Afternoon

Busy with life stuff (actually, driving, which you know how much I love).

Forever War

I am not going to pretend to know anything about this stuff, but shooting down $20K drines with $5 million missiles probably can't keep going for ever.

Today Is The Day Donald Trump Became President

This disaster is, in part, because every time Donald Trump has blown something up, hebhas turned on the TV and received little but praise.

Surrender

It is important to understand that all of the big institutions that caved to Trump's absurd demands instantly did so because they were happy to.

And because they did, things got as bad as they have (in part).

Use Your Power

Good to see.

The New York attorney general’s office has ordered a major Manhattan hospital to resume providing puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments to transgender adolescents, just two weeks after the hospital had stopped doing so.

The hospital, NYU Langone Health, had closed its Transgender Youth Health Program after the federal government threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provided gender-transition treatments for adolescents. For more than a year, the Trump administration has sought to prevent hospitals from helping adolescents transition, asserting that many of the children are impressionable and confused and that the medical treatments maim and sterilize them. In response, many clinics and hospitals in the United States have scaled back or stopped providing gender-related treatments to children.

Morning

Taco Tuesday

Happy Hour

Get happy

Your Boss Is Already Bored

Good luck! To the rest of us, too.

Inside the Pentagon, and among some members of the Trump administration, there was deepening concern Sunday that the Iran conflict could spiral out of control, said people familiar with the situation.

“The mood here is intense and paranoid,” one person said.

There is anxiety among senior leaders that the fighting will extend for weeks, further stressing limited U.S. air defense stockpiles, people familiar with the situation said.

Bored Now

Donald must read this very fine blog

Humiliation Kink

Probably the most pathetic major country leader.

Whatever, Man

The Iraq war rationale shifted - and pundits made up their own - but not hourly.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today that the US strikes on Iran is not meant to be “regime change,” while he acknowledged that the leadership in the country has changed.

“This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change and the world is better off for it,” Hegseth said.

President Donald Trump has, however, pushed for regime change.

Bored Now

Trump will get increasing frustrated about all of this as it spirals out of control and get very mad that he can't unshit the bed .

I don’t know what happens next.

Is Mick Shrimpton Available

Morning

Merry Monday

Sunday Night

Enjoy

Sunny Sunday Afternoon

21%

You can - and we have, somewhat, lately - get more than 21% on the side of infectious diseases. 

I suspect the view of the 21% will be disproportionately represented in our finest news outlets, though perhaps not quite as much as usual.

Pew Pew Pew

War does, of course, have serious consequences.

Few pretend they think of Palestinians as anything other than subhuman, but now that we are back, sort of, sometimes, in the peeance and freeance game...

Gravitas

The entire Discourse leading up to the Iraq war was just theater, of course. The war was inevitable and the Decider had already Decided.

Still "we" at least took, or pretended to take, the view that going to war was a serious endeavor with serious consequences.

 

A lot of that was, in part, self-important people imagining that newspaper columnists were the real protagonists of history. This was serious because they were serious people writing serious columns about serious things. 

Still it was seen as serious.

Decades later, it is all just pew pew pew.

Morning

Sunday funday