June 2, 2025

IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE WE HAD A GENUINELY PRO-AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE THAT I’D FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH GOOD ONE COULD ACCOMPLISH:

Posted at 6:07 pm by Stephen Green 69

YES.

Posted at 4:16 pm by Glenn Reynolds 82

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Andrew McCabe Can’t Understand Why Kash Patel Called Boulder Attack Terrorism.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth: “The Egyptian illegal immigrant who used a flamethrower and molotov cocktails to set a group of Jewish people on fire Sunday at a demonstration in Boulder, Colo. is now facing federal hate crime charges for attacking a group of demonstrators bringing attention to the hostages remaining in Hamas captivity.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 53

MAYBE IF THEY’D TRY NOT SUCKING SO MUCH: CNN’s Buried Lede: New Poll Shows Dems Still Cratering. “Bear in mind that CNN’s polls generally lean towards Democrats, too. These are terrible numbers for Democrats, and they aren’t the only indicators of political crisis either. Chalian and Raju go through the issue numbers, and Republicans are still dominating on the most important policy areas.”

Related: CNN’s Harry Enten Flabbergasted by Brutal New Numbers for Dems on Economy.

Posted at 4:07 pm by Glenn Reynolds 49

I LOVE A HAPPY STORY: ‘PROTECTED BY GOD AND A GUN’: 3 Thugs Motivated To Beat a Hasty Retreat in California Home Invasion. “A trio of masked thugs broke into a multi-million dollar home in the Hollywood Hills near Los Angeles Thursday evening. A sign on the property warned that, ‘This house is protected by God and a gun. Screw around and you’ll meet both,’ should have offered the young scholars a clue to pick another house. But to be fair, they probably couldn’t read. Anyway, the trio forced their way in around 10:30 and not fifteen seconds after making entry, they had poked the bear and the bear opened fire. All three of the felons fled in great haste.”

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds 48

LAUGHING WOLF: Lightning Strike Conference Report.

The short version is that I wish I had been able to attend one of these Lightning Strike and Electrical Shock Survivors conferences very much sooner. As in not long after I was hit. The amount of information I got was almost like being hit with a firehose. Even better was talking with other survivors and finding out I’m not alone and not crazy (well, not in terms of the after effects of the strike anyway).

The longer version is that the life I had is gone, and it’s not coming back. In the words of the song, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. In fact, I feel more than fine. There is a part of me that is sad and other emotions at knowing that life is not ever going to come back. My mind and body are never going to work the way they did, and I will never be able to do some of the things I used to do. I’m still a pilot, though I will likely never fly again. If I can adjust to that, I can learn to deal with needing grab bars in the shower.

Fact is, on many levels I had already accepted that and begun moving forward. For parts of my old life, I was and am glad to see them gone. I prefer to see it as a chance to start over, to build a new life, and hopefully a better one, despite the difficulties. While I was never one who worked at Elon-speed/level, I did okay in certain areas. I can still work through certain types of problems, it just takes me longer to do the work. As I noted to Glenn at breakfast, what used to take me 30 minutes to write back then now takes me four hours (or more to be honest).

I can still look at data and spot patterns and trends, it just may take a bit longer. On the physical side, I’m doing a lot better than I was right after the strike and the conference gave me some ideas on how to work to step up my game mentally and physically. It would be nice to be able to do full prostrations, and get up again afterwards. One thing I realized during the conference is that I’ve been viewing, and gaming, my recovery as yet another experiment — one I’ve not bothered the human subjects committee about (think Les Geddes may have rubbed off on me more than I realized).

Which is probably a good thing, as I sure can’t count on the medical field to do much on a holistic level, much less within specialties

Fascinating and touching stuff — read the whole thing.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green 26

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 46

THEY WON’T LIKE A RADICALIZED AMERICA:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Stephen Green 84

THIS SEEMS TO BE AN INCREASINGLY POPULAR SENTIMENT:

Posted at 2:21 pm by Glenn Reynolds 62