I don’t know about you but, to me, these dresses (are some of them really even dresses?) are just bizarre, over the top and, well, just not pretty, or attractive.
They look like these models just got coated with glue, jumped into the dumpster behind some custom clothing manufacturer which was filled with scraps, with bits and pieces, and this is what each one of them emerged with, with whatever stuck to them.
The phrase “less is more” comes to mind.
My wife and daughter and I watched a couple seasons of Project Runway. I have concluded that there is a tendency in fashion designers to express aggression towards, or at least disrespect for, the female form. Sometimes this tendency is associated with the designer being gay, but not always.
Looks like we lost an F15 over southern Iran. Pilots missing with Iran putting a bounty on them. S&R operations on going.
‘Angels and Demons’ documentary explores existence of supernatural beings.
The movie includes
the account of Bruce Van Natta, a former auto mechanic who was nearly crushed to death when a semitruck fell on him during a 2006 repair. As he lay on the garage floor, he said, he saw two enormous angels appear and touch his chest, restarting his heart.
[snip]
Those presenting the scientific case include Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, who said the strongest evidence for demon activity lies in UFO encounters.
He said that as a young academic, he was often put in charge of handling UFO reports. He said he was able to chalk up about 99% to natural phenomena or military activity, but he still found thousands of documented cases in which “what we’re seeing is real, but it violates the laws of physics.”
[snip]
Mr. Ross, who founded Reasons to Believe in Covina, California, a ministry dedicated to showing that “science and Christian faith are allies, not enemies,” said those reporting close encounters with UFOs are inevitably traumatized. A significant percentage end up committing suicide.
Mr. Gray said adversaries such as China and Iran are using cognitive warfare to alter the thinking of entire populations and the U.S. needs to catch up “because we’re behind from the technology perspective.”
[snip]
China is engaged in a major cognitive warfare efforts known as the “three warfares” — public opinion warfare, psychological warfare and legal warfare, China expert Andrew B. Jensen said during a recent presentation on the subject.
[snip]
The Chinese Communist Party uses cognitive warfare domestically to control the population and abroad to divide and demoralize its enemies and promote its communist system.
PHYSICSGUY, they have rescued one Pilot so far. Hopefully, they will get the second one. There is a huge bounty being offered by IRGC now on the Pilots. Maybe locals will be more helpful in getting the other Pilot rescued than in a the bounty
Strait of Hormuz news.
Ships have been passing the Ayatollah Toll Booth, ir, hugging Iran’s 12 mile territorial limit and certain islands.
But yesterday, “What’s Going on in Shipping” YouTuber channel shows and reports that oil and gas tankers have begun using the traditional channel, far away from Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o9z-U0uZVM
Unfortunately, he doesn’t provide any info on the numbers flowing through Hormuzc until 15m. Nonetheless, a useful graphical take.
Heavy on the “-shun” part.
The leftist media are absolutely giddy about the downing of the F-15 but they are disappointed that one of the pilots has been rescued. It is unclear to me why the aircraft went down. It could have been due to Iran fire but might have been due to an equipment malfunction.
A few decades ago on “Fresh Air” I recall Terry Gross interviewing a fashion designer (paraphrased):
____________________________
Honestly, Terry, there has to be more to fashion than knowing which decade to recycle.
____________________________
Apparently fashion has broken free of that stricture, though it doesn’t seem to be an improvement.
Lo what comes down this runway?
Physics Guy,
Here’s something interesting, until the IDF reported a rescue the MSM gave it little time once the IDF reported ” Katy bar the door”.
Sennacherib, is that “Lo”, or “Lol”?
Some very good posts at Coffee & Covid this month, and it’s only the third day!
May you all enjoy a blessed Easter weekend, and have joy in the celebration of the Resurrection of our Savior.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! And March is over. Just like that. Your jam-packed roundup includes: a Biden 2028 comeback that’s sharper than ever; Trump signs a masterwork mail-in voting executive order that gives Democracy better package tracking than Amazon Prime; the Supreme Court strikes down Colorado’s conversion therapy ban 8-1 and Sotomayor joins the majority; DeSantis gets the Florida SAVE Act plus Missy’s Law and a judicial impeachment; and a geopolitical earthquake where Trump says “go get your own oil” and Europe starts embracing populism within hours.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Your roundup includes: America goes back to the Moon — for the first time in 54 years (or maybe ever) — and nobody in my circle even knew about it, because the Times was too busy writing about a $23-million space toilet; Hershey confesses to selling fake chocolate and promises to stop, while the entire American food industry undergoes what the trade press is calling ‘The Great Reformulation’ (and none of them want to say why); and the New York Times publishes political fan fiction about Pam Bondi sourced entirely from four anonymous people, while the only person quoted on the record says she’s doing great. Welcome to modern trad-journalism.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Not just any Friday— it’s Good Friday. Today, Christians worldwide remember the Crucifixion, the second-most significant theological event in human history, as well as one of the best-attested historical occurrences in antiquity. In the Philippines, some hardcore believers are even nailing themselves to crosses, a nearly indescribable act of faith that you aren’t likely to see repeated in the comfortable developed world.
Good Friday is NOT a federal holiday in the US, making America one of the few Western nations that doesn’t formally recognize it. But 12 states observe it as a state holiday (Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and — thank goodness — Florida.)
Your Good Friday roundup includes: my mea culpa on the Bondi story (I was premature, not wrong — there’s a difference); why the Atlantic’s tearful ‘crystalline humiliation’ coverage reveals more about the Atlantic than about Bondi; Hegseth’s very productive Thursday, during which he transitioned three generals into private life; the most significant political corruption story of the 2026 cycle — the New York Times published ActBlue’s confidential legal memos showing the Democrats’ biggest fundraising platform may have committed federal crimes, and its lawyers knew it; why the timing of Todd Blanche’s arrival at the DOJ is not a coincidence; the terrifying fundraising gap Democrats are hiding; and what Trump actually said to Iran on Tuesday night — and why the pundits were grading the wrong assignment.
How much does the apparent Arab world love for Israel reflect in the reality, on the ground? Or, at least acceptance of modernism or not?
Put it another way, how does the post-Iran world of the ME look?
Economist Bryan Caplan (NYU, but decades at George Mason University) put evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad on the hot seat!
Saad hates to talk about anything he really has no expertise in. But Caplin pushes…him, if only because Caplan has recent visiting experience in the ME, while Dr. Saad has a lifetime of family history there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHA6L8u0oc
What stood out to me most is that English has become the Lingua Franca most places, but especially in the UAE.
It’s worth your time. Rather interesting. Saad puts Turkey in the middle of the pack between modernizing and pre-modern.
Later in the interview, Caplan introduces the thesis that the ME futures can be qualified by whether or not the government is a Monarchy? Hopefully, enlightened? But most every republic in the region seems to be sliding into decline and chaos or violence.
Re AesopFan. Thanks for the C&C heads up! One or even two make my weekend listening list.
SHIREHOME on April 3, 2026 at 12:17 pm:
“Maybe locals will be more helpful in getting the other Pilot rescued than in a the bounty.”
When I heard that on the news this evening my thought was “we ought to offer a rather larger reward for his return if found by “friendly” Iranians.” Not sure how we get that word out but …
FOAF,
I am as certain as those models are. Probably lol.
Almost everyone never mentions the Sunni vs.
Shia conflict, perhaps it’s obvious.
Regarding the fashion industry, it’s been a running joke that the fashion designers, gay or straight, male or female, seem to be hostile to actual flesh and blood women in their designs.
That said, the fashion industry also labors under an inherent limitation: the human form is what it is, and the possibilities are finite. There are a finite number of ways to clothe a figure with one head, two arms, and two legs, in a particular arrangement of parts, and a smaller subset of those possibilities are actually practical.
Eventually, every possibility is exhausted, and then what? What else can they do other than weirdness?
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I kinda feel sorry for the models.
I don’t know about you but, to me, these dresses (are some of them really even dresses?) are just bizarre, over the top and, well, just not pretty, or attractive.
They look like these models just got coated with glue, jumped into the dumpster behind some custom clothing manufacturer which was filled with scraps, with bits and pieces, and this is what each one of them emerged with, with whatever stuck to them.
The phrase “less is more” comes to mind.
My wife and daughter and I watched a couple seasons of Project Runway. I have concluded that there is a tendency in fashion designers to express aggression towards, or at least disrespect for, the female form. Sometimes this tendency is associated with the designer being gay, but not always.
Looks like we lost an F15 over southern Iran. Pilots missing with Iran putting a bounty on them. S&R operations on going.
‘Angels and Demons’ documentary explores existence of supernatural beings.
The movie includes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/2/billy-hallowells-latest-documentary-investigates-evidence-angels/
Pentagon readying for cognitive war.
This non-kinetic warfare sounds strangely familiar….
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/3/pentagon-readying-cognitive-war/
PHYSICSGUY, they have rescued one Pilot so far. Hopefully, they will get the second one. There is a huge bounty being offered by IRGC now on the Pilots. Maybe locals will be more helpful in getting the other Pilot rescued than in a the bounty
Strait of Hormuz news.
Ships have been passing the Ayatollah Toll Booth, ir, hugging Iran’s 12 mile territorial limit and certain islands.
But yesterday, “What’s Going on in Shipping” YouTuber channel shows and reports that oil and gas tankers have begun using the traditional channel, far away from Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o9z-U0uZVM
Unfortunately, he doesn’t provide any info on the numbers flowing through Hormuzc until 15m. Nonetheless, a useful graphical take.
Heavy on the “-shun” part.
The leftist media are absolutely giddy about the downing of the F-15 but they are disappointed that one of the pilots has been rescued. It is unclear to me why the aircraft went down. It could have been due to Iran fire but might have been due to an equipment malfunction.
A few decades ago on “Fresh Air” I recall Terry Gross interviewing a fashion designer (paraphrased):
____________________________
Honestly, Terry, there has to be more to fashion than knowing which decade to recycle.
____________________________
Apparently fashion has broken free of that stricture, though it doesn’t seem to be an improvement.
Lo what comes down this runway?
Physics Guy,
Here’s something interesting, until the IDF reported a rescue the MSM gave it little time once the IDF reported ” Katy bar the door”.
Sennacherib, is that “Lo”, or “Lol”?
Some very good posts at Coffee & Covid this month, and it’s only the third day!
May you all enjoy a blessed Easter weekend, and have joy in the celebration of the Resurrection of our Savior.
************
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/not-so-easy-streets-wednesday-april
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/reformulated-thursday-april-2-2026
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transitions-friday-april-3-2026-c
How much does the apparent Arab world love for Israel reflect in the reality, on the ground? Or, at least acceptance of modernism or not?
Put it another way, how does the post-Iran world of the ME look?
Economist Bryan Caplan (NYU, but decades at George Mason University) put evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad on the hot seat!
Saad hates to talk about anything he really has no expertise in. But Caplin pushes…him, if only because Caplan has recent visiting experience in the ME, while Dr. Saad has a lifetime of family history there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHA6L8u0oc
What stood out to me most is that English has become the Lingua Franca most places, but especially in the UAE.
It’s worth your time. Rather interesting. Saad puts Turkey in the middle of the pack between modernizing and pre-modern.
Later in the interview, Caplan introduces the thesis that the ME futures can be qualified by whether or not the government is a Monarchy? Hopefully, enlightened? But most every republic in the region seems to be sliding into decline and chaos or violence.
Re AesopFan. Thanks for the C&C heads up! One or even two make my weekend listening list.
SHIREHOME on April 3, 2026 at 12:17 pm:
“Maybe locals will be more helpful in getting the other Pilot rescued than in a the bounty.”
When I heard that on the news this evening my thought was “we ought to offer a rather larger reward for his return if found by “friendly” Iranians.” Not sure how we get that word out but …
FOAF,
I am as certain as those models are. Probably lol.
Almost everyone never mentions the Sunni vs.
Shia conflict, perhaps it’s obvious.
Regarding the fashion industry, it’s been a running joke that the fashion designers, gay or straight, male or female, seem to be hostile to actual flesh and blood women in their designs.
That said, the fashion industry also labors under an inherent limitation: the human form is what it is, and the possibilities are finite. There are a finite number of ways to clothe a figure with one head, two arms, and two legs, in a particular arrangement of parts, and a smaller subset of those possibilities are actually practical.
Eventually, every possibility is exhausted, and then what? What else can they do other than weirdness?