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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Post #7302 M: Dumb BLEEP of the Week; Beyoncé Responds To President Trump; DiLorenzo on Competition and Monopoly

 Quote of the Day

The line between failure and success is 
so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: 
\so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard  

Dumb BLEEP of the Week

Beyoncé Responds To President Trump

DiLorenzo on Competition and Monopoly

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary-Lou

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Post #7301 M: Gary Taubes: MAHA, Ultra-Processed Foods, and Bad Science; Tariffs versus Free Trade; Trump Knew He Was in the Epstein Files, Launches Attack on Obama

 Quote of the Day

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, 
the necessity of listening is what makes the right important. - Walter Lippmann  

Gary Taubes: MAHA, Ultra-Processed Foods, and Bad Science

Tariffs versus Free Trade

Trump Knew He Was in the Epstein Files, Launches Attack on Obama

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Henry Payne via Townhall

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

Timi Yuro - Hurt

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Post #7300 M: Trump's Epstein Nightmare Continues After Being Named in Files; McClanahan on Is Wokism Dying? ; Libertarianism vs. Conservatism Intern Debate

 Happy 17th Blogiversary!

Quote of the Day

Failure is an event, never a person.
William D. Brown  

Trump's Epstein Nightmare Continues After Being Named in Files

McClanahan on Is Wokism Dying?

Libertarianism vs. Conservatism Intern Debate

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Political Cartoon


Courtesy of Henry Payne via Townhall

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman Group

Monday, July 28, 2025

Post #7299 M: Trump Panics as Photos Reveal Epstein at His Wedding; McClanahan on Stupid July 4 "History"; Vibe Shift: Woman cast as "Zelda" trans rage ensues

Quote of the Day

Thou shouldst eat to live; 
not live to eat.
Socrates  

Trump Panics as Photos Reveal Epstein at His Wedding

McClanahan on Stupid July 4 "History"

Vibe Shift: Woman cast as "Zelda" trans rage ensues

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Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits 

DION ~ RUNAROUND SUE

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Post #7298 Social Media Digest

X/Twitter 

Post #7297 M: Paramount’s Trump Settlement: A Big Fat Bribe; The Career of Your Dreams Could Be a Reality; Another Game Warden Caught Spying

 Quote of the Day

Far and away the best prize that life offers is 
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt  

Paramount’s Trump Settlement: A Big Fat Bribe

The Career of Your Dreams Could Be a Reality

Another Game Warden Caught Spying

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Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

Faron Young - Hello Walls

Post #7296 J

 Pandemic Report

The latest CDC weekly stats:


Although the national stats are relatively low still, the testing and emergency room stats slightly ticked up, mostly 27 states with concentration in the west. south and southeast. "The strongest indicators were seen in Arkansas, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia." Why summer waves? "Summer waves may be linked to people spending more time indoors with air conditioning during the height of summer heat." Why 2 waves for COVID but one wave annually for influenza? "Some scientists point to rapid mutations and waning immunity from past infection or vaccination...A second theory suggests there are three distinct groups of people – a summer group, a winter group, and a group that gets infected twice a year. The idea is based on the idea that people vary in how long they're immune after infection, vaccination, or both."

Other COVID-related news items include:

Other Notes

The blog still has questionably bloated statistics. My posts now are averaging into double digits but just barely and sometimes it takes a few days to reach that rate. We should hit 40 for the second straight month maybe higher if the essay I'm working on goes out this week. My X/Twitter impressions seem to be somewhere in the 1-2K.impression rate weekly (if and when Twitter teases a stat trying to lure me into a paid subscription. The old Twitter included basic stats to all users.)

I've usually been a fan of Google's services, including email, browser, maps, Blogger, YouTube, translate, etc. I do have occasional gripes, like Chrome's captcha games when I do a search with my VPN on. With YouTube, I usually embed at least 5 or more video clips in my daily posts (occasionally I embed Facebook or other clips) but lately I've noted more frequent interruptions of longer (say, McClanahan episodes) content and sometimes additional spots if you don't take advantage of the first skip period. It wouldn't be so bad if we were talking 30 seconds but some of these things are like mini-infomercials.

I hate losing an external hard drive. It recently happened to one of my reliable Seagate's It was one of those things like a likely loose connection inside the enclosure, like the device manager can see it but the disk manager can't or if it does, it sees it as uninitialized . At that point you realize you've probably lost the data but you have backups, but Windows says it can't initialize. So back to Amazon and I decided on a 2TB SSD. I had one already preassembled it its own case. But this one came with its enclosure separate. I've worked with enclosures before but this one required unscrewing a tiny screw. I had a tiny screwdriver set but I couldn't unscrew it.. Back to Amazon: there are no-tools alternatives so hopefully one of them works. 

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Post #7295 M: Remy: I Need a Boat (GOP Spending Version); Trump Dodges Epstein by Attacking Obama; McClanahan on What's Wrong with the Right Side of History?

Quote of the Day

We know what a person thinks 
not when he tells us what he thinks, 
but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer 

Remy: I Need a Boat (GOP Spending Version)

Trump Dodges Epstein by Attacking Obama

McClanahan on What's Wrong with the Right Side of History?


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Political Cartoon


Courtesy of Henry Payne via Townhall


Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits 

Asia Minor - Kokomo

Friday, July 25, 2025

Post #7294 M: Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles; Woods on Austrian Economics in the Age of MAGA; Stossel Interview: James Lindsay

 Quote of the Day

The main dangers in this life are the people 
who want to change everything or nothing.
Lady Nancy Astor  

 Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles

 Woods on Austrian Economics in the Age of MAGA 

Stossel Interview: James Lindsay

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 Political Cartoon

                                                                 Courtesy of Jack Ohman via smerconish

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits 

 Clarence "Frogman" Henry - I Don't Know Why I Love You But I Do

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Post #7293 M: What’s the True Price of ‘Made in the USA’? ; Stossel on Inside North Korea; SOHO Debate: Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Presidential Immunity?

 Quote of the Day

Love me when I least deserve it, 
because that's when I really need it.
Swedish Proverb

What’s the True Price of ‘Made in the USA’? 

Stossel on Inside North Korea

SOHO Debate: Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Presidential Immunity?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

"This Time" Troy Shondell

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Post #7292 M: Study on Climate and Rats; McClanahan on John C. Calhoun; America’s National Parks Are Under Attack

 Quote of the Day

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. 
Talent is only a starting point in this business. 
You've got to keep on working that talent. 
Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Irving Berlin  

Watch Aaron Brown DESTROY This Influential Study on Climate and Rats

McClanahan on John C. Calhoun

America’s National Parks Are Under Attack

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Political Cartoon

      courtesy of Scott Stantis via smerconish

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

SHEP & THE LIMELITES -"DADDY'S HOME" 

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Post #7291 M: Trump Targets Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell; Why Jay Powell’s Fed Will Not Cut Interest Rates; Dumb BLEEP of the Week

 Quote of the Day

The only sense that is common in the long run, is 
the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White  

Trump Targets Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Why Jay Powell’s Fed Will Not Cut Interest Rates

Dumb BLEEP of the Week

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Political  Cartoon

Courtesy of Jon Russo via Townhall

Musical Interlude: 1961 Top 100 Hits

The Marcels - Blue Moon