Wednesday Link Roundup - 2 April

Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Maggies Farm has Links. And more links. And does this all during the week.
Ned Hardy has historical photos and stories.

EBL - Richard Chamberlain, RIP

Richard Chamberlain, RIP
THR, Deadline, Variety

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.01.25 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Vance destroys anti-tariff argument
Glenn Reynolds: Three Small Items

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 30 March 2025: Quick Precis Edition

Why do LLMs make stuff up? (Ars Technica)
Because that's what they're designed to do.
They're language models, not fact models. Indeed, they don't have fact models.

Glibertarians - Sunday Morning This Is A Test Links

Diversity?
“A state that is conditioned for failure.” An accurate description.

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

Woke America: Does it get any more un-American than this? The woke elites and museums.
Conman Carney’s Canada: A pair of CBC reports. Carney’s severing of Canada.

Political Hat - News of the Week (March 30th, 2025)

It’s Ladies’ Night at the Gun Range
Luxury shooting complexes offer country club amenities to woo a new wave of firearm owners

Vlad Tepes - Carney & Trump, DEI still in play and more: Links 1 for April 1, 2025

2. Mark Carney: CHINA’S MAN: Hong Kong human rights organization files letter with RCMP over Carney’s Chinese candidate
Canadian police have never, as far as I know, pressed charges against a ranking politician.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - April's Fool Edition

'Becca Downs at TownHall thinks Markwayne Mullin Delivers Masterclass on 'Signalgate' During Sunday Show Appearance. AP whines that Trump says he won’t ‘fire people’ over Signal messages, reiterates support of national security team.

Theo Spark - Bits and Bobs........

No Teslas on Mars! Stop the oligarchy! - Roger Simon
No, European Strategic Autonomy Drive is not Trump Related also, is the USA Really NATO's #1 Sceptic? - Cdr Salamander

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/1/2025

» “Maryland Father” or MS-13 Migrant Gangster. Which is it, MSM?
» “Smacks of Racism” — Activist Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Move to Revoke Protected Status of Venezuelans

Don Surber - Highlights of the news

ITEM 12: CBS said, “5 high-level CDC officials leaving in latest turmoil for public health agency in Trump administration.”
CDC, isn’t this the same agency that warned doctors not to prescribe ivermectin to treat covid?

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

John Garnett is right that “Trump was right to kill the EV mandate.”
Arnold Kling insightfully counsels economists to take real-world complexities far more seriously than they are led to do by the mainstream economics of Paul Samuelson.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

California High Speed Rail Asks for $7 Billion More
DEI in Airlines Having Haunting Effect on Veteran Pilots, Many Afraid to Leave Co-Pilots Alone in the Cockpit

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 1 /25

Kurt Schlichter: The next three crucial steps.
Time for the Trump DOJ and FBI to Deal the Pain

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: House lawmaker moves to oust judge in deportation case with move that skips impeachment

• Judge Boasberg is not my president - Don Surber
• Sen. Grassley Introduces ‘Judicial Relief Clarification Act’ to Rein in Activist Judges - Debra Heine

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 03-30-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2454 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Mondays again, in gifs from Wirecutter.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

Also concealed carry does stop bad guys. Suspected Hardeeville carjacker killed by ‘armed citizen who protected himself,’ police say

Police said a man was shot and killed Sunday night near downtown Hardeeville in an apparent act of self-defense as he attempted one of several “armed assaults” in the area.

Hardeevill, South Carolina is about 15 miles north of Savannah, Georgia.

The bad guy fired at least one shot at the driver of the vehilce, who returned fire striking the carjacker 3 times. He died at the scene.

While the investigation is ongoing, the police are saying it is self-defense at this point.

Bad guys should get the memo that victims are neither helpless nor defenseless in various parts of the country like South Carolina.

Self-defense is a human right.

The United Kingdom Is Going Full Totalitarian

You cannot question the powers that be. From Hot Air: UK Police Arrest Parents, Jail Them For Criticizing School Policies

Britain and Europe, as a whole, are run by proto-totalitarians who see arresting parents, Christians, and any ordinary Britons for wrongthink as necessary to building an ideal society. Dissenters are enemies of the people, of the ideal order and must be disposed of or suppressed.

I'm not really surprised at this point.

After all, they have outlawed prayer. From The Telegraph: Praying at home could be a crime ‘depending on who’s passing the window’

Praying at home could be a crime “depending on who’s passing the window”, according to the architect of a controversial protest ban outside abortion clinics in Scotland.

Gillian Mackay, the Green Party MSP, said “performative” prayer within 200 metres (220 yards) of abortion clinics could theoretically fall foul of new legislation, even if it was within someone’s home.

Because thou shalt worship nothing but the state.

More like Airstrip One every day.

The British need to take their country back.

Down By The Water

PJ Harvey is usually listed as Alternative Rock, but this song was introduced as Goth. The theme is certainly dark enough for Goth. I don't think the categories matter as long as the music is good.

This is another song courtesy of WXRT and Saturday Morning Flashback. It has also been sitting in drafts for nearly a year.

This song is "Down By The Water" by PJ Harvey from her 1995 album To Bring You My Love.

DaleyGator Musical Interlude

Gator Doug at If You are Left you ain't Right brings us Your Song of the Day

Click thru for Marion Black performing his signature song, "Who Knows" from 1970.

I wasn't really listening to Soul in 1970, and I wasn't even watching Soul Train at that time, because it wouldn't even start until 1971. (It would come on right after Dick Clark's American Bandstand.) That said, quite a lot of the music is good, but if it wasn't on Top 40 radio, I probably didn't hear it back then.

Tuesday Links - April Fool's Day Edition

Miguel Gonzalez starts us off with a look at nutrition. Another thing that needs to be fixed.

And how come I have the nasty feeling I am having to pay this much because I am somewhat subsidizing the people who are overusing medical help because they can stop eating six Cheetos with peanut butter and gravy every meal (chased down with a Coke Zero, of course) and smoking 3 packs of American Spirit a day?

OldAFSarge from Chant du Départ has a history lesson - The First Iron Brigade

While doing research for a possible fictional account of the Civil War, I happened to look up my great grandfather's regiment, the 22nd New York Infantry Regiment. Curiosity, perhaps looking for a connection to the story of that regiment which I could use in my fictional account.

Little did I know that his regiment was part of the Iron Brigade, no, not the "black hat boys" of the West, but a regiment composed of Eastern units.

Irons in the Fire - Tell me again why we shouldn't take phones away from kids in class

I’m not saying our students just prefer genre books or graphic novels or whatever. No, our average graduate literally could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read.

Legal Insurrection - Illegal Immigrant ‘Influencer’ Who Encouraged Freeloading and Squatting Finally Sent Back to Venezuela

Videos of Moreno instructing his fellow illegals on how to do end runs around U.S. laws and take over homes outraged conservatives and put him on ICE’s radar:

Bookworm Room - Bookworm Beat 3/28/25: A meme edition

After a hiatus, I’m back… It’s not the largest meme selection ever, but every meme is handpicked for quality and freshness.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: A Short Week

Played a two-game set with Baltimore on Friday and got a split. We’ll take it.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Miguel Gonzalez - TDS keeps getting people into absurdity.

What I have noticed is that the lack of respect that Trump has for the Media and the way he insults and ridicules him is seen by journos as the same or worse than being shot in the back of the head by security forces or your house torched with your family inside. This fake fear is reflected in worse coverage and outright lies which are to inflame people against the administration. That they do that without Third World consequences sort of demonstrates they are full of crap.

Instapundit - GREAT MOMENTS IN ASTROTURFING

Asphalt Assault: Anti-Tesla Protesters Unleash Their Scariest Weapon Yet – Nazi-Infused Line Dancing!

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat - Reflections on "A Gun is Not Fun" Conference

Last week, I was fortunate to take part in a visiting scholar speaker series and community networking conference organized by Wake Forest University’s Center for Literacy Education. I am grateful to Center director Alan Brown for including me in “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence.”

Son Gets Shot Protecting His Mother

This is an example of the fact that being armed doesn't make you invulnerable. Shootout inside Detroit-area home injures two people, police say - CBS Detroit

Hazel Park police say a 22-year-old man from Detroit came to the home where his mother and Thomas lived to pick up his belongings. Thomas and the woman were arguing when the woman's son intervened and confronted Thomas.

The son was shot in the shoulder and the face. He retreated to another room and drew is own gun, returning fire, hitting Thomas in the the finger, the wrist, and the chest. Both men drove themselves to hospitals.

Hazel Park, Michigan is a suburb of Detroit, being about a 10 mile drive north of downtown.

Police say 51-year-old Charles Thomas is charged with assault with intent to murder, three counts of felony firearm, discharging a firearm in a building causing injury, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and carrying a concealed weapon.

Self-defense has been gaining acceptance in Michigan for years now.

Self-defense is a human right.

So There's a Starship Troopers Movie in the Works

You may have seen the somewhat-travesty of a film by that name directed by Paul Verhoeven. Pure 90s Cheese, without any of the redeeming qualities it should have had. But I will let someone else tell you that story. The Exact Words of the Text - by John Carter

I didn't particularly like Heinlein's novel. I tried to read it couple of times, and I honestly can't tell you much about it. I know enough to know that it bears very little relation to the 1997 "satire" by Verhoeven. I like some of Heinlein's work. I even like a fair bit of Military Sci-Fi. The Honorverse by David Weber is one example. I currently reading In Fury Born, also by Weber, though it seems to be taking a strange turn.

But I didn't particularly connect with Troopers.

First, John Carter, from Postcards from Barsoom, gives us the script for how he would have written the first sequence for a Starship Troopers movie. Then we get the following:

And that is how the cinematic adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s seminal military-SF masterpiece Starship Troopers should have started: with all of the pathos, action, and emotional intensity of the novel’s famous first chapter. I’ve taken extensive liberties with the source material, but in my head, this is what the first ten minutes or so of the movie would look like. If it had been a good movie.

But it was not.

Instead, director Paul Verhoeven served up Saved By the Bugs, a cheesy 90’s high-school drama cum college movie which felt more like Beverly Hills 90210 than Full Metal Jacket, liberally slathered with unnecessary sexual drama and drenched in hamfisted satire of the source material, with all of the coolest elements – the powered armour, the orbital drops, the backpack nukes – conspicuously stripped out.

But then Verhoeven wasn't interested in adapting Heinlein's novel, he was writing a "Communism Good" screed.

The reason Verhoeven left out the powered armour is quite simple: it was too cool, and his intention was not to make the Mobile Infantry look cool. His intention was to ridicule the philosophical position that Heinlein put forward in the book: that violence is at the heart of the political, and cultures – or species – who forget this, get rolled by the ones who don’t.

It is a long post or article, but worth a look.

Sony has announced a new adaptation of the novel. It won't have anything to do with the 1997 travesty, that only lives on in memes; it is a meme, after all. It will be a new adaptation of the novel. That still doesn't fill me with much hope, give the trash that has been coming out of Hollywood in the past 7 or 8 years.

Apparently Neill Blomkamp, who directed the stunningly good Sci-Fi District 9 movie is attached to the project. I'm not sure if that is confirmed, or only a rumor. That lends some hope to the project since he does know how to do Sci-Fi. He will still have to deal with DEI. There are still a lot of DEI rules in Hollywood, even if they are calling them something else today.

Epstein Victim "Just Four Days to Live"

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffery Epstein of doing bad things to her was hit by a bus.

She sued the Royal Family, and won. She was hit by a school bus driving 110 kilometers per hour. "Freak accident."

This is Benny Johnson's video SHOCK: Epstein Victim Who Saw ‘Everything’ Suddenly On Her DEATH BED After Freak Mystery Accident

Consign to Oblivion

Concept albums used to be a fairly common thing in American rock music. That seems to have died out. But they are still being created in the European Heavy Metal scene. Today's song actually comes from the first of two albums that are part of the same concept, from the Symphonic Metal band Epica. The concept started in Consign to Oblivion, and was continued 4 years later with the album Design Your Universe.

Epica is a Symphonic Metal band out The Netherlands. (They sing in English.) The band consisted of lead singer Simone Simons, Mark Jansen playing rhythm guitar and providing harsh vocals, Ad Sluijter playing lead guitar, Yves Huts on bass, Coen Janssen on keyboards, and Jeroen Simons playing drums when this album was recorded.

The lyrics can be found at this link in case anyone is interested. You might want them for at least some of the singing.

This song is "Consign to Oblivion (A New Age Dawns 3)" by Epica from the 2005 album Consign to Oblivion. It is almost 10 minutes, so grab a beverage.

How Should a 70-Year-Old Man Defend Himself?

If not with a firearm that is. I wish the gun-hating Left would explain, but I'm not expecting them to do so. Man killed during burglary attempt in Point Breeze home, police say

How would you deal with an intruder in you home at 1:30 in the morning?

In a noon update, law enforcement officials said the 70-year-old homeowner was cooperating with the investigation and investigators believe the man who died was killed during an attempted burglary.

This is yet another failure of the victim-selection process. Maybe he thought it would be easy to steal from a 70-year-old.

Point Breeze is a neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Even in Deep Blue Philadelphia it would seem that legal self-defense is a thing.

The cops seem a bit confused, or they did early on, anyway, but they are starting to see more self-defense, and seem to have gotten there in the end.

The investigation continues, and the DA will make any determination about charges. Still, self-defense is a human right.

Without the means of self-defense, the old and the infirm will be preyed upon by the young and the violent. That seems to be the world that the Left wants to reintroduce.

So What Were You Doing at the Age of 17?

We have 2 stories of 17-year-olds in Chicago. The first: 17-year-old girl is charged with violently mugging 3 Red Line passengers since September - CWB Chicago

Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old girl with committing three robberies aboard Red Line trains since September. The girl turned herself in at the Central (1st) District police station in the South Loop on Tuesday.

CPD said she was part of a group of people who physically attacked and robbed a 45-year-old man on the train near Garfield around 5:15 p.m. on January 5.

There is apparently video evidence of the one robbery.

The second story: Boy, 17, carjacked one man, robbed 4 others on CTA trains this month, police say

A 17-year-old boy is responsible for robbing five people this month in a string of crimes that included muggings on the CTA and an armed carjacking, according to Chicago police.

The suspect, apprehended on Thursday, faces a litany of charges, including three felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm, two felony counts of robbery, one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, and one misdemeanor count of obstructing identification.

I still hold out some hope for the continuation of civilization, but it is clearly breaking down in the blue cities. "Outlaw" used to be one of the worst things you could call a person.

Professor Yamane's Observations on Guns in America

Professor David Yamane had a video presentation for Brady Campaign’s Team ENOUGH California Youth Advocacy Training Program. I'm not sure they got what they were expecting. Five Essential Observations on Guns in America

The five topics that the professor made in his presentation are as follows:

1. Guns are normal

2. Gun culture evolves

3. Gun ownership is diverse

4. Guns are lethal tools

5. Guns are not either/or

The video (click thru for that) is 28 minutes long. The first 3 and a half minutes or so, are devoted to his journey from from growing up in Deep Blue California to buying his first gun. Then he dives into his presentation.

Avengers: Doomsday Is Going to be a Disaster

Disney Marvel has nothing left but the nostalgia for past movies. Create something new? They don't know how to do that.

So this past week Disney Marvel released the names of the cast for the 2026 movie Avengers: Doomsday. It was a cast of everyone who has ever been in a Marvel movie. Well, except for all the failed female characters. It included Ian McKellan, and Patrick Stewart, two actors who are 85 and 84 years old respectively. What exactly are they going to do at 84 and 85.

There were so many people announced that they can't give each of them 10 minutes on screen. 27 actors were announced, and there are probably more to come. See the list of announced cast members below the embedded video.

I think Quarter Black Garret said it best in the video:

There's no way this is not a bloated mess.

This is the Nerdrotic Daily video WHO ARE THE AVENGERS? 'Doomsday' Is a BLOATED Mess! SJWs Seething Over Missing Female Characters. It is a 20 minute excerpt from the 28 March edition of Friday Night Tights.

They probably think everyone will be excited for this collection of member berries.

The Avengers: Doomsday cast in full:

• Robert Downey Jr. (Doctor Doom)
• Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards)
• Channing Tatum (Gambit)
• James Marsden (Cyclops)
• Rebecca Romijn (Mystique)
• Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler)
• Patrick Stewart (Professor X)
• Ian McKellen (Magneto)
• Chris Hemsworth (Thor)
• Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm)
• Anthony Mackie (Captain America)
• Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier)
• Letitia Wright (Black Panther)
• Paul Rudd (Ant Man)
• Wyatt Russell (US Agent)
• José Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Namor)
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Ben Grimm/Thing)
• Simu Liu (Shang-Chi)
• Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova)
• Kelsey Grammer (Beast/Hank McCoy)
• Lewis Pullman (Sentry/Robert Reynolds)
• Danny Ramirez (Joaquin Torres/Falcon)
• Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm/Human Torch)
• David Harbour (Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian)
• Winston Duke (M'Baku)
• Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost)
• Tom Hiddleston (Loki)

How much screen time is any one of these actors going to get? How much story are they going to develop around Nightcrawler or Gambit?

University of Minnesota Students Are Shocked to Discover that They Live in The Real World™

They apparently thought that U of M was in Mayberry, and not Minneapolis. 5 years after COVID-19, Dinkytown crime takes its toll on University of Minnesota students who live, study there

This is a typical, "Oh my God, there's crime in the world" story, as told (mostly) from the point of view of university students.

Still, the level of cope is turned up to 11, from both the students and the helicoptering parents.

Runkel, along with other parents, students and community members, created a Facebook group in 2022 aimed at keeping students safe. The page has more than 2,600 members.

Information is always good, though I seriously question how many university students are using F*c*book more than to contact their parents for more spending money.

But a F*c*book group, no matter how apolitical, no matter how update-to-date, is going to keep you safe. But that is the level of cope in a Deep Blue state, in a Deep Blue city, at a Left-of-Chairman Mao university.

Armed self-defense? Pepper spray? Bueller?

There is a section of article dedicated to getting more help from police, and having the university police pick up some of the slack from the city in the surrounding neighborhoods. Minneapolis was ground zero for the Defund the Police movement, after all.

Notably absent is any call for harsher penalties for criminals, letting legal-adult students defend themselves, though to be fair I don't know what the situation in Minnesotta/Minneapolis is with respect to concealed carry on campus. I know what my guess is.

Apple Streaming Is Truly a Vanity Project

Deadline is usually shilling for the Hollywood big-shots. Either Apple doesn't qualify as Hollywood (the tech companies are the new kids on the block), or they cannot justify not looking at reality. Apple Losing Over $1 Billion A Year On Streaming – Report

Apple is losing more than $1 billion a year on streamer Apple TV+, according to a report in the Information that cited two people familiar with the matter.

The tech giant has spent over $5 billion a year on content since launching Apple TV+ in 2019 but trimmed that by about $500 million last year, the report said.

Eventually a publicly-traded company has to pay attention to return on investment, and stop looking at prestige projects, or vanity projects.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, on quarterly conference calls with analysts, routinely tips his hat to Apple TV+ shows and awards they win. But the company doesn’t break out any data on the streamer, which is buried in the Services division — one of the company’s fastest growing — along with myriad other subscription platforms like Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness, Apple News+, Apple Books as well as the Apple App Store, iCloud, Apple Care, Apple Pay and more. The segment had revenue of $96 billion for FY 2024 that ended in September.

Even if they don't publish the numbers for Apple TV+, they do have those numbers internally. And either Tim Cook will grow tired of chasing respect in Hollywood, or the next CEO will ask, "Why are we setting $1 billion on fire every year?"

Hat tip to Nerdrotic.

This scares the shit out of Hollywood.

Why? Because if eventually they stop being vain, that entire part of the streaming universe will go away, at least as far as new projects are concerned. And it will probably go away overnight, or very quickly.

Programming Without Programmers

What could possibly go wrong? Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony brings us the latest story of "How AI will solve all of our problems, or maybe not." Daily News Stuff 22 March 2025: Tapir, Ghost, and Jerboa Edition. This just appeals to my inner nerd. Well, that and the schadenfreude.

"Vibe coding" is a dangerous fantasy. (NMN)

Here's how I built a B2B SAAS platform without knowing how to code.

(Five minutes later.)

We regret to inform you that our site has been hacked and all user data corrupted and/or stolen.

The underlying article, is less interesting, and less informative than Pixy Misa, but here it is. From N's blog: Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy

Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack.

His business, built entirely with AI assistance and “zero hand-written code,” was experiencing bypassed subscriptions, maxed-out API keys, and database corruption.

His follow-up admission made this notable: “as you know, I’m not technical so this is taking me longer than usual to figure out.”

Is anyone shocked?

The Lie of Vibe Coding

Recently, I was working late on a particularly thorny code generation problem when a message from an old SF friend popped up: “Dude, have you seen this? I just launched my side project without writing a single line of code. Just vibe coding!”

He shared his screen with me — a surprisingly polished-looking SaaS product that helped small business with their career path. The UI was clean and the features worked. All built by telling Windsurf what he wanted, occasionally getting frustrated, refining his prompts, and never once understanding the underlying technology.

“That’s great,” I said, genuinely impressed. “What security measures did you implement?”

Since he had no experience in software, he had no understanding of security, and so he had no security. Pixy Misa summed it up nicely, which I have reproduced above.

This really is a case of "What you don't know, can kill your business."

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 29 March

Wombat-socho starts things off with In The Mailbox: 03.26.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Bacon Time: All Credibility Lost
Bugscuffle Gazette: A Break, The Cookie Tin…Of Doom, and Where Do I Start?

The Right Way - Top of the News

Feds Slam Columbia Protest Leader With New Allegations, Say He Lied on Green Card Application - Bongino Report

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

Damn right, so get after it!
I think it’s a little soon to make this claim, but we’ll see.

EBL - Kamala Harris on Election Night 2024

Instapundit: Townhall: It was a long and lonely night for Team Kamala...
Sweet Kamala...

Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

Trump Signs EO Requiring Proof Of Citizenship, Paper Ballots
Trump Pardons Ex-Hunter Biden Business Partner Devon Archer

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 3.26.25 (Evening Edition)

Chicago Boyz: Cherry Blossoms, also, Goldberg Chipping the Signal
Da Tech Guy: Sooner or Later These Leftist Terrorists Are Going to Get Someone Killed

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Judge Boasberg 'Draws' Signalgate Lawsuit

Dave Strom observes Trump Approval Skyrocketing, But So Is Democrat Engagement. NY Sun, Confounding Conventional Wisdom, Polls Find Trump Stronger Than Ever, "The clock is ticking for Democrats to find their footing ere the midterms are upon them."

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 3/26/2025

Details Revealed: Inside the CCP’s United Front Work in Minnesota
The following is a joint investigation by the Breitbart News Foundation (BNF) and the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).

Vlad Tepes - Four election items for Canada and NASA then and now: Links post 1 for March 26, 2025

2. Alberta Premier?, Danielle Smith makes solid sense as well. It seems as if Alberta is seriously considering jumping ship from the communist polity of Canada. The good news is we likely don’t have a military capable of stopping them, and what military we do have would likely fight for Alberta.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 26 March 2025: Internet Of Bullshit Edition

I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud and I hope your company burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp. (Jeff Geerling)
Jeff bought a new dishwasher.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For March 28, 2025

Progress: “Maine caves to Trump; universities will keep men out of women’s sports.”
“Democrats Go All In On Killing Jews.”

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.27.25

Victory Girls: We Didn’t Know We Needed A Marine
Watts Up With That: GBE To Pay £200 Million For Solar Panels on Schools

Political Hat - Quick Takes – The More Things Stay The Same In Academia: Anti-Racist Rocks; Musical Privilege Checking; Queer Science

Nothing is more feared by beneficiaries of “White Privilege” than… a musical number that “pwns” them!
If science doesn’t align with “Queer Theory”… then just make science queer!

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Woke America: The AOC lunatics. Voter registration is racist. Trump’s superpowers.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Liberals lock out fishermen.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – More from The Washington Post!

Bill nullifying D.C.’s ‘sanctuary city’ law advanced by House Republicans
Yep, the latest outrage by DC’s city leaders is that they’re mad about having to obey the law. Tell me more about why this city deserves statehood?

Once more from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.28.25

First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Women Are Cows Who Must Be Covered Head to Toe — Allahu Akbar

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Beijing used its state-owned enterprises to retaliate against Trump’s 2018 tariffs.
J.D. Tuccille reports on the harm that the cronyist Jones Act inflicts on Alaska.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

How To Claim Your Specialty Suffers From "Climate Change" - And get government money for your pain
Blue states don't build. Red states do. A timely repost, with some updates.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 3/ 26 /25

overpaid, underworked bureaucrats do not deserve our sympathy.
Shed No Tears For Fired Federal Workers

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn

• 10 Times NPR Proved It Doesn’t Deserve Another Taxpayer Cent Elle Purnell
• Best and Worst Pollsters of 2024 Ranked by ActiVote David Blackmon

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 03-27-2025

Left-Coast Judges Say Trump Admin Must Take In Refugees and Pay for Their Housing.
President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is pausing some green card applications, including refugees

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Put on a happy face from Bluebird of Bitterness, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2441 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic.

Concealed Carry and Armed Self-Defense in Chicago

Legal self-defense is catching on the Windy City. Concealed carry holder shoots car burglar on Far South Side - CWB Chicago

A concealed carry license holder shot a man who was trying to break into his car on the Far South Side overnight, according to Chicago police.

The would-be burglar initially called 911 around 1:02 a.m., claiming that two men shot him in a drive-by in the 13400 block of South Green Bay. He even described the men who shot him and their getaway car.

Another 911 call told the real story. The would-be burglar is in custody. Before lockup he was taken to the hospital for a brief visit.