Iran War SitRep Day 8: The war after one week; war reveals
“War reveals” is my guiding insight for the Iran War. Let’s see what we have discovered the past week.
“War reveals” is my guiding insight for the Iran War. Let’s see what we have discovered the past week.
First, although LL only presents two tenses, there are in fact four tenses of the subjunctive, just as there were in Latin. In addition to present and Passato Rimoto, there are also:
Conditional sentences are not restricted to clauses of the “If/…then” type. The “if clause” may be replaced by either a relative clause or a participial construction.
What goes by the name of ‘The Right’ in contemporary British life has been in a state of outrage, confected or otherwise.
The one person in America, after President Trump, most identified with “no regime-change wars” is Tulsi Gabbard. Now that Trump has launched the ultimate regime-change war, Tulsi needs to resign in protest.
With the threat, looming over our heads, that a film version of the Odyssey is soon to be released
Whatever dignity or utility the Modern Olympics might have had is gone. Let’s make 2026 the last one.
It is very disturbing to read or hear self-described conservative women, some of them patriotic Southerners, who use off-color diction, such as saying this or that “s-cks”–and please don’t tell me you don’t know the reference–or “p-ssed off” and dozen of other childish attempts to sound tough.
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.
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.