Having said that, I cruise quite a bit. Have an Antarctic cruise coming up, another transatlantic next year, a Christmas village cruise next year, and in 2028, an Asia and a Norway cruise. Gotta travel while I still can.

I believe Fuld has made a good argument.

The accompanying graphic is very illustrative.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGGgXtwbEAAojfT?format=jpg&name=900×900

I’m not sure where this part fits in, as it happened after he wrote his post.
It refers to Trump’s ceasefire with Iran, not Israel and Lebanon, but everything there is intertwined.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/04/18/trump-i-will-end-ceasefire-wednesday-unless-deal-done-but-xis-very-happy-as-hormuz-reopens-n2201418
“Although the US.–Iran ceasefire is in effect for the moment (depending on who you ask), President Donald Trump signaled that things could change very quickly if the Islamic Republic doesn’t agree to terms — by Wednesday.
Speaking on Air Force One, the president said the clock is ticking. In the meantime, the blockade will stay in force:”

Wednesday is April 22; 10 days from the beginning of the Lebanese ceasefire is April 26. I’m glad I’m not the one keeping all these plates spinning!

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5836115-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-agreement/
“The 10-day halt in fighting began at 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday afternoon (4/16) — or midnight in Lebanon and Israel. The agreement stated that this is only the “initial” length for the ceasefire agreement, leaving the door open for further negotiation. “

I’m quite ready and eager to watch this fresh documentary take!

Bob Wilson shares the important clean up work initiated by theTreasury Department to cut off the Totalitarian Theocrats from all their foreign financial resources use to foster Hezbollah, Hamas, the Yemeni Rebels and much more.
It is a story important enough to follow, too.

CUT ‘EM ALL OFF at the knees, even if an Islamocratic Dictatorship survives Trump’s ongoing efforts. It’s of first level importance.

Israel rules the peace in the ME, and has drawn her neighbors closer to mutual benefit. Trump and Benny together are making the ME safe for modernity to flower.

Here’s the 3 min trailer if you just want a taste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtUDCXCK_M8

and the documentary on nitter for since X is age-restricting it:
https://nitter.net/Heritage/status/2045131269562876008#m

https://defensescoop.com/2026/04/16/trump-economic-pressure-iran-blockade/
U.S. launches ‘Operation Economic Fury’ to obstruct Iran’s revenue streams amid blockade
Senior officials signaled how the Trump administration is augmenting the war effort with economic pressure against Iran.

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control revealed on Wednesday that it has been intensifying pressureon Iran’s allegedly criminally-run oil transportation infrastructure. 

OFAC sanctioned more than two dozen individuals, companies, and vessels operating within the network of Iranian oil shipping magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani. He’s the son of senior Iranian security official Ali Shamkhani, who was killed by U.S. strikes on the first day of the war. 
“Treasury is moving aggressively with Economic Fury by targeting regime elites like the Shamkhani family that attempt to profit at the expense of the Iranian people,” Bessent said in a statement. “Under President Trump’s leadership, Treasury will continue to cut off Iran’s illicit smuggling and terror proxy networks. Financial institutions should be on notice that Treasury will leverage all tools and authorities, including secondary sanctions, against those that continue to support Tehran’s terrorist activities.”

It’s the noise made when inhaling marijuana smoke through water, and accompanies many dorm room bull sessions. It sounds a bit like a soda straw does when the cup is nearly empty.

something spectacular which is supposed to “blow your mind,” a psychedelic trip through new science, a radically new way to look at the world and Reality, or something.

The illusion of it, rather.

(And, yes, even though the canvas in that straight jacket is very thick, it has heavy metal buckles, and thick leather straps, you can wriggle out of it or, with enough hysterical strength, you can rip it.)

That’s why, when the doctors these days discharge you from, say, the emergency room or a hospital, and they hand you a week long or more supply of Oxy, that Oxy goes straight into the trash.

I take it from the phrase it might mean something spectacular which is supposed to “blow your mind,” a psychedelic trip through new science, a radically new way to look at the world and Reality, or something.

It would be very easy to write about this in a bong-rip way. Imaginary time, far out. But all this really meant was, whatever a system is doing, there is some way to extract the desired solution out of it, and the “imaginary time” calculation was just a way to let the “noise” boil off so to speak and then allow the desired solution to emerge. It was just a math technique.

It’s like the people who apply Fourier analysis to the stock market and then they give all these names to the “cycles” and treat them as mysterious agents of causation. I think “bong rip” popularizers of quantum mechanics are doing something very similar. I guess it works, since they still sell books, at least fifty years in, since I think these kinds of books got started in the 1970s, the earliest one I know being Capra’s “The Tao of Physics”.