It’s both funny and tragic that we could almost all our problems by simply not listening to really stupid people.

“Modernity is individualism and oil.” -Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

Remember, all the people you step on while you’re on your way up…you get to step on them again on your way down!

AI will make us collectively smarter. And individually dumber, very much like the internet. Not coincidentally, it will also continue the trend of making us collectively richer, and individually poorer. I could explain why, but it involves math, and nobody will pay me for it anyway.

The Oval Office looks like a 19th Century whorehouse.

Good God Trump is an absolute pestilence of a man. Disgusting

Spoiler: they’re not going to get those Epstein files.

Worst ever Trump defense “Well, Epstein was a Democrat, so it’s their problem..” So only Republicans can investigate other Republicans? That could backfire. Plus, I’m not sure anyone has pointed this out yet, but Trump was also a Democrat during most of that time.

We’re going to win this fight, and restore our democracy and the rule of law, as we have done many times before. They wont give up, of course, they never have, and in time yet another generation will be called upon to lay it all on the line.

Climate change will not end our civilization . Instead, it will continually lower our standard of living. This happens in an orderly society by inflation. Things cost more, people have less. When the price of essentials become too much, it gets disorderly. And then the 4 Horsemen ride. Heads up.

I can’t help but think that the erosion of the rule of law and the sense of impunity with which these motherfuckers murder fishermen and enrich themselves had some genesis in Obama’s decision to give a free pass to the torturers, finance scammers, and war profiteers of the Bush era.

Maybe we could distribute some of those thousands of pounds of food packs sitting in warehouses that were supposed to keep starving Sudanese children alive, now that they’re dead.

Contrary to all the commercials running now, I highly recommend just regular Medicare. No network, no pre-approval, everyone takes it. I’ve had it for for 8 years now and only got sick once, after eating some purple berries for 6 or 7 weeks, thinking they might keep me alive.

Raised on Heinlein, Asimov, Pohl, and Vance, I’ve been inspired by manned space exploration since Alan Shepard’s first flight. But advances in robotics, sensing, cameras, and AI, have made manned space exploration impractical. Our bodies belong to this earth. Our machines can own the universe.

I love my country, and damn it’s hard watching her being looted, stripped, and everything I’m proud of taken away. It’s a little bit like watching my mother get the shit kicked out of her by my father, ya know, it’s a painful memory…

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

The world is heating up, the country has become an oligarchy, but this time of year something comes around that is so nearly divine that if only for a moment, it transcends the muck we wade in every day. And that is a perfectly ripe Bartlett pear, truly the Queen of Fruits.

Watched the great Canadian ad quoting Reagan and it’s a perfect illustration of what Democrats fail to do, over & over: take a position and EXPLAIN why it’s good policy, like Reagan did. Stop looking at polls and LEAD. On immigration as our greatest strength, wealth tax, diversity, rule of law.

I spent the morning knapping. Turning fine grey Texas flint into blades. I’m not very good at it, but it’s meditative. It struck me that our entire global civilization was bootstrapped from that flint edge, everything we’ve built, resting at the bottom of it all on that first tool.

Ferlinghetti lived to be 102. He wrote this in 2007, when he was 88.

Trump voting farmers getting hammered every which way from Trump policies, it almost seems like he’s purposely trying to put them out of business. They’re baffled. Maybe they’ll figure it out when the hedge fund guys are bidding on their farms at the bankruptcy auction.

People rightly blaming Republicans for ending health care subsidies and their rates going up to $1000 a month and more. But why are the insurance companies charging these ridiculous rates getting a free pass?

We are in the middle stage of a coup.

It is the one unelected branch of our tripartite system, the judges, that will decide whether we remain a nation of laws. So far, they have been steadfast, with the exception of the Supreme Court. Those 6 judges will torch our republic if not stopped,

Alright, I got a beef in addition to the saw; ‘limited only by your imagination’, a very severe limitation, in fact. “Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.” But squirrels find their nuts by smell. So a blind squirrel would find more nuts! If he didn’t kill himself falling out of a tree first.

I have survived 4 wars; the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on Christmas, and the ongoing war on woke. Where’s my parade? Can I get a simple, “Thank you for your service, you broke ass, drug fueled, bad Santa, woke motherfucker?” Anyone?

You won’t hear any politicians say this, but over our history, we’ve done pretty well by open borders.

Bad news: I lost two friends this month. Descanse En Paz Good news: I outlived two friends this month. Caminando Por La Tierra!

The rumored picture of Trump with half naked girls reported to have been in Epstein’s safe: the thing is, everyone knows there is nothing in Trump’s character that would make you doubt it exists.

@tracesoftexas.bsky.social RIP Speedy Sparks, bass player for the Texas Tornados and many others. And a real gentleman.

The ferociousness with which the MAGAS seek power and then use it to do stupid things throws everyone off balance They are “filled with passionate intensity”. While we still seem to lack all conviction. “Wars are won in the will..” (The 13th Warrior)

This whole “ Dems want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants” lie just illustrates how much they’ve got us fighting over crumbs,

The carnage will continue until the functioning government and alliances built with great effort since WWII is a trashed out ruin of ashes, rubble, and cheap red hats.

One of my veteran friends is convinced Hegseth is calling the flag officers to DC so they can either swear a personal oath to Trump or be fired,

It’s getting worse faster. All the checks and balances are broken, meaningless. The key to unleashing all this destruction, it turns out, was five judges on the Supreme Court. These motherfuckers are pyromaniacs intent on burning the rule of law to the ground. We’re going to rebuild from ashes.

By prosecuting his political enemies on blatantly meritless charges. trump actually makes it less likely that Democrats will prosecute MAGAs for real crimes. He discredits the very idea of public corruption prosecutions. Much like crying voter fraud when there is none makes it easier to commit it.

If we have learned one thing from the Trump era, it’s that the Law don’t mean diddly squat. With sufficient will, you can ignore it. Constant, unrelenting will, an absolute lack of shame or empathy, amoral to the bone, can trample the Law and make fools of all who abide and adhere to it.

I have to pose this question to the billionaires ripping our country to pieces right now; ‘Would you rather be fabulously wealthy in a stable and prosperous country, or obscenely wealthy in a lawless shithole of a country?’ Because they are steering us toward the latter.

I’ve been living in this country more than 70 years, and there has never been a time when Americans did not try to impose their political beliefs with lethal violence, either here or somewhere else. We’re a war-like people, that’s the truth. And this is a violent land, no doubt.

I didn’t know much about Kirk before someone shot him, but now that I do…fuck that guy.

Welp, I guess he lost that debate.

He died doing what he loved; standing up for the Second Amendment.

I am as certain as I can be, that climate change can’t destroy us. We are human beings. But our failure to adapt to it will surely destroy us, just as it did the Mayans. “Unserious Leadership in A Time of Crisis” Some lucky soul still around can carve that into the gravestone of our civilization.

The attack on that boat suspected of drug smuggling, a thousand miles from our border, doesn’t add up. Why would there be 11 people on a fast boat carrying drugs? Cartel would send 2 or maybe 3. They may have been refugee, is my guess.

Something like this happened before. In the 1870’s, when US troops were withdrawn from the Confederate states and they instituted Jim Crow. On top of all the human suffering, injustice, they impoverished themselves for a hundred years. I saw Mississippi in the 1960’s. It was 3rd world.

How, by all that is holy & good, has America not learned its lesson about immigration? That it’s our greatest strength. Yet, the nativist hate returns Every. Single.Time. The Germans in the 1700’s, Irish in the 19th century, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cubans. Wise up!

Word. RIP Flaco.

If the redistricting scam succeeds, I predict red states, and swing states that are controlled by Republicans will push to assign Presidential electors by district, as Maine and Nebraska already does. But this will fail; the current winner take all system already favors the GOP.

Looking back at a life longer than I had a right to expect, two of the most joyous moments I’ve experienced, excluding sex, drugs, or rock ‘n roll: Solving a problem, a mystery, I’d worked on tirelessly for many years. Beautiful! And running from the police on foot and getting away. The sweet life

This shit is insane. Insane. We cannot, cannot let one man have this much power!