Six years ago Iran was an issue for the then President Trump and President Carter noted the irony that the most warlike country on Earth claims itself to be a Christian nation. Some see the current Israel and United States as siblings and that may be actually appropriate as I suspect the Jewish prophets would have the same criticisms of the United States as they had of Israel.
Seems to me the U.S. involvement in the Middle East is a consequence of not treating lobbying as the emolument it is and which the Constitution prohibits.
Just read Martin Fowler’s article on “expert generalists” and feel it describes me well, or at least how I aspire myself to be known. In the IT services industry in which I work I don’t think the contrast is specialists versus generalists but rather low cost labor versus high cost labor. My company has a focus on low cost labor, the consequence of which I think is a decrease in curiosity and with it ownership or personal accountability. I mean people are conditioned to stay within their box because that is all they are being paid to do. I am convinced that what I see, and what I am describing, is a deliverable of a managerial culture within a company as opposed to a leadership culture.
All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
This outcome was something the Constitution was designed to prevent. “The Framers of the Constitution were clear that only Congress is empowered to commence offensive military hostilities,” former Rep. Justin Amash (L–Mich.) wrote on X. “But there are people on the left and right who reject divided powers and fundamentally hate America. They’re working deliberately and methodically to destroy it.”
Reason.com, “Trump Shreds the Constitution By Bombing Iran”
Last lunch in the U.P. requires a pasty.
Retirement practice at Contrast Coffee in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Second night in the U.P., this is the Jewel In The Crown IPA by Rail House Brewery in Marinette, WI.
I think the essay that I wrote last year about AI, A People’s AI, still holds. Apple hasn’t really released Apple Intelligence yet and has taken some arrows because of it, but I still think in the end AI is going to do more for Apple than either Google or Microsoft.
Last year on this date the Chicago Cubs had a 32-35 record and would go on to a 83-79 record and finished 10 games behind Milwaukee in the NL Central. Right now they have a 41-27 record, are in first place in the NL Central and lead St. Louis by 5 games. The Cubs currently have the second best record in the National League and fourth best in the the MLB.
People complain about the TSA at the airports all the time, and some of those people might remember a time when there was no TSA and one could even walk to an airport gate without a ticket. Do you want the TSA on every street in America? That is what is coming, although in a more armored form. Every democrat ought to be warning us that this thing most people do not like, the TSA, is going to be much worse in the coming months.