With Artemis II set to fly around the Moon later this afternoon, here are some of my favorite books on the history of America’s space program over the five-plus decades since astronauts went out this far:

We regret to inform you that the president is insane.

And at the same time the Artemis II crew is on their way to the Moon, we have yet more evidence that the person elected to the highest office in the land was never, ever fit for that role. This is a real post from the sitting President of the United States this morning.

Well except Lower Decks and Picard S3

we regret to inform you the bot is at it again

moon moon moon moon moon

My latest monthly roundup of what I’m reading and watching and listening to - check it out:

My latest on Trump’s revival of international gangsterism is up at Liberal Currents!

Me and the boys parachuting onto Kharg Island because Joe Rogan told chuds to vote for Trump

No no dig up, stupid

The good news is that Trump has nowhere to go but down. Unfortunately, that’s also the bad news.

or in visual format:

(he does not have a plan)

put back into power by a nation of treatlers only to pursue insane policies that make treats more expensive...

You can’t win a war with no goals - and Trump’s war with Iran is no different:

no shit

STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I think the original tweet was dumb. BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT!

Another war in the Middle East means another list of things to read about the Middle East:

I mean more fundamentally it's a story about the moral decay at the heart of the Republic and its primary institutions, particularly the Jedi Order - which admittedly becomes more clear when you watch The Clone Wars.

I mean this is the flip side of constant intonations that there's "no military solution" to this or that conflict - a conceptual disconnect of diplomacy and military force that's run through our foreign policy debate for the past 25 years

War is the continuation of posting by other means.

there's a difference between "this LLM helps me do mundane tasks marginally faster" - useful! probably true in a lot of cases! - and the "AI will eliminate all jobs and change human society in profound ways" prophecies we've been hearing for the past year and a half

Secretary of Defense Bluto Blutarsky

"War is the continuation of posting by other means." - Clausewitz, probably

somehow, rolling thunder returned

My latest on Trump’s nihilist foreign policy - including the war he seems intent on launching against Iran for reasons no one really knows:

My latest on Trump’s nihilist foreign policy - including the war he seems intent on launching against Iran for reasons no one really knows:

the real liberation day was the friends we made along the way

Five of my favorite books on presidents for Presidents’ Day:

the bot has achieved sentience

when wisconsin sends us its people, it's not sending us its best

sometimes I wonder how the median voter remembers to breathe

A quick review of “Wonder Man,” the latest entry in the MCU:

no one hates their own country so much as a super-patriot

we are certainly closer to the event horizon than ever before