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Mike Forbess, a 911 dispatcher in Watauga, Texas, was formally reprimanded after making an inappropriate joke during an emergency call. A mother called for help because her daughters were fighting and one had kicked a hole in a door. “OK,” Forbess replied. “Do you want us to come over to shoot her?” The dispatcher later admitted the comment was wrong and apologized, saying he meant it as a joke. The post Brickbat: Lightening the Mood appeared first on Reason.com. Source link

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I have sought out the following to show that peace can be mutual across warring sides. The key is not to drift into maudlinness or sentimentality. Across both American and Iranian poetic traditions, anti-war poetry leans towards a few core themes. The dehumanisation of conflict. The grief of survivors. The illusion of glory. And the long and often inescapable shadow of memory. I could go further—comparing stylistic differences between American and Persian anti-war poetry, or offering longer excerpts and analyses—but I do not have the authority. I should leave that to academics. For now, these…

Locations struck by: United States and Israel Iran, Hezbollah, Houthis, and PMF. Image Source: Wikimedia maps | Map data © OpenStreetMap – CC BY-SA 2.0 Events in the Middle East following the February 28, 2026, US-Israeli bombing attack on Iran recall for us the prophecy recounted by Herodotus of the oracles of Delphi to Croesus the king of the Lydians: if he attacked the Persians, he would destroy a mighty empire. The doomed empire turned out to be his own. The political, economic, military, environmental, and moral catastrophe of the current war unleashed by President Trump has raised questions around…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, is a clarion call for Silicon Valley to abandon its consumer trinkets and rush headlong into the arms of the military-industrial complex. According to Karp, America’s future depends on wielding hard power through technology—arming soldiers, AI-weaponry, and mass surveillance systems—rather than on the “soft” influence demonstrated by free markets and liberty-first principles. The book claims that “the survival of the American experiment depends on the technological revitalization of the military-industrial complex” and urges the country’s engineering talent to focus on national defense. Karp and his co-author, Nicholas Zamiska, argue that tech bros…

Idris Robinson, giving his talk “How It Might Should Be Done.” Last month, on March 24, Idris Robinson, a philosophy professor at Texas State University, filed a lawsuit against the university for wrongful termination and for violating his right to free speech. The University had decided not to renew Robinson’s tenure-track contract – despite his stellar academic reviews – after Zionists pressured the school. The Zionists were playing the same broken record: Robinson was “antisemitic,” and a glorifier of “terrorism,” for supporting the Palestinian liberation struggle. Robinson became a target after giving a talk entitled “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian…

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Not a lot of musical comedy in today’s Grail news briefs… NASA breaks silence on deaths and disappearances of scientists with ties to space tech. Tech billionaires want Christians to believe in AI: For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral — even divine — mission. Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism upends timelines of technology. What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels? The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. Related: Evidence of ‘intelligent design’? The incredible microscopic biological machines that make life possible. NASA’s Curiosity rover discoveres ‘origin-of-life’ molecules never before…

Justice Alito is the least heralded conservative on the Supreme Court; Hemingway corrects that by revealing the formidable man beneath the robe. Source link

Whistleblower: 2020 CCP Ops vs. Trump Were Suppressed Source link

“War is the continuation of politics by other means” is Clausewitz’s most famous dictum.  Lebanon has suffered far too much from the serial failures of diplomacy and the shortcomings of politics, necessitating the use of “other means.” Now yet again, diplomats and statesmen are trying to induce the country and its powerful antagonists to reach a political accommodation that checks the worst instincts of warring factions more powerful than the state itself.  Last week in Washington, Israeli and Lebanese diplomats met under American auspices during an American-engineered ceasefire. Efforts are under way to establish direct talks between Israel and the…