Monday, August 03, 2026

Linky Links

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

- Observations on the US government running GPS. Thought provoking.

- Drug discovery has no magic wand. Expecto pharmo!

- Jonathan Turley: Hunter Biden claims family is boke in defaulting on $17 million bill.

- Churchill Downs, NYRA to hold 3-year old series that does not include Preakness. Wait - what?

Socialism

Monday Flotsam and Jetsam

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

Today reportedly negotiations for peace in Iran will begin and it is also the MLB trade deadline. Only one of the two events has a set end time that's guaranteed to happen though.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Reminder

Sunday, August 02, 2026

More Linky Links

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

- How protectionism turns friends into rivals. For the record I support reciprocal tariffs. If a country has a zero tariff on our goods we should have reciprocal zero tariffs on theirs. Canada does not have reciprocal tariffs with us even though we are their largest trading partner.

- The complete insanity of the Democratic Socialist agenda.

- Quiet skies aren't free.

- Some mostly forgotten history - George Thomas the Rock of Chickamauga.

Linky Links

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

- Please use AI. Worth a read.

- Jonathan Turley: Joe Biden confessed to everything on tape.

- The death of nuance.

- The ethics of journalism in an era of ideology. Junger's writing often make me wonder if his bias has colored his thinking (or possibly mine has). But he always makes me think.

Reminder

Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam

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

Everyone is talking about Anthony Fauci except it seems the corporate media. Don't think they realize the further damage they are doing to their reputations as people seek their "news" elsewhere. This lack of viewers bought to you by Big Pharma.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

The More Things Change

Saturday, August 01, 2026

John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

"The Supreme Court had already convened for its February term; Marshall had presented his commission as chief justice and had taken his oath of office. He was forty-five years old. For the next thirty-five years he would preside as the Chief Justice of the United States. 'He hit the Constitution much as the Lord hit the chaos at a time when everything needed creating,' wrote one observer. President James A. Garfield said, 'Marshall found the Constitution paper and made it power. He found a skeleton and clothed it with flesh and blood.' The prickly John Randolph of Roanoke noted that Marshall's 'real worth was never known until he was appointed Chief Justice.'

To Marshall, more than any other person, belongs the credit for establishing the foundation of the constitutional interpretation." - Jean Edward Smith

Linky Links

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

- Wait - what?

- SEC and Big 10 vote to support Protect College Sports Act. But now will bill be voted on by Senate this week?

- Bill Maher's not wrong here.

- Just when I think I'm out.

This One Issue Could Win Every Election for the Foreseeable Future

Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam

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

You have to wonder if Anthony Fauci pleading the 5th so many times in front of Congress was an admission that he knows that the autopen pardon is as fake as the lockdowns.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

The Mood of Many Americans Right Now

Friday, July 31, 2026

Things I've Learned

Try to learn something new every day. Here are some of the things I've learned (or re-learned) and try to take to heart. Even if I take just one or a few of these items to heart I would lead a better life.

Hope some of these are new to you or at least you can find one you feel is important to know, remember, and embody.

Linky Links

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

- Senate adjourns without scheduling vote on Protect College Sports Act.

- Isn't it ionic?

- From the archives: Schopenhauer's strategy against clickbait.

- Jonathan Turley: The media also takes the 5th. 

The Tipping Point

"Coca-Cola pad $35 million for the rights to sponsor the 1992 Olympics, but despite a huge advertising push, only about 12% of TV viewers realized that they were the official soft drink and another 5% thought that Pepsi was the real sponsor."

The reason I bring this up is an explanation isn't given for what would be considered a good run-rate for TV viewers and much of the book espouses small changes leading to big results. Is this a choose your own adventure going on here? Or a making facts seem to mean what you want them to mean? The Home Depot meanwhile explains that becoming Olympic sponsors was one of the best marketing decisions the company ever made. Both companies are based in Atlanta - why include one fact but not the other?

Let me first explain that I did enjoy the book but I've learned to take Gladwell's writing with a huge grain of salt. The Tipping Point is basically about how epidemics reach a "tipping point" and then "burst" as if they were a bubble or something. Like the tulip bub bubble or the dot com bubble. Except "the tipping point" is a fresh idea that could be pitched to book publishes. A great story and a best seller waiting to happen.

Also read his book The Bomber Mafia and though I also found that enjoyable and thought it had some good history but couldn't dismiss the fact that Gladwell couldn't hide his bias and a person unfamiliar with the facts could be swayed into the wrong impression about Cutis LeMay and the bombing of Japan. 

Gladwell has the habit of cherry picking his facts to match the premise of his books. Know that going in and enjoy the ride. 
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact; everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius