NO WONDER DEMS WERE SO AVID TO KEEP THAT LOCKDOWN GOING:  California Man Sentenced for Laundering $46 Million in COVID-19 Fraud.

NO WONDER ALASKA DEMS TRIED TO RUN AN ‘INDEPENDENT’ RINGER FOR SULLIVAN:  Dan Sullivan Just Handed Mary Peltola a Debate Beatdown.

IT’S A TWOFER: ALEXANDRIA GIVES CHARLIE THE FINGER AND THE TAXPAYERS GET FLEECED:  This Virginia City Seems OK Blowing Taxpayer Dollars on a Gross Anti-Charlie Kirk Display.

FROM LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION:  If Nobody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Pausing AI is the Real Existential Threat.

ALSO CORRECT:  The Deconstruction of Scotty as an Indictment of Our Times. Competence is invisible on screen. What fills the gap reveals what the culture has lost.

I’D LIKE TO BE SKEPTICAL ABOUT THIS:  What if the largest experiment on human beings in history is a failure? A report from an Indiana life insurance company raises serious concerns.

UNLESS HE CAN PROVE IT, IT COULD BE PARALLEL DISCOVERY:  OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT:  Other People’s Words, Sept. 2026.

I HAVE TO SAY TOLERANCE SHOULD GO BOTH WAYS:  Guest Author: Hillbilly on Religious Tolerance and Mosques in Your Neighborhood.

HARD TO TELL, BUT THE COVIDIOCY WAS AN ATTACK ON US BY OUR OWN INSTITUTIONS:  What Event Was More Catastrophic – Covid or 9-11?  One might argue the government’s RESPONSE to both events was equally devastating. Basically, the experts and our ‘leaders’ made things far worse than they needed to be.

APPARENTLY ONLY THE ‘RIGHT’ SORT OF PEOPLE CAN DONATE TO CAMBRIDGE:  I set up a scholarship for students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, only for Cambridge to accuse me of “racism”.

OTHER BUREAUCRATS WOULD REALLY LIKE THIS ALSO:  Australia’s top bureaucrats want protection from ‘harmful’ social media videos. The clips can ‘invite ridicule’ of public officials.

Including ours.

THE PEOPLE TELLING YOU AI IS DANGEROUS HAVE FAILED AT EVERY PREDICTION:  This was obviously true as soon as the early LLM systems a few years ago became good enough that if you tried Eliezer Yudkowsky’s stupid “get my mother out of the burning building” thought experiment on them, they explained how they would reasonably rescue her rather than (say) ejecting her at mach 3 into a wall which was what he claimed they might do just as easily. Once you could type into an AI “if you needed to save my mother from a burning building, what would you do” and a reasonable answer popped out, it was clear that this particular problem was no longer at the top of the list.

X-cancel.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches 3 telecom satellites to orbit on 700th Falcon mission of all time.

PERSONALLY I HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE IN ROCKET LAB BASED ON PAST PERFORMANCE: Rocket Lab protests NASA’s decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract.

HMM: Experiment Tested Out-of-Body Experiences. Two Reported Seeing Things Scientists Can’t Explain.

UGH: A Hidden Form of Heart Failure Is Leaving Millions Breathless.

READER FAVORITE: Seat Cushion for Tailbone & Sciatica Pain Relief. #CommissionEarned

AVOID STREET TACOS: 5 Tips for Better Gut Health While Traveling, Recommended by a Gastroenterologist.

Also, when traveling to Mexico, et al., I take a Pepto capsule in the morning and at night, and keep antibiotics on hand.

START BY USING WORDS CORRECTLY. These are not ‘homeless camps:’

Given the slim possibility that words might still mean something in public discourse, perhaps homeless camps should be called what they really are. They are drug camps, or the tented bivouacs of down-and-out drug addicts.

“Homeless camp” is too misleading and just results in the constant and just as misleading enabling that permits the associations to continue, to nobody’s benefit, especially the down-and-out and desperate.

They are drug camps that move, like forested bogs that float around big lakes and land at the whim of the wind. Drug camps float around in big cities governed by a disappointing political class often responsible for words that deceive. Drug camps end up on littered boulevards, or in a copse of trees in [St. Paul, MN’s] Pig’s Eye Park, or, most recently, in the woods between the Mississippi River and Shepard Road at the foot of Randolph Avenue. There is a handsome apartment complex there, Waterford Bay, whose renters now know that they have been joined by addicts, not campers. Campers hold s’mores over the fire and sing ditties. Addicts hold needles.

Wouldn’t calling them what they undeniably are – drug camps – heighten public sensibilities as to the true nature of the problem? We spend millions of dollars on beds, beds under a shelter roof, in a building with a furnace and running water and air conditioning. But those beds are mostly empty. Help will have to be invented out of whole cloth. Something new, innovative and helpful will have to be created. Is [St. Paul’s] Mayor Kaohly Her up to it? The city council?

Then there’s word “homeless” itself. Over 20 years ago, Thomas Sowell explored how “Politically Correct Terms Replace Honest Words:”

Another word that the left has virtually banished from the language is “bum.” Centuries of experience with idlers who refused to work and who hung around on the streets making a nuisance — and sometimes a menace — of themselves were erased from our memories as the left verbally transformed those same people into a sacred icon, “the homeless.”

As with swamps, what was once messy and smelly was now turned into something we had to protect. It was our duty to support people who refused to support themselves.

Fast-forward to today, and it’s as if: The worse it gets, the better it is: American leftism is thriving on its own failures.

AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW RIGHT: THE RIGHT NOT TO BE MOCKED. GET A GRIP. Australia’s top bureaucrats want Parliament to make it harder to share clips of their public testimony because people might ridicule them. Full story in this week’s update.

CLEARLY, YES:

Shouldn't you be called Birthing Person Jones? https://t.co/nIphm1AXEu

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) September 12, 2026

CHANGE: The 2027 Honda Passport TrailSport Gets More Ground Clearance and Off-Road Cred.

QUESTION ASKED: If someone suggests using a Nazi concentration camp for their opponents, aren’t they in fact the actual… Nazis?

Who are really the actual Nazis? While visiting Dachau concentration camp, a smiling leftist made the following remark as she stood in front of the crematorium ovens.

North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying,

“Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

… In social media photos, Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies of Jews and other prisoners who died or were murdered at the camp.

Headen faces incumbent Republican state Rep. John Blust in a suburban Guilford County district. On her Facebook page, Headen says she is a CPA and business owner “running to restore human decency,” an ironic statement after saying political opponents should be in concentration camps while posing and smiling in front of ovens at a Holocaust memorial site.

Indeed. Doesn’t this beg the question: if someone is a Nazi, or a neo-Nazi, isn’t the logical conclusion that it is the ones suggesting using (ahem) a… Nazi concentration camp for their opponents?! Wouldn’t they be the prime candidates?!

Exit question: “Has it occurred to any leftist that it might be time for an Are we the baddies moment?”