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Sunday, September 27, 2026

Post #7867 Social Media Digest

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Post #7866 M: Mitch McConnell Returns & Trump Dismisses AI Doomsday Warnings; How One Country Ruined Education Forever; McClanahan on The Essential Originalist Papers

 Quote of the Day

Do not wait for leaders; 
do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa  

Mitch McConnell Returns & Trump Dismisses AI Doomsday Warnings

How One Country Ruined Education Forever

McClanahan on The Essential Originalist Papers

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Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

A Walk In The Black Forest - Horst Jankowski

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Saturday, September 26, 2026

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 Endemic Report

The latest weekly CDC stats:


The Sick Times:


While we are now into fall, the summer surge continues, especially across northern states; it's clearly post-peak in much of the country. More coverage of the fall vaccine rollout, including the CDC finally approving vaccine shots for at-risk youth, which had delayed coverage for up to half of kids in federally funded programs administered by states. Arizona is one of several states with a standing order that allows adults to get vaccines without a prescription.  A second Swiss soccer player is implicated in a fake vaccine card scandal. The Mayo Clinic has settled a religious exemption vaccine lawsuit.

Other COVID-19 news items:

  • "Pennsylvania tops 800 measles cases as CDC acknowledges only 1 measles death"
  • "Antibodies May Not Be Enough: T Cells Emerge as Key Players in Household COVID-19 Transmission"
  • "Oral antibodies could help clear Covid-19 faster"
  • "Covid-19 'Frankenstein' variant leads to tenfold increase in infections"
  • "Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog"
  • "Chile signed an agreement with CanSino to buy 1.8 million vaccines against Covid-19"
  • "Nearly Two-Thirds of Patients With Long COVID Meet Diagnostic Criteria for POTS"

  • COVID ewlief fraud/other crimes:
    • "Lab executives face federal lawsuit for alleged $13 million COVID-19 testing scheme in senior living communities"
    • "3 men indicted for $750K COVID-19 test factory scheme"
    • "GSA claims it found $1.2B in suspected COVID-related contracting fraud"
    • "$2M COVID fraud plea, 86 calls to an ex among El Paso arrests"
    • "Former Charlotte Councilwoman Tiawana Brown sentenced to prison for COVID-19 relief fraud"
    • "Roanoke woman arraigned on COVID-19-era program fraud charges"
    • "Docs: Indiana man working for Veterans Affairs defrauded federal COVID-19 relief programs; made purchases at Total Wine, Best Buy"
    • "Dunkirk woman sentenced for COVID-19 relief fraud scheme"
  • Legal/political issues:

Other Notes

The blog is averaging a dubiously high 4K+ page reads daily. I am still planning my next essay. Probably for early next month. My X/Twitter impressions are lighter than normal, although my followers are back over 200 and I've seemingly attracted more likes over the past week.

I started this morning with a mystery. I normally schedule my daily miscellany blog post for 4 AM EDT/EST, so I checked the post to make sure I didn't typo the scheduled time, that an embedded video was still available, etc. This morning I saw a Google banner (?) in Russian. (I later verified via Google Translate because I'm not fluent in Russian but recognize the alphabet: It involved notifications about tracking cookies or the like on my Google/Blogger blog webpages.) But why was I seeing it? I use a VPN, but a domestic location (typically on or near the East Coast). In the meantime, I worried about malware or a corrupted browser; I even reinstalled Chrome. Long story short, it seemed to have more to do with how Google processed my VPN-supplied IP address rather than my provider actually using a Russian server. (I also tried using incognito browser sessions and a backup notebook PC).

I can tell we're finally in fall. I keep the thermostat set high for A/C, and it hasn't toggled on in days. 

As I've mentioned on X, I've increasingly substituted ground chicken/turkey or pork at maybe half the price of skyrocketing beef prices. I prefer grass-fed beef; I like the preferable omega fat ratios for pasture-finished meat, although, like tonight, I'll enjoy conventional beef, especially when Lidl has it on sale. It's like how I treat organics, free-range eggs, and the like: I appreciate superior nutrition, but I'm not sure that marginal benefits are worth double or more the price. I'm including more quinoa, seeded/whole-grain bread, olive oil, avocados, cabbage, and pomegranate juice in my diet.

It was hard, as a Longhorn alumnus, watching them play Tennessee this afternoon. True, they never trailed in the game; no disciplined team should have been penalized so much. Texas' defense largely shut down the offense, but I remember a Texas rusher pinned the QB on third down deep and got hit with an unsportsmanlike conduct call for first down. There was a broken tackle on a punt return for a touchdown, and the Longhorns almost blew a 10-point lead in the final minutes on an underthrown touchdown pass, then Tennessee recovered the ensuing onside kick. But the highly touted freshman QB lost his first game since early high school.  Still, Arch Manning got caught twice trying to pass while over the line of scrimmage.

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Post #7864 M: Lawyers are a MONOPOLY; Stossel on Artificial Intelligence; Uncle Sam Owning Private Companies?

 Quote of the Day

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. 
I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  

Lawyers are a MONOPOLY

Stossel on Artificial Intelligence

Uncle Sam Owning Private Companies?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Steve Breen via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

 I’m Henry VIII, I Am - Herman’s Hermits

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Friday, September 25, 2026

Post #7863 M: Trump Dismisses AI Concerns as He Mocks Top AI Leaders' Warnings; Why Libertarianism? Meet Cato Staffers Making America Freer; Fear Energy

 Quote of the Day

We can throw stones, 
complain about them, 
stumble on them, 
climb over them, 
or build with them.
William Arthur Ward  

Trump Dismisses AI Concerns as He Mocks Top AI Leaders' Warnings

Why Libertarianism? Meet Cato Staffers Making America Freer

Fear Energy | Anxiety Ep. 2 | Love Gov Season 4

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Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

Seventh Son - Johnny Rivers

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Post #7862 M: Are these conservatives talking about Trump's $5000 handout?; Nothing to Catastrophize; Is AI Really an Existential Threat?

 Quote of the Day

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done 
because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower 

Are these conservatives talking about Trump's $5000 handout? 

Nothing to Catastrophize | Anxiety Ep. 1 | Love Gov Season 4

Is AI Really an Existential Threat?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Lisa Benson via Politico

Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

Just Once In My Life - Righteous Brothers

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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Post #7861 M: Trump Bribes Americans with $5K "Dividends"; Did The Revolution Free France?; A Trust Exercise

Quote of the Day

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit 
makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham 

Trump Bribes Americans with $5K "Dividends"

Did The Revolution Free France?

A Trust Exercise | Anxiety Ep. 3 | Love Gov Season 4

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Political Cartoon

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Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry & the Pacemakers

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Post #7860 M: From 9/11 to Iran, Are We Safer Now?; TikTok Wives after the Lindsay Clancy Trial Ends; McClanahan on A Republic If You Can Keep It

 Quote of the Day

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, 
just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Aristotle  

From 9/11 to Iran, Are We Safer Now? 

TikTok Wives after the Lindsay Clancy Trial Ends

McClanahan on A Republic If You Can Keep It

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Steve Breen via smerconish

Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

 I’m Telling You Now - Freddie & the Dreamers

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Monday, September 21, 2026

Post #7859 M: Trump Bribes Americans For Votes; Why Are Public Schools Losing Students; The Lindsay Clancy Jury Never Had the Right Choice

 Quote of the Day

The man who does not read good books 
has no advantage over 
the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain  

Trump Bribes Americans For Votes

Why Are Public Schools Losing Students

The Lindsay Clancy Jury Never Had the Right Choice

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Eric Allie via smerconish

Musical Interlude: 1965 Top 100 Hits

BOB DYLAN "Like A Rolling Stone"

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