I was out at Napolitano.

Given that the Continental Army took almost as many casualties to sickness as fell on the battlefield, I'm pretty certain that Washington would have killed for the medical advancements that Hegseth sneeringly discards.

Perhaps that was the real definition of "family values" all along.

"Mouthfeel of a sentence" is a great line.

Prose has--or needs to have--a cadence every bit as much as poetry does, and it's astounding to me how many writers overlook that.

It's really wearying when people pretend that being on the receiving end of a stupidly waged and questionably legal war makes Tehran's regime a paragon of innocence.

In fairness, "women first" is a storied tradition when it comes to sinking ships. /sarc

Gotta admit, I was hoping #3 would be Gabbard, but I'm still amused that the pattern is holding--the President really is hewing to the old tradition for sinking ships:

Women first.

Technically speaking, I'm not a Democrat, but I'm aware that only makes me a traitor twice over to this crowd.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

It sure does, but I've stood in the Aya Sofya and seen the runic equivalent of "Kilroy was here."

"Donald Trump is President" 😏

Wonderful. Thanks.

Do I want to ask what stupidity Palantir has been peddling now?

The books are good but I would support a Tolkien revival on the sole basis that people really need to understand how dumb it is to call a company Palantir

A really fantastic book, one of my favorites as well.

China & Taiwan Update, April 17, 2026 KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun reiterated standard PRC rhetoric during her April 10 meeting with CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping.

ISW/Taiwan NSB reporting PLA infiltrations of Taiwan via small craft during PLA exercises.

understandingwar.org/research/chi...

"Yang Mu was a native of Hualien. His self-reflexive, erudite, and intellectually rigorous engagement with local history, aesthetic inheritance, and the dynamics of cultural hybridity decisively shaped his poetic corpus."
www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...

Chat, is this sharia?

Opinion | I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then BlueSky was down for the better part of a day.

Yeah, Len Deighton's novel of 8th Air Force pilots in England during the war, "Goodbye Mickey Mouse" really delves into the extent to which the American servicemen couldn't begin to grasp the level of rationing England was dealing with.

it's true that you could pretty easily tune out the crypto hype era (which was only a few years ago!) in a way that is just not possible with our current AI hype era

Super-easy, barely an inconvenience!

A credible threat to her self-image, it would seem.

Of all of the very discrediting things about MAGA, to me the most discrediting is that a core belief of MAGA is that DEI leads to government filled with unqualified 'DEI-hires' and then these guys come in and hire the most astoundingly vapid people you have ever seen.

('He' below = InfantryDort)

Against my better judgement, I've continued watching Silo, and gracious, it's been a long while since I've seen an adaptation get hit this hard with bloat.

Eight over-long episodes in, and the amount of Hugh Howey's book that has actually featured could have fit in one and a half.

Proper spelling is woke.

Stocks rise on news that most of the ill effects of the war will fall on poor people.

I am told I am an autonomous human being, in charge of my own destiny, a free man, but every single time Hasan Piker has said something and I have heard about it, it has been against my will

Today’s dirt road view from Park County, Montana.