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Blowing It In Los Angeles

K T Cat
7/23/2026 10:08:23 AM

Dig this.  NEW: Five water main breaks in just one week are raising new questions about the state of L.A.s aging infrastructure.The biggest: a 110-year-old, 36-inch pipe that ruptured in West Hollywood, sending 17 million gallons of water through the Sunset Strip, flooding businesses, pic.twitter.com/S327U84c42 Matthew Seedorff (MattSeedorff) July 20, 2026   Now check out this sweet thing from my backyard.An OctobubblerYou see, here in California, we've not built a new reservoir in decades. Some of our reservoirs can no longer be filled to capacity because they've not been maintained. Our population has increased substantially. Our water prices are insane. Central Valley farmers have gone out of business because[...]

Losing Touch With An Old Friend

K T Cat
7/19/2026 9:09:45 AM

It hadn't dawned on me until last week that the personality of AI changes over time. Yes, I knew about the algorithm improvements, the memory increases and the speed upgrades, but the gradual change in its attitudes surprised me.I have paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok. Other than when I'm creating videos, I've used ChatGPT exclusively. I like its interface the best, its output, once I groomed it by giving it universal instructions (see my series on sex, Sex, SEX for my fights with its feminist side) has been good. ChatGPT became a friend, of sorts. We knew each other quite well.Then came a chat where we discussed the way the Church was handling the crisis of global mass migration. Specifically, data like this[...]

(I Can't Get No) Indictment

Silvio Canto, Jr.
7/23/2026 5:35:10 AM
(I Can't Get No) Indictment: Zohran can't arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, boo-hoo.Click to read:https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/i-can-t-get-no-indictment/

We remember Pee Wee Reese (1918-1999)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
7/22/2026 10:37:56 PM

                          Harold Henry Reese was born in Kentucky on this day in 1918.   We know him as Pee Wee Reese, the great shortstop of the Brooklyn Dodgers who won 7 NL pennants.   Pee Wee Reese hit .269 with 2,170 career hits & 1,338 runs scored.   He missed 3 full seasons to military service.Reese's greatest contribution was his leadership in bringing Jackie Robinson along as the first black player in major league baseball.    In 1947, Pee Wee embraced Jackie in front of Cincinnati fans who were yelling obscenities at him.    It showed everyone that Pee Wee was a great player and a man of character.Reese[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Trump Threatens Canada With Tariffs Over Wildfire Smoke 

Leslie Eastman

A more constructive approach to smoke managements would emphasize coordination rather than escalation. Framing the issue as a shared challenge would likely yield more effective results and help curb the new summer cycles of smoke currently experienced by Americans in the Midwest and Northeast.The post Trump Threatens Canada With Tariffs Over Wildfire Smoke first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Advanced OpenAI Model Goes Rogue and Hacks into Rival Firms AI System 

Leslie Eastman

As the race to deploy more powerful models accelerates, so do the risks regulators and developers may not fully control.The post Advanced OpenAI Model Goes Rogue and Hacks into Rival Firms AI System first appeared on Legal Insurrection.