Events

We are being governed by unserious people.

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The temperature at O'Hare yesterday hit 22.8°C, beating the previous record high by...

Other than the war with Iran that the OAFPOTUS and his droogs started a week ago, what on earth could have caused this?

We got almost up to 16°C today before a cold front pushed through around noon, so the temperature has already fallen to 11°C on its way down to 6°C by sunset.

On 5 March 2001, Federal judge Marilyn Patel (ND-CA) ordered music-sharing service Napster to remove the copyrighted materials listed in A&M Records' complaint against the service. This effectively killed Napster:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is out:

It must be lunchtime:

The Times had some (not at all) surprising news yesterday:

I saw a stat on social media that turned out to be true: at its worst, in early 1973, 29% of the US approved of the Vietnam War. But only 27% approve of what we're doing in Iran—or at least, they did on Sunday. Of course, an argument to popularity isn't a valid argument, so let's look at the evidence: