I’D SAY “FASTER, PLEASE,” BUT…: Scott Jennings Explains Trump’s Patient Iran Strategy. “Trump’s critics have spent years calling him reckless, impulsive, and incapable of restraint. Now he’s showing patience, and many of those same voices still can’t bring themselves to admit what sits in front of them.”
May 25, 2026
I’M SURPRISED SHE KNEW HOW TO FIND THE WHITE HOUSE: NBC reporter dragged for clueless on-camera reaction to shots fired at White House.
A PROFESSION AT THE BREAKING POINT: Why Tennessee Is Right to Rethink Teacher Licensure.
IF THEY IGNORE THE ORIGINAL THEY’LL IGNORE A NEW ONE: My TCW week in review: We need a new Magna Carta.
PURGE STATE VOTER ROLLS OF ANYBODY WHO DOES NOT HAVE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP? THAT’S SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK! The RNC Just Scored a Major Election Security Victory in North Carolina.
I’M GOING TO NEED TO SEE SOME PROOF OF THE DEMOCRATS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE USA: Wait, This Democrat Candidate Refuses To Say the Pledge?
HASAN PIKER WILL DO AS ALL OTHER COMMIES BEFORE HIM: HE WILL LIE: The Trump Administration Just Handed This Commie a Subpoena.
MR. PRESIDENT, IRAN SHOULD GET NOTHING, PERIOD. IT’S TIME TO END THIS THE RIGHT WAY: White House: Iran Gets Nothing Unless It Gets Rid Of Its Nuclear Stockpile.
A BUNCH OF MY WRITERS’ GROUP ARE IN THE BASED BOOK SALE BOOKS AT 99c OR LESS: Because I’ve been ill, at this point I don’t remember which I’ve linked specifically, so I gathered them all in a post at my blog: The Based Book Sale, Hun Edition. Just to make sure no one got missed!
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE: NASA practically eliminates any Starliner flights before ISS retires.
GIVEN HOW CORRUPT THE ELECTIONS ARE IN BLUE CITIES, THAT “ELECTING” SHOULD BE IN QUOTES: Uh Oh: DC May Be Poised to Elect a Mamdani of Its Own.
MINOR NIT. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMOCRAT AND RANDOM NUT: Reset The “Days Since Last Trump Assassination Attempt” Sign Back To Zero.
I’M ON CHEVRON’S SIDE IN THIS: Chevron Launches New Sign Campaign Targeting Sacramento as California Gas Prices Hit New Highs.
TODAY IN PANDEMIC YEAR HEADLINES: Misleading Headlines, they attempt to imply it’s spreading and more than normal, hoping that you will panic and think the cruise ship case is spreading from person to person. In reality, the study was on RODENTS sampled in 2023. Hantavirus is gaining ground in the US, startling researchers: ‘Widespread and complex virus’
AT THE BASED BOOK SALE: Cedar Sanderson’s Possum Creek Massacre: A Paranormal Police Procedural (Witchward Book 2). For 99c. Till night on the 26th.
May 24, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Sorry, didn’t publish for some reason.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE: Scientists thought Jupiter’s moon Europa was ejecting water. Now they’re not so sure.
IT’S IN THE BLOOD: Your Blood Type Affects Risk of Early Stroke, Study Reveals. “The research suggests people carrying one specific group A blood type face a higher likelihood of stroke before age 60.”
Not sure how solid this is.
A TRACK-BY-TRACK GUIDE TO MILES DAVIS’S KIND OF BLUE, THE GREATEST JAZZ ALBUM EVER:
The critical reaction was sometimes baffled by the absence of easily graspable melodies, but it was mostly awe-struck. Benny Green wrote on the album’s liner that “Davis is the most delicately poised musician ever to use the jazz frame…classic severity is the hallmark of Miles’s painful sensitivity, as he devotes his attention to each single note.” Later it floated free from the jazz world to become, as Richard Cooke described it in the Penguin Guide to Jazz, “the hippest easy-listening album of them all”. Not everyone was ecstatic. Some missed the absence of jazz’s wonted driving energy, and Philip Larkin couldn’t stand the “passionless creep” of Miles Davis’s muted trumpet.
As with many classic albums, there was something miraculous about the birth of Kind of Blue. All the stars had to be aligned, and that wasn’t easy in such a volatile art as jazz, where everything depends on the musical chemistry between naturally headstrong individuals.
Well worth a read, but there’s a jarring “layers and layers of fact checkers and editors” moment in this London Telegraph article for even the most cursory of Miles Davis fans. It’s a sort of photographic Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect moment; as author Ivan Hewett notes, “Crucial to the album’s soft-edged, blurry sound was Bill Evans, also no stranger to heroin and booze.” So much so that Evans died in 1980 at age 51 of a “peptic ulcer, cirrhosis, bronchial pneumonia, and untreated hepatitis,” according to Wikipedia.
But the photo above that text is captioned, “Miles Davis (R) and saxophone player Bill Evans (L) performing on stage in Paris, 1982.” There was a second Bill Evans, born in 1958, who played and recorded frequently with Miles in the 1980s. But that’s not him in the photo, which based on Miles’ hairstyle and wrap-around sunglasses, is from the early 1970s. It’s Dave Liebman, who played sax with Miles in 1973.
Related: From me in 2019: The 60th Anniversary of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis’ Masterpiece.
ANTIVIRAL PROGRESS: A once-daily pill takes aim at measles, croup and other dangerous viruses.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Platner Smooths Things Over With Democrats By Covering Nazi Tattoo With Hammer & Sickle https://t.co/ywnpCcjBsR pic.twitter.com/P47TIvWKas
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 24, 2026
The ghosts of Pete Seeger and Dalton Trumbo smile.
OLD AND BUSTED: Bitchy Resting Face.
The New Hotness Massive Warning Sign for Craziness Ahead:
"Resting septum face."
(Phrase courtesy of @TheHyland3r.)
You can pull off this face if you're a goth dressed in black at an alternative music venue. But not at an upmarket hotel full of normie men. https://t.co/ItzT3Vt7v3
— Hector Drummond (@hector_drummond) May 24, 2026
