If I recall correctly, one of Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules for Life is to stop doing things that make you weak. You should by extension stop doing things that make you feel weak, stop doing things that make you feel like a chump. It occurred to me recently that I need to…
As I expected, the negotiation between the US and Iran failed to reach an agreement. Although JD Vance headed the US team, he was never in control… I have heard from someone who was directly involved with this circus in Islamabad that Israeli agents — Steve Witkoff and Jared…
J. D. Vance went to Islamabad and made impossible demands on Iran—demands he knew would be rejected and were, in fact, utterly unreasonable. The demands about enrichment, for example, were advanced by a state that refuses all inspections and stands outside all nuclear regulation regimes—not Iran. Israel. The refusal…
When our model fails to solve the problem because it no longer reflects the real world, the model breaks down. We know how things break in the material world: a critical component fails, and the device no longer functions. We know how to fix things in the material world: first, diagnose…
Apocalypse Now Edition. I covered the farrago of the fake ceasefire as it happened on my mysteriously invisible Twitter account. You can check some of my homework there. I did not believe there would really be a ceasefire. This is because this war was launched for Israel using an entirely…
This tweet below has been doing a lot of work so I wanted to share my thoughts about it. Since there’s a lot going on in the post, I’m going to break it down into smaller equations. Will the US leave NATO The logical answer is NO. We’ve seen…
The decreasing supply of interceptors has left Israel increasingly dependent on the missile defense capabilities of the U.S. Navy. On the eve of the tenuous ceasefire reached between the United States, Israel, and Iran, the number of ballistic missile interceptors left in Israel’s arsenal had dwindled to “double digits,”…
ROGUE NATION REPORT: Many Europeans consider America more dangerous than China, Politico reports. The US is perceived as a threat by a significant portion of people in six leading European nations, a new opinion poll suggests. In Spain, an outright majority holds this view. Politico, which commissioned the survey,…
Could the people of Kentucky end up with a Governor Thomas Massie? The Republican representative attended a forum at the University of Louisville on April 6, where an attendee asked if he’d ever consider taking up residence in Frankfort. This wasn’t the first time he’d been asked this question. “I…
Review of Sports Illustrated, December 4, 1967 issue. Those who experienced living in the U.S. in the 1960s know that mainstream sources of information were very limited then. We walked across the room to change the TV channel, and our choices pretty much consisted of the local CBS, ABC…
