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
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