I KNOW. I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE IT:  Apparently, We Can Just Do Things?

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE AND ISRAEL’S SUCCESS:  The Denial of Shit: International Knife-Fight Edition. How to be a loser.

IT’S SUICIDAL:  Refinery Shutdowns, EV Dreams, and $8 Gas: The Price of California’s Climate Delusion.

AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION:  “Covert action …” “… Should not be confused with missionary work.”

WE REMEMBER:  Trump Isn’t Starting A War. He’s Working To End A War.

PRAY FOR ENGLAND:  Local man asks cop why he’s allowing Islamists to chase people on horseback through the streets. Cop: “With the greatest respect, what do you want me to do, pull a man off a horse?” Angry resident: “If they had a Union Jack on, you would!”

AND FOR THE: x-cancelled.

DOING THE JOB THE MSM WON’T DO:  Iran Strikes: Day 9.

WHEN YOU GIVE THE STATE PERMISSION TO KILL ITS CITIZENS FOR BEING TOO EXPENSIVE, IT DOES:  The Peculiar Institution. What happens when a state builds a medical system it can’t afford and a killing mechanism it can’t stop. A 40-year projection.

AND A FOLLOW UP:   Relinquishment. The people who frame dying as dignity will never be asked to demonstrate it.

THE LEFT’S WAY OF WAR:  All We Are Saying Is Give Peas A Chance.

LET THEM HATE SO LONG AS THEY FEAR:  Cartels fear US retaliation as Trump-era pressure reshapes strategy: ‘They fear the United States’.

HEH:

I would like to point out that Starmer has now managed to alienate the extreme centre

His plans for the evisceration of English culture will be outlined in a new Labour publication called 'Der Starmer' https://t.co/qG3YSLDcMi

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 8, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Marine Corps legend ‘Ripley at the Bridge’ is finally getting the Medal of Honor: John Ripley vs. 20,000 communists. Who you got?

THEY’LL KNOW THE ONE WHO ISN’T WHACKED IS THE ONE WHO WAS WORKING FOR US ALL ALONG:

New ayatollah, new target!

BBC re Mojtaba Khamenei "the power behind the robes … capable but forceful."

"Yet his selection could still prove controversial."

Uh, sure. If he lasts more than a day or two. Does anyone else want that bullseye on them?https://t.co/IX6uWC8ATd

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 9, 2026

LOL, GEORGE CONWAY:

Never forget this guy was an avowed Trump supporter until he learned that Trump was not going to name him to be Solicitor General in the first Administration. https://t.co/aRcv5DCvqD

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) March 8, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

HAHA:

One of the more creative aspects of the demonstration by the Iranian community in Dublin yesterday is that they started chanting ‘your sugar daddy’s dead’ at the Paddystinians who came to harass them.

— Rachel Moiselle (@RachelMoiselle) March 8, 2026

BACK WHEN I WAS ON THE NASA PLANETARY PROTECTION SUBCOMMITTEE, IT WAS ACCEPTED THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN: Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests.

#JOURNALISM:

Just because the jihadis were incompetent bomb-makers, @nytimes pretends it was not really a bomb (and that they weren’t really jihadis).

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 8, 2026

THEY MEAN, BESIDES A SPACECRAFT: Confirmed: Humanity Changed an Object’s Orbit Around The Sun For The First Time. “n 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object’s orbit around its larger companion asteroid. We already knew that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was wildly successful, reducing the orbital period of the asteroid pair Didymos and Dimorphos by an astonishing 33 minutes. But new measurements have revealed something even bigger: The impact also changed the entire orbital path of the Didymos-Dimorphos system through space.”

TREAT THE PAIN: Shoulder-Heating-Pad-Heated-Wrap. #CommissionEarned

WELL, GOOD: Hormone Therapy May Supercharge Popular Weight-Loss Drugs After Menopause.

I WONDERED AT FIRST IF MAYBE THIS WAS AI, BUT NO:

After Trump said that Tucker is "Not MAGA," & "not smart," Tucker responsds by releasing an interview critisising Trump's war.

Tucker allegeds that Trump wants American soldiers to "rape" Iranian women, and that Trump is "moving towards" using nuclear weapons in Iran. pic.twitter.com/pjTK8zeeFl

— H.A. Hazony (@HAHazony) March 8, 2026

Who’s buying this stuff?

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: An AI-informed model of human reward-based learning: Hybrid approach could aid studies of mood disorders.

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

We’ve seen it all now. What any honest person would call an IED, the New York Times calls “smoking jars of metal and fuses.” pic.twitter.com/7DZxcv5u7w

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 8, 2026

THIS: The Volvo EX30 Shows Why Cars Still Need Buttons: The EX30 in the outlet’s long-term test fleet is described as an “absolute tech nightmare.”

FLASHBACK: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital. “Not so long ago, if I wanted to adjust the heat in my car, or the volume on my car radio, I could grab a nice, simple knob. Turn it to the right, and the car got warmer, or the radio got louder. Turn it the other way, and the opposite occurred. I could always sense how far I was adjusting things—without ever taking my eyes off the road—because millions of years of evolution have produced a neurological feedback mechanism that lets me know just how much I’m turning my wrist. Easy, effective, intuitive. That’s simply good design, right? You’d think. But in most late-model cars, making those kinds of adjustments requires pushing buttons multiple times, or navigating menus within menus, and—almost always—taking your eyes off the road.”

This is a column I wrote for Popular Mechanics in 2009. But if you follow the original URL, instead of the archived one above, you get a new column on the same theme by someone else, from 2025. Why?