I somehow missed that Italian engineer Alberto Donini is claiming that the Great Pyramid was built up to 40,000 years ago according to a dating method he invented himself that compared erosion on the pyramid to stones of a known date. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

"Neoroyalism" is an interesting term if you want to imagine Donald Trump as a king, but it implies a theory of royal power Trump doesn't have and the institutions of royalty he lacks. Personal grifting explains everything well enough. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

It's worth noting where Trump has quietly backtracked here: The new wing is now going to be proportionate in height and scale to the existing White House rather than two or three times its size. It sounds like something changed behind the scenes.

Those "core values" are the old Our Gang treehouse sign: "No Girls Allowed."

If you don't want to watch 90 minutes of Tucker Carlson and A.J. Gentile of "The Why Files" spinning archaeological conspiracies, I've written up a summary of their conversation. Short version: They are both deeply steeped in "Ancient Aliens"-style fakery. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/tucker-...

n her new book, out this July, Diana Pasulka will claim that AI is "connected" to UFOs, which represent an "evolving, natural intelligence."

The James Dean estate is suing 87 global marketplaces for selling unauthorized merchandise with Dean's face, which they claim as a trademark, and won a preliminary injunction in a Texas court on Friday. www.pressreader.com/usa/austin-a...

Clever Hans convinced untold people that a horse could do math, even though he could not.

Tucker Carlson devoted an episode today to discussing Bible giants, pyramids, and lost ancient super-civilizations. www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFile...

This is one step away from arguing that we'd make even more money if we legally required a certain class of person to work without pay for a period of indenture.

This seems to be missing a key piece of information. What was the event raising money for? There's a big difference between raising money for charity and raising money for, say, Donald Trump's ballroom. I don't know whether to be outraged at the head of CBS News doing this without knowing why.

"Heated Rivalry" is a word-of-mouth hit in Russia, despite the risk that fans could be imprisoned for discussing the show in public under Putin's draconian anti-LGBTQ laws. “It feels like a protest, some kind of rebellion,” on fan said. www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

Forty conservative groups, including some who falsely claim that gay marriage is a path to child victimization, have launched a multipronged campaign to end same-sex marriage in America. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ja...

We have a serious problem in our political class that they are incapable of taking a clear moral stand. They should be able to say, "This is immoral, unconstitutional, illegal, and wrong" and to repeat it consistently. But that is apparently too straightforward when equivocation is available.

I laughed at this line from Xan Brooks's review of “Melania”: “‘As first lady, children will always remain my priority,’ she [Melania] coos, and you can almost picture her coaxing them into her little gingerbread house.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E03 “Islands of the Gods” www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-...

I'm not sure it would be safe to eat anything she made.

I'm not sure you can call Spam, a can of mixed vegetables, and a can of cream of mushroom soup "goulash."

Some new music video showed up in my YouTube feed, and when I saw the teal and gold color scheme, it made me wonder whatever happened to teal and gold. Every TV show and movie had teal and gold color timing a few years ago, and now it has almost completely vanished.

It never ceases to amaze me how these mediocre writers whose only accomplishment is being consistently wrong about everything manage to fail upward endlessly.

"Vogue" says "Heated Rivalry" star Connor Storrie "gave his best James Dean" with his latest appearance, while discussing his rumored boyfriend. There are so many layers of irony, and it seems my James Dean book came out a year too early. www.vogue.com/article/conn...

My 8-year-old son took this photo of our cat. He doesn’t believe me when I tell him that he has remarkable talent as a photographer.

Not to be flippant about the terrible situation that led to this ridiculous revelation, but this is also why I keep pointing out that just because someone wears a uniform, they are not automatically a superior observer of UFOs, or, in this case, heads.

"60 Minutes" has traditionally aired reruns opposite major events on another network, in this case the major NFL game on Fox. Given the turnaround time on "60 Minutes" segments--which often take weeks, if not months, to produce, a new episode on Minnesota wasn't feasible, even if they wanted to.

The only consistent principle in politics is that politicians will say or do anything to serve their own power. It's not hypocrisy in the strictest sense because they never actually held any of the principles they now oppose. These are all just slippery justifications for unchecked power.

AI slop has now infected even posts about terrible midcentury Jell-O recipes. Despite there being hundreds of real photos of horrifying gelatin meals, people have started posting AI-generated fake gelatins like these and ruining what had been amusing with brainless trash.

The powerful are so afraid of not being in power that they never actually use their power, which is ultimately the same as not having it at all, except for the money and the privileges. So, in the end, we learned that the spineless senator likes money and vacations more than America or liberty.

A new biography grapples with the question of what happened to Tucker Carlson but reaches no firm conclusion about whether the conservative firebrand really believes the conspiracy theories and supernatural claims he peddles. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

With all the bad news today, we could all use a little break. Please enjoy Stouffer's Ice Cream, a failed 1970s effort from the frozen dinner company to expand into dessert. It turns out customers didn't want to buy ice cream from the people making their lasagna.

It almost functions as a caption.

The London School of Economics ran a piece by Irene Coslet promoting her new book claiming Shakespeare was actually a Moroccan Jewish woman. Her evidence is shockingly poor: She says it must be true because Shakespeare wrote about women too well for a man. blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

The Atlantic reports that teenagers are sharing Nazi-era pseudoscience about Agartha, the underground Aryan civilization founded by demigods from the sky. The Theosophy-derived idea shares many similarities with the later ancient astronaut theory. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This one made me mad because the show completely mangled medieval texts that I have taken great pains to make available in English. Review of Ancient Aliens S22E02 Egypt’s Lost Pyramids. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-...

No one reads books. None has sold enough to have any impact outside a small audience of political insiders who already knew what they were going to say anyway. These books are vanity projects and promotional tools and ways for companies to funnel money via irrational advances to the political class.

The "Masters of the Universe" trailer was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to the movie. My 8-year-old has loved the Masters of the Universe since he was 4, just like I did back in the '80s, and it will be fun to see it together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmEx...

Everyone is laughing at this, and I hate to throw cold water, but "turn the Titanic around" has been a common expression since at least the 1970s. Originally, it referred to the difficulty of avoiding disaster, but by the 1990s was frequently misused, as here, to mean "slow."

Well, that's something I didn't expect to see.

In other words, it's a measure of how many straight white men play in each league.

This is one of the dumbest takes I have read in a while. Try reversing it to see: "Men buying lifelike AI-powered robot sex dolls is good for romance: not only for the men raising the bar but for the women who proceed to meet it."

Greenland does not border Russia, China, or the United States. An attack across the Arctic would come by plane and would almost certainly not cross Greenland. No news report I have seen about the Greenland crisis has bothered to explain Northern Hemisphere geography.

I've had Prime Video for ages, and the recommendations page has stayed pretty consistent for most of that time no matter what movies or series I selected. This week, I watched one movie on Prime that had a gay main character, and now the whole front page looks like this:

Is it so hard for Democratic leaders to say "illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, and wrong"? Or are they all salivating at the thought of two more Democratic senators and three electoral votes when Greenland becomes a state?

I spent the weekend trying to crash through writing a 4,000-word essay on Erich von Däniken that a magazine commissioned for their next issue, and after two days of working on it, I'm finally done!

I know I'm supposed to see a generic skull atop Trump's head, but all I can see are the opening credits of "He-Man" when Skeletor's disembodied head floats over Castle Grayskull.

It is widely shared among their demographic cohort, which speaks both to the insularity of the class of elites and the almost stunning ignorance and incuriosity of that class. But I suppose if they lacked ethnocentrism and could envision perspectives beyond their own, they wouldn't be who they are.

My review of The UnXplained S08E01 “Impossible Ancient Structures,” another rehash of the same old material from Ancient Aliens, but with even less coherence. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-...

No fooling. I stopped using it for even basic work because I spent more time correcting the errors than it would have taken to do it myself.

"The fine Italian touch for your fine Italian dishes" ... you know, like a giant pile of green pasta ribbons mixed with nothing but what seems to be slices of raw button mushrooms.

My review of this week's Ancient Aliens season premiere, S22E01 “Skulls of the Gods,” quite possibly the single most repetitive episode in the show's history. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-...

I found out today from a correspondent in Poland that my Polish publisher is currently running radio ads for my book "Jimmy," known as "James Dean" in Poland, which is something my American publisher never did!