I love big dog breeds. Great Danes, Irish Wolfhounds, Saint Bernards, Newfoundlands and the like all tend to be sweet natured gentle giants. But I couldn’t own one. The main issue I have is that they tend not to live very long and I don’t relish the idea of having my heart broken every 7 or 8 years or so.
Gary Saul Morson has come up here before. I once thought I’d discovered him, only to find that neo already had. He has a piece in the Houses of Worship section of today’s WSJ. It’s wonderful, as usual.
I agree, but less about the heart-breaking. The way I was raised, I like animals, but I don’t love them. Big dogs have their charms, but the expense and the inevitable breaking things is daunting.
When I was married, my wife conned me into getting a dog. He was a mix of Black Lab and Australian Blue Herder. He was about 40 pounds with white tufts on his tail and between his eyes, and he was a very chill dog, even before we trained him. Just the right size for a dog. Poor guy was kind of a dog nerd, though. Always on the periphery at the dog park.
I left him behind when I divorced my wife. He did okay. Lived to be about 12. I liked him, but I didn’t love him.
But this video is very sweet.
Latest post: Thoughts and links inspired by visiting the Carrie Furnace (blast furnace) in Pittsburgh:
“It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog that comes into my life gives me a piece of their heart. If I live long enough all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are!”
David
Great quote I haven’t seen before. Without dogs in my life it would be very bleak.
Dogs. I fit between Nonapod and Mitchell Strand above. Shane, our large eight-year-old German Shepherd, died all too young 25 years ago. My grief almost took me with him, though I didn’t realize I loved him until he died; I had simply considered him a necessary appendage. I didn’t get another dog because the next chunk ripped from me would kill me for sure – you can’t remove too many appendages and still survive. But now, at 77, I’m thinking I can time it just about right so that I can get another one, and we’ll both die together. Timing; it’s all about the timing.
80th Anniversay of the surrender of the Japanese Empire today!
Steve Bannon’s warroom.org crelebrates it! But anyone anywhere else?
Somewhere in my basement are pictures taken in downtown Louisville 80 years ago. Looked like quite a party.
AI: still not ready for prime-time, although in this case I would censure the counsel on both sides for laziness AND for blowing off the Australian Supreme Court’s instructions to rigorously vet AI products before using them.
It’s not like this is the first time an AI hallucinated fake citations.
Sarah Paine is a historian who teaches at the US Naval War College, with a specialty in East Asia. She started popping up in my YouTube feed and I’ve been working my way through her videos.
Here’s one of her shorter YouTubes explaining that while Western military strategy is informed by Clausewitz, Japan’s by the code of Bushido. She notes that Bushido is more about military deportment, not strategy. Which she uses to explain the fanaticism of the Japanese military to its long-term detriment in WW 2.
It’s not like this is the first time an AI hallucinated fake citations.
AesopFan:
No, it’s not. As far as I’m concerned, any professional, especially a lawyer, who uses AI without checking, is a fool and/or cutting corners.
I had a friend who worked at a prominent LA law firm. I should say overworked. He would put in the usual long days.
For one case he was supposed to check through hundreds of inspection records of aircraft. If it got too late, he would just chuck the rest of the day’s records into the DONE bin and go home.
For Obamagate watchers, Sean Hannity has covered it daily. But also Megyn Kelly!
The Megyn Kelly Show is her podcast which she sometimes shows off her lawyerly training chops — something typically missing elsewhere.
On today’s podcast, we find her joined by Aaron Mate (RealClearPolitics) and Michael Schellenberger (Public News Substack?) to Fisk (ie, fact check and critique) how the New York Time’s “reporter” — Michael Schmitt, the FBIs Comey press conduit — keeps dismissing the gathering documented storm of evidence arming public inquiries and prosecutions around ObamaGate/Russiagate.
Brief answer? Sticking to old talking points that are wrong, eg, Steele Dossier not important, and for example the consensus that the IC was that Putin was pro-Trump in the 2016 campaign and anti-HRC! Another claim is that the later Senate Report on Russiagate is the real deal — not the House newly declassified HPSCI report!
The two guests here agree that Schmidt is just gaslighting here — the only caveat is that the R Senate committee chair Marco Rubio must be questioned on his now demonstrably wrong judgement endorsing their dissembling account of Russiagate.
Do check out Megyn’s thematic clips versions of her show that the YouTube algorithm keepstossing at least to me.
For example, another best source reporter is a John Solomon of JustTheNews.com. Yesterday, Solomon tells Kelly he can confirm that there are now four grand juries seated around the country from Florida, DC to Pennsylvania and New York vetting the DOJs sources. Multiple sources confirm this fact.
Solomon says this is all consistent with a Mafia style conspiracy exposing StrikeForce by prosecutors.
Like the top-line story, this too I have not heard nor read anywhere else!
I love big dog breeds. Great Danes, Irish Wolfhounds, Saint Bernards, Newfoundlands and the like all tend to be sweet natured gentle giants. But I couldn’t own one. The main issue I have is that they tend not to live very long and I don’t relish the idea of having my heart broken every 7 or 8 years or so.
Gary Saul Morson has come up here before. I once thought I’d discovered him, only to find that neo already had. He has a piece in the Houses of Worship section of today’s WSJ. It’s wonderful, as usual.
Leo Tolstoy’s Search for the Meaning of Life
https://archive.md/BhyeA
Nonapod:
I agree, but less about the heart-breaking. The way I was raised, I like animals, but I don’t love them. Big dogs have their charms, but the expense and the inevitable breaking things is daunting.
When I was married, my wife conned me into getting a dog. He was a mix of Black Lab and Australian Blue Herder. He was about 40 pounds with white tufts on his tail and between his eyes, and he was a very chill dog, even before we trained him. Just the right size for a dog. Poor guy was kind of a dog nerd, though. Always on the periphery at the dog park.
I left him behind when I divorced my wife. He did okay. Lived to be about 12. I liked him, but I didn’t love him.
But this video is very sweet.
Latest post: Thoughts and links inspired by visiting the Carrie Furnace (blast furnace) in Pittsburgh:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/74776.html
Dogs…a Memory post that came up at FB today said:
“It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them, and every new dog that comes into my life gives me a piece of their heart. If I live long enough all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are!”
David
Great quote I haven’t seen before. Without dogs in my life it would be very bleak.
Dogs. I fit between Nonapod and Mitchell Strand above. Shane, our large eight-year-old German Shepherd, died all too young 25 years ago. My grief almost took me with him, though I didn’t realize I loved him until he died; I had simply considered him a necessary appendage. I didn’t get another dog because the next chunk ripped from me would kill me for sure – you can’t remove too many appendages and still survive. But now, at 77, I’m thinking I can time it just about right so that I can get another one, and we’ll both die together. Timing; it’s all about the timing.
80th Anniversay of the surrender of the Japanese Empire today!
Steve Bannon’s warroom.org crelebrates it! But anyone anywhere else?
It is indeed VJ Day!
https://images.app.goo.gl/6EBCEri54XKEU1ug9
Somewhere in my basement are pictures taken in downtown Louisville 80 years ago. Looked like quite a party.
AI: still not ready for prime-time, although in this case I would censure the counsel on both sides for laziness AND for blowing off the Australian Supreme Court’s instructions to rigorously vet AI products before using them.
It’s not like this is the first time an AI hallucinated fake citations.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/world-news/australian-lawyer-apologizes-for-ai-generated-errors-in-murder-case/
Re: VJ Day
Sarah Paine is a historian who teaches at the US Naval War College, with a specialty in East Asia. She started popping up in my YouTube feed and I’ve been working my way through her videos.
Here’s one of her shorter YouTubes explaining that while Western military strategy is informed by Clausewitz, Japan’s by the code of Bushido. She notes that Bushido is more about military deportment, not strategy. Which she uses to explain the fanaticism of the Japanese military to its long-term detriment in WW 2.
–Sarah Paine, “Samurai’s obsession with death harmed Japan in WWII”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXk00ZNoo8
I find her fascinating and, so far, reliable.
It’s not like this is the first time an AI hallucinated fake citations.
AesopFan:
No, it’s not. As far as I’m concerned, any professional, especially a lawyer, who uses AI without checking, is a fool and/or cutting corners.
I had a friend who worked at a prominent LA law firm. I should say overworked. He would put in the usual long days.
For one case he was supposed to check through hundreds of inspection records of aircraft. If it got too late, he would just chuck the rest of the day’s records into the DONE bin and go home.
For Obamagate watchers, Sean Hannity has covered it daily. But also Megyn Kelly!
The Megyn Kelly Show is her podcast which she sometimes shows off her lawyerly training chops — something typically missing elsewhere.
On today’s podcast, we find her joined by Aaron Mate (RealClearPolitics) and Michael Schellenberger (Public News Substack?) to Fisk (ie, fact check and critique) how the New York Time’s “reporter” — Michael Schmitt, the FBIs Comey press conduit — keeps dismissing the gathering documented storm of evidence arming public inquiries and prosecutions around ObamaGate/Russiagate.
Brief answer? Sticking to old talking points that are wrong, eg, Steele Dossier not important, and for example the consensus that the IC was that Putin was pro-Trump in the 2016 campaign and anti-HRC! Another claim is that the later Senate Report on Russiagate is the real deal — not the House newly declassified HPSCI report!
The two guests here agree that Schmidt is just gaslighting here — the only caveat is that the R Senate committee chair Marco Rubio must be questioned on his now demonstrably wrong judgement endorsing their dissembling account of Russiagate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvnyEsLBgTE
Fact-Checking the New York Times’ “Daily” Podcast’s Disinformation-Filled Russiagate Episode
Megyn Kelly
Do check out Megyn’s thematic clips versions of her show that the YouTube algorithm keepstossing at least to me.
For example, another best source reporter is a John Solomon of JustTheNews.com. Yesterday, Solomon tells Kelly he can confirm that there are now four grand juries seated around the country from Florida, DC to Pennsylvania and New York vetting the DOJs sources. Multiple sources confirm this fact.
Solomon says this is all consistent with a Mafia style conspiracy exposing StrikeForce by prosecutors.
Like the top-line story, this too I have not heard nor read anywhere else!
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/15/smithsonians-american-history-museum-is-wall-to-wall-anti-american-propaganda/
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