Thursday, October 22, 2026
Time changes in 10 days
We are now 10 days away from having to change our clocks again.
The Sunshine Protection Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives but is stalled in the Senate and will not pass anytime soon.
Changing our clocks twice a year is detrimental. Accidents, cardiovascular events, and mental health issues reportedly increase right after the change, likely because of the disruption to sleep patterns.
After the last clock change, I announced that I was done. My reasoning was that if we are going to be on Standard Time for only 4.5 months, why bother? If I don't change my clocks, my phone will still have the correct time.
My main reason for doing this is that I would rather not change my sleep schedule.
If we were to adopt Daylight Saving Time year-round, sunrise would occur as late as 9 a.m. here in Columbus, Indiana, which seems like a bad idea.
For at least a decade, I have advocated adopting "Compromise Time," where we set our clocks halfway between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time and never change them again.
The Sunshine Protection Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives but is stalled in the Senate and will not pass anytime soon.
Changing our clocks twice a year is detrimental. Accidents, cardiovascular events, and mental health issues reportedly increase right after the change, likely because of the disruption to sleep patterns.
After the last clock change, I announced that I was done. My reasoning was that if we are going to be on Standard Time for only 4.5 months, why bother? If I don't change my clocks, my phone will still have the correct time.
My main reason for doing this is that I would rather not change my sleep schedule.
If we were to adopt Daylight Saving Time year-round, sunrise would occur as late as 9 a.m. here in Columbus, Indiana, which seems like a bad idea.
For at least a decade, I have advocated adopting "Compromise Time," where we set our clocks halfway between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time and never change them again.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Paris Is Burning. Is Washington Next?
There is a very real possibility that an international cabal of leftist tyrants in the making is attempting to bring civil war across the West — and we aren’t immune.
Now, here’s something to understand about the “democracy” and protest ecosystem: almost nobody knows the ‘grand plan’ so to speak. They simply agree to play a role.
For example, 99% of people breaking stuff on the streets believe they’re doing it out of an organic uprising. They don’t see that the police have been ordered to stand down. They don’t see that legal services have already been arranged for them. They don’t see that foundations are paying for their bonds.
Similarly here, governors aren’t participating in a pact to destroy the Constitution. Governors simply have agreed to push back on the Insurrection Act. The effect is the same: the governors end up playing a role in a grander plan.
Motivations differ, people rarely agree to the big evil supervillain framing, but incentives all converge in the same end goal. No Kings might not agree to explicitly tear down the Constitution, but they nonetheless work with DSA and will turn out millions of people if the right phone call is put in.
Convince people to do the things they want to do anyway, and the component parts will work together.
And if you have a Democrat-controlled legislative branch taking office in early January, you can create so much chaos as to make the country ungovernable.
We saw a strong taste of this in 2000, you know. The George Floyd riots more or less rendered the federal government irrelevant on the streets of those cities most affected.
And six years later, we still have millions more foreigners here to serve as a standing army of chaos than we had in 2020. We have a more militant Democrat party than we had in 2020.
Six years ago this would have been considered shocking. It barely raises eyebrows now…
Now, here’s something to understand about the “democracy” and protest ecosystem: almost nobody knows the ‘grand plan’ so to speak. They simply agree to play a role.
For example, 99% of people breaking stuff on the streets believe they’re doing it out of an organic uprising. They don’t see that the police have been ordered to stand down. They don’t see that legal services have already been arranged for them. They don’t see that foundations are paying for their bonds.
Similarly here, governors aren’t participating in a pact to destroy the Constitution. Governors simply have agreed to push back on the Insurrection Act. The effect is the same: the governors end up playing a role in a grander plan.
Motivations differ, people rarely agree to the big evil supervillain framing, but incentives all converge in the same end goal. No Kings might not agree to explicitly tear down the Constitution, but they nonetheless work with DSA and will turn out millions of people if the right phone call is put in.
Convince people to do the things they want to do anyway, and the component parts will work together.
And if you have a Democrat-controlled legislative branch taking office in early January, you can create so much chaos as to make the country ungovernable.
We saw a strong taste of this in 2000, you know. The George Floyd riots more or less rendered the federal government irrelevant on the streets of those cities most affected.
And six years later, we still have millions more foreigners here to serve as a standing army of chaos than we had in 2020. We have a more militant Democrat party than we had in 2020.
Six years ago this would have been considered shocking. It barely raises eyebrows now…
Monday, October 19, 2026
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Obama's antisemitism is plain to see
It is not “undeniable” that Jews “took land off people”. It is, in fact, very deniable, because it is quite simply untrue. You do not need to be a professor of Middle Eastern history to understand that the Jewish people have maintained a connection with the Land of Israel for more than 3,000 years. We are not strangers who have appeared here out of nowhere. Jews who more recently settled in waves of aliyah did not steal the land, as you inferred, but bought it legally from Arabs, even paying exorbitant prices.
8K TVs Are Stupid
When 4K TVs came out, some people complained that you can't see that level of detail...
Much depends upon how big your screen is, how far you sit from it, and whether you are John Coffey. My eyesight has never been 20/20, but even with the corrective lens I got during my cataract surgery, which was a huge improvement, I see more like 20/25. So when 4K first came out, I had a hard time telling the difference between 4K (which is just a marketing name for 2160p) and 1080p.
Although surgery vastly improved my distance vision, it made it harder for me to see up close. I can't see anything up close without reading glasses, and getting the right focus for playing chess has been tricky. I liked my old vision because I needed glasses just for distance, but now I need strong reading glasses to see my phone.
For a large-screen TV, a 4K display makes sense. However, I have two 27-inch monitors, and for these, I feel that 1440p is ideal. On a 27-inch monitor, 1080p is not as good because you can see individual pixels when sitting close, but 4K makes all the Windows and Mac icons look small, so you have to artificially enlarge them to be able to see anything comfortably.
I don't think that a person is going to gain anything by having 4K on a 27-inch monitor. There is a limit to what our eyes can see. Although it doesn't make much difference, 4K requires more overhead from the graphics hardware when playing games, so you can get a better frame rate with 1440p. Although you could run a game in 1440p on a 4K monitor, it is less than ideal because the video output doesn't match the pixels on the screen, requiring the computer or monitor to scale the images.
My iMac is 5K, but I run it at half resolution, which is 1440p, and I am more comfortable with it that way. For people who do video or photo editing, 4K and 5K are better.
On a smaller computer monitor, such as one measuring 19 or 20 inches, I think that 1080p might be fine. Most laptops have displays with resolutions higher than 1080p, but because of their size, I don't think that they need to.
Because of the small screen and keyboard, I don't recommend using a laptop as your main computer, but I have used a laptop with an external screen and keyboard.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Rainmaker
I heard this on the radio earlier today.
Peter Hitchens Explains Why Britain Is Finished
Britain is an important ally of the United States. Peter Hitchens's comments could apply to many European countries and, to some extent, to the United States.
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