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.
Conspiracy Theories
If we want to know the facts about something, then we should look at the scientific research that has been done on the topic.
There has never been a disease that has been researched as extensively as COVID-19. Like everyone else, I wanted to know the truth, so I looked at the scientific papers I could find on the Internet. These days, you can find answers more quickly by asking AI to summarize the research that has been done.
What I have read has led me to the conclusion that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and mostly effective. There is a small chance of complications, which are generally treatable and much more likely to occur as a result of the disease itself.
It is my observation that every single anti-vaxxer is a conspiracy theorist who believes that there is a cabal that wants to hurt us.
About half of my friends believe in conspiracy theories, and this has become so prevalent that I am starting to become alarmed by it. Hardly a week goes by without my hearing COVID-19 theories that aren't supported by scientific research.
Even government websites are promoting COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Multiple government officials are promoting the idea that COVID-19 originated in a lab, but the evidence is overwhelming that the disease had a natural origin.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is basing government policy on conspiracy theories. He is a terrible choice for this job.
We recently passed the third anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel. The amount of antisemitism and the number of conspiracy theories about Israel have increased dramatically. The number of anti-Israel posts online has been overwhelming. However, these posts make claims that fail to take into account the actual history of the region and make extremely exaggerated claims about Israel.
In the past, conspiracy theories like these seemed to be much more prominent in other countries. However, since COVID-19 emerged, it feels like many Americans have gone bat-shit-crazy.
There has never been a disease that has been researched as extensively as COVID-19. Like everyone else, I wanted to know the truth, so I looked at the scientific papers I could find on the Internet. These days, you can find answers more quickly by asking AI to summarize the research that has been done.
What I have read has led me to the conclusion that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and mostly effective. There is a small chance of complications, which are generally treatable and much more likely to occur as a result of the disease itself.
It is my observation that every single anti-vaxxer is a conspiracy theorist who believes that there is a cabal that wants to hurt us.
About half of my friends believe in conspiracy theories, and this has become so prevalent that I am starting to become alarmed by it. Hardly a week goes by without my hearing COVID-19 theories that aren't supported by scientific research.
Even government websites are promoting COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Multiple government officials are promoting the idea that COVID-19 originated in a lab, but the evidence is overwhelming that the disease had a natural origin.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is basing government policy on conspiracy theories. He is a terrible choice for this job.
We recently passed the third anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel. The amount of antisemitism and the number of conspiracy theories about Israel have increased dramatically. The number of anti-Israel posts online has been overwhelming. However, these posts make claims that fail to take into account the actual history of the region and make extremely exaggerated claims about Israel.
In the past, conspiracy theories like these seemed to be much more prominent in other countries. However, since COVID-19 emerged, it feels like many Americans have gone bat-shit-crazy.
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