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…

Confession Is Not About Humiliation and Shame

In 2021, now head of CBS news, Bari Weiss burnished her already formidable journalistic reputation with a story on just how scandalous D.E.I. had become in one of L.A.’s “elite” prep schools. Yesterday, we linked to a story out of that self-same…