Welcome to the Cruelest Day: Tuesday, March 24, 2026, and National Cheesesteak Day, celebrating a fine sandwich and exemplar of American cuisine. It’s best sampled in its home, Philadelphia. Here’s a one-day attempt to find the best cheesesteak in Philly (Pat’s is touted as the city’s best version, but how does it rate here?). John’s and Dallesandro’s are tied for the top spot.
It’s also National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day and National Cocktail Day.
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the March 24 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
*NOTE: See below. Trump put a five-day hold on the bombing of infrastructure. It looks like Israel and the U.S. are about to striking Iranian infrastructure, including power plants, as per their promise if the Straits of Hormuz remained closed by Monday evening (US time). . And the new Ayatollah is out of action. From It’s Noon in Israel: (bolding is theirs)
- The Washington Post reported that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is injured, isolated, and unresponsive, according to intelligence officials from both Israel and the United States. Despite his apparent incapacitation, Israeli officials say the remaining clerical leadership and the Revolutionary Guards have managed to consolidate their grip on the country. Both the U.S. and Israel assess that Mojtaba is still alive; intelligence indicates that senior Iranian officials have attempted to arrange face-to-face meetings with him—efforts that have so far failed, reportedly for security reasons.
- Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have ordered the destruction of all bridges over the Litani River in an effort to cut off Hezbollah’s supply and movement routes. The IDF has more than doubled its troop deployment along the northern border, expanded ground operations—eliminating dozens of fighters and seizing weapons—and is conducting targeted raids on evacuated villages to dismantle Hezbollah’s military infrastructure.
- Trump’s ultimatum expires at 7:44 PM EDT (1:44 AM Israel time). Iran must fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or the United States will begin striking its power stations.
It seems that after securing concessions over the Panama Canal, Trump has developed a fondness for critical waterways. Israel and the United States have now settled on a new war goal: ending the conflict with the Strait of Hormuz under American control—not just temporarily.
The operation appears to have two parts. The first is seizing Iran’s most valuable card—the small island in the Persian Gulf that processes over 90 percent of its oil exports: Kharg Island. The second is securing the strait itself.
The question is how. The plan seems to combine Marine forces expected to arrive on Friday, ongoing airstrikes targeting Iran’s naval and drone capabilities, and advanced monitoring technologies to prevent any disruption to shipping.
The operation is expected to take roughly two to three weeks. That gives Israel enough time to complete the destruction of the remaining military industry and regime targets.
According to the NYT, there are already blackouts in Tehran:
Residents reported blackouts across large parts of Tehran, the Iranian capital, after heavy airstrikes struck multiple areas of the city early Monday. The outages came shortly after Israel announced it would target infrastructure in Iran.
But wait! On the other hand, the NYT now reports “productive” peace talks between the U.S. and Iran:
President Trump said Monday that the United States and Iran were negotiating a “total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” and that he would postpone American attacks on Iranian power plants by five days after the two countries traded threats over the weekend.
Iran did not immediately comment. It was unclear what kind of communication might be taking place and who might be mediating; Iran has previously denied seeking a cease-fire. Mr. Trump had threatened on Saturday to bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure within 48 hours unless Iran agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, a critical shipping route for the global oil trade.
Mr. Trump did not elaborate on the details of the talks, but analysts have said it is difficult to see a straightforward offramp for the American-Israeli air war with Iran, which began on Feb 28. and has morphed into a wider conflict in the Middle East. Despite Mr. Trump’s calls for the ouster of the Islamic Republic and his vow to help Iranian protesters overthrow their leaders earlier this year, the Iranian government is still very much in place, as is much of its nuclear program.
The Truth Social announcement:
Back and forth, back and forth. The erratic and contradictory pronouncements of Trump make this military action confusing and distressing. Whatever he does, he has to create regime change, which was originally one of his goals. And he has to stop the enrichment of uranium and the ongoing program of Iran to create nuclear weapons. Apparently Iran denies that these talks are even going on.
*The Times of Israel reports that a March 13 anti-Zionist rally in NYC, taking place near a pro-Israel rally, accused the Jews of—wait for it—eating babies! It’s one of the oldest blood libels: the accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children to make Passover matzos.
On Friday, at an Al Quds Day protest in Times Square, a protest leader directed the crowd to chant “Stop eating babies” toward a handful of mostly Jewish counter-protesters.
As surprising as it was to hear the charge that Zionists “eat babies” in New York City in 2026, equally surprising was the willingness with which the crowd took up the chant. There was no confusion or hesitancy about the outlandish allegation — the hundreds in attendance repeated the chant with enthusiasm, without skipping a beat.
“Stop eating babies! Stop raping kids!” they chanted toward counter-protesters holding Israeli flags across the street behind a line of police officers and metal barricades, recalling the age-old blood libel that says Jews murder and consume children for ritual purposes.
The rally illustrated how anti-Israel activists incorporate historical manifestations of anti-Jewish discrimination under the guise of anti-Zionist political activism, from the blood libel to Nazi-era tropes, mixed with contemporary academic theories. Anti-Zionism acts as a container for these historical tropes, blending them together with progressive talking points.
A cadre of scholar-activists has argued that anti-Zionism is the third major iteration of discrimination against Jews. The first was anti-Judaism, based on religion, the second was antisemitism, focused on race, and the third, anti-Zionism, is a hatred of Jewish peoplehood, the activists say.
The worst part of all this is indeed the crowd joining in. What the hell are these people thinking? And is there any doubt that this is antisemitic? Eating babies? Is it only Israelis who eat babies, and not Jews in America? Or is it only Zionist Jews who eat babies? And what is this about “raping kids”? That’s something I haven’t heard in these protests.
I couldn’t find that chant online, but here
*At Chicago’s Cook County Jail, a place I visited when I was helping public defenders with DNA evidence, inmates are falling ill—and even dying—after ingesting drugs smuggled into the jail soaked onto paper.
The body lay slumped on the jail floor, curled around a metal toilet.
Investigators found no evidence of homicide, just a few scraps of rolled-up paper, singed and scattered on the floor like scorched confetti.
For months, inmates had been falling ill at the Cook County jail in Chicago. Officials said they had heard rumors that extremely toxic drugs were infiltrating the facility, delivered on something so ordinary that it seemed impossible to stop.
Then the body appeared, and “something clicked,” said Justin Wilks, the head investigator at the jail.
The paper itself must be the culprit — and it was deadly.
More overdoses soon followed. The next month, in February 2023, another inmate died from smoking paper laced with mysterious new drugs. In April, one more.
“People were dying so fast,” Mr. Wilks said. But when officials at the jail told their law enforcement colleagues about it, they said, some found it hard to believe.
By year’s end, at least six people had died of overdoses, putting the jail at the vanguard of a new kind of drug war, one in which extraordinarily powerful drugs can be invented faster than the authorities can identify them.
And where something as ubiquitous as paper can become lethal.
The drugs are new synthetic drugs, dissolved in a solvent that is then used to soak sheets of paper that were smuggled in.
. . . . . Today, fringe chemists are ushering in a total transformation of the illicit drug market. Operating from clandestine labs, they are churning out a dizzying array of synthetic drugs — not only fentanyl, but also hazardous new tranquilizers, stimulants and complex cannabinoids. Sometimes, several unknown drugs appear on the streets in a single month. Many are so new they are not even illegal yet.
Nearly all of them are harder to trace than conventional drugs, less expensive to produce, much more potent and far deadlier, according to scientists and law enforcement officials across the globe.
After that first death in the Cook County jail in January 2023, it took months for Mr. Wilks’s team to realize that these mysterious new drugs were being sprayed onto the pages of the most innocuous-seeming items: books, letters, documents, even photographs.
The sheets of drugs, worth thousands of dollars a page, were being torn into strips and smoked by inmates who went into crazed, exorcistic fits, as if possessed by a phantom narcotic the authorities could not see, much less stop.
Just figuring out what the paper had on it was maddening. The specialized labs needed to run the tests often took months to send back mind-boggling chemical formulas that left some officers scratching their heads.
There are chemists out there synthesizing new compounds similar in structure to existing compounds. But some may be toxic, and were. And the prisoners are the guinea pigs.
*We’re several weeks into the partial government shutdown in which Democrats won’t give additional money ICE unless stringent conditions are imposed on officers’ behavior, Republicans won’t put up with it, and the Coast Guard and TSA agents are still not getting paid. (ICE, however, has a comfortable backlog and is still operating. Now Trump is demanding that any compromise be tied to voter-identification legislation.
President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security, leaving an impasse unresolved that has led to hourslong lines at some airports as security staff don’t show up for work.
White House staff briefed the president on an idea to fund all parts of DHS except for the agency responsible for enforcing immigration law, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Republicans could separately fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement through a procedural move—known as reconciliation—that would allow the money to clear the Senate on a simple-majority vote instead of requiring the 60 votes needed to pass most legislation. But not all Republicans think this is necessary because ICE received billions of additional funding in Trump’s sweeping tax cuts and spending bill passed along party lines last year.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) walked Trump through the strategy in a weekend conversation, the person said, but Trump rejected the idea. Some top Senate Republicans had met on Sunday with White House liaison James Braid to discuss ideas for ending the shutdown. The conversation between Thune and Trump was reported earlier by Punchbowl News.
Over the weekend, the president said he would send ICE agents to select airports around the country to assist with security lines. Trump on Monday said that move brought Democrats to the table to negotiate, but he told his negotiators to hold firm until a spending bill is paired with legislation requiring proof of citizenship to vote, along with other requirements.
Trump also indicated that he wanted to use the funding fight as leverage to pass what he considers his top legislative priority, the SAVE America Act. That legislation would ratchet up ID requirements to vote in federal elections and mandate proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Trump also wants to add a ban on most mail-in voting and restrictions on gender-transition procedures for minors.
ICE in airports is going to anger a lot of people, who will suspect that they’re really in airports to spot and arrest people accused of entering the U.S. illegally (a Guatemalan woman was apprehended yesterday). But if they’re just there help move security lines, which have extended to four hours in busy airports like Newark and Atlanta, that would be okay. As for showing proof of citizenship to register to vote, I have no problem with that, but I’d have to see the rest of the demands , especially about gender transition, as I think that surgery and drugs should be allowed only for people “of age” (I’m settling on 18). Mail-in ballots are okay by me; I’ve used them for years, and that’s made me lazy.
*The video of a cat beauty competition in Romania is the most-watched video on the Associated Press site, but fortunately it’s also on YouTube. The AP also has a great page of photos from that competition, though I can’t find any news beyond what is in the videos. (I can’t reproduce the photos because of possible copyright issues, but you can see them at the link, and don’t miss them if you like cats (the huge Maine Coon is spectacular).
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili thinks she’s fixing the world:
Szaron: It’s a bit boring here.
Hili: Start fixing the world, you’ll see what great entertainment it is.
In Polish:
Szaron: Trochę tu nudno.
Hili: Zacznij naprawiać świat, zobaczysz jaka to fajna rozrywka.
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Reader Pratyadipta Rudra vindicates me on Facebook. His caption:
A couple weeks ago, Jerry Coyne wrote about his “new law”: ” At least half of new medicines advertised on t.v. have the letters “x”, “y”, or “z” in them.”
Obviously, as he argued, this is much higher than their frequency in the English dictionary, or what would happen if letters of a medication name were picked randomly with each letter in the English alphabet having equal probability.Now, what are the chances that I see this at Costco the very next day?I was a little sad that they did not call it XYZAB.
From Funny and Strange Signs:
From Stacy: It’s Larry!!!!
From Masih, speaking on behalf of Iranians who want the present regime out:
This should have been on the front page of The New York Times.
I’ve spoken with students in America. Most have no idea that more than 32,000 unarmed, people have been killed for demanding freedom in Iran. Hundreds more are on death row, waiting to be hanged.
💔
Thank you, New… https://t.co/RQltCCMqNK pic.twitter.com/UKxjCepIvv— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) March 22, 2026
From Luana; you can find the details here.
Looking for a headline that has it all? pic.twitter.com/DwO5abcLsB
— i/o (@avidseries) March 23, 2026
From Sciencegirl via Keith. Would you drink this coffee? (I’m sure it would be expensive.) I’ve tried kopi luwak coffee made from beans that have transited the digestive tracts of palm civets (it was just ok), but not elephants. It’s all hype, I suppose:
Black Ivory Coffee, one of the rarest and most expensive coffees, made from beans processed by elephants
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) March 20, 2026
Two from my feed. First, gimme the cat massage option!
A spa in Japan where you can opt for a cat massage as an extra
pic.twitter.com/lX7cM2BsU4— Antidepressant Content (@depressionlesss) March 22, 2026
Yes it’s d*gs but it’s heartwarming. Kudo to Chairman Corgi, but I hope the photographer lent a hand as well:
Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home.
They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/H5VB9BQkGB
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 23, 2026
One I reposted from the Auschwitz Memorial:
This French Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz (along with the 82% of people in his train). Jacques was seven years old. https://t.co/m5nkcT9vlE
— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) March 24, 2026
. . and two from Dr. Cobb. First, a holy moggy:
Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱
— Laura Martínez 🥑 (@miblogestublog.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T14:26:55.587Z
An itchy duck, but not a dead one:
I promise, I am NOT photographing a dead duck here. 😜This Northern Shoveler just decided to flop over in the water and scratch that itchy chin in the midst of the red duckweed.#BirdOfTheDay #Preeners&Scratchers#MallardMonday📷🪶🦆
— Mstreefrog (@mstreefrog.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T11:55:40.534Z
It has been unclear in many of the stories, but ICE is not involved in the passenger screening activities. ICE is taking over general terminal security so that TSA can concentrate staff on passenger screening themselves.
In other news, sometime journalist Don Lemon has said that because ICE kills protestors and Iran kills protestors, the US and Iran are the same. Ta-da!
I saw ICE at the airport (Hobby) today. They were pretty harmless. Lines were quite short. IAH (were I did not go) is another matter. Lines are very long (more than 4 hours).
Very hastily :
I think everyone knows this, … and im not 100.0% on this, but “—ab” are the last two letters of, usually, antibody pharmaceuticals.
“mab”s are monoclonal antibodies, “ib”s are tyrosine kinase inhibitors, “olol”s are beta blockers, “pam”s are benzodiazepines, “depine”s are calcium channel blockers, “sartan”s are angiotensin receptor blockers, etc.
My mabs were immunotherapy treatments for melanoma of the lungs (and wtf was melanoma doing there?) It was explained to me that mabs work by removing the “camouflage” from cancer cells, enabling your immune system to do the rest. In the process of being cured my thyroid gland ceased all function, but one pill a day manages to alleviate the loss of thyroxin.
After enduring a regimen of massive radiotherapy doses, and chemotherapy for a different cancer 25 years ago, immunotherapy was a walk in the park, just an infusion of mabs once a month while sitting in a very comfortable chair, snacking on tea and biscuits!
I have no problem with requiring people to show IDs, but requiring proof of citizenship is an entirely different matter.
To prove citizenship, you have to have your birth certificate and – if you’ve married and changed your name – a marriage certificate on top of it. I had to get both a few years ago for some reason (passport?) and I learned that it is a pain in the butt. In the first place, the documents aren’t free (up to 100 dollars for both, depending on the area). In the second place, because of bureaucracy, it can take a month or two between the time you apply for the documents and the time you receive them in the mail.
The point is: for someone who doesn’t already have these documents on hand, getting the documents you need to prove citizenship is not easy, cheap, or speedy.
I have no doubt in the world that the republicans are banking on the fact that a lot of voters will be discouraged or daunted by what’s involved in proving citizenship or will wait until it’s too late to get the documents in time, and will be unable to vote as a result. And of course, they are assuming – probably accurately – that those voters will be mainly the ones who are younger and lower-income – in other words, democrats.
And that’s the true reason for the SAVE act – not to keep non-citizens from voting, but to keep democrats from voting. The true incidence of voting by non-citizens is nearly nil:
Source: Five Things to Know About the SAVE America Act
The whole purpose of the SAVE America act is a slimy slimy stratagem by Republicans to keep power.
I agree on providing ID, and the situational difficulty of providing proof of citizenship, never mind the chaos of asking already overworked election workers to be able to approve various forms of citizenship. And I, too, prefer the ease of mail-in ballots. What never ceases to amaze me is that the US has never made, to my knowledge, a real effort to move our voting day from a Tuesday, when most people work, to a Saturday or Sunday (or both). (My last comment as I don’t want to break “da roolz”…..)
The problem of “modern” human slavery is all too real, all over the world, including the US. I personally know of (& got involved in) one specific case concerning a senior World Bank official. And a friend of mine is with DSS (Diplomatic Security Service), who tells me that a significant part of their work is dealing with these modern slavery cases, which often involve high-caste Indians and Arabs as the main protagonist. It’s mind-boggling in this day and age, but it’s all around us, sadly.
Here (link) is a tale of a professor at a Canadian University who described Hamas as “Nazis” being abruptly cancelled and sacked.
A professor at that university who was regularly putting out vitriolic anti-Israel posts was, of course, not disciplined at all.
First I heard of this.
I don’t know what can be done to help the professor. I assume that he does not want to work at Guelph after all this: I certainly wouldn’t in his place.
But given that this was done to him by University administration, there is certainly something to be done in that regard. I leave it to your imagination, but I would begin with donor lists. In addition, I would contact organizations that advise high school students considering college to investigate the atmosphere on campus for Jewish students.
I had never heard of this place. It’s a one-building collaboration between Humber College (a diploma mill in a “diverse” Toronto suburb) and the distant University of Guelph, which is woke but respectable. (Yes, UGH really does have a Justice “Studies” program.) Its website suggests it is overwhelmingly black (which takes some doing in Canada because our black population is quite small, albeit heavily concentrated in Humber College’s neighbourhood) and Muslim, with lots of obese women of colour featured on the home page.
I like to think that very few Jewish high school students would have to set their sights low enough to want to go to UGH in any event. For the life of me I can’t imagine where such a school would get donors, and any alumni who did donate probably don’t like Jews much themselves. These outfits are almost entirely funded by the taxpayers plus tuition, which for foreign students (a major racket in Canada) is much higher, keeping these places afloat. They’re basically adult high schools that qualify for foreign-student visas.
The top-rated Google review said,
“Great school especially for those looking into advancing their careers easily without having to go through the pain of universities. GH is easier and more career focussed with a variety of programs!”
Number Two said,
“Is really good place to stay with friends and family for nice little holidays is clean place to stay at and really nice place and really like my time was too good to be tree about this place nice food is very good nice some hood. And bed weere or rate now too bad form story”
-To be fair, I think this one was about the residence hotel accommodation offered to the general public during the summer, not the academic offerings to students.
But it’s still a terrible thing the Administration did to this professor, and the parent U of Guelph has dirty hands here, too.
I didn’t know. Still, sanctions should be made on U Guelph, in which the administrator(s) hold positions, and which lends its name to give legitimacy to the low level community college or whatever (Humber). The latter, as you suggest, is immune to sanctions by virtue of being at the bottom of the barrel academically.
Except for these useful Palestinian idiots, few NYers visit Times Sq. – they have regular very antisemitic stuff there and at Washington Square Park.
Conveniently, I am located between these places. 🙂
Drugs absorbed into paper isn’t really a new thing, in fact the standard “carrier” for LSD is on/in paper. The Chicago jail story sounds like fentanyl – a small amount goes a long way in that case. Drugs in jail are VERY dangerous – less because of the drugs that they are but rather because the inmates’ tolerance is often reduced by supply interruptions.
On the above, I’m no duck connoisseur, but you’ve got a beautiful bunch of them over there, very pretty. I have no idea how they (or anything) survives the weather in Chicago!
D.A.
NYC
The thing about illegal drugs is that no one knows the source. They could be cooked up by a stoner, or an undergrad with little knowledge..who knows. In fact, a valuable tool in neuroscience research was “invented” by someone trying to manufacture a synthetic recreational drug. All of a sudden, a bunch of relatively young patients started showing up with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, which has an average age of onset that is much older. They had inadvertently taken a neurotoxin while looking to get high.
Recipes can go wrong, as any cook or baker knows. And neuropharmacology is lots more complex than cooking or baking.
I drink about 1.5 liters of coffee per day, and like the good stuff, thank you. I am not interested in trying coffee strained through a mammal’s digestive system, and I don’t care if that mammal is a civety cat, and elephant, or human.
Regarding “bowing to the true king”, it is also appropriate to bring gifts to royalty. Tuna is always appreciated.
Yes, Starwolf – the origin stories of many drugs, legal and illegal, are often quite interesting. A surprising amount of happenstance and coincidence.
Dose and quality are very difficult to ascertain in street drugs and that, more than anything, makes them dangerous. Which is why I devoted my (legal) career to fighting the war on drugs. The problem is their prohibition, not the drugs themselves, b/c with the prohibition (black market) they can’t be taken safely.
Sentencing, and the “seriousness” of the drug are political decisions and not based on the actual harm the drug does when used correctly, with strength, quality and purity assured. Frequently they are entirely opposite. Benign marijuana was forbidden and opiates and psychedelics – which are virtually harmless when a known quantity – are made dangerous by our messed up system.
D.A.
NYC
“Stop eating babies!” Obviously these people are zombies who will join in on the fun no matter how stupid and dangerous. Same with “From the river to the sea” and all the rest. “Hey hey. Hee hee! …. (add stupid slogan here)!”
Oh, and did I mention they are stupid and dangerous?
Before Oct 7 I would have agreed: there were hardly enough cranks to fill an Airport Marriot ballroom to hear about how the world is flat, say.
Since then however, the zombie crowds have grown – particularly in the young – alarmingly. People believe what the media tell them and the media is firmly in the Hamas/Pal/and thus ISIS/Taliban camp today.
D.A.
NYC
These people give as much thought to their statements as do the college students interviewed on the Florida beaches on spring break. The difference is that the latter are far more honest: they do not claim to be informed or morally superior.
Much of this is due to mob rule combined with social media. Twitter optimizes the spread of “four legs good, two legs bad” bleating in place of actual thinking, and I doubt if any of these idiots have given serious thought about anything in their lives.
The supposed guardians of intellectual activity (universities) are not doing anything to discourage the lack of critical thinking—there is plenty of evidence in the book “The War on Science”, which is not limited to scientific disciplines. It could have easily been called “The War on Thought”.
Re inconsistent messaging from the Trump Administration about war aims and strategy, AI serves up this nugget:
The venue where he said this? At a Big Three conference in, where else?, Tehran.
So Trump has a plan… to fool himself and his enemies? if he only knew who they were. Perhaps Canada, Europe, UK??? definitely Ukraine, but it can’t be Vietnam, his family have a 1.5 billion dollar golf course & villa deal looming.
I see he has a bust of Churchill in his office.
At the same time, I read somewhere some years ago that the British, apparently for purposes of psychological manipulation, occasionally publicly announced a tally of estimated German casualties which was significantly below what the Germans knew for a fact was the true significantly higher number.
O’Julius’ tweets weren’t always ALL CAP were they? Is his eyesight going?
Re, his idiotic buyout of the wind farms, “the Interior Department said, ‘Under this innovative agreement driven by President Donald J. Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda, the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.'” Innovative?? How about malignantly boneheaded.
How many of those 30+K murdered by Iran might otherwise have led Iran out of their Islamic mess? I lay blame for that squarely on OJ’s lap, from his irresponsible “Help is on the way.”
And how do dogs who have presumably never covered the route needed to return home, figure out how to return? I’ve wondered how many of the groundhogs that I relocate to the no-man’s land on the other side of the steel mill here (about a mile) manage to return.
Also FWIW, the leaner beef that goes into those Philly cheesesteaks is largely Argentine.
One wonders if the red ‘duckweed’ is azolla filliculoides, a very interesting plant.
Gemini had this to say about azolla
My ducks love it, the chooks eat it from the edge of the pond, and my goldfish thrive on it.
Why are we at war with Iran, why not North Korea instead? North Korea is a slave state that starves its citizens, has actual nuclear weapons and is a threat to our ally South Korea. Surely the North Korean people need liberating much more than the Iranians.
America will never learn. You can’t liberate people. They must do it themselves. The Middle East is stuck in the Middle Ages. We failed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria and we will fail in Iran. Another trillion dollars down the drain. They are laughing in Moscow and Beijing!
The answer is pretty obvious: if we went to war with North Korea, South Korea would very quickly be detroyed almost instantly: Seoul is about an hour from the DMZ by car.
Black ivory coffee sounds like less tusk, more turd.
“You can’t liberate people.”
Germany was liberated. Japan was liberated. And Italy was liberated. All authoritarian prior to WW2.
“The Truth Social announcement…”
This announcement has at least two major spelling errors. “Please” should be “pleased”, and “witch” should be “which”.
This is an announcement that will be read by millions!
A simple spell check that takes a few seconds would have picked these up. If I were making an announcement to millions of people on a matter of such critical importance, you could be sure that it would be checked over for basic grammar and spelling mistakes!
This is a great insight into how the man’s mind operates.