they really did not make sense: to force businesses to go spending when it did not want to was to hurt business. And in some areas - wages, especially - the president's policy was dramatically counterproductive. As the crash continued, profits began to drop. Yet businesses could not adjust: if they wanted to be good citizens, they had to keep their pledge to Hoover and sustain employment and wages. The president was, essentially, requiring that companies take the hit in profits instead of employment.
...But there was also, of course, and effect on employers. Their wage costs forced down the value of the company shares, aggravating the downturn that Hoover had vowed to fight.... In the end, business had to choose between lowering wages and shutting down."
Many businesses simply shut down.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting o amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH: The same old, same old European runaround.
- Monsters are real. A look at the ageless B-52 workhorse.
- Jonathan Turley: The Coming Out of Jack Smith.
- Alex Berenson: On the painful prescience of Seinfeld. Good points but another point is some today can't relate because just about every plot falls apart if someone simply had a smartphone.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
So Jack Smith's Operation Artic Frost spied on Congress, Senate Candidate James Talarico checks himself into a mental hospital and lies about it, Ilhan Omar's apartment is raided by law enforcement, and back to Jack Smith harvesting the names and information of 639,000 Republican donors. Democratic scandals are a flat circle.
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Thursday, October 15, 2026
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Do synchronized brainwaves make us get along?
- Catherine Herridge on Jack Smith. How soon do we see cartoons of Jack Smith waiving papers like Joe McCarthy saying "I hold in hand a list of 639,000 known Republicans."
- James Madison keeps winning no matter who's in charge.
- Alex Berenson: Almost nobody gets mRNA shots anymore. (HT Dan)
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The Democrats saying "We are the Resistance" makes sense if you remember they seem intent on being on the wrong side of every 80/20 issue with the potential charges against Ilhan Omar and her family being the latest issue.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
College Football Thoughts
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Linky Links
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- Old record players gave far more than music.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jtsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Some are condemning President Trump for making that diesel deal with Putin and Russia. But the fact is the price of gas is coming down. Last week I saw $4.35 while after the deal I saw $4.15 advertised at the pump. That's what the average American will remember. The war in Ukraine should have been over by now and many have fatigue on the issue.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026
More Linky Links
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- Why Columbus discovered the new world and not the other way around.
- Reminder that the criminal investigation of Ilhan Omar has been known about for a long time.
- The $108 billion AI opportunity for specialty practices. AI has been big in medicine for a long time.
- California's wealth tax isn't the solution to decades of bad promises.
Linky Links
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- Why I mailed 30 axes to CA, TX, and NY. We're living in a golden age of innovation.
- Why the European Central Bank cannot let France off the hook. Let them eat cake.
- Kevin Kelly: Swarm Intelligence.
- Even Democrats say Talarico's flu story just doesn't add up.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Not surprised Ilhan Omar's apartment was searched by the FBI but I am curious what charges they got the warrant under. Was it the fraud involved in her going from penniless Somalian immigrant to multi-millionaire overnight, her "marrying" her bother, or some other crime? Curious people want to know.
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Monday, October 12, 2026
Antifragile - It's Like He Predicted Drug Commercials
And recall that under nonlinearities, the simple statements 'harmful' or 'beneficial' break down: it is all in the dosage...
...a cost benefit situation, usually results from the treacherous condition in which the benefits are small, and visible - and the costs very large, delayed, and hidden. And of course, the potential costs are much worse than the cumulative gains."
Columbus Day Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Indian Summer was first termed in New England for the nice weather after the summer harvest was brought in when the Indians would often send out war parties to massacre the settlers. Now some want to place Indigenous People's Day smack dab when that might have happened. It's not far akin from some wanting to designate October 7th as Gaza Recognition Day.
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Sunday, October 11, 2026
College Football Thoughts
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Linky Links
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- How Trump enforcers are sabotaging efforts to bring down drug prices. PBMs delenda est.
- VDH: Are we becoming Gondor? He's not wrong.
- Europe forgot about its people. He's not wrong either.
- Jonathan Turley: Jack Smith sheds his mask. TDS is a mental disease and Smith's got it bad.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
New England takes on Las Vegas today at Foxboro. The Pats will be without 4 CB's from the roster. This could make for a big passing day for Kirk Cousins and the Raiders. The Patriots will also honor the 25th anniversary of the team winning the 2001 Super Bowl before the game.
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
Linky Links
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- Out, Back, and Disoriented. Admit I can be mesmerized by tales of hiking (even if it is in California).
- From the archives: A man is cryofrozen in 1974 and re-awakened 50-years later.
- Cardinals reportedly finalizing deal to trade Marvin Harrison Jr.
- Also from the archives: Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Reminder but Joe Biden and the media tried to tell everyone America was not in a depression even though all the conditions of a depression were clearly being met. Now the Democrats and the media are trying to say the economy is not doing well despite all the proof that it is. That's why the price of gas is so important - it's the only thing Democrats can point at and say "See!"
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Friday, October 09, 2026
Linky Links
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- Two centuries of increasing paper abundance. And plummeting prices.
- Good news on the life extending gene therapy front.
- I'd give this as a gift but afraid some may not realize it was a joke and take it serious.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Love that Starlink is getting a step closer to offering cell service but isn't this eerily close to the script of Dr. Who's rise of the Cybermen but instead of airships there's low earth orbiting satellites? If Elon Musk starts offering free ear pods I'd really be worried.
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Thursday, October 08, 2026
Sergeant York
Some people may ask why we don't have heroes like this in today's military. The answer is that we do still have such men but the media today just doesn't celebrate them like they used to.
College Football Thoughts
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Linky Links
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- Glenn Reynolds: Marco Goes Hard. Agree 100%.
- Matt Ridley: Prosperity creates new luxuries.
- Why Texas is making datacenters wait. Power is the issue.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Feel bad that I don't go into more depth about current events and news while paying attention to sports. Then I see that the impending landfall of Hurricane Isaias on the Gulf Coast focuses not on the damage that may be done but how this could effect the big Alabama-Georgia game on Saturday. Not sure if this make me feel justified or ashamed to have the same questions.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2026
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- Three Years Since the October 7th Slaughter.
- Kevin Kelly: The Influence of Science Fiction on Science.
- What challenges lie ahead for the Protect College Sports Act?
- Trump lowers the boom on Huawei. Good!
Columbus Day - A Modest Proposal
Said it before but Columbus Day continuing to be a federal holiday also continues to be a divisive issue. On one side you have people who say Columbus was a genocidal imperialist monster and on the other proud Italian-Americans and traditionalists. I have a modest proposal with a solution which I think would be acceptable to most Americans.
On October 19th in 1781 the British forces under Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown to end the Revolutionary War. America as a free nation really starts with this date. Why not celebrate the date as the new national holiday in replacement of Columbus Day? Yorktown Day could be celebrated on the third Monday in October. The unions would be satisfied since they wouldn't be losing a paid holiday. Italian-Americans couldn't complain since this in no way would be disrespecting Columbus and historically Yorktown is the more important date to America (beside Columbus really "discovered" the Caribbean not North America). French-Americans would be big supporters of the switch because the French fleet played a huge role in the victory. The only people who might complain are the people who are against glorifying anything that's even remotely militarily related but screw those people.
Have Yorktown Day replace Columbus Day. So let it be written so let it be done.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Every day you live also brings you one day closer to your death. Kind of poignant having this thought on October 7th. Memento mori. And rest in peace to the victims of October 7th.
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