McCook is the hell-spot of Nebraska. Frigid in the winter, baking hot in the summer, stinks of cowshit, and populated by Nazis. I can see why ICE wanted a prison there. If the inmates get even a glimpse of the town, they'll want to leave the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...

I'm reluctant to brag, but I should mention I've been awarded the inaugural Sunrise Diner Prize for Theoretical Physics, honoring my seminal discovery of Quantum Mechanics. I'd like to thank the wait staff at the Diner, for recognizing my good table manners and perhaps over-generous tips.

US Navy, murdering bastards that they are, kill 4 more. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ah, but Finn McRedmond is the @irishtimes.com's greatest mistake. There's no ethical problem with suppressing unfavorable stories about your subject, if you're having an affair with him? Really? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

A hundred fanatical listers immediately start checking commercial airlines to Manaus and charter flights to small airstrips on the Peru border. Tinamous are usually notoriously wary. This one arrarently isn’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/s...

WTF is ‘nar’? I used it, in desperation, in a NYT puzzle this morning. It must therefore be in their wordlist. But I can find no plausible definition or use for ‘nar’ in English.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the scapegoat has been selected. apnews.com/article/trum...

Juvenile green heron, at Indian River Preserve State Park this morning.

Unequivocally a war crime. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Why do I have the irresistible urge to call that TV Show "Strangler Figs"? Could it be the twisty vine things?

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

He was a CIA-trained member of an Afghan death squad. He came to America and did what we trained him to do. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7, amusingly enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

I have to say, even after 50 years here I've never really gotten into Thanksgiving. It was "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God". Well, I'm an atheist. Try again.

National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.

Max Planck Institute finds Gaza war-related death toll is substantially higher than the Palestinian health ministry’s own figures tinyurl.com/ky47a4sv

Love this! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gerry-AI question: if you could save only one, what you you save: your small left toe, or everyone who's ever worn a MAGA hat. Easy question: I need that toe!

Well that’s that. I wear dirty gym clothes on my next flight. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...

Jeffrey Epstein on Donald Trump "evil beyond belief"..and " mad" Can Epstein be relied on? Yes. Just as one sets a thief to catch a thief, so evil can be trusted to detect evil. Trump is evil. He has been evil in killing innocents in the Caribbean, In betraying Ukraine to Russia, in Gaza...

It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres

A confederation of traitors. Pollard does not have dual loyalty. His loyalty is only to Israel. Question is, who is Huckabee loyal to? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...

Gen-Z bros are a gushing geyser of really stupid ideas. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Troy Parrott completes stunning hat-trick at the death to keep Ireland’s World Cup dream alive

Well, on the one hand my wife was bitten by a snake (a non-venomous black racer), and the other hand Ireland had a miraculous comeback win to beat Hungary 3-2 in Hungary, thence qualifying for the World Cup playoff qualifier, so I have to say it was a pretty mixed day.

Literally budgie-smugglers! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

This is a particularly tiresome week. No, I didn’t kill innocent Iraqi civilians in Fallujah. I don’t deserve your discount. Find some murderous SOB.

The Democrats need to take out the trash. Now would be a good time, with a year to go before the midterms. Tim Kaine would not ordinarily have been on my trash short list, but he's earned it.

The Infantino Peace Prize www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

More @cnn.com stupidity: Ahmed al-Sharaa is not the first former terrorist to visit the White House. Menachem Begin visited in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1982. Shamir visited in 1987 and 1989. Gerry Adams visited in 1994.

Looking for Randy Fine's house (which is on our road in Melbourne Beach) I discovered that 'Pizza Hut House', ⅓ mile away, (you have to see it) belongs to Vanilla Ice. Expensive and tasteless; it seems just right for him. Fine has hidden his address, although he himself doxes political opponents.

@cnn.com just outdid itself. It gave the usual softball interview to a GOP bigot, Congressman Randy File, who has celebrated IDF murders of US citizens, is virulently Islamophobic (and hates the Irish), and has been corrupt since his days on Harvard student government. www.tag24.com/politics/pol...

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Blood-soaked Pogroms Haaretz Editorial : archive.li/TBD5F

This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

The economy of which city in the US is most dependent on air travel? And would be most impacted by the shutdown? Would it be Las Vegas? Wonder why among the 8 who caved on the shutdown were 2 senators from Nevada?

Ireland has joined a growing number of countries calling for Israel to be banned from European club and international football competitions. The Irish Football Association says Israel broke Uefa rules by allowing 'settlement clubs' in the occupied West Bank

Democratic spinelessness in the face of Republican evil is the one constant of US politics. Everything else is rage-bait for rubes.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Elon Musk talking drivel: must be a 'y' in the day. Cad é 'hobbit' as Gaeilge? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

…and yes, he was a total prick, and later in life was a gusher of racist, sexist and other crap. Smart people are sometimes assholes.

If I have to read any more crap about Watson and Crick (1953) I swear I’ll shoot myself. No, Watson did not discover DNA. He did figure out the structure; far more than that it was helical, which was widely known, but the significance of base complementarity and how it could convey information(1/2)

Targets rapidly disappearing in the rear-view mirror are more distant than they seem. They're dead, Jim. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just wrote to the lead counsel in Orr v Trump, with details of my cousin, named Allen Harbison at birth in 1858, who transitioned to Aleen, sometime around 1880, became a lady's maid, and applied for (and was apparently issued) a US passport in 1915, as a woman. This is not a modern practice.