“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” -John Stuart Mill

Ah, my first love… ✈️

Guess I’ll have to start turning these off over Oklahoma then 🙄

Here’s my #2024Top4AviationScores!

This alert on my phone came up as “Radical nationalists have infiltrated Russia’s police and politics” and I couldn’t help but think “Samesies!”

That’s it, I’m finally going to start that band 🎸

Dan Rather is a treasure.

I’d like to find some worthy pro-democracy organizations to start donating to…Anyone have a particular one they like?

This is exactly how this issue needs to be framed!

As if the lasers weren’t bad enough, now we’re going to have people shooting at the passenger jets they’ve mis-identified. I give them a low probability of hitting anything in the sky, but the same can’t be said for people and things on the ground 😳

My favorite quote from this interview: “Culture shock is constructive. It’s the growing pains of a broadening perspective.” Love @ricksteves.bsky.social !

DO NOT SHINE LASERS AT LIGHTS IN THE SKY! There’s a good chance it’s not the drone you think it is and we pilots already deal with this far too often. Depending on the strength of the laser you will likely distract the flight crew and possibly injure their eyes as well. It’s also a federal crime!

“A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.” -Frank Borman I for one would have been headed to the airport coffee shop for a top off at this point 🫣

Your regularly scheduled reminder that FIFA is a terrible and corrupt organization #sportswashing

As the old saying goes: “If you can’t join ‘em, sue ‘em!” A big win for the American consumer as well as for whatever small army of lawyers represents these corporations! 😏

Why a large portion Americans don’t feel like the economy is working for them in one graph…

Yep, we’re in a bad spot when South Korea’s democratic instincts are stronger than those of the United States

The coffee’s good but the views are Kim Jong Unbelievable! 😂

"Everybody has their own favorite. What I liked about Milhouse is that even though he gets kicked around, he always feels like tomorrow's going to be a better day. Whether it is or not. And I think that's great. It's a good analogy for life." -Pamela Hayden on Leaving the Simpsons ❤️

Throwback to mid October…the Patroille de France performing their last show of the season over Salon de Provence

filing suit against bob marley and universal music group for their false claim that "everything's gonna be all right"

Call me crazy, but I tend to consider avoiding World War 3 to be in the interest of the U.S.

All of this! The post-WWII era has by most measures been the most stable and peaceful era since people started writing things down. Has it been perfect or perfectly equitable? No. But it will be a whole lot worse if we start experimenting with appeasement again!

The problem with appeasement is you eventually run out of other people’s countries.

“Trump voters are caught in the notion that Trump must be doing the right thing if Harris voters are upset. But Harris voters are upset now because they love their country…Yes, some [Trump voters] did vote to burn it all down. But if it all burns down, we burn too.”

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

Saw a few of these masks today in Venice. Thinking about stocking up for when there’s a run on them during the upcoming RFK Jr. pandemic…

If only people saw as much value in having competent political leaders as they do in having competent pilots 🤦‍♂️ (credit: Will McPhail / The New Yorker)

This is not okay!

It is not okay that the media continues to sanewash these lunatics!

It is not normal or okay for a misinformation-spreading anti-vaxer to be nominated for head of HHS.

It is not normal for a private citizen to negotiate on behalf of the United States. In fact, it is a crime under the Logan Act.

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