Saturday, June 20, 2026

Why Did We Think Iran Would Keep Their Word?

I agree with Ben Shapiro that Iran violated the Memorandum of Understanding shortly after it was signed. That does not necessarily mean the agreement itself was bad, but it does mean Iran failed to comply with its commitments. I also agree with Shapiro's view that a more aggressive approach toward Iran would have been preferable.

Shapiro assumes that Trump's motivations are solely economic and political. This feels like a straw-man argument. I think Trump is smarter than that and would prefer to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.

I have a problem with J.D. Vance, who is more of an isolationist and sometimes makes statements that seem less than truthful. He could become president in the distant future, or circumstances could make him president much sooner. However, he may not be the right person for the job.

Everyone is questioning the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding, but the United States, as the more powerful country, holds most of the cards. It can impose whatever terms it wants on Iran.

The Economic Strategy Behind the Iran Talks

The Secret Genius of Trump's Iran Deal

Knicks Fans set a School Bus on Fire

The Justices Are Finally Colorblind

The EEOC and other such guidelines require virtually all decision makers subject to discrimination law—employers, lenders, landlords, universities and others—to pursue racial balancing objectives. The mechanism is straightforward: Disparate impact constrains and often forbids the use of any criterion that has a statistically different effect on a particular race, making it virtually impossible to rely on background or credit checks, verbal or written aptitude tests or academic disciplinary records. Among other things, the EEOC’s guidance warns employers against basing decisions on criminal background checks due to “problems that may be more common among people of a certain race.”

As the OLC opinion concluded, this approach “structurally compels the very racial discrimination that the Constitution forbids” because it operates as a “racial thumb on the scales”


https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-justices-are-finally-colorblind-53c4296a

Things Aren’t Looking Good For Nuclear Fusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVw5TKUil3o

Tyrannosaurus Debt (click here)

From 30 years ago.  Please share this!!!

Sunday, June 7, 2026

LAWYER: Is it Illegal to Throw Away a Police Tracker?

Everything Oil is Good for

Is Fusion power going to connect to grid soon after next year's demonstration?


Fusion is still pie-in-the-sky and a long way from being practical. Radiation damage to reactors is likely to make it very expensive.

If only we had an enormous ball of hydrogen to generate fusion power.

Solar power is reportedly borderline cost-effective. As fossil fuel reserves decline and likely become more expensive, solar power should become more economical. However, I’m not sure how long this rise in cost will take; it could be decades.

Installing solar panels on your roof can make roof replacement twice as expensive. Panels can also damage or overheat your roof, and storms could damage them as well. I would rather leave that to the power company.

The solar roof tile idea is interesting, but only if there is a shortage of land for solar installations. There is a great deal of surface area on roofs that we could utilize.

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Sunday, May 24, 2026

Kroger Robot

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For the first time I saw a Kroger robot on Monday. It was connected to a charging station. So functionally it resembles my robot vacuum cleaner, except much bigger and much taller. How it checks inventory I’m not sure, but I assume that it involves AI.

Thursday, May 14, 2026

The 10 American things I can’t get in the UK... so I import them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJk_OElNqo

This is minor stuff, but everything I have seen about the U.K. and Europe makes me not want to live there. Even Canada would be more interesting, and although I don't like to travel much anymore, I think a trip to Canada might be fun.  

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

"Nobody Goes to Jail!" — Chazz Palminteri on the COVID Shot


@john2001plus
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Every conservative pundit has attacked the COVID-19 vaccines, with many claiming that they didn't work.  These are conspiracy theorists.   They are just trying to get clicks.

I've read the studies, and the COVID-19 vaccines reduce the rate of infection and transmission.  Problems with the vaccine are rare.  

People forget that in the year 2020 the initial death rate from COVID-19 was 5%.  Doctors eventually got that down to 1%.   You might have a one in thirty-two thousand chance of having a bad reaction to the vaccine like myocarditis, which is treatable, or a one in a hundred chance of dying from COVID-19.  No vaccine is completely safe, but you are much better off taking your chances with the vaccine.

If you think that Fauci should go to jail, what crime did he actually commit?

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Why Oil and Gas Have Endured

The Fed, inflation and generational divide

In 2008, prior to the advent of “quantitative easing,” the M2 supply (a broad measure of the total money circulating in the U.S. economy) was $7 trillion … today it is $22.7 trillion. If you have a $100 bill in your wallet, $69 of those dollars were printed in the last 18 years, the other $31 were printed in the century before. That’s a lot of new money! No wonder there are so many more billionaires. The U.S. tripled the money supply.

And when the system is flooded with that much new money, there are clear winners and losers. If you have assets – a house, investments like Baby Boomers do because they have saved for decades – you win. Yes, inflation erodes some of that value, but in the past 18 years, stocks and home prices have outperformed inflation. Owning assets protects you against inflation.

If you don’t have assets (let’s say because you are young), that inflation raises the price you pay for everything, but you don’t benefit from asset appreciation, and incomes have barely kept up. In other words you lose. No wonder Gen Z hates the Baby Boomers. No wonder inequality has skyrocketed. In fact, inequality has surged more in the past 18 years than following any policy change in the history of the United States.

The number one argument against capitalism is that it creates inequality. Inequality created by successful entrepreneurship is good inequality, signaling opportunity and new markets. But inequality caused by inflation and crazy monetary policy has nothing to do with capitalism.

Jerome Powell and So-Called 'Fed Independence' | RealClearPolitics


MASSIVE Fraud Scandal

I listened to the Ben Shapiro Show yesterday on iHeartRadio while driving.  

I liked the whole program...