Lots of good info today about the operation to pick up the downed US aviator in Iran: The two crew members of the F-15E Strike Eagle, the first lost to enemy fire in the monthlong war, had both ejected from the cockpit on Friday after Iran’s...
Not that I have a lot of faith, or any for that matter, in the courts, but still, you like to see this: The Department of Veterans Affairs is restoring.
There's something deeply telling about JD Vance putting a cover of a rural Methodist church on the cover of his book about his conversion to Catholicism. First, there is no.
I got nothing. OK just for the heck of it: Section 4 Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of...
This story (gift link) is about the mainstreaming of on the American right wing of the idea that giving women the vote was a bad idea, and that voting rights.
This is the grave of Dee Brown. Born in 1908 in Alberta, Louisiana, Brown mostly grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas and then Little Rock. The family had enough money.
Word is that the weapons officer in the F-15 shot down over Iran has been rescued: https://bsky.app/profile/jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social/post/3mipczfw3y223 There's lots of uncertain reporting at the moment (no confirmation from either WSJ or NYT), both of which have been covering the recovery operation pretty hard. I find the...
With a lot less drama this time: Wisconsin Republicans are bracing for a lopsided state Supreme Court race next week, as liberals are all but expected to expand their majority. It.
There's only one thing to talk about this week and that's Big Ears. Man, that was a lot. A few notes. In the last Music Notes, when I asked for.
One of the important areas Trump wants to cut to fund his forever wars is, needless to say, scientific research: For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies. Released Friday, the...
It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, so he is firing people. Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi so far, with more possible. This is an opportunity to strangle his.
Indigo bush (amorpha fruticosa), close up of flower spike By Аимаина хикари - Own work, CC0 Beyond digging holes, pulling weeds and wishing the person who introduced Mondo grass to.