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I have been playing with AI.  I am about one week into it, now doing so both at work and in my personal so-called life.  Whaaat?  Well, we started using it at work, and so I climbed down from Mount Curmudgeon and have begun a nice long soak in the swamp.

I asked AI to gather some scraps of my writing, and told it to act as an editor.  Naturally, I didn’t want lectures about assuming a dog’s pronouns, so I told AI to act as an editor of conservative online and print publications.  Also, because this editor is a very good friend, it will also serve as my personal assistant, gather, tagging, summarizing, and clustering various things I have written.

And now I think that this assigned … Continue reading →

Just a quick shout-out to our friend Titus Techera on the Razib Khan podcast!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/titus-techera-post-modern-conservative-in-a-post/id1542136715?i=1000697568154

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

–Jefferson to John Colvin, September 20, 1810

Just a quick hit here, so to speak.  Maaan, this is delicious.  I think Markle is getting her come-uppance in the wake of some cooking show debacle.  Rumor is that Netflix has fired her.  I guess that might explain her sudden willingness to “forgive” the British royal family and so forth.

I’m just so disgusted with Harry the Whipped and Markle the Destroyer.  I confess I can’t turn away either.  This is textbook advice for young men about bad women.  The never-ending nature of this sordid story is part of the warning.

I wish I could link to my piece over at ricochet.com, “The Slowly Bumping Saga of Harry Markle Grinds to a Halt.”  Alas, their business model seems to have hidden everything except podcasts and pro content.  … Continue reading →

It’s good to feel happy and Heaven knows we’ve seen trouble, but let’s don’t fool ourselves — this is an opportunity, not a solution.

The Trump victory in 2024 is an amazing feat, and there will be much written about it.  The campaign ran one Hell of an operation, and this is going to be a fascinating story when it comes out.  Grassroots and big-name support along with great personnel picks and magnificent showings by the boss made this a campaign for the ages.

Part of what made this “mere competence” seem spectacular was the backdrop of doom and corruption.  This 2024 victory is more than the defeat of a vapid woman and her ever more vapid running mate.  The Marxist Alinskyite Obama project is still running a … Continue reading →

Widely reviled former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley worries that he will be court-martialed under a Trump administration.  His fears are probably larger than life, but hardly without merit.  He does have a serious vulnerability.

I understand that he feels there is some justification for what he did — I have read it.  He puts it in the context of soothing the excitable Chinese — he feels that he was doing real ‘Missiles of October’ stuff, mil-to-mil contacts avoiding war by mistake.  That’s noble.  But there is still a right way to do things. I  would have one question for him: “Did you tell your boss what you said about him to the enemy?”   The rest follows from there, and may be … Continue reading →

I am inclined to consolidate our Republican coalition. Our winning team should be solidified and replicated.

I also do not want revenge upon our fellow countrymen merely for voting differently. Their rights are our rights.  But there are a great many who did more than just vote or politic a different way — some of them joined in the hysteria to destroy our families and livelihoods over COVID mandates, and have colluded to mutilate and pervert our own children, with a malicious disregard for our rights or the children’s well-being.  This cannot go unpunished, or it *will* continue.

Finally, there are a great many officials who have committed actual crimes in office, putting their partisan or other interests above their oaths to the Constitution. From Garland to Vindman, … Continue reading →

Jeff Bezos’ WaPo, like the LA Times before it and USA Today shortly after, has refused to endorse Kamala Harris for President.  He wrote an op-ed about it here:  The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media

If you haven’t read that yet, it’s worth the time, but take your blood pressure meds first.  As is typical with leftist framing, he says that the problem is perception of bias, rather than bias itself.

We [newspapers — bdb] must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. … Continue reading →

It’s time to take the MSM up on their claims to objectivity.  Accept for argument’s sake that they are all as pure as the driven snow, without a common ideological axe to grind.  You know, just to make the rest of this argument go.  Then look at the questions they ask and the “clarifications” they issue.  Why would a “debate” “moderator” say such a thing?  What is the worldview which would cause an honest journalist to ask such a question, or to emit such a brain-dead reply?

This analysis will show that the honest and hard-working talking heads of the Democratic People’s Republic of TheNews are all thoroughly mal-educated Marxists.  Regardless of whether they are committed or merely caught up in the rush, every single one of them … Continue reading →