I had to run out at lunch time because there was nothing to eat in the house (well, nothing we wanted to eat), and I had a hankering for this Middle Eastern restaurant that puts some sort of addictive agent in the tabouli that makes you crave it fortnightly. My teenage daughter is flopping around …
Prescience, or Claude Shannon Anticipates Sen. McConnell’s Procedural Maneuver (Open Thread)
Claude Shannon is best known as the founding titan of information theory — which was an idea of such pervasive impact, some have ranked it along side relativity theory as the most significant intellectual creation of the 20th century. He wasn’t simply a brilliant mathematician and logical thinker though. He was as well a lifelong …
War for Ukraine Day 783: The GOP House Majority’s Dysfunction Is Actively Harming Ukraine
We know what “they doin ova der,” they’re making things worse. I’m going to try to keep this brief tonight, but we have a lot to cover and a significant chunk is the GOP majority in the House of Representatives is eating itself. Ukraine has "no chance of winning" its war with Russia, if it …
War for Ukraine Day 777: Air Raid Alerts Are Up, Once Again, Over Almost All of Ukraine
(Air raid alert map of Ukraine, 8:58 PM EDT, 10 APR 2024) As you can see above, almost all of Ukraine is once again under an air raid alert. The Ukrainian Air Force is reporting at least seven russian Tu-95 bombers taking off, indicating that early this morning Ukraine is likely to be under massive …
War for Ukraine Day 775: Russia Is Destroying Ukraine’s Energy Generation & Transmission Capacity!
(Image by NEIVANMADE) As I begin tonight’s update – 7:55 PM EDT – all of southern and central Ukraine is under air raid alert. And as I get ready to hit publish it is only the westernmost provinces. While we’ll get to the last night’s/this morning’s butcher’s bill from Russia’s bombardment of Kharkiv and other …
War for Ukraine Day 760: Russia Bombards Ukrainian Civilian Targets Again!
(Image by NEIVANMADE) Two notes before we start: 1) There are still a LOT of videos and imagery circulating of the Russians torturing the Tajiks they scarfed up yesterday and are blaming for the terrorist attack on the Crocus disco. DO NOT go looking for them. You don’t need to see them. 2) There was …
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War for Ukraine Day 751: Russia Attacks Odesa Again!
(Image by NEIVANMADE) It’s been a VERY long week and I’m absolutely fried. So I’m going to just cover the basics tonight. Russia once again attacked civilian targets in Odesa overnight. WARNING!! WARNING!! GRAPHIC CONTENT!! WARNING!! WARNING!! At least 14 people were killed as a result of today’s russian missile strike on Odesa. Among them …
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