December 7, 2025
OH, YEAH, AND IF YOU MISSED LAST NIGHT’S VERY LATE SHORT: A Light In Time.
A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: Watch oldest Pearl Harbor survivor reflect on attack.
“ELECTED.”
The European Union is not the "good guy" in this fight.
The side that supports censorship and arresting people who publicly disagree with their elected leaders … historically those are the bad guys.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attacks anyone who insults him online. pic.twitter.com/GRqgL9Q0jy
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 6, 2025
Oh you do? How many votes did Van de Leyen win?
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) December 6, 2025
GOOD AND HARD: Mamdani Announces Plan to Give Homeless Free Rein Over NYC – His Base Is Already Turning on Him. You were warned, folks.
SINGLE GREATEST . . . DISCOVERED… SO FAR: Stephen Miller calls billion-dollar Minnesota welfare scam ‘single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars’ with dozens of Somali migrants convicted.
AS IF WHAT THE BRITISH PEOPLE DO AND DON’T WANT MATTERS TO THEIR GOVERNMENT: The British people do not want abortion on demand.
MEN RESIST DEPENDENCY ON THE STATE AND THEY MUST THEREFORE MUST BE TAUGHT TO SUBMIT: Drug abuse is another weapon in the long-fought war against men.
BUT THEY DO MAKE A TIDY PROFIT ON THE TRANSFER: The modern bureaucrat, turning gold into excrement.
SURE, HE WENT TO LAW SCHOOL AND HAS PRACTICED LAW FOR ALMOST TWENTY YEARS, BUT HOW MUCH TIME HAS HE SPENT ON WIKIPEDIA? Naval Lawyer Delivers a Kill Shot to the Left’s Uproar Over Trump’s Airstrikes on Narco-Terrorists.
YOU SEE ‘SYSTEMIC FAILURES’ OBAMA’S BACKERS SEE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: Damning Watchdog Report Reveals ‘Large-Scale Systemic Failures’ Leading to Obamacare Subsidy Fraud.
TODAY’S MEME POST: A Meme Delayed Is Still A Meme.
WE’RE PROBABLY KEEPING AN EYE OUT, TOO: Australia Monitors Chinese Task Group Operating in Philippine Sea.
MORE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FALSIFICATION: There’s a old joke about looking for your lost keys in the dark near the lamppost because that’s where the light is. In this case it seems that BioNtech deliberately sabotaged one lamp so regulators would look under the other one and, amazingly, find nothing. Now if you shine a spotlight near the sabotaged lamppost all kinds of interesting things appear: Layman’s description of RNA:DNA hybrids. An intentional game of “Hide the Ball”.
I’LL POINT OUT MOST OF AVI LOEB’S OPINIONS HAVE BEEN MISREPRESENTED: A Mysterious Cosmic Visitor. There has been a lot of wild speculation about a celestial body moving through our solar system called 3i/ATLAS. Could it be a space craft? Is it broadcasting messages? Here is a factual look.
TLDR: ECONOMIC MODELS ARE TRASH AND PEOPLE THAT THINK THEY CAN USE THEM TO CONTROL AN ECONOMY ARE DELUSIONAL: Rolling the Economic Dice.
DO: ‘No US Citizens’: Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans.
AW. THE “NON-PROFIT” ECONOMY IS SHRINKING: The Invisible Job Crisis: America’s Third-Largest Employer Is Hemorrhaging Talent.
I guess it’s “your USAID dollars finally not at work.”
December 6, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s alright for blogging.
SHAKEDOWN STREET:
Europe needs to decide whether it’s America’s friend or America’s foe
Europe can’t have it both ways
This man speaks truth https://t.co/uXVKFPdfNq
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) December 6, 2025
FROM ERIC S. RAYMOND, A POLITE WARNING:
You'll love the plan if deporting immigrants doesn't fix things. It's "shoot all the communists".
Mind you, I'm not warranting that I think either plan will actually work. I think the assumptions behind both plans are somewhat oversimplified. I'm just saying but before you…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 5, 2025
OLD AND BUSTED: “To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.”
The New Hotness? To Boldly Go Where Beverly Hills 90210 Has Gone Before:
Needless to say, the cringe is extremely strong in this one. As the Critical Drinker notes in the video below:
This feels like the kind of show that their target audience would have on a second screen while they flick through social media on their phone.
So every so often they can look up and see some really hot, young, muscly, good-looking characters having relationship stuff going on—vaguely connected to the Star Trek universe—and then they can look back at their phone again. That’s honestly what this seems to have been designed for.
And, wow. As you say, Star Trek used to be a show of real intelligence and ideas, something that would expand your view of the world and what was possible. And this is what it is now? Wow.
Gene Roddenberry must be rolling over in his grave. The first show he produced was The Lieutenant, starring Gary Lockwood, who would appear as a guest star in the second Star Trek pilot, before hopping on a plane to London to become the co-star of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Lieutenant depicted Lockwood’s character as being, as Wikipedia notes, the young idealistic “recent graduate of the United States Naval Academy who is assigned his first command, that of a rifle platoon,” at Camp Pendleton in southern California. Roddenberry, a former L.A. cop and WWII bomber pilot, kept the military theme going in the original Star Trek, of course. Even after Roddenberry’s death, Star Trek: The Next Generation could do an episode set in Starfleet Academy that depicted a far more disciplined and serious group of students studying to join a futuristic military origination than the weird L.A. high school class in space depicted in the new trailer.
Oh, and just to put the button on the new series: Stephen Colbert Joins Cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Role Revealed at New York Comic Con.
James Lileks once wrote that whenever Kirk mentioned “we were at the Academy together” about that week’s guest star, it was Trek’s version of “I have a bad feeling about this.” I’ve got a very, very bad feeling about Starfleet Academy.
UPDATE:
The people who make Star Trek in 2025 have been actively trolling old-school Trekkies for years, but this really is the final boss. A huge, gay, glee club middle finger to everyone who liked and enjoyed Star Trek from the 1960s through the end of the 1990s. The theater kids run… https://t.co/RfEIJ5n50c
— Brad R. Torgersen (@BradRTorgersen) December 5, 2025
