Even if the strait reopened, which it hasn't, and the war ended, which it hasn't, there's a backlog of 1000+ ships waiting to get through Hormuz, major damage to oil and gas infrastructure, and a supply chain disruption (especially for fertilizer) that will take months to unravel in the best case scenario.
Today's big "market rally" was just hopium, poor reading comprehension, and shorts covering in a trench coat. It won't last the week. ...
We won’t really feel the satisfaction of a complete narrative arc until we see tomorrow morning’s inevitable story about a new Polymarket account called “whitepwr_wifeleftme69” who signed up at 4 PM today and made $6 million ...
Chat, what happens when the boy who cries wolf is also the wolf ...
Yeah, uhh, the ides of march is great if you're just getting into ides, I guess. I celebrate better, less commercialized ides, though. You've probably never heard of them. ...
Peggy says:
OMFG those places piss me off. I'm also all upset in general because (another) one of my students is pregnant right now and her mom's all "I'm not taking you to the doctor, you just want attention" and she's all "I want to do what's right for my [putative, as-yet-unconfirmed-by-a-doctor-but-almost-certainly-there-in-fetus-form] baaaaaaaaaaby, so I don't believe in ADOPTION because that would be ABANDONING IT" and I'm all WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Anyway. Sorry, venting. The point is: I wish people would start distributing HELPFUL INFORMATION about these things. Kids In Question were apparently using TWO methods of birth control. Uh, need I add–using them WRONG? Because… shockingly… no one has taught them how to do it properly.
[bangs head against table repeatedly]
BK says:
Another pearl of wisdom from Huck-a-back (in addition to his already outstanding HIV quarantine program):
"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."
Ed says:
I liked that quote from Huckabee better in the original Arabic.