Friday LOLs. Timing is everything!

Jun. 12th, 2026 07:42 pm
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An image reportedly posted by Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform has caused a stir, considering June is Pride Month. An inadvertent celebration? ;-)



More about this HERE.

Russia: The collapse has begun

Jun. 11th, 2026 03:08 pm
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In my view, Putin's Russia is heading toward an inevitable breakdown: economically, politically, administratively, and socially. The crisis is already here, and the system neither has the tools nor the willingness to deal with it.

In politics and society, there aren't many absolute laws like the laws of physics. But some patterns are so consistent that they might as well be laws. We know about Robert Michels' "Iron Law of Oligarchy": the idea that every organization tends to become oligarchic over time. Looking at Russia today, I think we're once again seeing what could be called the "Iron Law of Tyranny's Collapse".

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Big Baby throws a tantrum. Again.

Jun. 8th, 2026 08:29 pm
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Donald Trump loves to say women are "too emotional" to be president, but the second a female journalist calmly challenges him on his election lies, he turns bright red, rips off his mic, and storms out of the room. Like a toddler denied a toy, he threw a tantrum and crashed out of an NBC interview rather than answer a basic question about his own claims.

Joyce Carol Oates nailed it: this is the face of a man who is never challenged, whose worldview is never questioned, who "literally never hears a syllable of opposition unless a journalist, usually a woman, questions him, and then he is astonished and infuriated". That's exactly what we just watched with Kristen Welker: a professional woman doing her job, and a sitting president so unused to accountability that he melted down on national TV when confronted with reality.

So let's be very clear: the person calling women "too emotional" to lead is the same man who cannot sit through a single tough interview without lashing out, crying "crooked media" and bolting for the exit. This isn't strength. It isn't leadership. It's entitlement, misogyny, and cowardice dressed up as bravado, and the only reason he gets away with it is because too many people have been trained never to tell him "no".

If Trump thinks women are too "emotional" to be president, then let's have that conversation honestly: because the only person who just lost control on national television, in front of the whole country, wasn't the woman in the room.
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There's this funny little man who lives inside my head who's always asking me questions.  Recently, he asked me one which was tangentially related to my most recent journal entry.

Q: So, you've been having some trouble getting an appointment with a psychiatrist.  But why did your doctor refer you to one in the first place?

A: Because I asked him to.

Q: Uh-huh.  And why'd you do that, Tom?

A: I've been having some short-term memory issues  Like, I go upstairs to get something, and by the time I get there, I've forgotten what the “something” was.

… (That's not entirely a bad thing, of course.  I get more exercise that way.)

… But it's still, on the whole, a pain in the butt, given that it's been happening more and more often.

Q: You have my sympathy.  But you still haven't said why you wanted to see a psychiatrist.

A: Um, I sorta thought that was obvious.  I thought maybe a change of medication would help with the memory problems.

He didn't have any more questions, so I guess I'll post this, and go on to the next item on my to-do list.

If only I could remember what that was.

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With the FIFA World Cup just around the corner, football is once again arguing about referees, VAR, handballs, offsides, and whether the referee's cousin once looked suspiciously at a player from the opposing team.

Meanwhile rugby seems to have solved a lot of this years ago.

A few ideas football could steal:

- Only the captain is allowed to speak to the referee. Everyone else who runs over waving their arms gets an automatic yellow card.
- Referee conversations with VAR are broadcast live. No more mysterious "checking possible incident..." for 5 minutes.
- Speaking of those 5 minutes... When someone is injured, or needs a substitution, etc, the clock is stopped. Let's play 2x40mins instead of 2x45, but make it "clean time".
- Anyone pretending to be injured must spend the next 10 minutes off the pitch recovering from their "serious injury". Without a substitution.
- Players who surround the referee are moved back 10 metres, rugby-style. Keep complaining and the goal is eventually awarded from the halfway line.
- Respect for officials becomes normal again instead of a revolutionary concept.
- Personally, I'd also introduce a new law (yep, in rugby they're called Laws): every fake dive earns the player a mandatory screening of their own highlights in front of the stadium after the match.

What else should football borrow from rugby?

Canada in the EU?

Jun. 2nd, 2026 09:26 pm
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There has been some renewed discussion recently about whether Canada could one day move closer to, or even potentially join, the European Union. The idea was indirectly revived after comments from Finnish President Alexander Stubb during talks in Ottawa, where he highlighted Canada's strong alignment with the EU in terms of values, trade cooperation, defense coordination, and broader geopolitical outlook:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alexander-stubb-finland-carney-meeting-9.7164014

At present, this remains a purely theoretical discussion. Canada is not in Europe, and EU membership rules are clearly defined around geography and political integration. However, the conversation is less about formal eligibility today and more about what kind of international alignment might make sense in the long term.

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Jun. 1st, 2026 10:56 pm
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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

Monthly topic

Jun. 1st, 2026 03:05 pm
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Hey all! Time for our new monthly topic, the one that you guys chose the last time:

Political Comebacks Nobody Expected



And here's the poll for June:

What should be the next monthly topic?

1) The Politics of Declining Birth Rates
2) The Future of NATO
3) The New Scramble for the Arctic
4) The Politics of National Debt
5) Historical Figures Who Would Be Banned from Social Media

Feel free to suggest more...

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May. 31st, 2026 10:00 pm
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Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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May. 31st, 2026 08:59 pm
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We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)

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