The U.S. is in worse shape today than the period when the country had 4 million enslaved people? Yeah, we're in deep trouble, but it's not as deep as the 1860s.

"Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it." ~ Christina Koch

The UAP “Body Count” Doesn’t Add Up A preview of research I’m doing for a Skeptical Inquirer piece.

Mick West: The UAP “Body Count” Doesn’t Add Up

Bruce Arthur (Toronto Star): JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism, Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics, RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines, Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs, and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible.

DoW sparks outrage as it fails to deliver UAP footage while contradicting itself The U.S. Department of War declared that no order had been received, while a source stated that a briefing was being drafted.

DoW sparks outrage as it fails to deliver UAP footage while contradicting itself

Punk Rock & UFO Disclosure? | Mike Damante

What the Strength Card in the Tarot Deck Said You like to fight. You desire sweat / and snap of bicep, / thick resource of thighbone,

What the Strength Card in the Tarot Deck Said

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots? To what extent has the line between playful community space and commercial spectacle been blurred?

As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots?

Edward Burne-Jones: The Last Sleep of Arthur

"If (the Notre-Dame fire) was started by space aliens, I don't think you'll find out about it. Those aliens are sneaky. Plus, you know, the government covers it up because the space baby alien hybrids. Also, space aliens probed Uranus and put a radio in my head." ~ Jim Wright

"A lottery is a tax on people who can't do math." ~ Rick Wilson

Gustav Klimt: Pallas Athena, 1898

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man." -- Schopenhauer

What’s New at SSE 2026

Never gonna happen. You expect people will actually do the work?

Secretive Bilderberg group just met – but who knows what global elite said? This year’s conference had plenty of newsworthy aspects, but it’s a mystery why the press fails to talk about it

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I often mention conspiracy theories grow out of difficulty believing a person or group is as incompetent as they appear; their actions contradict stated purposes. $600 billion in decreased revenue & egregious privacy violations, under the guise of gov efficiency, are indeed just such circumstances.