AND THE BEST NEWS, GUYS, IS IT’S ONLY 15-20 YEARS AWAY! A Simpler Path to Fusion: The Promise of Spherical Tokamak Technology.

It’s not that I’m against fusion power. It’s just that they’ve been saying we’re almost there for my entire life.

SO I FINISHED S.M. STIRLING’S TO TURN THE TIDE last night and quite enjoyed it. Wish there were more of it, but on the other hand I kind of need to get some work done.

That said, I’m going to go back and reread Island in the Sea of Time, another of his time travel series, next.

ONLY ONE? THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS. Life as MT’s Editor-in-Chief Certainly Had Its Moments—Including One Death Threat.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Labour to ‘Define’ Islamophobia So It Can More Easily Continue Its War on Native Brits.

America’s paper of record:

Russia Sends Troops To Liberate Oppressed British People From Communist Rule https://t.co/kSG40mWfnQ pic.twitter.com/bjaFaC2e8I

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 9, 2024

“EQUITY” IS A SCAM:

The video of Kamala talking equitable outcomes wld play much better if the outcomes of the so-called “public servant” classes were included in all that equity. Somehow living in middle class nabes w/reduced health insurances & police & speech protections is never their outcome. pic.twitter.com/XJwAo2l8cS

— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) August 7, 2024

WELL, NATURALLY:

“Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler” https://t.co/KzQJz9WVdP

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) August 9, 2024

Note that this tweet is from a “mainstream” reporter, so the story is really out in the open now.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE DEMOCRATS: Harris/Walz Begin Campaign with Lies and an Assault on America’s Gun Owners.

LOGISTICS: The Russian Army railway logistics are now in worse shape than when Wagner’s revolt overran Rostov on Don’s railway marshaling yard. A lengthy thread on the Russians’ problem. Of course, the Russians have a history of carrying on when their logistics are shot. But that’s what they’ll have to do, if they are to carry on at all.

BREAK IT UP: All the possible ways to destroy Google’s monopoly in search.

NOT A SCRAMJET BUT GETTING US CLOSER: Precooled F-100 Engine Combined with Ramjet for Hypersonic Drone and Jets.

WAIT, I WAS ASSURED THAT THAT STUFF WAS HARMLESS: Cannabis use tied to head and neck cancer.

LESLIE EASTMAN: Starliner Crew’s 8 Day Trip to ISS May Morph Into 8 Month Stay: I will look forward to reporting on the successful return of the Starliner crew…maybe in time for Valentine’s Day.

It’s part of our widespread decline in institutional competence.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: New ‘electric bandages’ might accelerate wound healing.

IT’S FUN TO WATCH THEM DEBASE THEMSELVES TRYING TO GET HER ELECTED: ‘Fact Checker’ Whitewashes Kamala Harris’s Call for AR-15 Confiscation.

Did you notice that the media only deployed “fact checkers” once the facts started to get out?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): PE teacher at school in southwest Sydney accused of sex with student. “Brailey was charged with sexually touching a person aged between 17 and 18 under special care, sexual intercourse with a person between the same ages while under special care and aggravated sexual assault where the victim was under the authority of the offender.”

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXISM? Male students do better on ACT, get less financial aid: While male students get lower grades, they outperform females on some tests.

SHOT: University of Buffalo law school focusing on promoting ‘anti-racist culture,’ says welcome letter.

CHASER: Yale to hold event series showing how ‘anti-racism’ efforts can be racist.

IT’S NOT EVEN A NON-DENIAL DENIAL: Matt Taibbi: Comment from the TSA on Tulsi Gabbard and the “Quiet Skies” Program: What was asked, how they replied. It’s just a non-denial.

NOBODY WANTS TO DO THEIR FREAKING JOB:

Nobody seems to remember any more that the purpose of a politician is to do their job, like the janitor down the hall or the airline pilot twenty thousand feet above. They may someday be remembered as great but that's not for them to decide.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 9, 2024

“You had one job” will be the epitaph of our ruling class.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: “Let me say up front that I do not know what motivated the FBI and Homeland Security to admit a known terrorist who was here to assassinate Donald Trump into the country. There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation–one that doesn’t implicate the same agency that almost got Donald Trump killed–to admit a known terrorist into the country. Right? Right? There could be nothing to see here at all. But it stinks, especially in light of the ridiculous security failure that the Department of Homeland Security’s Secret Service is responsible for on July 13th.”

CHANGE: Jumbled polls show Trump up, surge in millennials and Generation X.

EVERYONE KNOWS IT, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE IS AFRAID TO SAY IT: “The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden.”

LOL, JOHN AVLON: John Avlon Says He’s Been Living on Long Island for Years. Public Records Raise Questions.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

The Columbia University group of Students for Justice in Palestine has announced that they are “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization”

How much clearer can it be what is actually going on here? pic.twitter.com/mDXXeNDOhJ

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) August 8, 2024

I remember when people said higher education served to promote civilization, but really that has only been lipservice in my lifetime.

IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE, BUT IS IT, REALLY?

Tim Walz Clarifies That He's Never Been To Iraq, But He Has Been To Downtown Minneapolis Which Is Basically The Same Thing https://t.co/54xKVEyol8 pic.twitter.com/HjnD1kKrvZ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 8, 2024