Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 2, 2025
LAUGHING WOLF: Lightning Strike Conference Report.
The short version is that I wish I had been able to attend one of these Lightning Strike and Electrical Shock Survivors conferences very much sooner. As in not long after I was hit. The amount of information I got was almost like being hit with a firehose. Even better was talking with other survivors and finding out I’m not alone and not crazy (well, not in terms of the after effects of the strike anyway).
The longer version is that the life I had is gone, and it’s not coming back. In the words of the song, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. In fact, I feel more than fine. There is a part of me that is sad and other emotions at knowing that life is not ever going to come back. My mind and body are never going to work the way they did, and I will never be able to do some of the things I used to do. I’m still a pilot, though I will likely never fly again. If I can adjust to that, I can learn to deal with needing grab bars in the shower.
Fact is, on many levels I had already accepted that and begun moving forward. For parts of my old life, I was and am glad to see them gone. I prefer to see it as a chance to start over, to build a new life, and hopefully a better one, despite the difficulties. While I was never one who worked at Elon-speed/level, I did okay in certain areas. I can still work through certain types of problems, it just takes me longer to do the work. As I noted to Glenn at breakfast, what used to take me 30 minutes to write back then now takes me four hours (or more to be honest).
I can still look at data and spot patterns and trends, it just may take a bit longer. On the physical side, I’m doing a lot better than I was right after the strike and the conference gave me some ideas on how to work to step up my game mentally and physically. It would be nice to be able to do full prostrations, and get up again afterwards. One thing I realized during the conference is that I’ve been viewing, and gaming, my recovery as yet another experiment — one I’ve not bothered the human subjects committee about (think Les Geddes may have rubbed off on me more than I realized).
Which is probably a good thing, as I sure can’t count on the medical field to do much on a holistic level, much less within specialties
Fascinating and touching stuff — read the whole thing.
THEY WON’T LIKE A RADICALIZED AMERICA:
I am becoming slowly radicalized by this
I have lefty friends who have said without qualification that Elon Musk is an anti-Semite and a Nazi but then their response to the actual racially targeted murder of Jews is "hey guys, this isn't helping" https://t.co/ytphScc9Ao
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) June 2, 2025
A LONG TIME AGO, FOR STARTERS: How the Democrats Became the Party of Racists, Bigots, and Antisemites.
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, GERMANS SEEM TO HAVE TROUBLE FIGURING OUT THEIR NATIONAL INTERESTS: Rumor Has It the Russians Have Completely Rebuilt Their Nuclear Facilities With German ‘Help.’
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Antisemitism Is Here. So Is the Bear Jew Option.
YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP, THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Americans Now Own More Than 530 Million Guns…That’s Not a Bad Start.
INDEED: Conversations Aren’t Enough When the House Is on Fire.
There’s a particular kind of American optimism that still believes if we just talk to each other, everything will work itself out. That if we break bread, sit porchside, and share stories, we’ll rediscover our common ground and stitch the country back together again.
Anthropologist Anand Pandian tried that.
For eight years, he crisscrossed the country, listening to the voices he least agreed with. He talked to white nationalists, progressive activists, small-town patriots, and big-city idealists.
His conclusion, published recently in The Guardian, was thoughtful and sincere: Americans are divided, but they still long to be understood.
I admire that mission.
But it doesn’t go far enough.
Interesting stuff.
OUR NAVY ISN’T THINKING CREATIVELY; OUR ADVERSARIES ARE:
Why don’t we have modulars for ships? A warehouse of CIWS guns ready to bolt onto merchant ships in wartime? Containerized weapons?
Because Harvard Business School lied and taught the Pentagon that warehouses and stockpiles are budgetary kryptonite. https://t.co/6VNoeqVaGO
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) June 1, 2025
Restoring American shipbuilding and choosing energetic, creative military leaders ought to be our top national defense priorities.
HOW ARE THOSE SPACE LASERS COMING ALONG? Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes. “The object, which was named ASKAP J1832-0911 after Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope that was used to detect it, was discovered emitting two-minute-long pulses that would pause and then repeat 44 minutes later. As the Curtin press release explains, the researchers lucked out when they realized that NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was observing the same part of the sky and detected the same repeating signal in X-ray form.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Are We Not Men? The De-Evolution and Death of Western Civilization.
THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION:
Trans is focused on so heavily because it’s a proxy for undermining some of the most fundamental things actually. Trans ideology at its core is about spreading lies about biology and humanity, and using institutions, culture, thuggery and/or the state to enforce those lies. https://t.co/FuBxdlzeYd
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 1, 2025
GOVERNOR JAZZ HANDS: Tim Walz tells Democrats to ‘bully the sh*t’ out of Trump.
Minnesota Governor and former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz told a crowd of Democrats in South Carolina that the party needs to be “meaner” and should “bully the sh*t” out of President Donald Trump. Walz made the remarks during his keynote address at a Democratic event, once again using profanity and aggressive rhetoric in an attempt to energize the party base.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce,” Walz told the crowd.
“The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully,” the governor continued. “And when it’s a child, you talk to them and you tell them why bullying is wrong.”
“But when it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the sh*t out of him back,” he added.
Walz also called Trump a “wannabe dictator.”
If Trump were a “wannabe dictator,” you wouldn’t want to try and bully him.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Remember When Domestic Terrorism Was Supposedly a ‘White Guys in MAGA Hats’ Thing? “My political predictions always go one of two ways, I have either the precision accuracy of a WWII Soviet sniper or I miss the bullseye more than Miss Cleo.”
THIS, YES:
To repeat: Jews need to arm up. Especially for public gatherings. Become a hard target. https://t.co/144q9OpUYh
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) June 2, 2025
Self-defense isn’t just a civil right — these days, it’s a civic duty.
IT’S WEIRD HOW “RADICAL UN ENVIRONMENTAL RULES” COINCIDE WITH CCP INTERESTS:
What do you do when some liberal Admiral decides to voluntarily adopt radical UN @IMOHQ environmental rules on Navy oilers, which delays construction and leaves carriers no way to get go juice for the jets?
You call the US Merchant Marine of course. pic.twitter.com/q9ocmSZuBL
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) May 31, 2025
And it ought to be punishable when a US Navy admiral volunteers to adopt them.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Doctor in Dem-led city forced out of office by homeless encampment on the roof of her building.
Dr. Tahani Soliman, owner of a Los Angeles County medical practice, has spent years battling a group of unhoused individuals who have turned her rooftop into their own personal space – terrorizing her staff, setting fires, and creating an unsafe work environment, KTLA News reported.
Now, the West Coast physician is officially walking away from her practice, overwhelmed by frustration and a glaring lack of urgency from city officials.
‘We are living in hell,’ Soliman told the outlet.
Located in a Huntington Park neighborhood, Soliman’s family medicine practice sits next to a multi-level parking garage.
However, the parking garage in question is notoriously a hotspot for the local homeless population – and alarmingly, it provides easy access to the rooftop of the doctor’s office.
For years, the self-employed doctor has endured the homeless encampment consistently taking over her building’s roof – stealing electricity, stripping scrap metal from air conditioning units and even starting trash fires.
As recently as Tuesday, a fire broke out atop the parking structure, forcing crews from the Los Angeles Fire Department to rush in and extinguish the blaze.
But this incident is far from isolated. It appears to simply be the breaking point in Soliman’s long-running struggle.
Next Year’s Headline Today: “Los Angeles ‘Medical Care Desert’ Blamed on Trump.”
OPERATION SPIDER’S WEB: Russia’s Nuclear Bomber Force Just Took a Yuge Hit. “Ukraine just pulled off one of those operations that people will study and talk about for as long as human beings maintain our morbid fascination with war.”
FINE, WHATEVER: As Republicans Pass Tax Cuts, Democrats Propose ‘Disability Reproductive Equity Day.’
The new legislation proposed by Democrats claims to commemorate the rights of people with disabilities and would establish a “Disability Reproductive Equity Day.” (RELATED: ROOKE: Planned Parenthood Has Found A New Way To Target Kids)
Citing a “long history of reproductive coercion impacting people with disabilities,” the bill argues that many have been systematically denied their “reproductive autonomy.”
The bill states that about 4.1 million parents in the U.S. have disabilities, while about one in four adults live with a disability and roughly one in ten “people with disabilities” are capable of becoming pregnant.
It specifically highlights “women with disabilities, people of color with disabilities, people with disabilities with low incomes, and LGBTQI+ people with disabilities.”
We’re supposed to celebrate women who largely are unable to bear children — excuse me, that’s “differently abled non-birthing persons identifying as female” — because… I have no idea.
What was Glenn just saying about today’s Democrats being systemically unable to win back male voters because the party “is built by and for batshit crazy upper middle class white women?”
MORE CHOICE IS BETTER: Texas Lt. Gov. Thanks Trump for School Choice Championing.
ROTUND BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU: Smartphone smuggled out of North Korea reveals the insane things Kim Jong Un does to control his ‘suffocated’ people.
A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea has revealed the astonishing levels of control the secretive dictatorship is exercising over its people.
The phone, which from the outside appears no different from a normal device, issued warnings about using South Korean slang words to users, and auto-corrected “South Korea” to read “puppet state,” an investigation from the BBC found.
It would also covertly take a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a secret folder which the user couldn’t access, but which presumably were accessible to North Korean authorities.
To be fair, I’m not sure how much worse that last item is in practice than the backdoor the FBI wanted built into every smartphone, or similar requirements in effect now in the UK.
HE’D ABSOLUTELY DO TO AMERICA WHAT HE’S DONE TO CALIFORNIA: So Gavin Newsom Wants To Be President? Let’s Look at the California Governor’s Record.