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- Black Holes are maximally weird. I was unaware this was officially Black Hole week.
- Interesting - how the US built 5,000 ships in WW II.
- The importance of saying no.
- From the archive: Inversion and the power of avoiding stupidity.
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- Ross Dellenger on the Department of Ed's ruling on NIL. Was this an unforced error by the Biden Administration on the way out the door?
- The five smallest nations by GDP in 2025
It was 22 years ago today that American hero Joe Foss passed away. Joe Foss lived one of the fullest lives of almost anyone I can think of. He was a military hero - he was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was a politician - he served as Governor of South Dakota. He was a businessman - he served as the first commissioner of the American Football League (stepping aside just 2 months before the merger with the NFL). He was an activist - serving as President of the National Rifle Association. He was also quite literally The American Sportsman.
Joe Foss was also the leading surviving American fighter ace in World War II shooting down 26 enemy aircraft in total. (Medal of Honor winner Richard Bong was the top American Ace with 40 confirmed kills before Bong's death.)Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The un-woke king of Hollywood.
- Elizabeth Warren's warning that Brian Thompson was killed because you can only push people so far. What did Warren say when people tried to assassinate Donald Trump?
- The History of Bastone - the Battle of the Bulge. 80-years ago.
- Jordan Peterson moves to the US to get away from Justin Trudeau's Canada. Gad Saad is also moving to the US from Canada while Cher has promised to move to Canada because Trump was elected. The exchange rate once again favors the US.
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- What the Petroleum Reserve is supposed to be for.
- FDA advisors vote against MDMA therapy - researchers still fighting for it. MDMA has scientifically shown to help veterans and others with PTSD while mRNA "shots" have shown problematic. Guess which one was approved?
- Really - where do we find such men
The manufacturer did better. Realizing the weapons were vital to a secret program of unprecedented importance, manager Yukiro Fukuda bent company rules, drove his lathe and assembly crews overtime and delivered the last of the 180 specially modified torpedoes by November 17. Mitsubishi Munitions contributed decisively to the success of the first massive surprise blow of the Pacific War by the patriotic effort of its torpedo factory on Kyushu, the southernmost Japanese island, three miles up the Urakami River from the bay in the old port city of Nagasaki.
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 would in effect end the war in the Pacific and cause Japan's unconditional surrender.
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- Harvard's reputation takes another hit - experts hardest hit.
- Uncommon Knowledge with Niall Ferguson
- The team behind Band of Brothers and The Pacific come out with WW II movie misfire.
- Tucker Carlson Episode 68 - whatever happened to the Canadian truckers?
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- Uber incenting drivers to switch to Teslas. Curious how drivers would make out on a per mile basis. Know independent cab drivers make more per mile driving an EV.
- How AI could save (not destroy) education. (Ted video)
- 10 movie actors who served in combat. I agree - Jimmy Stewart should have been on the list.
- Amazon takes minority stake in Bally sports - will stream many games on Amazon Prime.
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- The history of Bastogne - the Battle of the Bulge. Good stuff!
- Thank God Joe Biden is bringing decency back.
- The history of Band Aid's Do They Know Its Christmas. Was it a good deed gone bad?
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- Jimmy Stewart was a real life Mr. Roberts. (Of course except for the ending and Stewart flying bombers instead of being in the Navy.)
- It was a lab leak the whole time - and those in charge knew
- How China is tearing down Islam. And the Islamic world says nothing.
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- David Sedaris: Punching Down. I'm a fan and if you're not familiar with his work you may want to listen to the article in Sedaris' own voice.
- A portrait of the Aztec's Tenochtitlan
- Morgan Housel on The Full Reset. Good history and life lessons. Have no sunk costs.
- VDH with a Toast to the Old Breed. Works for Thanksgiving too.
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- This gets me - every damn time.
- Making Battleship Ice Cream. Very cool history.
- You're blowing smoke up my arse, right? More cool history although ice cream would definitely be my preference over tobacco enemas.
- Althouse on another Kennedy challenging another Democratic sitting President.
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- Pete Buttigieg and the train derailment. "When confronted with a disaster, Buttigieg not only made a false claim but attempted to weaponize a tragedy against political opponents. That is a serious problem for a public figure and worthy of condemnation."
- Operation Gunnerside: The Norwegian attack on heavy water that deprived the Nazis of the atomic bomb. Cool bit of history.
- Astrophysicists discover a mysterious perfect explosion in space - "It makes no sense."
Today is the anniversary of the iconic photo by Joe Rosenthal of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribashi on Iwo Jima. The fighting on the island actually started four days earlier on February 19th. The story of this battle is something every high school student should have to learn before they are allowed to graduate.
Semper Fidelis.
