New PR on the Tuesday crossword: 9:01. Wasn’t really rushing so it was a bit of a surprise.

Can we all agree that dropping the F-bomb is unpresidential? How about committing war crimes? And can we start a petition to invoke the 25th if the toadies in the cabinet don’t want to? Saw Hadestown last night… really makes you think!

What do you use to post to micro.blog while on the road? I’m going to be iPad only for a couple of weeks soon and would like to get set up. Mostly for medium length writing with photos.

I think I’ve just had my first truly meaningful conversation with an LLM. Not sure if I should be grateful or worried, but I feel good about it anyway. It started with a great post by Om Malik, to pick one word to describe yourself.

Octavia Butler Nails it: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to askto be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Why oh why are we keeping Rodriguez on the bench? @mnufc? Inquiring minds want to know.

Wow

“U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against Cuba on Monday, saying ‌he expected to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form” and that “I can do anything I want” with the neighboring country.”

This needs to stop! This guy is out of his mind.

Meanwhile at the state of the union address we have this:

He (Trump) also said the “Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception.”

Ummm bribery, corruption and lawlessness… those seem to be the hallmarks of the trump administration no?

Isaac Asimov has always been one of my favorite authors. Today he moved up a notch when I read this from him in 1980!

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Not Again!