It was a bad day. Our customer was unhappy and beat us up. My flight landed in the rain, but sat in the dark waiting for the gate agents. I sat in my window seat, staring at the ground crew and sulking.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” ~ Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism”

“Everyone thinks they have the best dog and none of them are wrong.” ~ W.R. Pursche

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Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Except for Pretti’s gun that can kill people without anyone knowing. (Excerpt from WSJ “Trump says Administration is ‘Reviewing Everything’ about Minneapolis Shooting”)

Gov. Janet Mills: "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret arrests or secret police."

He's right, you know...

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.” ― Miller Williams

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

You're trying your best, Steve. That's all we ask.

Things that make you go “hmmm”. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Me: If China takes over Taiwan how long will it take the free world to catch up to Taiwan’s chip fabrication skill? ChatGPT: Short answer: many years—likely a decade or more for true parity at the leading edge, even if China took over Taiwan tomorrow and the “free world” responded at full speed.

"The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny." Aesop's Fables "The Wolf and the Lamb"

🔴 BREAKING - Venezuela high court orders VP to take over presidency 'temporarily'

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year theonion.com/cia-realizes...

In school, instead of only teaching students what we know to enhance their knowledge, we should also tell them what we don’t know to enhance their curiosity.

I don’t trust MSM. Instead I put my faith in random dudes posting contrived articles that can be debunked in under a minute. /s

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. “Justifiable homicides help reduce crime rates because they aren’t included in violent crime statistics.”

Tried this with 3 AI bots, two got it right, but one, I won't say who, got it confidently wrong. Q: "How long does a turkey need to cook at 60 mph?" A: To cook a turkey at 60 mph, the cooking time would be significantly shorter due to the high speed of the oven.

The future darkens. Donald Trump orders the resumption of nuclear weapons tests in the United States … asked the Department of Defense on Thursday to "start testing" atomic weapons. This statement comes as Russia announced on Wednesday that it had tested an underwater drone with nuclear capacity.

Russia’s President doesn’t tolerate dissent. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Three words I’ve learned in 2025: - innumerate, - emolument, and - supine.

This has to stop or be stopped. “A kindergarten was hit in Ukraine's second biggest city Kharkiv…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The world changes, but people are still the same: “Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return. Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt. So don’t bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you.

“The firings will continue until morale improves.”

Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth;

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Sooner or later they’ll grab a carpenter named Jesus.

If you come for my people, you come through me.

“Luck favors the prepared mind.” ~ Louis Pasteur

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

1) “Allegedly”, okay maybe she was maybe she wasn’t, but 2) ICE firing rounds at a motorist in a high density urban area on a Saturday morning around 11 am. That’s a concern. wgntv.com/news/operati...

Progressives walk & ride bikes. Conservatives walk & ride bikes. Centrists walk & ride bikes. road.cc/content/news...

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” ~ Peter Drucker

Double indemnity? After hearing that a group of documented workers were arrested by ICE, I’m wondering if they’ll be released by a judge and then grabbed again? (And counted as two arrests on the quota.)

“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” ~ Noël Coward (seen in The Week)

"If gold rusts, what shall iron do?" ~ Geoffrey Chaucer Sadly, the political leaders who understand the meaning of that quote aren’t the ones who need to understand the meaning of that quote.

“What happens in conflict is the flattening of identities and somebody becomes just one thing or another, and we can marginalize or dehumanize them,” says Mr. Sarrouf.

Saying that a vaccine which isn’t 100% effective “doesn’t work” is like saying brakes that don’t stop you from ever running into something don’t work.

“…the agreement between DHS and the Navy is that ICE cannot store lethal ammunition, house DHS personnel or detain people at the naval station. ICE can, however, use office space, parking and store non-lethal ammunition beginning Friday until Oct. 5.” wgntv.com/news/lake-co...

It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.

Mixed cultural heritage enriches societies by bringing together traditions, languages, and practices. Some people call it “alien invasion”; I call it “hybrid vigor”.