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If Tony Soprano’s “remember when” is the lowest form of conversation, “if then” is the lowest form of political prognostication
While there’s nothing wrong with indulging in a little fantasy, political prognostication is supposed to be more than mental masturbation, and the same as a sane person wouldn’t consider retirement scenarios that included suddenly being as wealthy as Elon Musk, we shouldn’t consider fantastical outcomes as a basis for rational discussion. Tony Soprano once claimed…
Trump, Iran, and the art of the impossible deal
The ceasefire is shaky, but we know this: After what everyone said wouldn’t happen, magically happened, they still concluded that what happened was bad, all without missing a beat. It’s impossible to capture the insanity that President Donald Trump’s detractors attempted to pass off as wisdom over the past five weeks in a single post,…
I am a farmer ant and I grow my own food better than you ever could
A colony like mine can reach almost 6,500 square feet, about the size of a luxury home with five bedrooms. The mound of fungus we farm can rise a foot high, nestled inside with thousands upon thousands of workers tending to it. I am a farmer ant, technically known as an Attini, or fungus-grower. I…
The Orange Man is so bad, progressives can’t even celebrate the daring rescue of a soldier behind enemy lines
In an ideal world, I would prefer a media that was honest and objective, an opposition that was principled and reasonable, and detractors who could criticize without outright fantasizing. Last Friday, the situation for two US airmen in Iran was dire after their F-15E fighter jet was shot down deep in enemy territory, setting off…
NATO just turned 77, but is it going down in the Strait of Hormuz?
As France joins forces with Russia and China at the United Nations, and makes a deal with Iran, supporters of the NATO alliance argue that it is a purely defensive affair. In that case, what purpose does it serve in the modern world? In one of the ironies that seem to increasingly define the modern…
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Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 