Birds are really chirping this first morning above freezing here in the Two One Five. Heading for 68 degrees F today and that is welcome.

Is that a nurse standing outside the window ready pull the sick president's face up and out of the rice pudding for resuscitation?

HAPPY PRESIDENT’S DAY🇺🇸

Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

Does Panera Bread honestly think this will save their company? Really? Try fixing the un-chewable beef gristle breakfast sandwich first, would be my suggestion.

Republicans are fond of invoking the US's founding and the framers of the Constitution. But their veneration is particularly rich right now: Of all the abuses England heaped on the colonies, nothing angered them more than the Crown’s deployment of soldiers on city streets, especially in Boston.

Tenths of Inches of Snow? Really? open.substack.com/pub/jfsnmart...

China Makes! We Take! Can we survive as professional global consumers using a service economy to pay the bills? Can we sustain ourselves? jfsnmartin.substack.com/p/chinas-riv...

All statements like this that Trump makes about ANYONE, he is PROJECTING. That is, he is unconsciously talking about himself.

I went to bed with no inkling we would be waking up this morning to snow here in Philadelphia. Nah, the image I posted isn't real but it was real in 1978 when that blizzard sent the northeast into a tailspin. I remember that one all too well.

Spending some holiday free time watching as many Feynman videos as YouTube can manage.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Trump's MRI...

Real photo.

The scientific world lost a legend yesterday when Douglass Carmichael died. From the Potomac River to the Russian River; Doug never ceased to be interested and interesting. Bon Voyage.

For Doug's Friends and Followers - Our Loss open.substack.com/pub/douglass...

The Herd is Turning on Trump open.substack.com/pub/jfsnmart...

Commonplace Books? Is this the new me? open.substack.com/pub/jfsnmart...

It Isn't Wabbit Season, for sure. jfsnmartin.substack.com/p/duck-season

Sadly, I watched v. 1.0 happen in real time. jfsnmartin.substack.com/p/the-silent...

"It means his heart is failing." How does something that doesn't exist fail?

The 🍊🤡 clown living up to his name again. What an incompetent buffoon 🤦‍♀️

No one has worn a police uniform like that since Broderick Crawford's CHP sidekick on the 1955 'Highway Patrol' television series. So many old men with daddy problems.

A Potemkin Village at 1600 Sunday morning thoughts about the East Wing destruction to make way for a ballroom paid for by oligarchs. jfsnmartin.substack.com/p/our-potemk...

Introducing the host of INCOSE’s next Calling All Systems: "The Risks of Being Bionic" on 29 October: Michael Celentano! 🗓 Wednesday, 29 October 2025 ⏰ 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC) 🔗 bit.ly/4qaxA6B

Why do the powers of progressive nations to remain progressive rise and fall over time? Carl Frey, of the Oxford Martin School provides some important insights which may be helpful as we move though the uncharted waters of global political change. 15 www.youtube.com/live/gqliq0m...

Here is an oddity from the dusty vaults beneath 55 Cambridge Parkway: Lotus Agenda software. This tool felt like early-AI and helped us scrub federal contracts in record time using crude 1989 OCR software. I think we were the only people who found a real use for it.

It's a grey, rainy day here in Philadelphia. Perfect day to turn up the speakers and have McQueen's movie 'Le Mans' playing loud on the studio speakers while I work on some DAX code.

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

BREAKING NEWS ! The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the #NobelPeacePrize2025 to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work upholding and promoting democratic rights for Venezuelans and for her struggle to achieve a fair, peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

President Snooze Beast is back!

George Orwell also had a practical side to the power of the written word. open.substack.com/pub/jfsnmart...

Once upon a time, I worked as a consultant for the founder of the Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social at Oxford University. I never met the man personally but his positive impact upon me has lasted until this day. youtu.be/Ms95Lqk3MhE?...

WHEN SHEER IGNORANCE HAS A CABINET POST! DUMBASS !!

That adage about a broken, hypocritical clock . . .

The generals are calling them “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” because of how badly they bombed.

Pimping out America...

Sunday Matinee Time open.substack.com/pub/jfsnmart...

With the shoulder board one-to-four-stars soon to be congregating at Quantico, I am conflicted. Do I watch 'Dr. Strangelove' or read 'Seven Days in May'? I may go with protecting precious bodily fluids on this one and hope that Spanky and Hair Gel don't try to hand us martial law.

Skilled aviator, Pancho Barnes, could have pulled off this magazine-backed flying stunt with ease, but the magazine wanted the cute one because she was more photogenic.

I'll believe it when I see it but informed sources continue to insist Jimmy Kimmel and ABC are working towards an agreement that will see him return to his show, this month. Seven very convincing landmarks they point to, and other details in today's podcast

The moon, Venus and the star Regulus this morning from Montreal...