We saw it a week ago and, while it was a good movie, I wasn’t as blown away by it as many seem to have been. But Matt Shapiro thought it was great.
Cats And Cancer
They could be useful in understanding it for humans as well.
This is of particular current interest, given that we just spent several thousand dollars for surgery for one of the cats to remove a tumor in the small intestine. Fortunately, it appears that they got it all, and the prognosis for the 7YO is good.
Swallwell
What kind of odious people would have signed up to get this creature elected in the first place?
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 11, 2026
[Tuesday-morning update]
Eric Swalwell and the Brett Kavanaugh karma train.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer set of scumbags.
Also, how Nancy fed Swalwell’s delusions of adequacy.
[Bumped]
The “Ceasefire”
…is merely a strategic pause. And the blockade of Iran is part of it.
[Tuesday-morning update]
I’m going to make many of you spitting mad at me for pointing this out, but now that we have started the naval blockade, Iran’s strategic position (which was already hopeless) has become terminal. They are soon going to run out of storage space for their oil. And we haven’t even…
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) April 13, 2026
New-Car “Features”
Yes, they’re expensive to repair, but these are also one of the reasons that new cars have gotten so ridiculously expensive. I don’t need a heads-up display, or a large LCD screen. Give me knobs.
China’s Weapons
Their failure in Venezuela and Iran will have consequences. They probably already have. And good ones for the good guys. Taiwan can probably breathe a little easier now.
Disney
An interesting thesis: How it accidentally radicalized generations before they could read.
Convenient BS
The legacy of Al Gore’s religious polemic, twenty years on.
He, I think more than anyone, was responsible for the politicization of science.
Gavin Newsom
…and his empire of fraud.
Unfortunately, it almost certainly extends to voter fraud.
What A Time To Be Alive
Optimistic thoughts from Sarah Hoyt.
And she doesn’t even mention space.