Once again, Kurt Schlichter has a fantastic column on Iran. His take has me calmed down some on the situation. While he admits his analysis may be wrong, he makes a good case. I like where he is starting from:
” A lot of people who agree with me that the best course of action is to simply kill them until they surrender are extremely upset with him.”
That’s me. However, read the whole thing; worth your time:
But in “Two Ships,” an engrossing intellectual history, David S. Reynolds sheds light on a cultural collision that shaped early America up to the Civil War and beyond. In his telling, two distinct social archetypes rooted in the era of England’s 17th-century civil war—the Cavalier and the Puritan—were symbolized by the ships of his title, the White Lion and the Mayflower.
Speaking of Gell-Mann amnesia. I expect it from legacy media, and I’m always disappointed when I find it in conservative media, but I now expect to find it there too.
For those who don’t click links, the author blames gun control in the Republic of Ireland as a contributor to what happened in Belfast, and says a great deal about what’s been going in the Republic of Ireland in the last few years, but has failed to recognize that Belfast is not IN the Republic of Ireland.
Like blaming a murder in Albuquerque on Mexican gun control and then giving context from what’s been going on in Mexico.
Linked at Instapundit, by someone who obviously didn’t see the problem, and commented on by people who also didn’t see the problem.
The other day Neo’s introductuon to an “Open Thread” video included a comment that she found the AI voice annoying (but the content interesting). I didn’t really pick up on any oddities in the voice; it sounded pretty good to me.
The (presumably) real voice in today’s video, however, drives me up the wall. Well, not the voice as such. Rather, the editing and recomposing/splicing. The beginning of one sentence comes too close to the end of the previous sentence, creating an unnatural, jerky effect. This is all too typical of self-narrated YouTube videos. I guess the narrator does a Take 2 at some point, or wants to insert a sentence he thought of after the fact, and so has to splice the new material where the existing narration left off. But he doesn’t include a sufficient natural pause between the last existing sentence and the spliced-in sentence. No one talks like that!
Rob Butler, “Zanclean Megaflood: the case against a ‘Gibraltar Waterfall’ “, (21:20): https://youtu.be/ZirZ7iwrHJg
If the people 5 million years ago were serious about going Net Zero, you wouldn’t have had the sea level rise that refilled the Mediterranean.
Schumer says the war is a disaster. With “patriotic” senators such as him, who needs enemies.
Disaster for the Mullahs.
(At least Schumer’s heart is in the right place(!))
Don’t worry, Chuck, Platner’ll fix it…(along with all those other thugs and criminals in your harem…).
Nature is awe inspiring in its magnitude
The elves in ireland are terrified of the orcs so they take advantage
The political class fianna fail and sinn fein are all in on the invasion
Its like inverse cramer logic if he says buy run for your life
Sinn Fein!!
Heh…
Get rid of the British.
Welcome in the Third World!!
(“[Irony—stupidity?—]is awe inspiring in its magnitude”…)
Thank the powers that be that they at least can despise da Jews…
I think I’m going to change my blog name.
Well, disarmament of the Irish populace may have something to do with their failure to smuggle guns across the border into Northern Ireland, where the people have also been disarmed.
@Kate:Well, disarmament of the Irish populace may have something to do with their failure to smuggle guns across the border into Northern Ireland, where the people have also been disarmed.
It’s kind of you to try to save his thesis, but it doesn’t work. Irish terrorists in Northern Ireland and Ireland didn’t have too much trouble arming themselves thirty years ago, and both Ireland and Northern Ireland were just as “disarmed” as they are now.
No, the article I linked to is a guy doesn’t know anything about Ireland or Belfast but wants to use the Belfast murder to ride his gun rights hobbyhorse anyway.
Northern Ireland’s gun laws are slightly looser than the rest of the UK, but not much, but there’s a lot of differences and not easy to say by how much.
I was thinking about Sci-Fi movies/series since I have a good friend who’s nuts about them, and we’ve been having weekly dinners plus a movie or a few episodes night.
I was thinking about the film Next (2007) which I liked and recalled that it was adapted from a short story. By…? Oh, Philip K. Dick.
Now there’s a guy who was a moderately prolific writer and achieved some success as a writer, but having read some of his stuff it seemed clear to me that he wanted offers from Hollywood. They never did, until “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” got made into Blade Runner (1982).
The director was concerned about Mr. Dick’s reaction when the director involved him in the production a bit. They took great liberties with the story, and of course, it is enormously trimmed down, but PKD was quite conciliatory. Blade Runner was the very first film production of a PKD story & unfortunately PKD died about the time the film came out.
Now, there are more than a dozen film productions of his stories, including an anthology produced by Amazon called Electric Dreams (2017). Wow. IMDB lists 53 shows, though some are rather oblique knock-offs.
As far as tolerating the Islamic invasion and disarming the natives, there appears to be not much difference between the Republic and Northern Ireland. What’s left to them is burning things down, which seems to be underway.
Man, I gotta say, the whipsawing Pres. Trump conducts on an hour by hour basis with Iran is an amazing — albeit not precisely beautiful! Ha! — thing. I’ve never seen anything remotely like it I can recall. Certainly not with these sorts of geopolitical ramifications at hand. In its own way, it’s kinda hilarious.
It’s challenging to beat the living snot out of Islamists until they give up because they aren’t afraid of dying. Actually, I think for the more fanatical ones, dying is a perk of war. The up side in Iran is that there are a LOT of people who are not fanatical Islamists, and who are tired of living under a fanatical Islamist regime.
Putative Space Aliens are de facto Illegal Aliens.
sdferr:
Yes, the whiplash is confusing and doesn’t engender trust.
Checking X, neo, and seeing the Netanyahu consultation on the “MoU” (Israel is out, no surprise), and with the rest of the “reporting” on the subject, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that our general confusion is going to be getting all the more intense over the nexr couple of months. What a gloriously funny time to be alive it is.
Well, maybe Trump’s maneuverings will confuse the Iranians into surrendering.
I still have enough faith in Trump to believe there is some method to his madness. But from here on I’m not paying much attention to what he says about Iran.
I’d rather not hear about another deal Real Soon Now, as Jerry Pournelle used to say.
Deeds not words.
Schlichter’s post was good analysis.
I hope that he is right about Trump and Netanyahu running a “good cop, bad cop” schtick against Iran and its Leftist cheerleaders, where Donald complains and Bibi does what he thinks is needed anyway, with no consequential negative pushback from the US.
The bottom line is that nobody really knows what is going on with the Wizard behind the WH curtain.
Now there’s a guy [Philip K. Dick] who was a moderately prolific writer and achieved some success as a writer, but having read some of his stuff it seemed clear to me that he wanted offers from Hollywood. They never did, until “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” got made into Blade Runner (1982).
TommyJay:
Moderately prolific? I believe we can give PKD full boat on prolific. I’m sure you were just being judicious, but he wrote 45 novels and 121 short stories.
He was an old-school genre writer, who cranked it out for sheer survival. He used amphetamines liberally to sustain his productivity and died of a stroke, not surprisingly, at the age of 53.
Sure, Hollywood butchered “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?” for “Blade Runner.” Word is that the screenwriters read about 25% of it, threw it out, then wrote what they wanted to.
Dick was still thrilled by the Ridley’ Scott’s cinematic vision of “Blade Runner” and rightly so. By then Dick’s life had stabilized (for Dick) and a solid Hollywood income would have given him security that he had never known before.
It’s sad that he and we didn’t get to see that future.
“…Israel accusing Lebanese Army chief General Rudolf Haikal of cooperating with Hezbollah, preventing implementation of Lebanese government decisions.”— https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428506
Once again, Kurt Schlichter has a fantastic column on Iran. His take has me calmed down some on the situation. While he admits his analysis may be wrong, he makes a good case. I like where he is starting from:
” A lot of people who agree with me that the best course of action is to simply kill them until they surrender are extremely upset with him.”
That’s me. However, read the whole thing; worth your time:
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/06/11/dont-panic-about-trumps-iran-strategy-just-yet-n2677524
Schlichter is one of the good ones.
So the entire Mediterranean evaporated and sea levels were a kilometer below what they are now – but the earth survived.
Okie dokie.
Please don’t talk to me any more about how plastic bottles and coal-fired power plants are destroying the planet.
The Gell-Mann syndrome manifests in follow-the-science progressives who love these videos, but can draw no critical inference from them.
Thanks physicsguy, good article, helps a bit.
Great review of a new book by historian David S. Reynolds. Sounds fascinating.
‘Two Ships’ Review: How an American Divide Set Sail
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/two-ships-review-how-an-american-divide-set-sail-31eb78e8?st=jrUgaA
Speaking of Gell-Mann amnesia. I expect it from legacy media, and I’m always disappointed when I find it in conservative media, but I now expect to find it there too.
For those who don’t click links, the author blames gun control in the Republic of Ireland as a contributor to what happened in Belfast, and says a great deal about what’s been going in the Republic of Ireland in the last few years, but has failed to recognize that Belfast is not IN the Republic of Ireland.
Like blaming a murder in Albuquerque on Mexican gun control and then giving context from what’s been going on in Mexico.
Linked at Instapundit, by someone who obviously didn’t see the problem, and commented on by people who also didn’t see the problem.
The other day Neo’s introductuon to an “Open Thread” video included a comment that she found the AI voice annoying (but the content interesting). I didn’t really pick up on any oddities in the voice; it sounded pretty good to me.
The (presumably) real voice in today’s video, however, drives me up the wall. Well, not the voice as such. Rather, the editing and recomposing/splicing. The beginning of one sentence comes too close to the end of the previous sentence, creating an unnatural, jerky effect. This is all too typical of self-narrated YouTube videos. I guess the narrator does a Take 2 at some point, or wants to insert a sentence he thought of after the fact, and so has to splice the new material where the existing narration left off. But he doesn’t include a sufficient natural pause between the last existing sentence and the spliced-in sentence. No one talks like that!
Rob Butler, “Zanclean Megaflood: the case against a ‘Gibraltar Waterfall’ “, (21:20):
https://youtu.be/ZirZ7iwrHJg
and
“Salt on Sicily — Drying out the Mediterranean”, (44:26):
https://youtu.be/vKN7AFI9hLY
If the people 5 million years ago were serious about going Net Zero, you wouldn’t have had the sea level rise that refilled the Mediterranean.
Schumer says the war is a disaster. With “patriotic” senators such as him, who needs enemies.
Disaster for the Mullahs.
(At least Schumer’s heart is in the right place(!))
Don’t worry, Chuck, Platner’ll fix it…(along with all those other thugs and criminals in your harem…).
Nature is awe inspiring in its magnitude
The elves in ireland are terrified of the orcs so they take advantage
The political class fianna fail and sinn fein are all in on the invasion
Its like inverse cramer logic if he says buy run for your life
Sinn Fein!!
Heh…
Get rid of the British.
Welcome in the Third World!!
(“[Irony—stupidity?—]is awe inspiring in its magnitude”…)
Thank the powers that be that they at least can despise da Jews…
I think I’m going to change my blog name.
Well, disarmament of the Irish populace may have something to do with their failure to smuggle guns across the border into Northern Ireland, where the people have also been disarmed.
@Kate:Well, disarmament of the Irish populace may have something to do with their failure to smuggle guns across the border into Northern Ireland, where the people have also been disarmed.
It’s kind of you to try to save his thesis, but it doesn’t work. Irish terrorists in Northern Ireland and Ireland didn’t have too much trouble arming themselves thirty years ago, and both Ireland and Northern Ireland were just as “disarmed” as they are now.
No, the article I linked to is a guy doesn’t know anything about Ireland or Belfast but wants to use the Belfast murder to ride his gun rights hobbyhorse anyway.
Northern Ireland’s gun laws are slightly looser than the rest of the UK, but not much, but there’s a lot of differences and not easy to say by how much.
Late Fame:
https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/06/the-phenomenon-of-late-fame/
I was thinking about Sci-Fi movies/series since I have a good friend who’s nuts about them, and we’ve been having weekly dinners plus a movie or a few episodes night.
I was thinking about the film Next (2007) which I liked and recalled that it was adapted from a short story. By…? Oh, Philip K. Dick.
Now there’s a guy who was a moderately prolific writer and achieved some success as a writer, but having read some of his stuff it seemed clear to me that he wanted offers from Hollywood. They never did, until “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” got made into Blade Runner (1982).
The director was concerned about Mr. Dick’s reaction when the director involved him in the production a bit. They took great liberties with the story, and of course, it is enormously trimmed down, but PKD was quite conciliatory. Blade Runner was the very first film production of a PKD story & unfortunately PKD died about the time the film came out.
Now, there are more than a dozen film productions of his stories, including an anthology produced by Amazon called Electric Dreams (2017). Wow. IMDB lists 53 shows, though some are rather oblique knock-offs.
As far as tolerating the Islamic invasion and disarming the natives, there appears to be not much difference between the Republic and Northern Ireland. What’s left to them is burning things down, which seems to be underway.
Man, I gotta say, the whipsawing Pres. Trump conducts on an hour by hour basis with Iran is an amazing — albeit not precisely beautiful! Ha! — thing. I’ve never seen anything remotely like it I can recall. Certainly not with these sorts of geopolitical ramifications at hand. In its own way, it’s kinda hilarious.
It’s challenging to beat the living snot out of Islamists until they give up because they aren’t afraid of dying. Actually, I think for the more fanatical ones, dying is a perk of war. The up side in Iran is that there are a LOT of people who are not fanatical Islamists, and who are tired of living under a fanatical Islamist regime.
Putative Space Aliens are de facto Illegal Aliens.
sdferr:
Yes, the whiplash is confusing and doesn’t engender trust.
Checking X, neo, and seeing the Netanyahu consultation on the “MoU” (Israel is out, no surprise), and with the rest of the “reporting” on the subject, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that our general confusion is going to be getting all the more intense over the nexr couple of months. What a gloriously funny time to be alive it is.
Well, maybe Trump’s maneuverings will confuse the Iranians into surrendering.
I still have enough faith in Trump to believe there is some method to his madness. But from here on I’m not paying much attention to what he says about Iran.
I’d rather not hear about another deal Real Soon Now, as Jerry Pournelle used to say.
Deeds not words.
Schlichter’s post was good analysis.
I hope that he is right about Trump and Netanyahu running a “good cop, bad cop” schtick against Iran and its Leftist cheerleaders, where Donald complains and Bibi does what he thinks is needed anyway, with no consequential negative pushback from the US.
The bottom line is that nobody really knows what is going on with the Wizard behind the WH curtain.
Victor Davis Hanson covers the domestic waterfront with his essay today.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/06/11/stop-destroying-civilization-n2677610
Now there’s a guy [Philip K. Dick] who was a moderately prolific writer and achieved some success as a writer, but having read some of his stuff it seemed clear to me that he wanted offers from Hollywood. They never did, until “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” got made into Blade Runner (1982).
TommyJay:
Moderately prolific? I believe we can give PKD full boat on prolific. I’m sure you were just being judicious, but he wrote 45 novels and 121 short stories.
He was an old-school genre writer, who cranked it out for sheer survival. He used amphetamines liberally to sustain his productivity and died of a stroke, not surprisingly, at the age of 53.
Sure, Hollywood butchered “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?” for “Blade Runner.” Word is that the screenwriters read about 25% of it, threw it out, then wrote what they wanted to.
Dick was still thrilled by the Ridley’ Scott’s cinematic vision of “Blade Runner” and rightly so. By then Dick’s life had stabilized (for Dick) and a solid Hollywood income would have given him security that he had never known before.
It’s sad that he and we didn’t get to see that future.
The war is DEAD!
Long live the WAR!!
“…Turkey urges Syrian President not to join Israel in weakening Hezbollah”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428515
“…Israel accusing Lebanese Army chief General Rudolf Haikal of cooperating with Hezbollah, preventing implementation of Lebanese government decisions.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428506
“Iranian-backed terror network linked to fatal shooting of Toronto police officer”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428518
+ Pair of Boni:
“Trump: Khamenei has approved our deal”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428511
“Iran denies agreeing to deal, says US accepted their proposals”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428508
And of course!
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428510