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I wonder if D. will ever find his Iran mess so intractable that he circles back to his long fixation with nuclear war. (1) This would make nonproliferation a non-starter for every other country in the world; (2) It doesn't take many nuclear explosions to bring on nuclear winter, per TTAPS.

Establishment Democrats fear Democratic Socialists for one reason: disruption of existing patronage networks.

The Odyssey: With all the furor, why not revive Monteverdi's 1640 opera "Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria?"

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“The overwhelming majority of American Jewish MAGA voters, donors, and policymakers are enthusiastically supporting a Marco Rubio presidential run." This group is coextensive with AIPAC. I am not sure who would be the worse choice, Vance or Rubio. www.jta.org/2026/07/16/p...

As Jewish Republicans sour on JD Vance, many are rallying behind Marco Rubio for 2028 - Jewish Telegraphic AgencyProminent GOP figures say they prefer Rubio amid concerns over antisemitism on the right and Vance's silence on figures like Tucker Carlson.www.jta.org

House vote: π=3. Changes to textbooks, math papers/articles, software: unfunded mandate. (Cf. permanent Daylight Savings Time: energycommerce.house.gov/posts/house-...)

House Passes Legislation to Make Daylight Saving Time PermanentThe Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...energycommerce.house.gov

There is a major problem drafting HCR for the Maine Senate seat: she is two months overdue on a book borrowed from Harvard’s Widener Library. The shock and dismay this knowledge would cause in all decent, right-thinking people would doom her candidacy from the outset. Someone else must be found.

"Although a dwarf is disqualified as a priest, being dwarflike is not unacceptable for a sacrificial animal." Mishnah, Bechorot. Gimli's living well into the Third Age, learning Biblical Hebrew, and applying to be a priest at the First Temple in Jerusalem never crossed Tolkien's mind.

Prayer for Our Country Before: We ask Your blessings for our country—for its government, for its leaders and advisors, and for all who exercise just and rightful authority. After: We ask Your blessings for our country—for all who exercise just and rightful authority.

I say pish-tush on centrist Democrats. They have had their time and have produced the worst go-along-to-get-along outcomes. Now, they fear the progressives are viable. Damn straight they are. As for oppo,it works just as effectively against centrists as progressives. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’www.nytimes.com

"And when the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart were only evil continually, he repented that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart." —tr. Tyndale

Discovery: George Eliot's English translation of Spinoza's Ethics. Challenging but possibly fun.