Whose War Is It?

Some movies can be watched over and over and over again.  Otto Preminger’s In Harm’s Way is one of those movies for me.  There are a lot of plots and subplots in the film and it focuses much on the politics in wartime.  John…

Rule 5 Sunday: Because I Can : The Other McCain

Posted on | March 9, 2026 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho No idea where this week’s pic came from, but I like it. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Sunday Girl, Animal House…

The Spiritual Windfall of AI

Artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), promises to automate aspects of white-collar work once thought immune to mechanization. That shift offers an opportunity—not merely economic but spiritual. If machines can draft…

Buy the Pope a tiara

A group of Americans, Amici Vaticani, has undertaken a project of “profound symbolic and spiritual importance”: the commissioning of a Papal Tiara to honor Pope Leo XIV. This initiative is more than an act of homage; it is a statement of unity…

Politics Does Not Equal Government

The 250th birthday of the United States is a good time to remember that 1776 was the year of a new nation, not a new government. It would take another eleven years for the Founders to formulate what the government would look like, and two more…