Wednesday’s Child: I Go Full AI
The other day I replied to a Twitter post by Secretary Hegseth in which he had accused Anthropic, a leading AI developer, of trying to seize power over the Pentagon.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Iran War SitRep Day 5: War not helping Republicans
We’ll know more in a couple of days. But here’s one result from yesterday’s elections around Trumpland. Someone named Mel tweeted: “Voter turnout is in the toilet for Republicans.” R+7 = Republican 7-point registration advantage.
“The Gentlemen Cry Peace, Peace…..”
I was about 35 during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and in the village where I lived, someone I had known slightly–he was everyone else’s cousin–returned from Iran, where he was an executive with Aramco.
Iran War Sitrep Day 3: Coming home in a body bag
The body bags are starting to come home from Trump’s Iran War. Your sons and daughters, or those of your friends, relatives and neighbors. Once again: Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight. Why isn’t Barron Trump fighting?
From Women’s Rights to the Right to Be Women
A frank discussion, not for children, of the recent spate of killings by males pretending to be females
Wednesday’s Child: A Flight to Nowhere
Today I want to step away from the sonata form and do things the other way round. First the development, then the exposition.
Victorian Poems–Urban Studies by Hopkins
In the so-called “Romantic Era”–I detest these misleading names devised and applied by petty minds–industrialization and urbanization awakened some poets to the Satanic threat of progress
Abolish the word “Homeland”– and the DHS, too.
Since the 9/11 attack in 2001, one of the worst things the U.S. government did to diminish our liberties was impose the Department of Homeland Security and give it that name.
