[Kavanaugh] noted discussion at oral arguments about how such a refund process was likely to be a "mess."Well... it was Ayatollah 49% Don© who made the mess. "Clean up on aisle 666!!" Any fifth grader knows from his/her Social Studies class which branch has taxing and tariff power. It ain't El Jefe.
20 February 2026
Thought For The Day - 20 February 2026
Well... boy howdy!!! The Gang of Six didn't prevail. The three most rabid members dissented, to be expected. What is hilarious is that The Trippy Three complain
15 February 2026
Thought For The Day - 15 February 2026
NASCAR is primitive car racing, at best. I'm a Formula 1 junky since Jimmy Clark. But, I'll generally peek in at the Daytona 500 now and then. A car race that only turns left is dumb. Pebble Beach is much more interesting, at least today. Go Scottie!!
Which brings up MAGA, dontcha know?? Last time I peeked, Toyota held the top 4 places. A few dozen or so laps to go, but c'mon. NASCAR is moonshine racing, not anything resembling sophistication. Ayatollah 49% Don© should make yet another EO and ban foreign cars. drivers, and owners from the sport. This is AMERICA after all!!! Be true to your school.
Which brings up MAGA, dontcha know?? Last time I peeked, Toyota held the top 4 places. A few dozen or so laps to go, but c'mon. NASCAR is moonshine racing, not anything resembling sophistication. Ayatollah 49% Don© should make yet another EO and ban foreign cars. drivers, and owners from the sport. This is AMERICA after all!!! Be true to your school.
08 February 2026
Block Island News
We've been going over to the Island for at least a couple of decades, generally in what's called "Shoulder Seasons", which translates to very early Spring and very late Autumn. Not so many silly tourists around. Turns out, the Native Block Islanders have been conducting an annual census for longer than we've been going over. To attempt to get a more or less accurate count, deep off season was chosen. Not too many day hopping mainlanders. Near as I can find, one doesn't have to show some form of Block Island (aka, New Shoreham, RI) ID to be counted. But, to discourage day hoppers from mucking up the count, said count is conducted after that last boat leaves.
Did I mention that the appointed day is Groundhog Day?? Well, yes it is. And, no, Block Island has no indigenous rodents of that description. Small detail. So, as one might expect of the Frequent and Enthusiastic Visitor, there is a yearning To Be Counted. We do "own" a small parcel of Block Island, but not enough to live in all year. So, it'd not be really cheating to Be Counted. OTOH, getting to the Island on 2 Feb. is dependent on the weather. Alas, pretty shitty this year. And all of the ones preceding. Or so I remember it. And one needs to find accommodation, of course. Not all that many open year round.
Not all years is the count published in the Block Island Times in a timely manner. But we mainlanders do get it
Did I mention that the appointed day is Groundhog Day?? Well, yes it is. And, no, Block Island has no indigenous rodents of that description. Small detail. So, as one might expect of the Frequent and Enthusiastic Visitor, there is a yearning To Be Counted. We do "own" a small parcel of Block Island, but not enough to live in all year. So, it'd not be really cheating to Be Counted. OTOH, getting to the Island on 2 Feb. is dependent on the weather. Alas, pretty shitty this year. And all of the ones preceding. Or so I remember it. And one needs to find accommodation, of course. Not all that many open year round.
Not all years is the count published in the Block Island Times in a timely manner. But we mainlanders do get it
06 February 2026
30 January 2026
By The Numbers - part the ninety eighth
Frosty the snowman...
The weathercritters are saying that much of Florida will have low temps at or below 32° over the weekend. So... is this the usual? Or has the freqency of freezing temps in Fla. lower than it used to be?
The star attraction is the 1894/95 Great Freeze. Some mentions elsewhere use this event(s) as proof that climate change is bogus!! While there have been ongoing freezes since then, some of which reside in my own long-term memory, this was a (so far) unique event. The wiki piece states that Orlando fell to a record 18°; my Google Weather app says that Orlando will bottom out at 26° on Sunday.
Here's a table for Orlando 32° days from 1892. Just from eyeballing, it's 'true' that the frequency (overall) has markedly decreased from 1892 to now. Who wooda thunk it? Although the volatility (by which I mean the range of 32° days for spans of years is now narrower), also from just eye-balling, appears greater now than way-back-when. That would conform to the results reported below. Here's the top ten years (5+ days in a year)
2010, oops, has the most at 12. May be we can find out why.
There's an old saying among the weather geeks: if you know where the jet stream is going, you know what the weather will be.
In general, may be. Here's a report from MIT (bastion of liberal bias), which describes how the northern jets are affected by climate change (global warming). In a nutshell: it's the historical overall temperature difference between polar air and mid-latitude air. The greater that difference, the jets move (more or less) in a circle around the North Pole at latitude well above the good old USofA. The jets don't fall south, allowing polar airmass to visit the lower 48. It's established that the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet. As the temperature difference narrows, the jets get hinky. The lower 48 gets uncomfortable. You can thank climate change.
NOAA's latest report. Why Ayatollah 49% Don© forgot to scrub this, I don't know. Get it before it goes.
The weathercritters are saying that much of Florida will have low temps at or below 32° over the weekend. So... is this the usual? Or has the freqency of freezing temps in Fla. lower than it used to be?
The star attraction is the 1894/95 Great Freeze. Some mentions elsewhere use this event(s) as proof that climate change is bogus!! While there have been ongoing freezes since then, some of which reside in my own long-term memory, this was a (so far) unique event. The wiki piece states that Orlando fell to a record 18°; my Google Weather app says that Orlando will bottom out at 26° on Sunday.
Here's a table for Orlando 32° days from 1892. Just from eyeballing, it's 'true' that the frequency (overall) has markedly decreased from 1892 to now. Who wooda thunk it? Although the volatility (by which I mean the range of 32° days for spans of years is now narrower), also from just eye-balling, appears greater now than way-back-when. That would conform to the results reported below. Here's the top ten years (5+ days in a year)
2010 1989 1985 1981 1977 1970 1958 1938 1935 1928 1927 1918 19081938 and earlier lead by a nose.
2010, oops, has the most at 12. May be we can find out why.
There's an old saying among the weather geeks: if you know where the jet stream is going, you know what the weather will be.
In general, may be. Here's a report from MIT (bastion of liberal bias), which describes how the northern jets are affected by climate change (global warming). In a nutshell: it's the historical overall temperature difference between polar air and mid-latitude air. The greater that difference, the jets move (more or less) in a circle around the North Pole at latitude well above the good old USofA. The jets don't fall south, allowing polar airmass to visit the lower 48. It's established that the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet. As the temperature difference narrows, the jets get hinky. The lower 48 gets uncomfortable. You can thank climate change.
NOAA's latest report. Why Ayatollah 49% Don© forgot to scrub this, I don't know. Get it before it goes.
The last 10 years are the 10 warmest on record in the Arctic.
28 January 2026
By The Numbers - part the ninety seventh
As many readers will know, I've grown accustomed to some of Dr. McElhone's adages, high among them: "it is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer." And, no, I don't attribute that to the Good Doctor. It's been around for ages; I just first heard it from him.
Which brings us to some obvious. Here is a report on MAHA and the attack on vaccination.
As has been written here a few times: who'll make the neat stuff if Trumpism drags the Blue States down to Shitholeville?
Which brings us to some obvious. Here is a report on MAHA and the attack on vaccination.
But a different way to think about it is this: as another attack on the country's threadbare social safety net by health libertarians whose strategy for making America healthy again appears straightforwardly to mean letting more of the country's weak and vulnerable suffer and die.I've long since forgotten where it came from, but the gist of Trumpism is just this: cruelty is the point. And also The Rich damn sure ain't rich enough. Which bring us to the other bit of obvious
In some Southern states, such as Mississippi and Alabama, life expectancy is more than half a decade shorter than in Northeastern states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.So, the Rich plutocrats have convinced the victims of their evil that the problem is really the God hating Blue States. Stupid people just never learn. And that's also the point. Boeing has found out the hard way that assembling airplanes in North Carolina with marginally educated knuckledraggers is a lose-lose situation. And, of course, that's just the latest in a continuing saga of FUBAR, all in the name of union busting.
Look by county and the disparities are even starker, with life expectancy over a decade shorter in large swaths of Appalachia than in the upper Midwest. That's about the same as the life expectancy gap between Liechtenstein and Bangladesh.
As has been written here a few times: who'll make the neat stuff if Trumpism drags the Blue States down to Shitholeville?
21 January 2026
O Canada
Once again President Caligula and his horse faced wife are at it again. Yet again with Greenland, obviously part of the USofA. I mean, it's just 22 miles from Ellesmere Island, across the Nares Strait. It's almost in Canada, anyway. And President Caligula and his horse faced wife have proclaimed Canada as our 51st state. Bank shot. Both are President Caligula and his horse faced wife's property. An all-weather, members only, golf club would be another feather in their caps.
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