Feeling: Sad

In order to support free software, I'm trying to switch to using the GIMP for bitmap graphics. I've avoided it for many years because of its terrible interface, but the most recent version isn't as bad. It still has a long way to go to be as smooth as professional programs, but, so far, it's been tolerable. The real trick is having to re-learn all the stuff I used to have memorized.

New video game fonts include the NES games Wrath of the Black Manta and Ultima: Quest of the Avatar, both of which have two unique fonts each.

• Pete Hegseth, according to his co-workers, is a problematic alcoholic and, according to his own mother, a serial abuser of woman, which is why Trump says he's doing a great job!
• Anthem decided they wouldn't cover anesthetic for the entire time patients undergo surgery, then someone murdered a health insurance CEO, and all of the sudden, they started covering anesthesia again. See? The system works.
• Speaking of health care, Republicans Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy has proposed how they're going to decrease government spending. The first to be wiped out is veteran's health care services.
• Sure, Lee Zeldin wants to eliminate pollution controls so that coal plants can fill the air with radioactive dust and allow mining companies to dump toxic sludge into rivers, but he also doesn't even know what EPA stands for. So, he should probably lead the EPA.
• How social media companies push an agenda on you by controlling what information you see.

Making a camera than can see around walls.

When the arguments for an all powerful god fail, those who really need there to be a god turn to an impotent god.

Feeling: Sad

My daughters and I finished reading "Cat and Cat Adventures 2: The Goblet of Infinity" and I finished reading Louis Erdrich's "Saint Marie."

With my new program, I was able to extract the font and graphics of the Intellivision game Tower of Doom and add it to my video game font collection. I also added the Game Boy games Amazing Penguin and Heiankyo Alien and the Master System port of Aladdin.

• Amnesty International is the latest group to say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Also, a report shows that Russia has effectively been kidnapping Ukrainian children and raising them as Russians, a form of cultural genocide.
• Trump's ridiculous pick to run the Pentagon, Fox weekend co-anchor Pete Hegseth continues to make Trump look worse than ever. It turns out that Hegseth defrauded a charity for veterans by using donations to hold parties at strip clubs where, when he wasn't harassing strippers, he would frequently drink himself into a coma. No wonder his mother begged him to get help. Trump's also picked another mega-donor billionaire and friend of Elon Musk to run NASA.
• Transgender people in Montana can breathe a tiny bit easier as a handful of Republicans discovered they had a conscience after all and joined with Democrats to vote against a bathroom ban.
• Elon Musk said he has no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics, or fame, and recounted the time when he held his dying child in his arms until the last heartbeat. But, if his ex-wife is to be believed, she was the one holding their child, and Musk is just using the death for "gain, politics, or fame."
• Republican bigot Josh Schriver is calling to have same sex marriage re-criminalized.
• To prove just how much they hate freedom and women, Texas Republicans are trying to pass a law that would make it a crime for anyone to provide reproductive healthcare online or raise money to pay for someone's abortion.
• Republicans still believe Democrats can control the weather. But, if they can do that, we can turn the icy north into a great resort. No wonder why Trump wants to annex Canada!

Why your genetics don't define you.

Feeling: Sad

I finished reading Fuck Yeah, Video Games.

I'm working on a program that helps me find and extract 1-bit-per-pixel graphics from binary files which has allowed me to create two new video game fonts based on the BIOS of the ColecoVision and Astrocade.

• Trump is purposely appointing people, not because they're qualified, but because they are also seeking retribution against the USA for holding him responsible for his many crimes.
• After declaring martial law, then quickly rolling it back when there was a massive public outcry, South Korea's conservative president might now be facing impeachment.
• Trump "jokes" about the USA annexing Canada. Hilarious.

Another Catholic priest, Lawrence Hecker, has pleaded guilty to raping children.

A critical review of the physics rock star Richard Feynman.

Feeling: Sad

I beat the Atari 2600 game Skate Boardin'.

• Temporary Protected Status grants certain rights to refugees who come to America from nations experiencing serious natural disasters or war. Trump is trying to eliminate the protection in order to make it much easier to get rid of them.
• Trump picked Warren Stephens to be the next ambassador to Britain. His qualifications? He's extremely rich, and he gave Trump a lot of money. Similarly, Trump has appointed Stephen Feinberg as the number two in charge of the Department of Defense. Feinberg's qualifications? No military background, but he makes a lot of money selling to the military, so he could really clean up if he were corrupt.
• The whites-only private schools of the South still exist, and they're using tax-payer money to focus on educating almost exclusively white students.
• Republicans are trying to take fluoride out of drinking water, and that's going to be really bad and really expensive.
• Despite his company making the nation's deadliest cars Elon Musk felt he deserved a $56,000,000,000 pay package to run Tesla, the largest pay-package in history. What's even weirder, so do his shareholders. Apparently, his investors really want a criminally wealthy Nazi-sympathizer at the helm. Or, do they? Some of them brought a lawsuit against the company saying Musk bought the board and convinced them to pay him the ridiculous amount, so they held a vote, and, yeah, they really do worship the guy. The judge in charge still rejected their desires, which seems a bit like over-reach to me; if they want to vote their company into the ground, they should be allowed to.
• There's a big yikes coming out of South Korea. The conservative president has just declared martial law in order to deal with protesters who say he's too sympathetic to North Korea.
• Republicans don't like electric cars because they're only driven by soy-boys. Electric cars require high-end batteries, and high-end batteries rely on rare metals. So, Republicans have been allowing other countries to buy up all the long-term mining contracts on the acquisition of rare metals around the world, particular China. And, guess what, in an attempt to get ahead of Trump's doomed tariff war, China is banning the export of rare metals to the USA. Who cares? Republicans reply, Trump is going to force everyone to buy gas-guzzling SUVs, we don't need the metals used in batteries. Except, the metals China is banning from reaching the USA include gallium, germanium, antimony, and graphite which are also essential for microchips and a whole host of military applications. Once again, thanks to the fragile masculinity of Republicans, the USA has become that much weaker.

How rainbows work, really.

Interested in emulating the more recent consoles?

Feeling: Sad

New video game fonts include the arcade games Atari Baseball and Drag Race, and the Game Boy Qix. I'm now up to 110 fonts!

• Knowing he will aide them in their genocide, Israel isn't waiting for Trump to take office, they've already begun their invasion of the West Bank, and Russia is threatening those nations who aide Ukraine's defense with a nuclear strike.
• Trump has confirmed, when he takes office, he will fire the director of the FBI and replace him with Kash Patel. Patel supported Trump mob's in their attempt to overthrow the Capitol on January 6th and said he will focus his investigations on former FBI employees and journalists, presumably, those who investigated Trump's many crimes.
• Trump says he will institute massive tariffs on all imports, with particularly large costs on countries like Mexico and China which provide the largest percentage of the goods sold in the USA. This will raise the price of nearly everything Americans buy, and destabilize the US economy, and, ultimately, the entire world's economy. Fearing this, BRICS (a growing massive multi-national organization which has recently surpassed the G7) is thinking of expediting its goal from switching away from the US dollar as their default currency. This would seriously hurt G7 nations, but, in particular, the USA. Afraid that his tariffs will cripple the USA, Trump is trying to scare them by saying he will retaliate against all BRICS nations with a ridiculous 100% tariff.
• Trump appointing Pete Hegseth's to run the Pentagon is terrifying, but, even more terrifying is what Hegseth's own mother said about him: he is a serial abuser of women who needs professional help.
• Despite all this horror going on, the headline of nearly every media outlet I've seen is about Biden pardoning his son. Yes, this is nepotism and corruption, yes, it should be called out and despised, yes, it will leave one last black mark on Biden before he fades into obscurity, but Hunter Biden is not a politician with authority, nor is he a threat to democracy, the Trump administration is openly attacking the checks and balances of our country in order to give him supreme power, but they're still worried about Biden drama.
• It's extremely common for Republicans to attack non-Christians, it's very rare when Republicans attack Christians, but, when it happens, you learn who the Republicans hate the most. Texas Republican Ken Paxton is suing a Christian church because they're trying to... help the homeless.

Episode four of the evolutionary tree of life is about plants and fungus.

Feeling: Sad

I've added a page for Gilliam Stick Candy which I will update as I try the various flavors.

New video game fonts include the NES games 3-D WorldRunner, Final Fantasy, Heroes of the Lance, and Super Mario Bros.

• Russia continues its genocide of Ukraine.
• As Trump continues to appointment dangerous people, some of whom are criminals, and all of whom are corrupt, to the highest levels of executive power, it makes one wonder, why doesn't the USA require its politicians to undergo background checks?
• Trump hasn't even taken office yet, and his undisciplined cabinet of amateurs is already in chaos.
• Army Leutinient Colonel Alexander Vindman heroically sacrificed his career to become a whistleblower in order to expose Trump's impeachable corruption where he demanded a quid pro quo from Ukraine, saying he wouldn't give them the weapons they needed to defend themselves from the impending Russian invasion unless they were able to find dirt on his political rival Joe Biden. Trump was appropriately impeached for his crime, but the Republican Senate refused to punish him. Now, Elon Musk has said Vindman should be executed.
• As Trump's terrible and racist policies go into effect, we will see the price of everything go up, so, if you don't want to blow your budget, you should probably decrease your meat intake.

When Christians get desperate.

Can we replace scientists with AI?

Feeling: Sad

Got some really bad life-changing news today.

New video game fonts include the arcade games Atari Football and Hit Me, and the Game Boy game Radar Mission.

• Yes, Trump lied to you about Project 2025. Yes, he knew the people who wrote it. Yes, he is appointing the authors to his cabinet. Yes, he is instituting large parts of Project 2025.
• Republicans like Mike Johnson have used their authority to criminalize all the forms of consensual sex they don't agree with, so, why don't they have a problem supporting other Republicans who sexually assault women and even pay for sex with children? Because the Christian worldview is that women who allow themselves to be in positions where they might be sexually assaulted, deserve to be sexually assaulted. Christian Republicans like Johnson will continue to protect rapists because they believe that's normal for men. It's the woman's fault for not staying at home in the kitchen where she belongs.
• Speaking of Christian Republicans punishing women, immediately following Texas's ban on abortion, pregnant women and new mothers started dying at an increased rate. A committee was asked if there should be an investigation as to why so many more women are dying, and they concluded that, no, there shouldn't.
• Trump's cabinet hasn't even taken office yet, but it's already devolved into shouting matches.
• Republican Boris Epshteyn used his connections with Trump to demand bribes. There is currently an investigation into his bribery demands, but, since it's being done by Trump's lawyers, it isn't criminal in nature, and Epshteyn will probably never be punished.
• Ever heard of Republican Kevin Hassett? He is best known for his book "Dow 36,000," in which he predicted the Dow would reach 36,000 points as early as 2003. Shortly after his book was published, the dot-com bubble burst and crashed the Dow, and it crashed even further in the 2008 housing crisis. Hassett's book was later described as, "perhaps the most spectacularly wrong investing book in history." But this didn't faze Hassett, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he predicted that people would stop dying from in by 2020. Anyway, Trump saw these remarkably bad predictions and though to himself, "this is the man I need to lead the National Economic Council.
• Trying to emulate Trump, Brazil's failed president Jair Bolsonaro also failed to take over his government after he lost.
• At some point, when people descend into fascism, we have to stop being friends.

A massive list of hiking tips.

Feeling: Sad

Today, I finished reading the short story, Brokeback Mountain.

New video game fonts include the arcade games Amazing Maze, Checkmate, Gun Fight, Flyball, and Sea Wolf.

• The tariffs Trump is saying he will impose on day one will violate the rules the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade agreement put in place by... Donald Trump. It figures he would break his own rules.
• Musk and Ramaswamy say they will cut $2,000,000,000,000 from the US budget, but Trump already said he won't touch major areas like Social Security, defense, and it's unlikely they will touch debt repayment or transportation, which just leaves unimportant stuff like healthcare, veteran's retirement, and child nutrition. But, even if they cut all of that, it still wouldn't be enough.
• In case you needed another reason to not shop at Walmart, they're caving to Republicans who don't want them to hire minorities.
• Why the "trad wife" fad is hurting women.

There really isn't much mystery in Amelia Earhart's death.

How it's possible to cut something with light.

Feeling: Sad

On Saturday, I beat my first Atari 7800 game, Super Skateboardin'.

New video game fonts include the BIOS of the All Purpose Electronic X-ray Computer, the arcade games Mappy and Time Soldiers, the NES games Section-Z, Taboo: The Sixth Sense, and Times of Lore, and the Master System game Ninja Gaiden.

• Israel is still using US-provided weapons to deliberately murder civilians and journalists.
• This is why you don't purposely skip background checks before you appoint members of your cabinet. In addition to seeing Matt Gaetz, his first pick for attorney general, drop out because he kept paying to have sex with under-aged girls, Trump is now learning that his pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, may have committed war crimes. Some of them were known specifically for being crackpots, like conspiracy purveyor RFK Jr. Oh well, at least Trump chose someone fully qualified to be our NATO ambassador: toilet salesman Matthew Whitaker.
• After all his anti-science laws during his last administration, Trump made the USA pretty toxic to scientists. Expect things to get even worse this time around.
• Maybe we should ban companies simply for being evil, not because of the nationality of their owners?
• If we want to progress, we need to accept that the majority of USA really doesn't have a problem with bigotry, racism, and sexism with their president for a chance at cheaper groceries.

Space exploration really took a nose dive when we found out the Moon wasn't populated by oil or commies.

Trying to explain why your god is good by forgetting all the evil in your scriptures.

Want to get killed in a car crash? Drive one of Elon Musk's Teslas.

Feeling: Sad

Yesterday, I finished reading the extremely wordy Watership Down.

New video game fonts include the PlayChoice-10 BIOS, the arcade version of Spy Hunter, and the NES games Spy vs Spy, Tiger-Heli, and Top Gun, and the Master System version of Shanghai.

• Putin is bragging about a new missile he is using to murder people in Ukraine and claiming he may attack the USA and UK.
• Israel's leaders are war criminals, and, as usual, Bernie Sanders is voice of reason.
• Trump's picked Republican Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Despite most other Republicans hating him, and being fully aware of his history with drugs and under-aged prostitutes, they still bent the knee and submitted to Trump admitting they will debase themselves in any manner for him. However, with the spotlight on him, Gaetz's past of paying for drugs and statutory rape became too obvious, so he dropped out, and, even though his fellow Republicans already voted to protect him, he still says he won't return to the House. So, since Trump can't have the child-rapist he wanted, he's chosen one of his former lawyers, Pam Bondi. That's one sleazebag down, but there are plenty left.
• Trump was already convicted in the New York Stormy Daniels hush money crime, and he was supposed to have been sentenced already, but his judge has once again given a delay, this time to December, and, let's face it, because he won the election, and the Republican Supreme Court ruled that presidents are above the law, probably forever.
• Trump won some votes by claiming that tips shouldn't be taxed. You know what's better than not taxing tips? Increasing the minimum wage. You know who is against that? Trump.
• Famed anti-Semite Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to lead the House Panel for Musk's and Ramaswamy's program to destroy the government.
• You know law enforcement has too much power when a Sheriff feels comfortable sending deputies to "investigate" a Burger King for the "crime" of getting his order wrong, then tries to cover it up resulting in a lawsuit.
• Republican John Jessup has been arrested for trying to rape a woman.
• Nazis always have a political view that is ultra-right.

Feeling: Sad

Last night I finished the expansion for Thomas Was Alone.

New video game fonts include the arcade games Bigfoot Bonkers, Blockade, and Xevious, and the NES games Tecmo Bowl and Wizards & Warriors.

• The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for several Hamas officials, but also Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for "crimes against humanity" for their genocide in Gaza. Netanyahu responded saying "There is nothing more just than the war," in which they dropped bombs on hospitals and schools and 70% of those killed are women and children, and a shockingly high number of journalists.
• Trump chose Fox host Pete Hegseth to lead the entire US military. Then it came out that he paid a woman to hush up a sexual assault case. Now, the police report of Hegseth's criminal case has been released, and it describes him trapping a woman in his room, taking away her phone, and raping her as she keeps saying no.
• More information is coming out about Republican Matt Gaetz's drug-fueled under-aged sex parties.
• Unsurprisingly, Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, lied about her teaching education.
• Like all dictators, Trump is planning on mobilizing the military to fight the people he doesn't like.
• It's strange how all this corruption, stupidity, and chaos can actually be, at least in the very short term, good for business.
• Edward Kelley, one of Trump's goons who tried to take over the Capitol on January 6th, also maintained a list of FBI agents he intended to murder. Thankfully, this dangerous man has been convicted and will be sentenced to prison, but Trump has called him a "hostage" and promised to pardon him.
• Republicans really hate trans people.

How to lie about religious morality.

Feeling: Sad

Yesterday, I read Margaret Atwood's short story, Death by Landscape.

New video game fonts include the TurboGrafx-16 games Bomberman, Devil's Crush, and Splatterhouse, the arcade games Rampage, Vanguard, and Warlords, and the Master System game King's Quest: Quest for the Crown.

• Trump keeps sticking with his child-sex-trafficking attorney general, Matt Gaetz, and, in another step closer to Idoicracy, the Secretary of Education will be the wife of the founder of the World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon, the the White House communications director will be a spokesperson for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Senate-failure, but Oprah "doctor," Oz will be ruining Medicare and Medicaid. You may ask, will this rag-tag group of imbeciles who are bound to fail at least follow the rules? No, they're refusing to sign the standard ethics agreements before taking office.
• If someone is cheating, you can either take the high road and lose, or cheat back.
• Christian Nationalist Frank Turek wants gender-affirming surgery to be criminalized for everyone, which is odd since he's had it.
• Police lost taxpayers another $1,000,000 because officer Ryan Rezentes really wanted to watch his dog tear off a woman's scalp.
• Nancy Mace is just another Republican in a long line of bigots who wants to make it a crime for trans people to use the bathroom.
• It's well-established that undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes in the USA than citizens. But, Republicans like Trump and Mike Johnson continue to lie about them because they're really racist.
• Once again, we have to thank the Satanists for making public schools play by the rules.

The introduction music for every port of Pac-Man.

Feeling: Sad

I beat the main story of Thomas Was Alone last night.

New video game fonts include the Namco arcade games Galaga, King & Balloon, Pole Position, Rally-X, and SOS.

• This is why you don't appoint stupid sex criminals like Republican Matt Gaetz. Normally, when a person hires a prostitute for sex or buys drugs from a dealer, they pay using untraceable cash, but Gaetz paid for his drugs and sex using Venmo which keeps a permanent record of every transaction. Those same women who have Venmo transactions which match up to Gaetz's also say they personally witnessed him having sex with minors.
• Trump is filling the Department of Justice with his own personal lawyers. Well, the ones who haven't yet gone to prison for him. He's also hiring more TV personalities to run the government. His latest pick is Sean Duffy best known for being on MTV's Real World before becoming a host on Fox.
• Trump's criminal election interference case in Georgia is still continuing now that his appeal has been canceled.
• Ever notice how we let Trump do things we wouldn't even allow a child to do?

Making sub-pixel art.

Sean Carroll answers questions about physics.

Feeling: Sad

I beat the original Dangerous Dungeons today.

New video game fonts include the BIOS fonts for the Atari ST (both 8x8 and 8x16 versions) and NES port of Contra and Trojan, the arcade version of Loco-Motion and Basketball, and the Master System port of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar.

• Trump makes his racist plans very clear, he will declare a national emergency so he can deploy the US military to begin his massive deportation to rid the country of brown people. If you know any undocumented immigrants, continue to help them, and, if anyone asks, you don't know any undocumented immigrants.
• Just like eight years ago, Trump has been appointing leaders without running background checks on them, and lots more skeletons are coming to light. Take his pick to run the US military, Pete Hegseth; just seven years ago he paid a woman hush money to cover-up his violent sexual assault. I guess his murderous war god is cool with that? Obviously, Trump doesn't care, he picked an actual child-sex trafficker for his attorney general.
• Despite his lies claiming he knew nothing about Project 2025, Trump picked Brendan Carr, one of the Project's authors, to run the FCC. Carr immediately said he's going to attack Google, Apple, and Microsoft for their censorship, although, most of their censorship has been against Nazis and white supremacists, which gives you an idea of how Carr thinks.
• To run the Department of Energy, Trump has chosen the head of a fracking company, Chris Wright.
• The USA voted in favor of fascism, and there are actual Nazis parading in the streets, so, where do we go from here? Maybe it's not wise to peacefully cede power to fascists?
• When Trump was last in office, he did so much damage to the FDA and the USDA, there wasn't much Biden could do to build them back up. Because of this, we're seeing a lot of people getting sick and dying from infected food. But don't worry folks, these people are going to make you healthy.
• In the past week, Russia has fired 1,540 missiles, bombs, and various other explosives into Ukraine to carry out their genocide.
• Seeing another loss on her hands, Republican Kari Lake has finally given up on her Arizona Senate bid from 2022 and admitted she defamed election workers. While she still hasn't admitted defeat for 2024, she doesn't appear to be pursuing it further.
• Conservative nutjob Alex Jones lost his misinformation company Infowars after being sued by the grieving parents he attacked. After having to declare bankruptcy, Jones's company was auctioned off and bought by the satirical new site The Onion with help from the same parents Jones attacked. Donald Trump didn't like the fact that one of his greatest admirers lost his web site, so he told Elon Musk to swoop in and invalidate the sale, which he appears to have done. Once again, Republicans who claim they hate big government are using their political clout to interfere with businesses all the while saying big government should never interfere with businesses.

How the sleep industry makes sleep worse.

Feeling: Sad

I finished reading Nick Honby's Just Like You. It is my least favorite of his work.

New video game fonts include the Commodore VIC-20 BIOS font, the arcade games Subs and Video Pinball, the Master System game Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, and the TurboGrafx-16 game Bonk's Adventure.

• John Oliver offers a little hope for the hopeless.
• Trump's last team was so corrupt they're still in court four years later, not that it really matters, Trump will pardon them all. And his new team is more of the same garbage. They're either angry and ignorant and will blow up what they're supposed to be running, like how conspiracy theorist RFK Jr will ruin the HHS, or they're hateful and calculating and will rob the country of all its money and beauty, like Doug Burgum who will run the Department of the Interior, and Matt Gaetz, the guy who pays to rape underaged girls. Some are a cross between stupid and evil, like Pete Hegseth who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to fight for their country, hates trans people, and wants to bring back the Crusades.
• By the way, with so many MAGAts, also being antivaxxers, measles has increased 20%, and the man Trump put in charge of US heath is not only an antivaxxer, but he wants to ban vaccines entirely.

Police officer Joseph Gibson was given a paid vacation while his co-workers "investigate" why he slammed an unarmed 71-year-old Asian man to the concrete so hard he lost consciousness and started bleeding inside his skull.

• Elon Musk has successfully turned Twitter into a Conservative hate group so much that reputable journalists won't even post on it anymore. If you still use it, you should switch over to like Mastodon or Bluesky.
• Recording American culture before Trump destroys it all.

The science behind making glass unbreakable.

Feeling: Sad

New video game fonts include the Ohio Scientific Challenger I BIOS font, which is very unique, the MSX BASIC BIOS fonts, both screen 0 and screen 1, as well as the Master System ports of Castle of Illusion, Gauntlet, and Heroes of the Lance.

• Israel has designated areas in Gaza as "safe zones" where civilian refugees can stay. But, because Israel's goal isn't to defeat Hamas, but to exterminate Palestinians, they are now bombing the safe areas. And, since they know Trump will be taking office and will supply him with all the weapons of mass destruction they will need, they're also bombing residential areas in Lebanon.
• Americans once again threw their country under the bus and put Republicans in charge of the White House, Senate, and, now, the House of Representatives. Since they also control the Supreme Court, the entire federal government is in the hands of hateful monsters, fascists, and sinister villains. I'm hopeful the USA will eventually recover, but I won't be surprised if it takes several decades.
• Just a few days before the House Ethics Committee was going to vote on releasing its report on Republican Matt Gaetz's child-sex trafficking crimes, he resigned because Trump picked him to be his attorney general. I'm not surprised, because Trump has no morals, but I'm also kind of glad because it not only puts an even bigger spotlight on Gaetz's child sexual abuse, but, since he's both woefully inexperienced and power-hungry, he will probably be a shitty attorney general. However, rest assured he won't do anything to stop cops like Larry Clay Jr. who paid $100 to rape a teen girl.
• Republican Michael McCaul was arrested for public intoxication.

Why not all rivers form a canyon.

An all-loving all-powerful god who wants to know you wouldn't just make itself known, it would be evil to not make itself known.

Feeling: Sad

New video game fonts include the arcade fonts of Cops n' Robbers, Night Driver, Super Breakout, Tank 8, and the Game Boy font for Golf.

• More chaos with Trump's cabinet picks. He chose Elon Musk, a man who doesn't work in government and routinely abuse his employees, to form a new governmental agency to slash the budgets of every other governmental agency. He also picked Pete Hegseth, the co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, to oversee all 2,000,000 people of the US military and run the Department of Defense. Hegseth says his goal is to eliminate "woke" from the military, even if it means firing generals. Trump picked loyalist John Ratcliffe for CIA Director. Ratcliffe a late addition to Trump's cabinet on his last go around, appointed to fill one of the gaps in his revolving-door White House, and had a history of going against everything US intelligence said in order to lie for Trump. Finally, Trump chose Republican and Zionist Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel so that he can help Israel's final solution for Palestine. Under a government with a functional separation of powers, these demogauges would have to get Senate approval, a low bar to jump considering the Senate is currently composed of Trump sycophants, but, predicting another term of having to constantly replace his cabinet due to lawsuits and criminal corruption, Trump is demanding the Senate surrender their congressional power to him. What could possibly go wrong?
• Trump says he will shut down the Department of Education. If he succeeds, schools will once again be able to discriminate against teachers, block disabled students, and students looking for aid paying for college will be out of luck because the government grants will disappear.
• A woman knocked on white supremacist Nick Fuentes's door and he opened the door and immediately pepper-spayed her, pushed her down some stairs, and stole her phone. After an ambulance came and treated her wounds, the woman told police she wanted to press charges, but the police initially tried to prevent her.
• Why most political maps and charts aren't giving you the full picture.
• It doesn't help that pundits are constantly giving contradictory reasons for the results of the election.
• When faced with a Trump victory, don't say "this isn't who we are," because Trump winning the popular vote means the USA really is this racist, sexist, and bigoted. You won't be able to fix the country until you first accept that it has a serious problem.

Why a disillusioned physicist shouldn't be telling her audience that most science is bullshit, or that the very concept of science is failing.

Feeling: Sad

New video game fonts include the Atari 8-bit BIOS, the Game Boy games Alleyway, Kirby's Dream Land, Tennis, and Tetris, the arcade games Pac-Man and Skydiver, and the NES game Willow.

• Trump's picks are coming in and, oh boy, are they terrible. To lead the Department of Homeland Security, Trump chose the puppy murderer, and spineless sycophant Lee Zeldin will head the EPA with the goal of removing as many anti-pollution laws as possible.
• The USA estimates that Russia has experienced around 600,000 casualties (death or maiming) in their attempt to obliterate Ukraine, making this one of the nation's most costly wars in history for such a short time span. This is taking a serious toll on the country so Putin has sought allies among dictators like North Korea's Kim Jong Un, China's Xi Jinping, and USA's Republican party. Despite this, Russia has killed off a large percentage of their military force, so their trying a new approach, child propaganda. They are not only telling Russian civilians to have as many children as possible, but they've now criminalized any art or media that suggests a childless lifestyle, including being gay.
• Republicans are ready to hit the ground running with their racism, sexism, and all around bigotry, and this is causing a lot of people to be very scared.
• Glad to see Republican Kari Lake last her run to Ruben Gallego.
• Trump won pretty much every swing state, which is causing a lot of Republicans to say it's proof that the 2020 election was rigged, not realizing that if Democrats actually knew how to rig an election, he wouldn't have won in 2024.

What would the periodic table look like if the universe were 2D?

A simple engine to create extremely fast spinning.

Feeling: Sad

Last night, I beat the game A Mortician's Tale which has you playing as a mortician preparing corpses. I also added a couple more video game fonts, fixed a bug with the fonts which used the 128-255 character space, and added HTML character maps for every font instead of text files.

• Trump isn't even president yet, but he's already begun his corruption campaign demanding he be allowed to appoint his cabinet without needing Senate approval. Why should your country have a separation of powers when it can have a king?
• And, just like in 2016, Trump is appointing a new motley crew of sycophants to run everything. Republican Elise Stefanik, who quickly distinguished herself as a toadie willing to sell out her own country and Ukraine if it will make Donald Trump like her, as well as blame January 6th on Democrats, has been appointed as ambassador to the UN.
• With Trump, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
• Emboldened by Trump, Nazis were protesting outside the American Legion in Livingston County because they are performing The Diary of Anne Frank.
• Elizabeth Warren wrote a nice article about the importance of fighting Republicans, particular the fascism of Trump, for the upcoming years.
• We're going to need a lot more people talking about how bad things have become, and some people are off to a great start.
• With RFK Jr in charge of America's health groups, you might want to start calling your doctors and dentists for some medicine before it's all made illegal.
• It isn't all bad news, the USA has the largest number of female governors ever.

Important lessons in game design.

How can you test if lemons help decrease your likelihood of getting kidney stones? By making your own kidney stones.

Feeling: Sad

I've added more video game fonts for the NES port of Captain America and the Avengers, the Commodore 64 BIOS, the Master System's Phantasy Star, and the arcade port of Strategy X.

• An important article about how to cope now that the USA has elected a fascist.
• Human Rights Office of the United Nations has released a report which states, of all the people Israel murdered in Gaza, almost 70% of the dead are women and children. The report also stated there were unprecedented levels of international law violations and possible war crimes with 80% of those murdered having been killed in residential buildings. Even after learning that Israel is purposely targeting civilians, Trump told their genocidal military to "finish the problem."
• We'll be headed into at least another four years of dark ages, and pundits are going to guess at how it happened, but it's really just that Americans really are racist, sexist, bigoted, ignorant, and fearful, and, because of this, life will be especially bad for women, the LGBT, and racial minorities.
• Republican Mark Harris, who believes women should be fully subservient to their husbands, that people choose to be gay, and whose staffer was convicted of election fraud, appears to have been elected to the House of Representatives. A protest at Texas State University shows that Republicans around the country agree with him as they held up signs saying women and slaves are property no different than land and cars.
• Glad to see California is already preparing to challenge Trump. I hope those other blue states will give him hell as well.
• Trump rioter Zachary J. Alam was thrilled that Trump won and, demanded a full pardon for violently attacking police officers and breaking into the Capitol. The judge didn't find his lack of remorse very appealing and instead sentenced him to eight years in prison.
• Turkish fascists told artists they wouldn't be allowed to show a film about a gay man at a film festival, so the festival's owner bravely canceled the entire event.
• Republicans have been successful at making politics so dirty that many people swear off voting all together.

The difference between fluid and crystallized intelligence, and why one is more helpful at letting you identify and correct misinformation.

Despite what apologists say, Christianity is and has been dying at a steady rate, and, those few that are left, are becoming actual Nazis.

Feeling: Sad

I added several more fonts to my collection including Bomb Bee, Boulder Dash, Canyon Bomber, Destroyer, Fire Truck, Gee Bee, Hangman, Intellivision, and Super Bug.

• What should we expect from another Trump presidency? It's not just going to be bad, it's going to be a lot worse. But, throughout our nation's history, the country has always been a lot worse. We can't give up hope, we have to keep fighting and keep working for a better tomorrow and try to repair all the damage these fascists will do.
• We're going to need a lot of civil disobedience to keep the message clear. Orange paint is appropriate.
• To remind people how ignorant Americans are, Missouri and Montana voted to put abortion rights in their state constitutions, but also voted for Trump to take them away.
• Emboldened by Trump, racists are sending hateful messages to black Americans saying they need to report to cotton plantations for slave duty.
• Women have the power and need to exercise it by making every Trump supported an incel.

Being better educated can help you solve problems... unless those problems are political.

Keeping wild animals illegally and not getting them vaccinated will result in them being euthanized.

Feeling: Sad

I've added three arcade games to my video game font collection: Dominos, Quiz Show, and Sprint 2.

• Trump isn't the cause, he's a symptom of all the racist, sexist, xenophobic, bigoted, and, worst of all, ignorant, people in the USA. The country is just as racist as it was yesterday, Americans hate LGBT people just as much today. Even if Trump dies before he makes it into office, the country will continue down this very dark path, and the fact that the Senate again turned evil is more proof of that. Under Trump, things will continue to get worse. Those who voted for him deserve all the bad things that he will do to them, and there will be a lot. And who are those bad people? As expected, the exit polls show that the bulk of the problems in the USA are almost exclusively the fault of weak, fearful, cowardly white men, particularly Christians, as 81% of Evangelicals voted for their golden idol, and even 56% of Catholics, reminding us that they are especially vile. Trump has openly and privately admitted to sexually assaulting women, and lost two court cases for sexually assaulting a woman, but white men still prefer a serial assaulter over a woman. To try and console myself, I am reminded that the USA has a very long detailed history of hating women, people of color, and the LGBT, and the election results show that the majority of Americans still do, but things have slowly been progressing toward good. It's just going to take a lot longer than I would like. My only hope is that, like last time, Republicans will do so much damage so quickly, Americans will fight back against their oppressors in the midterms.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the his defense minister, Yoav Gallant for not being genocidal enough. And, just like how they were targeting doctors and journalists in Gaza, Israel is now purposely killing medical workers in Lebanon. Netanyahu is thrilled that Trump won so expect him to succeed in eradicating Palestine and Lebanon.
• North Koreans are now fighting for Russia to help exterminate Ukraine. They are currently at the border taking fire and preparing for their assault.
• 57% of Floridians voted to end the draconian Republican law which criminalized nearly all forms of abortion, but they needed 60% to override the law, so, sadly, Republican men still control women's bodies. Things fared even worse in Nebraska as their Republicans criminalized abortion in their state constitution. In less horrific news, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and New York are expected to add abortion protections to their states. However, none of this will matter if Republicans have their way and institute the nationwide abortion ban they keep pushing for.
• White Supremacist Skyler Philippi was caught by the FBI before he could execute his plan to bomb a power station.
• When they go low, we go high... from a political stand point, is that actually effective?
• Even if it means political fall out, you shouldn't congratulate Nazi sympathizers.

From an evolutionary standpoint, spiders are as different from insects as humans are from sharks.

No Christopher Columbus was not a Spanish-Jew, and, honestly, if someone is eager to make Columbus as part of their heritage, you should be very wary of them because Columbus was an absolute monster.

Feeling: Anxious

Don't forget to vote today! And, if you're still considering Trump, I've updated my Trump complaints page with a couple dozen more horrible things he's done. Want to see them all in video form? Watch Some More News.

For my video game font collection, I've added the NES ports of Double Dragon II: The Revenge and Spy Hunter, and the typeface of the ZX Spectrum.

• Kamala Harris's closing remarks were uplifting and reassuring. Trump just called Nancy Pelosi a sick, crazy, bitch.
• Remember, no matter what the outcome of today's election, Trump will declare victory, even if he loses by a wide margin. He has been preparing his dangerous mob for another coup attempt. They are racist bigots who want nothing more than to be sheep for their fascist dictator. Don't worry, be the change you want to see, vote for Harris and Walz, vote Trump away, then stay safe and trust the process, don't go looking for a fight, because they are eager to create one. Let's make sure Trump has to finally pay for all his crimes, even those that are microphone related.
• Democrats are reminding women that their vote is secret and they can choose Harris even if their domineering husbands are trying to force them to vote for Trump. Naturally, Republicans men are losing their shit over this comparing it to cheating and saying women should always vote for who their husband tells them to!
• It's nice to see favorable polls out of Iowa thanks to women, but don't rely on the polls, you have to vote.
• Trump said he would put RFK Jr. in charge of women's health.
• Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk is now promoting QAnon.
• Luke Meyer worked at the regional field director for the Donald Trump. He is a white supremacist.
• What the Republican closing argument would sound like if Republicans were honest.

The science behind why we laugh when we're scared.

Ranking philosophical hot takes.

Feeling: Happy

If you haven't voted early, please do so. If you can't vote early, please make a plan to vote tomorrow. No matter what, Trump will declare victory and claim the election is rigged, so this needs to be a decisive victory!

I've added more video game fonts. These include Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and Ultima: Exodus. I've also added the fonts used in computers like the Apple I, Apple II, Sinclair ZX80, and Sinclair ZX81.

• Israel has officially withdrawn from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency because the agency help refugees stay alive, and Israel wants every Palestinian dead.
• Just to show how much he hates journalists, Trump said he wouldn't mind if the reporters at his rallies were shot.
• To prove how much they hate transgender people, Texas Republicans have issued a $10,000 bounty on them if they're caught using a public bathroom. This is going to make life hell for all androgynous people. Republican J.D. Vance, who thinks parents force their kids to become trans to get into Ivy League universities, and that small state-run governments are the best, is trying to ban gender-affirming for the entire nation.
• Trump puts on garbage man cosplay to prove he's not garbage, but he just makes his campaign look like garbage. And, of yes, he's going to protect women whether they like it or not!
• Elon Musk said he was going to pay people to go door to door in Michigan to support Trump. He set them in the backs of U-Haul trucks and, if they didn't do enough work, abandoned them there. He's also being sued in Pennsylvania for bribing voters into voting for Trump.
• Republicans like Tim Sheehy continue to steal valor claiming he was shot while in the military and had a bullet lodged in his arm, but he didn't report it so, he just walked it off, but was then ticketed in Glacier National Park after he said he accidentally shot himself in the arm, but then claimed he just fell and dislodged the existing bullet, but now he can't produce any evidence for either incident.
• The US Constitution strictly forbids royalty and nobility. We don't want any kings, dukes, barons, counts, or even knights. Which is why Republican Sam Alito accepted a Catholic knighthood.
• Remember, no race is a monolith, there are plenty of Latinos who will ignorantly vote against their self interests.
• Brandon Matlack, a Republican who swallowed Trump's obvious lies about voter fraud, decided to enforce vigilante "justice" outside an election office. He sat around and filmed himself harassing people including someone carrying a stack of ballots. Matlack posted the video online including a close up of the man's face, and, despite the Pennsylvania government acknowledging the man was a postmaster doing his job, he has since received death threats from other Republicans.
• In their desperate hope of helping Trump, Virginia Republicans don't care that they're purging from the voter registration American citizens.

Why we still haven't cured cancer.

Why some fluids don't behave the way we expect.

Want to set up a successful Christian channel? Steal from other Christians.

Feeling: Happy

I had a wonderful time trick-or-treating with my girls last night. It still amazes me how much the holiday has expanded since I was a kid. More decorations, more candy, one house was handing out beer for the adults, another had Jello shots, and one was cooking hot dogs! I also noticed the Harris houses were much more festive while most of the Trump houses were dark and shut down.

I found a utility which con convert bitmaps into True Type Fonts without much effort. With it I'm able to convert my old video game bitmap fonts into TTF. I've started the process which you can see here.

• It's nice to see Kamala Harris has much larger crowds than Trump, but, due to the electoral college, that only matters in swing states.
• At a Trump rally, the opening act called the US territory of Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage, Tucker Carlson mocked Kamala Harris's race, and other speakers said Harris is the anti-Christ. However, Biden said Trump's racist fans are garbage, so Republicans are saying Biden is far worse because, to Republicans, criticizing racism is bad.
• Kamala Harris points out the facts, Donald Trump has a hit list, she has a to-do list. And yet, a lot of Americans still can't see the difference.
• While I don't approve of Liz Cheney's politics, the fact that she's one of the few Republicans to stare down Trump shows that she at least has a spine unlike everyone else in the party today. Trump responded to her criticism by saying she should have guns trained on her face.
• Fake patriotism is really disgusting.
• Trying to make Republicans more likable is hard work.

Science is a tool which can be used for good or evil, and sometimes there are some really evil scientists.

A look at how much easier it is for people to be swept up into Christianity when they don't know anything about it.

Feeling: Festive

Yesterday, I beat the hardest difficulty of the Sinclair ZX81 game Mazogs.

• The villains of the world continue to be evil. Russia is using drones to hunt down Ukrainian civilians. Meanwhile, Israel bombed another residential region killing almost 100 civilians. Many survivors were taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in Gaza, so Israel bombed that too. When they're not despicably vile, they're comically stupid, case in point, Russia is attempting to sue Google for more money than exists in the world.
• As predicted, Republican laws are once again killing women by preventing them from getting life-saving health care when they're pregnant. Republican's are not pro-life or pro-family, and they never have been, they're pro-forced-birth.
• Just in case you need a reminder of how incredibly ignorant and racist Trump supporters are. Can you imagine how vile they will be if he wins?
• Republicans continue to hold their racist view of the US territory Puerto Rico, but, a large reason for why the territory has had difficulties lately is because Trump purposely withheld disaster relief after hurricane Maria, then blocked an investigation into why he withheld relief.
• Trump, the most powerful Republican, is talking about the good things that Hitler did while Biden, the head Democrat, is apologizing to Native Americans for the horrors the USA committed against them. Gee, I can't see the difference between the two parties.

Why the USA still allows red 3.

Maine might be fixing their ugly flag.

Feeling: Okay

I've started a page for the Microvision and updated my list of Trump complaints with all his latest racism and stupidity and remembered a few others from years prior.

• As Russia's genocide continues, they have been accused to executing Ukrainian POWs at an ever increasing rate.
• Republicans say the bald-faced racism at their rally in New York doesn't represent their beliefs, even though they personally invited Tony Hinchcliffe to their rally, they knew he was going to make racist jokes because he was practicing them beforehand, and there were plenty of other racist comments made by people like Tucker Carlson.
• Trump says he's not concerned about accidentally deporting American citizens, he still plans to use the highly racist Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rid the country of people of color. The last time the Act was used was when the USA put Americans of Japanese or German descent into interment camps.
• Sure, they couldn't repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act over a span of four years while Trump was in office, but Republicans say, just give them another four years, and they'll definitely do it this time!
• Republican Trump-appointed judge Aileen M. Cannon, is making it clear by refusing to recuse herself that her goal is to help Trump out of his legal problems in exchange for more judicial power.
• Voter fraud is rare, but every time I see a case of it in the news, it's always a Republican.
• Bernie Sanders explains why people must vote for Kamala Harris even if they don't fully support her.
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to have tanked the Washington Post in order to help Trump.

How very complex things can be understood with simple equations.

Feeling: Okay

Last night I beat the hardest AI difficulty setting in the Microvision version of Connect Four.

• Proving once again that their goal is genocide, Israel has banned a United Nations humanitarian aid group from entering Israel, which will make it much harder for them to give help to people in Gaza. Israel justified this new law by claiming, without any evidence whatsoever, the UN's aid workers are secretly Palestinian terrorists!
• Hoping to finally be able to declare victory, Russia has deployed 10,000 North Korean soldiers to the Kursk region of Russia, which borders Ukraine. To get North Korea to think twice about this, South Korea says they may give Ukraine additional weapons if North Korea gets involved, the US has said they will allow the full use of the US arsenal against those North Korea soldiers.
• Republican JD Vance said, sure, "maybe maybe it's a stupid racist joke," but we need to "stop getting so offended at every little thing," saying, "I'm just, I'm so over it." Oh good, the rich white man is just so over black and Latino people becoming indignant at racist jokes. Maybe he should ask his Hitler-loving boss?
• The same artist who created a bronze poop statue to spotlight the the Trump mob who breached the US Capitol has debuted their statue of a flaming tiki torch to spotlight the white supremacists to held a Klan rally in Charlotesville, North Carolina where one Trump supporter purposely drove his car into a crowd of people murdering a young woman.
• Nevada has a law when women like Patience Frazier get arrested and imprisoned for causing their own miscarriage.
• Early voting is a fantastic ans safe way to ensure more Americans are able to successfully vote, but Trump keeps calling the process fraudulent. So, when someone purposely set ballot boxes on fire in order to destroy American votes, it makes me wonder if this is another Trump fan committing criminal acts for their lord and savior. Regardless of who it is, I hope justice is served.
• Former actor Jay Johnston was among the terrorists who attacked police at the Capitol on January 6th. He hoped his celebrity would keep him in people's good graces, but the fact that he filmed himself breaking into the Capitol ended up getting him fired from his acting roles. You would think losing his job would make him question his involvement, but, he continued to mock America by dressing up like the QAnon shaman for Halloween, seeing his terrorism role as a joke. During his sentencing, he begged the judge for leniency, and used his autistic daughter as an excuse for why he shouldn't have to go to prison. The judge wasn't impressed with he sudden change of heart when finally faced with the consequences of his violence, and sentenced him to a year in prison.
• When he isn't calling Kamala Harris the C-word, Elon Musk is using his ownership of Twitter to amplify Conservative voices while suppressing democracy.

Feeling: Sad

On Saturday, I finished both supplements to Night in the Woods. I've also added a new category for video games with expansions.

• A bunch of cartoonists got together and turned Trump's Project 2025 into a comic.
• Unsurprisingly, racist Trump invites racist Tony Hinchcliffe to warm up his racist crowd. He talked about how Latinos have too many babies and described the US territory Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage," but Latinos weren't his only target, he also said black people don't carve pumpkins, they carve watermelons. Trump would really swoon if he would talk about how great Hitler is.
• During his last presidency, Trump's trade war was a dismal failure which ended up costing Americans $230,000,000,000. But he's learned his lesson, and, I'm just kidding, he said if he win's he'll demand even larger import taxes on all the products you buy!
• Attorneys at the Justice Department wrote a letter to their boss, Merrick Garland, pointing out that he is focused on the genocide Russia is causing in Ukraine, but complicit in the genocide Israel is causing in Palestine.
• Criminally wealthy Jeff Bezos ordered the Washington Post, which he owns, to stop endorsing presidential candidates. Since the Post is made up of educated people, and those educated people were planning to tell people to vote for Harris, Bezos's edict is probably because he fears that Donald Trump will punish him if he lets the journalists at the Post tell people to vote for Harris, but also because he probably doesn't like Harris all that much either because she might actually make him pay his employees a livable wage and start paying taxes.
• Republicans cheer as Tucker Carlson describes daddy spanking teenage girls.
• Russian election interference continues to grow as the election nears, and, just like last time, they are made to help get Trump elected.
• The US Army released it's official report where Trump's campaign managers physically attacked an Arlington Cemetery worker so they could use dead soldiers as a prop in an illegal Trump campaign video. Despite the report is having been released to the public, Trump is still lying and saying it never happened.
• A look at the state-level political races that are going to affect lives for the next six years.
• Talking to other Magic: The Gathering players about why J.D. Vance is so bad.
• Former Trump supporters talk about what they've learned coming out of his cult.
• Why Nazis are spending big bucks on YouTube to soften their image.

What is necessary to make a playing card can cut through something much harder than it.

Feeling: Okay

Last night, I finished the main story of Night in the Woods.

• Israel murdered another 38 civilians in Lebanon, three of whom were journalists. Deliberately murdering journalists is a war crime, but it is often done by oppressive regimes to eliminate any independent verification when they commit atrocities, of which Israel keeps doing. It certainly appears as though Israel is purposely targeting journalists considering their staggeringly high body count. But Israel has found a solution to these war crimes, simply say without evidence that journalists are secretly soldiers.
• Republicans are falling all over themselves trying to justify why Trump said that he wanted Hitler's generals and talks about the good things Hitler did.
• Proving yet again that he is a racist, Trump described the USA as the "garbage can for the world," describing undocumented workers and refugee seekers coming to America as turning the country into a "dumping ground."
• A statue has been placed in front of the US Capitol in order to honor the deadly mob of Trump supporters who tried and failed to overthrow US democracy. The statue is a desk on top of which is a large pile of poop.
• Fired Fox pundit Tucker Carlson was speaking at the racist hate group Turning Point and gave a disgusting speech about Trump giving a vigorous spanking to a bad little girl with unchecked hormones.
• An Ohio judge blocked a Republican law which banned abortion against the will of their state's voters.
• Another long-time Republican has endorsed Harris over Trump.
• The United Nations gave their climate report and said the planet is not only failing to reach its goal of pollution reduction, but it is still increasing. They warned that, with the path we're currently on, we would need a "quantum leap" in science and technology increases to save us from catastrophic problems.
• David Hogg talks about how we can stop school shootings.
• How the USA could finally get rid of the electoral college.

The fact the religions need lots of people to spend their lives trying to explain why their scriptures don't really mean what they say is pretty good evidence that their religions aren't ordained by super-beings.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for my favorite Pink Floyd album, The Wall.

• Trump is openly saying he will violate the First Amendment by shutting down the free press if they criticize him.
• Proving once again they are the party of ignorance, particularly American ignorance, Republicans say, if elected, they will abolish the Department of Education.
• This shouldn't be news to anyone who pays attention, but, ever since Republicans on the US Supreme Court lied and overturned Roe v. Wade, infant mortality has been increasing.
• Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Granholm talks about the importance of clean energy and what Democrats are doing to add American jobs by modernizing our ancient power grid.
• Russians continue to spread misinformation and create election interference to help Trump. They know he will stop giving aide to Ukraine and further erode the USA.
• Republican Rudy Giuliani becomes yet another Trump pawn who lost everything covering up for Trump's lies.
• White men will most likely have to rely on women to keep us from shooting ourselves in the face with Trump.
• Racist Texans, unable to cope with how their ancestors mistreated Native Americans, took the usual Conservative approach, they simply rewrote history. This time, they took a children's history book about the colonization of Native Americans out of the non-fiction section of the library and placed it into the fiction section. This didn't sit well with people who actually care about history.
• Zach Radcliff, another uber-Christian Republican who preached and sung at Republican rallies about the importance of sex according to his god's plan, has been charged with raping children.

Feeling: Okay

Last night I beat all the game modes of Video Whizball against its AI. This game was fun and instantly became my favorite on the console and for the entire year of 1978.

• North Korean troops have been deployed into Russia, probably to help Russia's genocide of Ukraine, though they aren't actively taking part in combat yet. Trump has shown for years that he is beholden to Russia, and if he wins, there will be no chance that Ukraine will ever join NATO and receive the help they so desperately require. In the meantime, I'm glad to see the USA is taking $50,000,000,000 in seized Russian assets and loaning them to Ukraine. And, if you don't think Russia is a serious problem, perhaps listen to Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalnaya, the man Vladamir Putin had murdered for opposing him.
• Sensing their god may lose again, Republicans are doing everything they can to sow election dissent including having 236 of them claim the election is stolen before it has even happened in hopes that Trump will still be able to seize power even if Americans don't vote for him. While this is all going on, Trump's former Chief of Staff, General John Kelly has openly admitted that Trump is an authoritarian fascist who doesn't understand the US Constitution or why anyone would fight for their country.
• Trump continues his racist dog whistles calling Harris "lazy," "stupid," and asking if she's "on drugs," all terms that white supremacists frequently use to describe people of color.
• Unlike Republicans, Tim Walz actually sounds intelligent and sane.
• Harris has a few clever words for some Trump goon who showed up at her rally.
• Seriously, Trump is really into a golfer's penis, but the story helps Republicans deflect from the fact Trump saying he would literally send the military after Democrats.

Christians continue to try steal the Enlightenment for themselves, too bad their holy book is the exact opposite.

Feeling: Blah

Last night I beat the AI on the Channel F game, Checkers and made several additions to the Channel F page.

• Israel continues bombing civilians in Lebanon. The latest strike just missed a hospital, but still murdered 13 civilians.
• Trump told US autoworkers that their job is so easy, they could be replaced by a child, and he put out an attack ad in Michigan where literally everything that is said is a lie.
• This is not an idle threat. Trump has now said he will weaponize the presidential office to take out his political rivals over 100 times!
• When he not being sued for stealing ideas from filmmakers Elon Musk is telling lies for Trump or making Nazi comments. His latest show of giving millions in order to help sign up more Trump voters have caused former Republicans to urge the Attorney General to investigate him for voter interference.
• Republican Ron DeSantis ordered a state attorney to send illegal cease and desist warnings to TV stations in Florida in an attempt to block their free speech over abortion rights. Rather than continue violating the Constitution, the attorney bravely resigned.
• Republicans are trying to stop overseas voting in swing states, which is inadvertently preventing deployed US soldiers from voting. So far, judges in Michigan and North Carolina are not having it.
• In order to mock Harris who spent her youth working at a real McDonald's, Trump pretended to cook fries at a McDonald's which was closed off to the public and surrounded by police just long enough for someone take his picture. You know, just like the real working class does.
• Where did Trump and Vance get these racist ideas of Haitians eating pets? From actual Nazis.
• Trump dancing for almost 40 minutes is really odd.

The strangeness of superconductors.

Wow, Alarmo is way better than the Switch 2.

There is so much murder happening in the USA, you could make it look like any person with a touring schedule is a serial killer, even Garth Brooks.

Feeling: Blah

I've created a page for Ocean Software. I also beat the AI in the Channel F title, Tic-Tac-Toe / Shooting Gallery / Doodle / Quadra-Doodle.

• Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, bombing more civilians, and now pushing the survivors into even smaller camps. They are also increasing their bombing of civilians in Lebanon.
• Mifepristone has been proven safe and effective by the FDA (as well as numerous other health administrations around the world), but several Republican politicians are suing the FDA claiming they believe it's so dangerous nobody should be allowed to have it anywhere in the nation. Now, they may not have any fancy doctoring degrees, but they do know that their god doesn't want women to have control over their bodies, and that's all the proof they need!
• Despite all the Republican lies, there is no wide-spread voter fraud in the USA, and we know this for a fact. Despite this fact, after the Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the law which guaranteed easy vote access to all US citizens, there have been almost 100 new laws making it harder for people to vote, particularly black people.
• Fox pundits have no problem interrupting and talking over a black woman.
• Republicans are still trying to force their religion into public schools, and saying, if you don't like it, tell your kids not to look at it. Strange, that's the same thing they say about school shootings. They have already succeeded in their goal to bring Project 2025 to public school sexual education classes by largely eliminating them altogether.
• Being trans in the USA means constantly be bullied, attacked, or murdered, and Republicans keep passing laws to protect the murderers.
• Economists analyzed Trump's proposed budget and estimate he will bleed Social Security dry in six years.
• At his latest Klan rally, Trump spent 10 minutes talking about the size of Arnold Palmer's penis. Very presidential.
• Idaho didn't just ban abortion, they also banned minors from receiving health care without a parent present. So, when a pregnant 13-year-old showed up with pregnancy complications, the hospital couldn't treat her, because she was brought in by her aunt. This is the outcome of very poorly thought-out Republican laws.
• Nazi sympathizer Elon Musk says he will award millions of dollars to people who sign his Republican petition.
• Australia needs more lawmakers like Lidia Thorpe.
• Anyone who wants to take part in the annual Cookeville, Tennessee Christmas parade must now sign a document attesting that they are a straight, cis-gendered, Evangelical Christian.

Despite all the historical revisionism from Christians, the USA actually was not very Christian in the 1700s.

Because climate change has made massive hurricanes the new normal for the USA, it's important to know about a hurricane's dirty side.

Feeling: Sick

Took a sick day yesterday, still not feeling great. Thankfully, it's only sinus, but that doesn't make it fun.

I've added a page for the Channel F. I also did a lot of house cleaning in my media themes categories.

• Israel is blocking non-governmental medical organizations from entering Gaza. They refuse to say why, but, since the whole point of their invasion is kill as many civilian Gazans as possible so they can annex their country, it stands to reason they don't want doctors in there keeping people alive.
• Trump says he will deploy the National Guard to attack Democrats, which he called "the enemy from within," and the Republican-majority Supreme Court made it legal for him to do so. Trump is now also gaslighting the country about the January 6th insurrection, which he initially called a "heinous attack," a "day of love," and even siding with the terrorists. This should scare the hell out of every American.
• Because Republicans haven't won a majority of votes for president since 2004, the only way they can win elections is by cheating, so, until we stop them, they're going to keep cheating. Hopefully, we will vote them out, but it needs to be a decisive victory.
• As frustrated as I get from undecided voters, or people who choose not to vote, I still consider it my civic responsibility to educate them.
• Once again, the racist police in Phoenix, Arizona were filmed severely beating and repeatedly tasing Tyron McAlpin, an unarmed black man. They so violently attacked McAlpin because he didn't immediately comply with their verbal orders. Why didn't he comply? Because he's deaf and has cerebral palsy.
• Texas is suing doctors for providing gender-affirming care to patients because Texas Republicans made it a crime for doctors to treat their patients in ways that despicable human being.
• Catholics invited Trump to speak, shame on them, but what do you expect from the child-rapists? They deserve all the embarrassment they get from giving Trump a platform to lie about himself and everyone else.
• Republican Mitch McConnell privately and accurately referred to Trump as "stupid" and a "despicable human being," but still votes for him because Mitch McConnell is also a Republican politicians don't approve of.
• Sitting around listening to several different versions of Ave Maria may sound crazy, but remember, Trump's Klan rallies have never been sane.
• Turns out Trump wasn't just forcing the Secret Service to stay at his hotels, he was also over-charging them. Your tax dollars at work.

The strangeness of cable bacteria.

Feeling: Blah

Feeling a bit sick today. Not sure if it's the changing weather or an actual virus.

I beat the Genesis port of Hard Drivin' yesterday. I've also reworked my games with arcade ports so their arcade images are in their own section. There are several new arcade marquees and manuals too.

• Trump telling his violent followers that Democrats are "the enemy from within" is a lot more dangerous than the media is portraying it. Similarly, claiming immigrants have bad genes is some real Nazi talk.
• Trump once again refuses a peaceful transition of power and tries to rewrite history by saying there was a peaceful transition of power of January 6th, and that his failed violent insurrection which left several people dead never happened.
• All presidents in the modern era have released their medical records to the public... except Trump. Trump is refusing to release his medical records. The funny thing is, it doesn't matter he could have one foot in the grave, and probably does considering his fear of vegetables and lack of exercise, and his ignorant followers would still vote for him.
• The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking the IRS to investigate Lakepointe Church of Texas now that their preachers are openly telling their sheep to vote for Trump. Seriously, if you think Trump is a godly man, you're really, really stupid.
• Republicans keep trying to pass laws criminalizing the very existence of transgender people, and this is causing them to commit suicide at a much higher rate.
• Economists have reviewed Trump's latest tariff plan, and they agree that, if he were to implement them, he would wreck the economy for a second time.
• The Justice Department is building a presence in Portage Country, Ohio to ensure Democrats will not be intimidated by violent Republicans. This in in response to Republican Bruce Zuchowski telling his supporters to take down the names and addresses of people with Harris signs in their yards and report them to the Sheriff's office!
• Trump held a Klan rally out in the desert. Buses were hired to shuttle attendees miles away from where they parked, but, when it came time to take them back, the bus drivers kind of forgot about a lot of people leaving them stranded in the desert facing a 2-hour walk back to their vehicles without water. This isn't the first time one of Trump's poorly-conceived rallies left people in the lurch, and it is a perfect example of what happens under his leadership.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading Carl Sagan's Cosmos and started a page for the Nintendo 3DS.

• As usual, SNL does a great job demonstrating the political landscape of America right now.
• In his latest Klan rally hosted by Republican dog-murderer Kristi Noem, Trump stopped talking and spent 39 minutes just listening to music and dancing in front of the confused crowd.
• Catholics claim a trademark on feeding other people food and get pissed at Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Useful Charts published part three of their Tree of Life chart.

How entropy can sometimes create order.

How Mario Kart 64's AI cheated you.

Feeling: Happy

Over the weekend I took my family to a cider mill and Crossroads Village. Good times!

I've added a page for the PLATO computer system.

• Even as Israel continues dropping bombs on hospitals and schools, Joe Biden is sending them even more war machines.
• Like all honest people do, Trump is now refusing to give any interviews where he might be fact-checked.
• Proving once more that he hate most Americans, Trump says Democrats are more dangerous than foreign adversaries, describing them as "sick lunatics" who are the "enemy from within!"
• So why did Tim Walz not directly point out all of JD Vance's lies? Part of the problem is, even Democrats believe a lot of those lies, and, if a politician wants to win an election, they have to run on a campaign for what their voting base believes, not what is true. But, if we ever want to make any progress as a species, we can't just win elections, we also need to educate people with the truth.
• You better believe Trump will pardon himself.
• Republicans are so incredibly insecure about their manhood, they're making Trump look like a beta cuck.

Looking at the most influential games as described by game developers.

Feeling: Upset

I've added a page for the BBC Micro.

• Israel sent more missiles to Lebanon's capital and murdered another 22 civilians.
• The chair of the FCC has denounced Trump saying his demands to shutdown broadcast stations is dangerous and would violate American free speech. It should go without saying that TV stations should not be shut down simply because they won't let someone's lies go unchallenged the way Trump wants.
• Trump made another racist claim that Aurora Colorado has been overrun by Venezuelan gangs. The city's Republican mayor says Trump is lying, but to prove just how dangerous, violent, and deadly it has become in Aurora, Trump's going to hold a rally that's open to the public!
• The Kremlin has admitted that, during the early days of the pandemic, when almost nobody in the USA had access to testing, Trump was giving away America's supply to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
• How cops use petty crimes to take away your rights.
• Melania Trump many not be as evil as her husband, but she knows how to take advantage of a cash grab when she sees one.
• Just a reminder, Democrats can't control hurricanes. Nobody can. But it's not from lack of trying.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has gone through a lot in her life, and she is currently siding with Christianity, not because she actually believes it, but because she chooses to believe it.

Feeling: Upset

I've created a page for the music genre indie pop.

• In their continuing genocide, Israel bombed another school full of sheltering refugees.
• Kamala Harris was on the Late Show and all she talked about was policy and issues. She didn't even once address the major problem of windmills killing whales. How is this a close race? Anyway, here she is, parts one, two, three, and four.
• The Republican-led House of Representatives didn't think it should have to prove the things they bought were actually for their work, so they instituted a receiptless reimbursement program where House members can just take however much money they want. Last year, Republicans Nancy Mace and Matt Gaetz (the child-sex-trafficker) were at the top claiming around $40,000 in food and lodging expenses! This year, the House spent even more money with Republican Jim Baird taking the most by far. Of the top 50 spenders, 30 are Republicans.
• Trump and JD Vance won't stop telling lies about FEMA, and, because the Republican is now just a bunch of unapologetic conspiracy theorists, major news outlets around the world have to remind people that, no, Hurricane Milton was not engineered by Democrats.
• Even though there isn't any evidence of wide-spread voter fraud, Republicans in Pennsylvania are trying to make mail-in voting much harder, they claim, to stop the non-existent voter fraud. In reality, it's just to make it harder for people who can't easily get to the polls to vote, particularly disabled or poor people who tend to vote Democrat. Of course, another large group of people who vote through the mail are deployed soldiers, but, when has the Republican Party every cared about them?
• Ohio's Republican Governor, Mike DeWine, says Trump and Vance are saying nothing but lies about the fine Haitian people who legally immigrated into his state... but he's still going to vote for Trump.
• Fox lost $787,000,000 because they trusted a conspiracy theorist who claims they are a ghost who receives secret messages from the wind.
• Further isolating his country, Putin is banning the chat app Discord from Russia, but he didn't really think it through because the Russian military has been using it as their secure internal messaging service!

Christian apologists are talking about the latest surge in Christianity. Sure, all the surveys show that people are leaving church in droves, and yes, more people today than ever before in human history say they are not religious, but apologists aren't seeing as many YouTube atheists, so, that's proof of a resurgence.

Feeling: Upset

I've added a page for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, It's Blitz.

• Israel has now murdered over 42,000 people in Gaza, a huge portion of them are civilian women, children, and the elderly. The amount of displaced individuals now includes nearly the entire population of 2,100,000 people, most of them are homeless and starving. Because they're not facing any serious backlash, Israel is now expanding their genocide into the neighboring countries.
• Democrats have worked hard with General Motors on a long-term project to build an electric vehicle plant in Michigan. GM will invest $900,000,000 and the government will provide a $500,000,000 grant in order to bring more manufacturing jobs to the state to build American-made trucks. Republican J.D. Vance mocked the project and brought in six people in "autoworkers for Trump" T-shirts to protest the project, except, when asked by reporters which automotive companies they work for, all six people admitted they weren't actually auto-workers.
• To Trump, anyone who supports Democrats is an example of election interference, but when Nazi-adjacent Elon Musk publicly endorses him, it's all good. Maybe the Musk-ox should be trying to fix his terrible trucks instead?
• Republican Bobby Lindamood, channeling the ignorance of Trump, wants to detonate a nuclear bomb to try and stop hurricane Milton. Because of special people like him, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has once again published a statement explaining why a nuclear bomb meant to destroy a city, probably won't do much to a storm that is larger than a state. They also pointed out that teensy weensy problem of filling the nation's atmosphere with radioactive dust. But Lindamood has figured out a way around that problem, simply take make the nuclear bomb, you know, not be radioactive. To him, a nuclear bomb is just a conventional bomb with radioactivity added (I guess just to poison people?). Lindamood thinks you can just remove the fissile payload and have the nuke still be just as powerful. People in Texas saw this man and thought, now that's the kind of man who should run our entire city!

Nintendo's was unable to sell digital SNES games at party stores, but not for lack of trying.

Why so many cheeses are yellow.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for casual video games.

• Unsurprisingly, Trump was lying about the investigation of Brett Kavanaugh. Publicly, he said he wanted the FBI to fully investigate his Supreme Court pick, but, behind the scenes he actually stymied their investigation by refusing to authorize them to investigate the accusations of sexual assault, purposely withheld evidence, gave the FBI an extremely short deadline, and limited them to only 10 witnesses. All of this was to ensure they wouldn't be able to find any more evidence about his multiple incidences of sexual assault and alcoholism. And, now that he's on the bench, there is effectively nothing anyone can do to ever bring him to justice.
• Proving further that Republicans hate women and freedom, they not only reinstated the criminalization of abortion in Georgia, but also refused to hear a Texas case where Republicans rules that abortions can't be performed even when the mother's life is in danger. They don't care if both the woman and fetus die, so long as abortion remains a crime.
• Republican Michele Fiore, who thinks of herself as "Lady Trump," was caught having stolen money donated for a police memorial and used it to buy herself plastic surgery.
• Trump said that immigrants who commit crimes have bad genes. More Nazi talk.
• Through the EPA, Democrats have ruled that all lead pipes need to be replaced to ensure travesties like the Flint water crisis never happen again. My bet is Republicans will sue, and Republican-majority Supreme Court will overturn it by ruling that clean water is unconstitutional.
• Police officer Hieu Tran, who was a known alcoholic suffering from significant mental health issues, but still given a gun and authority over civilians, has been arrested for attempted murder. Why? He witnessed a truck drive through a red light and cause a crash. Angry at the driver, Tran walked up to his truck and shot him in the head, and then drove off without telling anyone! Only traffic cameras were able to identify him.
• Republican Dave McCormick was told to leave a restaurant and a church after lying that he was in town to raise awareness for autism, but was just campaigning for himself. This really pissed off the people involved who had autistic family members, but what should you expect from the event's organizer, Sheila Armstrong, who was part of Dr. Oz's failed campaign and the racist hate group, Moms for Liberty.
• SNL shows what the VP debates were like for Harris and what it's like for Trump's declining mental health.

The joy of cooking thermite.

Why pixel art is such a difficult skill to master.

Feeling: Happy

• Upset that so few Americans cared about Israel's genocide in Palestine and by Israel's repeated "accidents" that keep killing reporters, journalist Samuel Mena Jr. traveled to just outside the White House and set himself on fire. Rather than even attempt to get the story right, Fox referred to him as an anti-Israel protester.
• The latest evidence revealed by Jack Smith shows that, yes, Trump and his allies most certainly did indeed try to steal the election and, when that failed, they called on an angry mob to overthrow democracy. And the terrifying thing is, he's going to do it again.
• Despite admitting to sexually assaulting them, Trump claimed to be the "protector" of women. But, he also intends to defund one of the nation's largest providers of women's cancer screening.
• During the last Trump administration, the reckless spending and tax cuts for the wealthy from self-proclaimed fiscally conservative Republicans ballooned the national debt by a shocking $7,800,000,000,000! Things are predicted to only get worse if Trump wins again with economists predicting another staggering $7,500,000,000,000 of added debt. If that happens, Trump will have single-handedly doubled the national debt!
• Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene started by saying it's awfully suspicious that only Republican states were hit by hurricane Helene, then, when asked if she thinks Democrats have the ability to literally control and direct hurricanes at their will, she admitted, yes, she truly believes the US government, particularly the Democrats, can control the weather. Instead of voting for absolute crackpots, maybe Republicans should be voting for representatives who will bring Congress back into session to vote on hurricane relief, or maybe a governors who will answer the phone when called by the people who are trying to give your state relief money?
• Republican Mike Braun wants to return to the days when states were allowed to ban interracial marriage.
• Republicans are threatening to cancel $3,000,000,000 in contracts with an American company because one of their employees, among the thousands that work for them, told the press something JD Vance said. Note that this is a lie, the employee simply repeated the actual words of JD Vance. Punishing a company for the political views of one of their employees is actually illegal, and for good reason, but Republicans don't care. In yet another example of doing the opposite of what they say, Republicans are using big government to control the actions of private companies, and yet another example of Conservatives canceling everything.
• It's very troubling that the three most powerful Republicans — Trump, JD Vance, and Mike Johnson — are all conspiracy theorist election deniers.
• Republican Ryan Walters is trying force the state of Oklahoma to buy $6,000,000 worth of bibles, but specifically, they have to be Trump Bibles.
• Under the control of Elon Musk, Tesla managers are showing up at the homes of employees who call in sick just to make sure they're actually sick. Just another billionare who doesn't want to give their employees a living wage.
• Responding to racists conservatives who claim Kamala Harris isn't black enough, here is her family tree.

By killing off our wild life, we're also killing ourselves.

The strangeness of the Moon's orbit.

Why touching a live wire very quickly can lessen the damage it causes, but only if the wire has very low voltage.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for puzzle-platformers and hybrid genres.

• Just a reminder how Trump completely ruined the Judicial branch of US government for decades, and how he plans to make it even worse if he wins.
• Like most Republicans, JD Vance hasn't thought through his personal views very well. Based on his hatred of single women, and his goal of criminalizing all abortion and same-sex marriage, he thinks women should be compelled to get married and have lots of children. But, he also says families don't need child care, they just need to make the grandparents help out more. Of course, this assumes every child's grandparents are alive, healthy, nearby, willing, and have copious amounts of free time. Vance probably would say that wives should stay home and take care of their children, but, his wife, an immigrant who, unlike him, isn't really, really weird, is far more capable. Vance may be a slick debater, but his ability to lie with a smile means he's also a moral monster.
• Because everything he says has to be tied to his racism in some way, Trump is making racist lies about hurricane relief. But, with Trump, every accusation is an admission, because Trump did steal hurricane relief money to fight immigrants.
• Republican Mike Lawler said white supremacy doesn't exist. Cut to him wearing blackface as recently as 2004.

What happens when you eliminate predators?

Feeling: Festive

I beat The Rescue of Princess Blobette yesterday and added a page for the A Boy and His Blob series.

• Israel is still bombing civilians. Their latest airstrike in Lebanon's capital city Beirut has murdered 9 more innocent people in addition to the 1,300 Lebanese people they have already murdered. And the total number of displaced people is now 1,200,000!
• Now approaching it's third year, Putin's genocide of Ukraine isn't going the way he expected. While he's murdered 80,000 or so Ukrainians (many of whom were civilians), he sent around 400,000 Russian men to their death. This enormously high number of casualties, and the lack of a valid reason to risk their lives, has caused many Russians to do everything in their power to avoid the military. Desperate for new meat to put in the grinder, Putin has passed a new law. Any man facing criminal prosecution who will go to the front lines will be granted full immunity! This is such a travesty of justice; imagine your sibling was murdered, and the fearless leader gives the murderer a free pass if the agree to murder some more innocent people!
• New evidence against the Trump administration's crimes around the January 6th insurrection have been released. They include people in the Trump administration literally telling people to, "Make them riot!" and a Trump lawyer looking for a way to create a fake lawsuit over non-existent voter fraud saying, "give me options to file litigation," "find a reason [for the election to be unfair]," "even if it is." Pence, knowing they lost, tried bringing down Trump easy, but it didn't work and only made Trump more enraged. Later, when his mob stormed the Capitol and Trump was told that his VP was still inside and in danger of being publicly executed, Trump responded, "So what?" And, even after his party told him there wasn't any evidence of voter fraud, and that Biden won fair and square, Trump responded, "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election, you still have to fight like hell."
• After the 2008 economic crash, caused in large part by toxic mortgage loans, laws were put in place to prevent banks and real estate companies from creating similar problems in the future. Trump removed those laws. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people couldn't afford their homes and were evicted, only to see their homes bought up by large corporations who started renting them out at much higher rates, often too high for people in the area to afford. Also, many neighborhoods are blocking efforts to build new affordable housing because they're fearful they will attract poor people to their communities. All of this has created a major housing problem in the USA. However, if you're Republican, you don't talk about any of that, you simply blame it on the brown people.
• If one of your debaters is complaining that the moderator is fact-checking them, you're not watching a debate, you're just watching someone lie.
• Trump again mocks US soldiers saying those who suffered brain injures when a missile exploded near them weren't injured, they merely had "headaches."
• If you're a pregnant woman and want life-saving care, you should never go to a Catholic hospital.

The god of the bible is very different than the god modern Christians believe.

Feeling: Festive

I've added a page for the action-adventure video game genre.

• Continuing in its genocide, Israel has not only bombed a refugee camp in Lebanon, but it continues to bomb refugees in Gaza. Also, after two years of trying and many deaths, Russia has, sadly, captured the Ukrainian town of Vuhledar.
• Having a presidential candidate call for The Purge should probably be more detrimental for them than it actually is. Having a presidential candidate to the exact opposite of everything they say, should hurt them more than it does. Having a presidential candidate who can't answer even the simplest of questions, should make them a lot more unappealing that is does.
• Trump backed out of another interview because 60 Minutes said it was going to fact check his lies.
• What is the point of a debate when the moderators aren't allowed to do their job and point out obvious lies? Thankfully, journalists did fact check him, and boy did he lie a lot!
• Mexico has sworn in their first female president. I hope, in a few months, the USA will do the same.
• Republican Rudy Giuliani's Daughter warns against voting for Trump saying he ruins everything.
• Republican Derek Anderson posed for a photo with his friend's family to make it look like he has a wife and kids.

How QR codes work.

When religious people think they have a home run of a question for atheists, they usually don't have the slightest idea how to understand the answer.

Feeling: Festive

After reading it to my girls, I've updated my page for The Velveteen Rabbit. I've also added a page for the Billy Joel album, Storm Front and my top 15 favorite holiday albums. There is also a small page for the action video game genre.

• After bombing much of the small country to rubble, Israeli tanks are now invading Lebanon. Who knows if they will annex this country also.
• Trump is now saying the USA needs to have a day like The Purge. Or, if you know your history of fascists, like the Kristallnacht.
• The latest dishonest fixation of Trump and Vance is to point out that there are 13,099 non-citizens in the USA who have been convicted of murder. However, they leave out all context and fabricate a lot of surrounding this fact. First, they say it as though these people are on the streets, but they're actually in prison. Second, in order to obtain that number, researchers had to go back to the 1980s, so a lot of these people entered the country during the years of the Bush administration and, yes, during Trump's administration as well. Third, it's well-documented that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the USA. In fact, in the past 150 years, US citizens have always committed crimes at a higher rate than immigrants. So, the reason Republicans are hyper-focused on them means it's not about crime, it must be about something else, perhaps the color of their skin?
• Trump is a blank space.
• Poland wisely has voted out their far-right government, while the USA is on the brink of electing, to use the words of Trump's VP, "America's Hitler."
• A new law in Colorado is requiring hospitals to disclose which health services they refuse to provide. While this law doesn't target any specific group, it has made the Catholics extremely angry as they rely on keeping things quiet about all the services they refuse to perform on women and LGBT people.

Grifters grift the hardest when they abuse science.

As expected, Christian hate preacher Steven Anderson, who says LGBT people must be murdered, has really messed up his children. One son openly calls himself a Nazi and wants to create concentration camps to ethnically cleanse the world, while others talk about the various forms of child abuse they suffered from Anderson. One daughter finally escaped him, but fears her father will murder her.

Feeling: Happy

On Sunday, my family buried my grandmother's and grandfather's ashes into a weeping mulberry tree at my mother's house.

I've tried to find the CPU, GPU, and APU of every computer model and video game console on my site and add them to their page. In the process, I've added more additions to my programmable sound generator page.

I keep thinking, surely I've exhausted all the terrible things Donald Trump has done, but, then I keep remembering more of the horrible things he's done. And, he keeps doing more horrible things, so I keep having to add to my Trump complaints page.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while referring to Iran as "the curse" and Israel as "the blessing" called the UN a swamp of antisemetic bile for asking him to stop committing genocide. He then, claimed "Israel yearns for peace," while rejecting any chance for a ceasefire and outlining his plan to bomb Lebanon's capitol into dust.
• Trump is showing up on a lot of social media with purveyors of toxic masculinity in hopes of capturing the young insecure male vote, and it's working.
• Republican Clay Higgins gives a nonpology about his racist Haitian remark. I don't expect much from a man who put a gun to his wife's head and voted for KKK leader David Duke for governor. Now, his buddy Mike Johnson is telling people to get over it because Higgins is a great Christian.
• Hurricane Helene has destroyed homes throughout Alabama and North Carolina and even went as far north as Tennessee. The death toll is expected to exceed 100 people, and has displaced thousands. Good thing climate change isn't real. State and federal governments are now working around the clock to help, but, I should remind everyone that the Republican Project 2025 would eliminate hurricane relief. Trump's incredibly callous and unsympathetic response to the victims was to tell them, "You'll be okay."
• Oklahoma is ranked 49th place in public school education quality, but Republican school superintendent Ryan Walters knows how to solve their problem, he wants to spend $6,000,000 to buy every teacher in the state a King James Version bible.
• In order to give people enough time to identify and possibly fight having their voter status revoked, federal law prevents states from purging voter records fewer than 90 days before a major election. Republicans in Alabama knew about this, but didn't care, and broke the law by purging over 3,000 registered voters from their records after the cutoff date, so now, they are being sued by the US Justice Department.
• Rhyker Earl's grandmother called for an ambulance where her grandson began having seizures due to his epilepsy. Instead, a sheriff came, tackled him to the ground, handcuffed him while the young man was begging for his life. When paramedics arrived, they didn't want to her the young man screaming, so they injected him multiple times with so much ketamine the he stopped breathing. Neither the sheriff nor the EMTs noticed Earl turning blue, and his grandmother had to beg them to help him. They eventually took him to a hospital, but they had already killed him.
• When an admitted rapist tells women he'll be their protector, then describes a woman as "mentally disabled."
• SNL continues to accurately portray the political landscape.
• Corrupt politicians deserve prison regardless their party.

The difference between religion and the enlightenment.

Feeling: Happy

• How the US healthcare system utterly fails to help disabled people.
• This is why you vet your running mate. In addition to (accurately) calling Trump "reprehensible" and "America's Hitler," in private messages to a friend in 2020, Republican J.D. Vance also said, "Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism... I think Trump will probably lose [to Biden]." Now I'm curious what he's been saying behind Trump's back as his wannabe VP.
• Trump's comparing Republican Mark Robinson to MLK isn't looking so good now that it's come out that Robinson hates MLK.
• In an pathetic effort to save face after having it made clear he's afraid to debate Kamala Harris, Trump is claiming he would love to debate her again, but since a small fraction of people have already voted, there's no point. Sure Jan.
• It usually takes far too long before people wise up, but it's nice to see when grifters have to finally pay the price.
• Glad to see Harris leading in the youth demographic, but it won't mean anything it people don't Pokemon Go to the polls.
• Republican Anthony D'Esposito was caught putting his mistress on the payroll, probably so he could make the New York taxpayers pay for her services.

Just a reminder that the railroad industry is still poisoning residential areas.

Scammers who think indigenous people couldn't build impressive monuments usually have a white supremacist angle, and it's sad when they fool Neo into believing their racist lies.

Feeling: Happy

I've added pages for the first commercially successful personal computer, the Altair 8800, and its unsuccessful cousin, the Altair 680. I also added pages for their respective CPUs, the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800.

• Israel is not only rejecting any help for securing a ceasefire, but they're conscripting Israeli soldiers in preparation for a ground invasion in Lebanon. It appears as though Israel isn't even trying to rescue hostages anymore, they're only interested in bombing.
• More saber-rattling from Putin as he unilaterally changes the rules on how nations are allowed to use nuclear weapons. These are the lengths a nation has to go to when their impotent leader embarrasses his entire country by failing to invade a much smaller neighbor.
• Trump, the man who admitted to sexually assaulting a bunch of women, including minors, tells women he will be their protector, and it's just as cringe as you'd expect. Maybe if he didn't keep telling them he wants their beautiful babies?
• Republican Clay Higgins went on a racist rant about Haitian refugees because he's a terrible person.
• Republicans have no interest in stopping political violence because it really helps them.
• Eric Adams, Mayor of New York, stand accused of wire fraud and bribery. He serves as an important reminder that simply being a Democrat doesn't make someone a good person, and all politicians need to be watched carefully.

Christian preacher John Raymond was found guilty of child abuse.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the Tim Minchin album, Ready for This?: Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and the Till and the Wall album, o.

• Israel says they're finally deescalating their invasions... by invading even harder! They're also bulldozing much of Palestine's West Bank. This has nothing to do with getting back hostages or stopping militants, they're just destroying existing buildings and homes so they can annex the land.
• Republicans keep doubling-down on their racist lie about Haitians, Trump continues to fear Kamala Harris, and we're seeing a spike in young people registering to vote.
• What is it with Republicans and dogs? Kristi Noem has competition from Kevin Roberts, one of the Republicans in charge of Project 2025, who bragged to his colleagues that his neighbor's dog was barking too much, so he beat it to death with a shovel.

How do poisonous and venomous animals not kill themselves?

While you can kill a child by shaking them really hard, "shaken baby syndrome" is not a real thing.

Feeling: Happy

Today, I finished reading Juliet, Naked. It was quite good.

• Israel continues to bomb civilians in Lebanon. 558 people have been murdered so far, and Israel is now warning people in the capital city of Beirut to evacuate because they plan on bombing it to rubble.
• Haitian immigrants have been granted legal refuge in Ohio because Haiti is embroiled in a civil war which is largely the fault of the USA. But Republicans don't care about laws or responsibilities, they care about getting rid of brown people, and they will tell any number of lies so their racist followers will make it happen.
• Criminally rich people tend to be deadbeats who don't pay their bills, but Elon Musk is taking it a step further by also having his company trespass on private land.
• Need help calming down in this stressful age? Have you considered using a calming app? Particularly one voiced by Donald Trump?

Remember when the Foo Fighters helped raise money for Alive & Well, a misinformation group that tried to convince people that HIV doesn't cause AIDS? Remember when the Foo Fighters stopped helping Alive & Well because all of their most prominent organizers died of AIDS?

In case you need a reminder, no matter how secure you are, your phone is intrinsically extremely vulnerable.

Feeling: Happy

On Saturday night I beat The Guardian Legend and surpassed 500 games in my list.

• Not satisfied with their terrorist bombing scheme, Israel is now expanding their genocide by bombing civilian centers in Lebanon. In the first volley, over 100 civilians were murdered including women and children.
• Republican J.D. Vance says we need to destroy universities because having a complete education makes people worse and deranged, and he's still trying to make pet eating a real thing. Maybe we should take Vance's advice and adopt the policies of a Hungarian dictator?
• Republican Mark Robinson, the Christian nationalist who thinks being gay should be a crime, and has an endorsement from Trump to be the next Governor of North Carolina, just watched his senor staff resign in protest after it came out that he loves transsexual porn, peeping on women, buying slaves, and hates Martin Luther King Jr. The fact that his own staff quit is awfully bad for him as it makes the accusations that much more credible, and the fact that his bloated ego refuses to let him drop out mean we won't see a Republican replacement, hopefully ensuring a Democrat victory.
• Afghani men didn't initially speak out against the Taliban because initially they were only trying to control women. But oppressors don't care about sex, and now the men are wishing they had stood up because the Taliban are now again oppressing men by demanding they grow long beards or be severely beaten!
• The media is leading to our very brief attention span by never following up on important stories. What we need are some influencers to talk about them.

Satanists are once again the heroes as bigoted Christian nationalists in Iowa try to make their government benefit only themselves.

Part two of Useful Charts's evolutionary tree.

If your religion is based on the concept that a god walks among mortals, it would really help the credibility of your religion to actually be able to point to said god.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading Black Beauty.

• Trump told Jews that, if they don't vote for him Israel will be eradicated and it will be the Jews' fault, but also the Democrats have put a cruse on them.
• Republican Mark Robinson had one of his old screen names from a pornography forum leaked and it showed him talking about how he liked to spy on showering women, how he believed that slavery should be reinstated, how much he hated Martin Luther King Jr., and how he identifies as a black Nazi. And, despite all of this, Trump is still inviting him to speak at his rallies.
• While bragging that nobody ever left his rambling rallies early, people were filmed leaving Trump's rallies early.
• Trump has a long history of saying cryptocurrencies are a scam, which is why he's endorsing yet another cryptocurrency.
• Celebrities are certainly allowed to have their own political opinions, but you shouldn't vote based on what a celebrity says. Unless it's Celine Dion.
• The "uncommitted" movement is telling its members to vote against Trump, but not Harris because she won't stand up to Israel, and also not any of the third party candidates. So, who's left? Want to know how to ensure politicians won't give a damn about your views? Don't vote.

Feeling: Happy

I've created pages for the Sinclair ZX81 computer and BBS door software.

• Another terrorist bombing in Lebanon kills 20 more and injures another 450, again, many of them civilians, as walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah mass detonate. The prime suspect of the bombing is, once again, Israel.
• Republicans claim that Trump has assassins because Democrat call Trump a fascist, but it doesn't help much when Trump says the word non-stop about Harris.
• Democrat Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear signed an executive order banning the torture of children by religious people trying to change who they're attracted to. Republicans, as expected, are mad as hell and claim they will challenge the ban because they really want to be allowed to torture queer kids. But, remember, it isn't just the Christians who want to torture kids, the Muslims are all about it too.
• It turns out, J.D. Vance's own staff told him the racist lies about pets in Ohio were not true, but he continued to lie about them anyway, because the primary policy of Republicans is lie about everything. But, all these Republican lies are only sowing hatred among their sheep. Take, for example, Anna Kilgore, a huge Trump fan who called the police on her Haitian neighbors claiming they stole her cat, only to later find her cat in her own basement.
• Vladimir Putin continues to force jingoism on Russia's youth.
• Trump is proud of himself for being able to connect the dots.

The very fact that a god needs apologists is a good reason not to believe they exist.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the Mega-Tech System, Sega's version of the PlayChoice-10. I've also added several new high-resolution scans for various arcade games and included the MAME code every arcade release.

• As expected, Hezbollah has vowed revenge for the terrorist bombing against Lebanon which injured around 2,800 people and killed a dozen, including two children. Israel refuses to deny being responsible, and being okay with a terrorist bombing campaign isn't making them look any better.
• Back in 1882, the US Navy had a minor oopsie-daisy where it committed genocide against Alaskan natives. Seamen were ordered to murdered them, bomb their homes, burn their food stores, and destroy their canoes, in hopes the remaining Tlingít people would starve to death over the winter. Thankfully, some of the Tlingít survived, and their culture, though decimated, lives on. Back in 1973, the Department of the Interior gave the tribe $90,000 (worth $638,000 today) and 23,000 acres of land, but refused to admit they did anything wrong. Now, the US Navy is finally apologizing.
• Now that RFK Jr has dropped out of the presidential race, we don't have to hear any more stories about how he chopped up animals, right?

Math problems that may sound easy, but are actually so hard they remain unsolved, parts one and two.

Why are Christian horror films so bad? Because the writers don't understand what makes horror films actually good.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the MSX2 standard.

• This is why you don't side with genocidal monsters. Shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was expanding Israel's invasion to include the neighboring nation of Lebanon, thousands of people in Lebanon were severely injured or killed in a massive terrorist attack. Apparently, someone put small bombs into thousands of pagers which could be detonated remotely and these pagers were sold in Lebanon, mostly to members of the Hezbollah political party. At around 3:30 PM their time, thousands of pagers all around the nation exploded, many in crowded public areas full of innocent civilians, and around 3,000 people were rushed to overflowing hospitals! Obviously, this form of bombing is a war crime as there was no way to know who would be in possession of the bombs when they went off. Israel refuses to comment on this massive terrorist attack, not even to deny responsibility.
• Republican Mark Meadows was hoping he could have his election crimes moved from the state to the federal level where it would be easier to have the case thrown out (or pardoned if Trump wins). Well, it didn't work in Georgia, and it won't work in Arizona.
• When a lot of your former supporters hate you because you repeatedly lied to them, and they have easy access to powerful guns, and they know where you're going to be because you golf at the same place all the time, it makes it very hard for your bodyguards to protect you. The Secret Service has been warning Trump for years that his extremely predictable golf outings were putting him at risk, but he refused to listen. And, as is typical for Trump, he refuses to take any responsibility for his own reckless behavior, and is instead blaming everyone else.
• The media should really be hammering on Trump's lies about murdering children.
• Thanks to Trump, almost half of Republican voters no longer accept the concept of democratic elections.
• Republicans in South Carolina passed a law which required taxpayers to fund private religious schools. There was a lawsuit and the state's Supreme Court just barely agreed with the state's constitution which said doing that is illegal.
• Republican Bruce Zuchowski is running for reelection as Sheriff in Ohio on the platform of writing down which neighbors have Harris signs in their yards so they can be harassed if Trump loses.
• Republican Tim Sheehy doesn't appear to have any intention to apologize for calling the Crow Indians drunkards.

Some problems in geometry sound simple, but they're ridiculously hard.

Slumlords are not good people.

Feeling: Okay

I started feeling sick Friday night, which got worse Saturday, but I still took my daughters to an unsanctioned-by-Disney Princess event. The illness seemed less prevalent Sunday, and now I feel mostly okay today. That is an extremely short span of being sick for me, and I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I've beaten and added pages for the Macintosh Puzzle games.

• J.D. Vance is running for vice president of, in his words, "America's next Hitler," so it's quite fitting that both Vance and Donald Trump are repeating a racist lie that was formulated by a literal Swastika-carrying Nazi.
• 14 of the Republicans who tried to steal the election for Trump by pretending to be official electors casting votes for Trump are somehow still in office. These people who, by all rights, should be in prison, will be given another chance to overthrow democracy.
• Trump is still spewing the racist great replacement theory and lying about undocumented immigrants voting, which they don't do.
• I get why Republicans hate a pop singer for endorsing Harris because of Trump's racist debate performance, but did they really have to steal her friendship bracelet idea?
• Trump invited a racist 9/11 conspiracy believer to a 9/11 ceremony.
• Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a woman who gets free healthcare from the state of Arkansas, tells other woman from Arkansas that they shouldn't be allowed to get free healthcare from the state.
• I'm glad to hear Trump's inability to keep his mouth shut means he has to continue to comply with a gag order.
• Police officer Scott Creighton tried to help keep fellow cop Derek Chauvin out of prison despite the fact that he murdered an unarmed black man. Now, Creighton is going on TV to tell lies about Kamala Harris.
• How the media is failing America by being hyper pedantic on Democrats in order to give the impression of balance to the fascist Nazi.
• There appears to have been another failed assassination attempt against Trump. A former Trump voter with an assault rifle was lying in wait for Trump on a golf course, but was spotted by Secret Service before he got a chance to shoot. Trump doesn't deserve to be murdered, he deserves to lose the presidency, stand trial for his crimes, serve his time in prison, and have his ill-gotten empire fall around him.

Why do so many animals go through the process of metamorphosis?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a pages for the TurboGrafx-CD, the Wii U, the Sharp X68000, the Odyssey 2, and CP/M.

• With his tail between his legs, Trump sulks away refusing to get schooled again in another debate, all the while, declaring victory and claiming Harris somehow cheated because, unlike him, she gave coherent answers.
• Most people mocked Trump for repeating the racist lie about immigrants stealing and eating pets, but his violent base took him deadly serious and, like the terrorists they are, called in bomb threats.
• North Dakota Republicans once again tried to criminalize abortion, and again failed as a judge had to explain to them that them controlling a woman's body is a violation of the State's constitution.
• Republicans call themselves pro-life, but they won't life a finger to feed a hungry child.
• Further isolating itself from the Western world, Russia is expelling diplomats.

The future of space exploration as seen from 1977.

Boeing continues to implode as it once again demonstrates the failure of late-stage capitalism. But, thanks to worker's rights, employees are allowed to strike for better working conditions.

Feeling: Happy

I've added pages for the Gravis GamePad Pro and its manufacturer, Advanced Gravis Computer Technology. I also updated the existing Gravis GamePad page.

• Israel "accidentally" killed 6 more United Nations peace workers when it "accidentally" bombed a school filled with 12,000 refugees.
• Trump is so angry that he very clearly lost the debate that he wants ABC shutdown. Maybe he should call a lawyer? Or sing a song?
• It turns out Elon Musk isn't the only creepy old man who fantasizes about raping Taylor Swift for endorsing Kamala Harris, so does Republican Dave Rubin.

Five very problematic bible verses that cause people to lose their faith.

Following the evolution of invertebrates and fish on a fantastic chart.

Feeling: Happy

I beat World Heroes 2 and made a page for the series. I also added more to my list of Trump complaints.

• While we remember the September 11th terrorist attacks and never forget the 3,000 innocent people who were murdered that day, let us also not forget the motivation of the terrorists: they were enraged at the USA for actively and violently killing their loves ones and destroying their culture. Today, as the US government gives bombs to Israel to commit genocide on Palestine, remember, it won't be our politicians who will be killed in the next terrorist attack, it will be more innocent American civilians.
• I didn't bother to watch the presidential debate last night because I expected it to just be a long series of lies by Trump that would go unchallenged by the moderators, and, from what I've read about it, that's exactly what it was. Other than one fact check about Trump's lie about infanticide, they let him lie about immigrants eating people's pets, lie about the 2020 election, lie about immigration, his budget failures, literally everything. It's clear that all of Harris's preparation paid off, Most people who watched the debate agreed that Harris won, hopefully, they'll take that to the voting booth.
• Missouri's Supreme Court wasn't impressed by Republican-appointed Judge Christopher Limbaugh's attempt to eliminate voting on abortion rights and have reversed his religiously-motivated decision. Missourians will once again be allowed to vote on the issue.
• You know you're not a good person when even Republican war criminals say they're voting for Harris. I wonder what it was that finally pushed them over the edge, was it Trump threatening jail election workers if he loses?
• Creepy billionaire Elon Musk sent a message to Taylor Swift saying he would impregnate her.
• The Satanic Temple is once again the hero after not only preventing a school district from forcefully indoctrinating children, but also allowing a Christian bigot to expose himself.
• How Republicans castrated their manhood to support Trump.

Why the modern equivalent of channel surfing doesn't help alleviate boredom.

Feeling: Happy

I finished re-reading The Book of Three.

• Al-Jazeera has compiled some numbers on the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and it's horrifying. For every 1 Israeli killed, Israel has killed 40 Palestinians (most of which are civilians). With 125 journalists killed, it appears as though Israel is purposely targeting them. The bombing is also highly inefficient with every 42 bombs only killing 15 people, not exactly surgical strikes. Gaza was already on of the world's most densely populated areas, but Israel has forced over 2,000,000 people into an area of land about the size of a medium US city. Imagine 2,000,000 people suddenly being forced into Spokane, Washington. There are humanitarian zones where starving and injured Gazans can go for help, but Israel is bombing them too. More and more humanitarian groups are calling for Israel to be investigated for war crimes, but it's not enough.
• Here is how Republicans will ban abortion nationwide if they win in 2024. Speaking of abortion, Republican Ron DeSantis has ordered police to investigate people who signed a petition to legalize abortion in Florida. They're not only compiling dossiers on citizens, but interrogating them at their homes. This level of intimidation is very expensive to taxpayers and designed to make them fearful of exercising their right to freely vote.
• Cops often leave their dogs to bake to death in police vehicles, but they're finally starting to be held accountable, even if only a little.
• More artists should be suing Trump for stealing their music.
• The European Union once again proves they are the future leader of the world by requiring tax-cheating corporations to pay their fair share.

Why critical thinking skills are such an important subject to teach children.

Exploration of Mars after the Viking lander.

Feeling: Happy

On Friday night, I beat the SNES port of World Heroes.

• Israel doesn't care who they have to kill to obliterate Palestine.
• Tom Perez reported his father missing to police in Fontana, California. They interrogated him for 36 hours and eventually forced him to admit that he murdered his father. Then, his father turned up alive. But, even after the police learned Perez didn't murder his father, they continued to interrogate him because they wanted to pin some other unsolved murder on him now that he admitted he murdering someone. There was a lawsuit where the police cost taxpayers over a million dollars, but they still haven't apologized or made any attempt to update their protocol. This is just another example of why you should never talk to the police.
• Despite all the evidence that the 2020 election was above board (minus the Republicans who were caught cheating), Trump is once again claiming the election will be stolen, but, this time, he's threatening to imprison those who prevent him from winning.
• After lying Republican judges killed Roe v. Wade, Republicans in Missouri criminalized abortion for the state. 380,000 Missourians signed a petition to legalize abortion, but Republican Judge Christopher Limbaugh waited until just a couple days before the ballot deadline to rule that the petition wasn't properly worded, so nobody in the state gets to vote over the issue. This is all standard for Republicans. They know their policies are very unpopular, so they can't allow free elections; they have to lie cheat and steal in order to stay in power.
• Democrat Tim Walz may be a veteran and hunter with several shooting trophies, but he still believes in sensible gun laws. Thus, the NRA, which used to love him, now hates him.
• Four years ago, a bunch of Trump fans got in their trucks and tried to drive a Biden campaign bus off the road. Somehow, the trial for those drivers is just now starting, but they are, quite poetically, being charged under an anti-KKK law.
• Republican Mark Robinson is running for Governor of North Carolina on a platform of wholesome Christian values, which is why I'm not surprised that he has been outed as a frequent visitor of pornography shops and paid for his girlfriend's abortion.
• J.D. Vance is very normal and buys donuts like a genuine human being.

Speaking as someone who is 44-years old, don't trust bad science reporting.

Being an accountant in the land of video games is hard work.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a pages for the Texas Instruments SN76489 and SN76477 programmable sound generators.

• Colin Gray bought his son an assault rifle for his 14th birthday. He then used that gun to shoot up his school and murder four people. Georgia police have done something I didn't expect to see in the South, they've arrested the father and charged him with two counts of second-degree murder.
• Clearly feeling his age, Trump isn't doing much campaigning this time around and is instead snoozing his way through dull interviews.
• This summer was the hottest ever recorded, beating the previous record set waaaaay back in 2022.

The bad news is, COVID-19 is still with us and we're entering the season for illnesses. The good news is, there is a new round of updated vaccines.

We don't just fall for optical illusions, we also fall for audio illusions.

Why all religions fail at giving people's lives ultimate meaning.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a pages for the computer models: Commodore Plus/4, Sorcerer, and Electronika 60.

• We've already had 22 school shootings in 2024. Scratch that, 23. A 14-year-old boy in Georgia brought an assault rifle to school and murdered two teachers and two students and injured nine others. What's worse, he was already on the FBI's radar because, when he was 13, he posted online threats and pictures of his guns, but, because of extremely lax gun laws in the USA, they couldn't do anything to stop him.
• In a speech where he kept rambling incoherently about bacon, mispronouncing words, and misusing phrases, Trump congratulated himself on his public speaking ability.
• Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was on The Late Show and had a lot to say.
• Another big-named Republican, Liz Cheney, says she will vote for Harris because Trump is a danger to US democracy.
• J.D. Vance's past is still haunting him. In 2021, he told the Center for Christian Virtue that he is really disturbed by the president of the American Federation of Teachers because she doesn't have any children, and, because of that, she's destroying the minds and brainwashing everyone the children of everyone else.
• Skip Hall, Mayor of Surprise, Arizona, didn't approve of a woman criticizing his planned pay raise at a town hall meeting. In fact, the city passed a law making it a crime for citizens to criticize them, so, rather than listen to the concerns of the people, he had her arrested.
• Russia continues to influence American politics in the hope of another Trump victory since he's so easily manipulated. But, since a lot of social media platforms are cracking down on Russian accounts, they're taking a page out of the Mexican drug cartel's playbooks and hiring Americans to do their dirty work for them.
• Ronald Reagan didn't just ruin the Republican party for years to come, he also did a lot of damage to the Democrats.

Organized Christianity continues its downward spiral in the USA. Unaffiliated Christians now outnumber all white Protestants.

Before you consider watching Shen Yun, consider if you want to give your money to an actual cult.

If you claim your god personally protected someone because a shooter missed them, but the shooter still killed the Christian behind them, your intelligence has been ruined by religion.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the Commodore 64 and Commodore 16 ports of the mahjong solitaire game Wu Lung. As this was the first game I beat on the platform, I've also added a page for the Commodore 16.

I also made another funny.

• Russia bombed civilians in another city in Lviv Ukraine. Seven more people are dead, including multiple children.
• Trump filmed himself at Arlington National Cemetery, which is illegal, his staff got into a fight with the cemetery workers, which is also illegal, then they used that footage to make a political advertisement, which is also illegal, then Trump lied to US soldiers, which, oddly enough, is perfectly legal.
• No, public schools are not performing gender-affirming surgeries on children without the consent of the parent, or the student, despite what Trump says.
• Why American politicians, especially Republicans, don't like an educated populace.
• Global climate change isn't the same as having clean drinking water. Someone please explain this to Trump.

Why the largest Christian prayer app has a lot of skeletons in its closet.

Carl Sagan's Christmas lecture on exploring Mars.

Feeling: Happy

I reread A Wind in the Door.

• Over 40 people have been killed, and hundreds more wounded, mostly civilians, after Russia bombed another school and hospital in Ukraine.
• Why Trump's fans don't care if he uses dead soldiers as a prop in a commercial.
• Thousands of hotel workers are going on strike all around the USA in hopes of finally receiving a living wage.
• While the Republicans on the US Supreme Court think the US President should literally be allowed to get away with murder, Ketanji Brown Jackson says no.
• Officer Jamel Bradley, a cop who worked with minors at a school, has been charged with sexually assaulting the teenage girls he was supposed to protect. After the fifth student complained about him, the school finally decided to fire him, and police finally decided to investigate him. Why did it take so long to do something about this man? As the headline of this article shows, not only was he a cop, but he also used to be really good at sportsball.
• Fox talking head Jesse Watters doesn't like women, and he really doesn't like women of color.

The mystical reason we divide a rainbow into seven colors.

One of those Christians who encourages parents of gay children to torture the gay out of them is so happy to get married to a woman while still admitting he's gay.

In case you forget, the Shroud of Turin is still fake.

Carl Sagan's Christmas lecture on history of Mars.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday night, I finally beat Dragon Warrior II.

• A humanitarian group told the Israeli army they were bringing medical supplies to a refugee camp. They gave the Israeli army a detailed travel plane. The Israeli army killed them anyway. They claimed that the aide workers' truck had been hijacked, but the workers dispute that. The fact the Israeli army keep bombing humanitarian workers makes it hard to trust them.
• Proving Republicans want to control every aspect of your life, JD Vance said teachers must have children of their own otherwise the children they teach will be "disoriented" and "really disturbed."
• If corporations are posting record profits, it's not inflation, it's gouging.
• The US Army is backing the Arlington worker saying they did the right thing, and Trump's campaign was in the wrong.
• Democrat John Fetterman was never that progressive, despite his claims, and now he's drifting into Conservative territory.

Does anyone actually play those clearly fake ad games?

How scientists are able to determine the body temperature of animals that went extinct millions of years ago.

Does Hollywood really ruin books, or do we just fixate on bad movies?

Feeling: Happy

• Trying to shake the criticisms of refusing to go to military cemeteries because he said the people buried there are suckers and losers, Trump went to Arlington for a photo-op. However, because he never goes to them, he and his staff are unaware of the correct protocol. Because Republicans don't care about decorum or the sanctity of graves, they started taking promotional photos of Trump, using deceased soldiers as a prop. It's against the law to have cameras there during a campaign visit for this very reason, but Trump didn't care and his staffers ended up getting into a shoving match with Arlington staff, then claiming it never happened, while also making disparaging comments about the mental health of the Arlington worker. JD Vance, responded to the criticism by telling Kamala Harris to "go to hell!" even though she hadn't commented on their crime.
• Trump is once again calling for retribution for everyone who is holding him accountable for this many crimes.
• Thanks to public outcry, Republican Ron DeSantis has decided to suspend his efforts to turn Florida state parks into golf courses, at least for now.

Looking at the mathematics of various voting systems to try and create the perfect system.

Why Yahweh's plan doesn't make any sense.

Feeling: Happy

Just when I think I've listed everything, I remember dozens more crimes and misdemeanors of Trump. I also added political cartoons for a variety of topics.

• Israel is still bombing civilians in Gaza. And, while Israeli hostages were taken into Gaza, the Israeli military is also invading the West Bank proving that it was never about the hostages, it was always about wiping out Palestine entirely.
• In an interview with I-lost-my-license-to-be-a-Dr. Phil, Trump not only claimed the registered Republican shooter was the fault of Biden and Harris, but also claimed that god himself wants Trump to win in 2024.
• Arkansas Republicans are so proud of themselves for criminalizing abortion, they call themselves the "most pro-life state" in the country. But, if they're so pro-life, why do their mothers and infants keep dying at a rate higher than anywhere else in the country? Republican's don't care about life, they care about fetuses.
• Republicans are attacking Kamala Harris's successful fashion designer step-daughter Ella Emhoff, claiming that, because she isn't traditional enough, she's every parent's nightmare.
• Why Jordan Peterson's views on conversion torture are completely wrong.
• Why do Republicans view Tim Walz as such a threat?

What's with all the koala hate?

Why did the Bic pen become so popular?

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading Untamed by Glennon Doyle. I've also added several more Trump complaints.

• Fearing Trump's fascism, over 200 prominent Republicans who worked on the campaigns of George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney are urging Americans to vote for Harris.
• Trump likes to hire racist lawyers like Alina Habba, so it's not a surprise that, in his racketeering lawsuit, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis would accuse Trump's lawyers of failing to respect black women. And, to prove her point, Trump's lawyers are calling the black woman racist. And, while it's easy to blame this on his lawyers, Trump himself has a long history of using language to dehumanize black people.
• JD Vance has made the big time and appeared on Randy Rainbow.
• Democrat voters are not about to repeat the 2016 election and get overconfident.
• Republican Mike Lindell tried to go under cover at the DNC but was instantly recognized because of his ridiculously obnoxious voice, and was then owned by a 12-year-old.
• The difficulty of teaching people like Jordan Peterson that climate change is real. Parts one and two.
• Chicago police just lost $11,200,000 of taxpayer money (in addition to their own court costs) because they framed an innocent man who spent over 15 years in prison, shot an unarmed man in the back, and severely beat a man before learning he wasn't their target.

In order to prove just how low he's sunk, Bill Maher held several interviews with children where he got drunk and told sex jokes to ten-year-old girls.

The difficulty of trying to make sense of life if a god existed.

Feeling: Happy

I watched my girls get on the bus for first grade this morning. Bitter sweet.

I bought a nice haul of video game stuff over the weekend including a boxed ColecoVision, a boxed Master System, and games and peripherals for both. My total video game collection is now valued around $10,800.

I've expanded and categorized my list of Trump complaints.

• Upon learning that a team of journalists were staying at a hotel in Ukraine, Russia fired a missile at it killing Ryan Evans and severely injuring other journalists. Meanwhile, Ukraine's counter-invasion into Russia has resulted in over 200 Russian POWs, these combatants had guns and were trying to kill Ukrainians, but most of them are just teenagers!
• Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on the Late Show and crushed it as usual.
• Trump held a press conference in front of the Mexico border wall and talked about how well-built and impregnable it is. The only problem is... the wall he was complimenting was built by Barack Obama. If you were to keep traveling past the section the Obama administration built, you'd get to the wall Trump was responsible for, which, fittingly, was paid for, but never constructed.
• As expected, Trump says he might chicken out on the ABC presidential debate.
• Yet another former Trump advisor wrote a book about how awful Trump was and explains many reason for why he'll never work for him again, and why nobody should vote for him for president.
• RFK Jr. finally dropped out of the race he couldn't possibly win. His entire family is urging everyone else not to follow his reckless advise and vote for Harris.
• The JD Vance jizz cups, just like his proclivities for sex with couches, are funny, but also not true.
• While the DNC was a fantastic party, I'm annoyed that they brought on Oprah, but, at least they totally own the American small town.

How capitalism has ruined hospice.

Carl Sagan lectured on the outer solar system.

Feeling: Happy

Skeptics in the Pub tonight, river tubing trip on Saturday, a neighborhood block party on Sunday, and my daughters' first day of first grade on Monday!

I've made a page just for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3 since the majority of the software developed for it is incompatible with the first two models.

• Here is a reminder of how Trump incited the January 6th insurrection, plans to pardon the criminals, and may never be held accountable.
• Republicans keep trying to shake the "weird" label by using it on others, but, because they're so weird, they just don't know how to do it right. For example, after seeing his father speaking at the DNC and saying he loves his family, Tim Walz's neurodivergent son was so proud he shouted, "that's my dad!" and cried in happiness. Republican Ann Coulter posted a picture of the teenager with the caption, "Talk about weird..." She has since deleted the post, not because she thinks there is anything wrong with attacking minors, but because someone explained to her that, unless you're Trump, you can no longer get away with publicly mocking people with disabilities.
• The Central Park Five, five teenage boys of color who were forced by police to admit to a crime they didn't and couldn't possibly commit and were wrongfully imprisoned, spoke out against Trump at the DNC for a very important reason: although they were exonerated and paid damages for police forcing them to admit to violent rape, Donald Trump, because he really hates people of color, still said the 14-year-old boys should be executed!
• The Obamas were quite a hit at the DNC.
• Proving that it's not about protecting children, that it's about hating transgender people, Texas Republicans have decided to stop allowing trans people to change their sex on their driver's licenses.
• Republican Ron DeSantis wants to bulldoze a Florida state park to turn it into a golf course.
• Russia is trying to imprison more journalists.

Alex Dainis talks about how (alleged) fraud led to better Alzheimer's research.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the level-3 AI of both games in the TRS-80 CoCo title Gomoku/Renju. In the process, I've updated my TRS-80 Color Computer page. I also found a wonderful online CoCo site which has an online emulator, so I've added it to "play online" section of my game pages. It also had several manuals I was missing which I've also added.

• Republicans are grasping at straws to find something they don't like about Kamala Harris (maybe if she smiled less?), but everything in the DNC is going well. However, you can't win an election with good vibes, so get out there and convince your friends to vote!
• Democrat Pete Buttigieg reminds everyone, if Republicans had their way, his loving family wouldn't be allowed to exist.
• Generally speaking, Democrats have created far more jobs in the USA than Republicans.
• A jury agreed that the New Orleans police department never should have let an officer with disciplinary problems and many complaints of unprofessional conduct to escort a vulnerable teen who he sexually assaulted. The police department was found liable and must pay the family of the teen $1,000,000.

The Royal Institution has released Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures. Here's the first lecture, on the Earth as a planet.

Feeling: Happy

I've expanded my games by platform category to 131 platforms. I've also created a time line of the dominant video game console in the USA. Currently, it's just a list of numbers and names, but I might do something graphical when I'm more confident with the results.

• The Democrat National Convention appears to be going well. Everyone is pumped up, there are far fewer creeps (Trump's not there), Chicago is a well-loved city, and they're actually talking about policies rather than how much they hate people of color.
• Trump's insurrection successfully breached the US Capitol, but his mob was unable to steal the presidency for Trump like he wanted. During the carnage, Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by police while breaking into the Capitol, police officer Brian Sicknick was killed by the rioters who sprayed him in the face with chemical agents causing a stroke, Rosanne Boyland died from an amphetamine overdose while rioting, and police officers Howard Liebengood and Jeffrey Smith killed themselves days later out of grief. There are a few other deaths which could potentially be tied to the attack, but these ones are directly related. I bring up all these deaths because Trump keeps on lying, falsely claiming nobody died during his insurrection.
• When Trump isn't claiming he's better looking than Kamala Harris, he's saying the award he gave a large Republican donor is better than the Medal of Honor.
• A non-compete clause is a contract an employer forces their employees to sign which prevents the worker from being able to quit and work at a similar company, often for a span of several years. This is very beneficial for the company because they know their workers have no other options for employment, so they can hold them hostage with low wages and bad working conditions, and the employee's only recourse is to try and find a job in a completely unrelated field. The FTC was all set to outlaw non-competes as they are terrible for workers, but the pro-corporate judges appointed by Trump continue to wreck havoc. Judge Ada Brown proved her devotion to the Federalist Society by blocking the ban on non-compete clauses and supporting CEOs over workers.
• Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reminds people how tough she is.
• Like so many other people who worked for Trump, his former press secretary Stephanie Grisham is urging people not to vote for him, saying he refers to his own supporters as "basement dwellers." Bush-appointed Judge J. Michael Luttig is also telling people to vote for Harris.
• Just a reminder of how depraved Republicans are, they still donate to and vote for child-sex-trafficker Matt Gaetz.
• Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000, and even the banks that loaned him the money said that was far more than it was worth, but they really wanted to be able to say they were doing business with the richest man in the world, so they took the risk. Then Musk went crazy (crazier). He fired necessary staff members, stopped paying the company's rent, brought in a whole bunch of Nazis, tried charging people to use previously free site, then it finally dawned on him how he could salvage everything: he changed the name to "X." Typically, when banks have loan they predict will default, they offload it to a smaller banks at a discount, but Musk's loans are so big, and so clearly going to fail, that no other bank wants them, not even for pennies on the dollar, calling the loan the worst deal since the 2008 financial crisis!
• Once again, cops were deployed to a mental health crisis. 25-year-old Victoria Lee who was having a manic episode threw a jug of water at cops so they retaliated by shooting her to death.
• If you know someone who is undecided about the upcoming presidential election, this page lists key polices and what each candidate has said and done regarding them.

Here's an updated video of video game console sales from 1972 to 2024.

Feeling: Happy

Today, I beat the campaign mode of the MSX2 port of Shanghai II. I've also added about a dozen more interesting maps.

• More racism from Trump. In the past he told Kamala Harris to "go back" to where she came from (she was born in California), and, in a speech on Monday he asked if anyone "knew where she comes from?" then described her views as a "jihad."
• Republican adults are like preteen boys who think female biology is icky. It's a lot worse than them being afraid of women's biology, they are knowingly lying about the whole thing. To set the record straight: the Minnesota law doesn't require tampons in boy's lavatories, it says only that they must be provided to "menstruating students." Individual school administrators decide where they are to be placed, and, so far, not one school in Minnesota puts period products in boys restrooms. Also, to put things into context, Minnesota was not a pioneer in this regard, 24 other states already required schools to provide period products to students including Republican strongholds like Alabama and Utah. The fact that Republicans are so easily misleading their base shows just how gullible they are and so eager to incited.
• Trump claimed the media used AI to create a fake Harris rally. Of course, the rally was real and the photos of the enormous crowd sizes were genuine, Trump was just lying like he always does. However, he does bring up an important point: we've reached the point where AI can be used to easily spread lies, especially about politics, so anyone caught doing needs to be held accountable. In other news, Trump was caught sharing fake AI-generated images to spread political lies.
• Still embarrassed at Trump's two impeachments, Republicans have been trying to impeach Biden for the past four years. Their latest effort produced a lot of pages of text, but no actual evidence of wrongdoing.
• Republican George Santos has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and is expected to serve prison time. This is unusual as most politicians who commit crimes in office just resign and are forgotten, never to be punished. Hopefully, all these crimes from people like Santos and Trump have brought about in the people a new expectation of government accountability.
• Trump isn't very good at staying on message.
• The New Orleans police department allowed one of their officers to groom and rape a 15-year-old girl. It took a couple years, but the officer Rodney Vicknair was finally arrested and put in prison, but now, even more years later thanks to countless delays by the city, the department itself is finally being sued for allowing such a monster to be around children.
• This is why you don't get your foreign policy from fictional movies.
• To Donald Trump, looking good is more important than defending your home.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for interesting maps.

• Conservative talking heads keep telling Trump to stop focusing on racist and misogynistic insults, and focus on beating Harris on policy decisions. The only problem is, Republican policies are unpopular, so, to keep his base riled up, he really does have to focus solely on racism and misogyny.
• It's amazing how J.D. Vance had to change his mind about literally everything he believed in when he decided to support Donald Trump. I guess we can't all be Tim Walz.
• Products are sold in different sizes. If you only need a little, buy the smaller size. If you need a lot, buy the family size. This makes sense to most people, but, it's inflation.
• Police officers Joseph Miller and Jason Woodruff were so eager to kick, punch, electrocute, head stomp, and order a dog to bite an unarmed man that they forgot to check if he was actually the person they were supposed to be looking for. He was not.
• A Confederate statue is being replaced by a black civil rights leader. The white supremacists will not be happy.
• M Live responded to Trump's tantrum over Harris having larger crowds.
• A quick reminder of how the USA annexed Hawaii without their consent and continues to abuse it.

The path to artificially creating element 120.

Want to waste your money? Listen to a YouTube influencer and buy some nootropics.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday I beat the MSX2 port of Shanghai II.

• Israel continues to bomb civilians in Gaza, but they're also continuing to annex the West Bank and their officials aren't even shying away from publicly declaring it. The nation's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained, "No anti-Israel or anti-Zionist decision will stop the development of the settlement," and, "We will continue to fight against the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state. This is the mission of my life."
• Republican Russell Vought, policy director of the Republican National Committee, significant member of hate group Heritage Foundation, and one of the primary authors of Project 2025, just gave an interview with people he thought were rich Christian donors, but they turned out to work for a British journalism group, so Vought said all the quiet parts out loud to them. He explained the goal of Republicans wasn't religious liberty, but Christian nationalism, said they were secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders for Trump to sign for them, and described various "shadow agencies" he was creating. He also explained how, even though Trump has to publicly say he doesn't know who they are, Trump has personally blessed Project 2025, is very supportive of it, and intends to implement their ideas. The link between Trump and Project 2025 has always been assumed, but it's no longer an assumption.
• Trump's August 8th "news conference" was just a long screed of lies. NPR had the horrible job of fact-checking him, while CNN cut coverage because he refused to take any questions. In his August 15th attempt to turn a news conference into an advertisement, MSNBC took an even braver approach and simply refused to air it.
• Trump and Elon Musk keep making excuses for their terrible interview.
• In their attempt to keep abortion a crime, Arizona's all-Republican Supreme Court ruled that the state's ballot to enshrine abortion rights through a constitutional amendment will say "unborn human being" instead of "embryo or fetus," in the hopes that their inaccurate language will create a visceral and negative emotional reaction.
• If you're wondering what Republicans think of higher education, J.D. Vance called college professors "the enemy." No wonder that he's dragging Republicans further down.
• With the oldest congress in the world, maybe the USA should require cognitive tests for our politicians?
• Just a quick recap on what's been going on.

Why do coelacanths appear to not evolve?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the band, Ludo.

• Gaza estimates the Israeli military has killed at least 40,000 Palestinians, most of whom have been civilians.
• The Biden administration has cut costs for medicare recipients about $50,000,000,000 each year. This is largely from making huge cuts to the cost of prescription drugs.
• Elon Musk blamed his inability to get his interview with Trump going on a cyber attack, but former Twitter employees think he's lying about it as it's far more reasonable that the site just doesn't work very well anymore because Musk fired almost all of the company's staff. And, during the interview, Trump talked about how much Harris looks like his estranged wife. Maybe he should stop flying around on Jeffery Epstein's plane?
• Putin is now imprisoning people for donating to Ukraine. Professional dancer Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years for donating a mere $51 to Ukraine!
• How Project 2025's Christian theocracy will affect non-believers.
• Police shot and killed another unarmed person with mental health issues. Victoria Lee was holding a water bottle which cops mistook for a knife, so they shot her to death.

Feeling: Happy

I finally got around to packaging up all my Swords of Glass utilities. They're still in an unfinished state, but it allows you to view the bulk of the game's files.

• Yes, Democrats are still selling war machines to Israel to aide their genocide, but they're also the only party willing to create national monuments educating us about America's racist past, so we still have a moral imperative to vote for Harris this November. Harris is certainly doing better than Biden, much to Trump's chagrin, and he really hates that they have better hats, and Tim Walz is just so likable.
• Trump keeps claiming that the refugees who arrive at our southern border were released from asylums and are worse than the fictitious character Hannibal Lecter which tells you two things about him: one, he hates refugees, two, he really hates people with mental health problems. This is making him so mad, he can't even cheat on his wife properly.
• Ohio Police Officer Connor Grubb is the latest white cop to murder and unarmed pregnant black woman.
• Attorney Stefanie Lambert, another one of Trump's cronies who interfered with the presidential election to steal it for Trump, has been disqualified from representing fellow insurrectionist Patrick Byrne, and still faces her own pending lawsuits for illegally releasing private voter records.
• Police Officer Gideon Cody didn't like that his local newspaper was publishing articles critical of him, so he illegally raided their office and stole all their phones and computers. Thankfully, this resulted in Cody being forced to resign, and he now faces federal charges.
• CNBC journalists discovered SpaceX has been poisoning the local water supply by dumping toxic chemicals into ground water for several years. Rather than issue an apology or describe how he will clean up his mess, Elon Musk posted simply, CNBC sucks.

A woman died from an allergic reaction to food served at a Disney restaurant. Her husband is trying to sue the company, but the Disney lawyers claim he can't because he signed up for a free trial of the Disney+ streaming service. If that doesn't make any sense to you, you didn't read the fine print. The end user license agreement of Disney+ says watching the video streaming service means you also agree that any future disputes with the Disney corporation must go through binding arbitration instead of real courts.

I've had five dogs in my life. The one that was the easiest to train and the best around kids has been my pit bull mix. So, why do pit bulls have such a bad reputation in the USA? For a large part, it's racism.

Candace Owens turns to sex trafficker Andrew Tate to explain the importance of knowing things without needing to do research or look at evidence.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the band Pink Floyd.

• When the Republicans on the US Supreme Court criminalized abortion after lying about their views to get on the court, many people predicted a very scary and dangerous future for women. That future is now. In Texas, women trying to have kids are being rushed to hospitals with ectopic pregnancies (where a fertilized embryo implants somewhere other than the uterus). Left untreated, the fetus grows in the fallopian tubes or ovaries and causes severe pain and internal bleeding and is ultimately fatal. This happens in about 2% of pregnancies, and, prior to being able to be detected, led to the death of countless expectant mothers. The best treatment is to have an abortion to remove the embryo as soon as possible before it does lots of internal damage and kills the woman, but, because Republicans have made it nearly impossible for women to get abortions, and most hospitals are now Christian-owned and operated, even women whose lives are at risk are being turned away and told to return after they are much closer to death. In Texas, two of these mistreated women are now filing federal complaints.
• Now that he's in the pocket of Trump, Republican JD Vance has to fall in line with all of his lies, so Trump and Vance are both non-stop lying. It's gotten so bad, that it's even impressive for Trump, like his claim he was in a helicopter crash with Kamala Harris' former boyfriend.
• Another Trump crony was found guilty of election interference. Republican Tina Peters of Colorado stole election records in order to help Trump steal the election.
• Rich Nazi Elon Musk wanted to interview less-rich Nazi Donald Trump on Twitter, but, because Musk fired most of Twitter's staff, the interview was fraught with technical failures, and, when it did finally get underway, Trump just rambled incoherently for two hours.
• A very brief history of Kamala Harris.
• In November, will we be getting the lawyer or the conman?

The origin of Mario.

Feeling: Happy

I've uploaded and categorized another 20 strategy guides.

• One estimate claims Israel has dropped so many bombs on Gaza (over 45,000) that it's surpassed the destructive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, three fold!
• Project 2025 explains how Republicans will criminalize all forms pornography as they turn the USA into a Christian theocracy. One of the project's many authors, Kevin Roberts, has written a book about how he and a bunch of Trump's cabinet put it together, but, for some reason, the book's release has been delayed until after the election. However, an early copy has leaked, and reviewers are terrified by what the president of The Heritage Foundation (an American hate group) has written. He wants to criminalize birth control in all forms, in vitro fertilization, and even divorce. He also wants to give preferential treatment to Christians and ensure that women stop wasting their lives on careers when they should be staying at home and being selfless mothers.
• Donald Trump is so insecure that, several years later, he's still creating conspiracies about crowd sizes. His latest batch of lies is that Kamala Harris didn't hold a rally in Michigan (she did), that nobody showed up (they did), and that all the pictures of the event were generated through AI (they weren't). There are hundreds of videos of the event all over the Internet and thousands of photos, those things get pretty crazy, but Trump says it's all a vast conspiracy against him. I'm glad reporters keep bringing this up because he responds like a child throwing a tantrum trying to defend his lies. His social media platform, where he spreads his lies, which is still running a massive $16,400,000 quarterly deficit, with revenue that continues to shrivel. Just another one of his failed business ventures that brought down those stupid enough to invest.
• In 2020, Republican J.D. Vance acknowledged global warming and said the USA needs to increase its dependency on solar power. Then he got into politics and began receiving large bribes donations from oil and gas companies. So, in 2022, while he was running for the Ohio Senate, he said there is no pollution problem affecting our climate, green energy is a fantasy, and we should embrace fossil fuels. And, by 2023, he was saying electric vehicles are a scam.
• Republican Greg Abbott just lost Texas taxpayers $358,000 in addition to even more in court fees for trying to push his religion on people.
• Richard Dawkins continues to ruin his legacy by swallowing gross lies about Imane Khelif. He uncritically repeated the lie about her sex, probably because she doesn't look sufficiently feminine enough to him. He then claimed that his Facebook account was shutdown to censor the hate speech he posted on Twitter (if that doesn't make sense, it's because it didn't happen). It's this kind of stupidity and hatefulness that caused my local humanist group to disassociate from Center for Inquiry who still keeps him on their board. Transphobes like Dawkins, J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, and many Republicans are really showing their full asses when it comes this athlete. Every credible source involved with women's sports says she was born and has always been female, but that's never enough for transphobes, they want to force everyone into very separate categories of gender, and anyone who is born even a little different will be attacked.

The differences in randomness between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading Judy Blume's Summer Sisters.

• The god of the Republicans, Donald Trump, made a racist remark about Kamala Harris, so, now, all the Republicans have to fall in line and be just as racist. They're also trying to mock Democrat Tim Walz who put free menstrual products in school bathrooms... oh the humanity!
• Ukraine is counter-striking in Russia to bring the war home to them in hopes it will turn the people against Putin, and Iran has started attacking Israel.
• Trump may not know what Mifepristone is, but he's open to criminalizing it.
• In an attempt to mock VP pick Tim Walz, Fox host Laura Ingraham said, "If you know Minnesota, and I know it well, especially Milwaukee, it's changed." If she knows Minnesota so well, why does she think a Wisconsin city is in Minnesota?
• Just a reminder, RFJ Jr is a crazy conspiracy nutjob, and, if you're thinking of voting for him instead of Kamala Harris, you're helping Trump.

Trying to explain to heavily indoctrinated people that a doctor saying something wrong about a treatment, doesn't invalidate all of science.

Feeling: Happy

• Trump told a story about the time his rabid followers surrounded the home of Tim Walz, including members of the Proud Boys, an terrorist organization, and Trump had to tell them to go home before they turned violent. In Trump's deranged mind, he somehow thinks he's the hero of this story rather than the villain, but, since this is a Trump story, it probably never happened.
• Trump denies knowing anything about Project 2025, but he took a private flight with the project's leader where he was briefed on their goals.
• More pro-Harris Twitter accounts are being shutdown or blocked and people are having trouble following her official account. I'm willing to believe this isn't Trump-lover Elon Musk personally blocking the accounts, and just what happens when you fire the bulk of the staff at a company.
• So-called pro-family Texans have been accused of neglecting disabled children in foster care who were frequently saying they were being abused but nobody investigated the accusations. A stiff fine was put in place to try and force them to care about children, but, thanks to Trump-appointees, the fine probably won't have to be paid, so the abuse will continue.
• A melting glacier has flooded Juneau Alaska, but global warming is a myth.
• I'm a bit late on this but, Republicans states have effectively legalized child labor.

Why there will never be a king bee.

Feeling: Happy

I've written up an article about the term "monochrome," how it is used differently in different contexts, and given lots of examples.

• Republican VP pick, J.D. Vance has a long history of chatting with conspiracy nutjob Charles Johnson, while the Democrat's VP pick, Tim Walz, is the dad you wish you had.
• The "True Texas Project" is a group of white supremacist Christian nationalists who think the Jews are trying to eliminate real white people from America (tldr: Nazis). Despite being pretty open about being Nazis, their events still bring a lot of prominent Republican speakers like Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert. These are the sort of people who adore Trump.
• Republicans Jeff Landry and Liz Murrill passed a law in Louisiana which forces public schools to display posters advertising for a specific version of a specific religion. Obviously, they are now being sued by many people from different religions, but they have come up with a fantastic legal defense: tell your kids don't look at them.
• Ohio Judge Michael J. Holbrook upheld the Republican law which criminalizes transgender teens, even if the teen's parents, doctors, and psychologists all say they need gender-affirming care to be healthy, Republicans (who claim to care about personal and family rights), still say it's a crime. The law also bans transgender teens from participating in youth sports.
• Republican Andrew Ogles had his phone seized by the FBI who are investigating "finance" crimes.
• Elon Musk is trying to sue several companies because they don't want to advertise on Twitter because of all the Nazis on the platform (including the one who owns it). The self-professed "free speech absolutist" thinks companies should be forced to do business with him.

Christians often talk about the cumulative case for their religion, but never consider the cumulative case against their religion.

Feeling: Injured

Michigan primaries are today, don't forget to vote!

• Most people who support Trump very quickly learn that he is an ignorant loud-mouthed bigot and quit in disgust. Those who remain have to completely abandon all their principles. For example, Trump told Ted Cruz his father helped assassinate JFK and his wife was ugly, and Ted Cruz still bent the knee and said he was proud to endorse Trump. Recently, Trump mocked Republican Brian Kemp's wife, pointing out that Kemp is now kowtowing to him, but his wife won't, but Kemp implied he'll still voting for Trump. The latest one to knuckle under is Republican Byron Donalds, a black man who is defending Trump's racist lies against Kamala Harris. The long game is even worse. After a person has degraded themselves fully, Trump will eventually demand they break the law, and they will end up like Trump's attorney Jenna Ellis who has agreed to cooperate with the Arizona attorney general to help expose the other 17 Republicans who committed voter fraud through fake electors.
• A federal judge ruled that Google broke anti-competition laws trying to destroy all opposing search engines (so much for "don't be evil") and the US government is seeking to break up the company.
• Elon Musk continues to paint himself as a champion of Western values, but the whole disowning his children, cheating on his many wives, having sex with his subordinates, and being racist only shows that he's only in-line with Republicans.
• Idaho Republicans were so successful at banning books that a mother couldn't check out a copy of "The Fellowship of the Ring" because she her one-year-old daughter was with her.
• When making policy decisions, its important to consider the veil of ignorance to ensure fairness for all parties. Republicans never do this because most of their decisions are made to help rich white men.

A physics professor explains why sometimes it's okay to fail.

Why autistic people tend to love board games.

Feeling: Injured

I barely survived the tubing trip, but I did survive.

• Just like with his fear of the primaries, Trump has once again chickened out from the debate stage, refusing to debate Harris on ABC as planned. Instead, he want to change the rules at the last minute and debate on the Republican-run Fox which is trying to shake off the "weird" adjective, but doing so in a very weird way. Also, another former Republican, disgusted by Trump's failed attempt to overthrow the US government, is now endorsing Harris, calling Trump dangerous, a criminal, and saying a second Trump term would create global chaos. The fact that Trump's congratulating Putin while he's imprisoning US journalists, kind of proves him right.
• As much as I want Trump to lose, we need to keep fighting and be prepared if the fascists win and put roadblocks in their way while we still have a chance.
• The UK has its own spawn of violent bigots. A large mob of racists who are very angry that the UK is helping destitute refugees, went to a hotel which was temporarily housing them, and set it on fire in an attempt to murder the people inside.
• More unreported vacations on private jets have been uncovered for Republican Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who is still very much against the idea of a code of ethics.
• Hope for justice for D'Vontaye Mitchell is rising as his death was ruled a homicide by the security guards who beat him to death. This is the benefit of not having law enforcement with a license to kill.
• Twitter's terrible AI is posting pro-Republican lies against Harris. Five secretaries of state are sending letters to Elon Musk to fix it. But, considering that Musk purposely shared a deepfake of Harris, I don't think he's going to take them seriously.

An in-depth look at how Yoko Ono did not breakup the Beatles.

Christian pastor Terren L. Dames preached, "Why aren't we upset about sin anymore? Why do we just accept it? The perversion!" and was then caught trying to buy sex from an undercover cop.

Feeling: Happy

Going river tubing tomorrow. Wish my liver luck!

• Just a reminder, Israel has been committing war crimes for decades, and the USA keeps helping them do it.
• One of the problems when you're in a cult of personality is, if the cult leader is particularly vile, you not only have to defend them, but you have to become just as vile as they are. Case in point, when Trump lied to black journalists about Kamala Harris's race, all his Republican toadies not only had to defend his lie, but are now beginning to change their views to make similar racist comments about people of color. One really sad casualty is the Indian family of J.D. Vance. This is a man who has children with his Indian wife, making their children bi-racial. If his kids ever say, "I'm Indian," is he going to chastise them for not accurately stating that they're both half-Indian and half-white? I'm sure his wife feels uneasy when her husband defends Trump's racist remarks.
• If a man has an abnormally strong athletic body, we encourage them to enter sports and cheer them on as a hero despite them having little control over how their body grows. If a woman has an abnormally strong athletic body, sports committees will force them to take hormone blockers until they're so they aren't so good and assholes like Elon Musk and JK Rowling say they're a man pretending to be a woman. Olympic boxer Imane Khelif was born a woman, comes in a country that criminalizes being LGBT, and passed all the necessary gender tests of the Olympic Committee. With their hateful bigotry, Elon Musk and JK Rowling have proven that they're not even TERFs, they just hate any women who aren't sufficiently feminine in their opinions.
• In 2019, Egyptian intelligence withdrew $10,000,000 from a bank in Cairo, all in cash, and appears to have secretly given it to Trump. There was going to be an investigation as to whether this constituted a foreign government bribing a US president, but Trump's Attorney General, William Barr, quietly squashed it.
• Republicans are trying to defend Trump's admission to sexually assaulting women by focusing on his usage of the phrase, "they let you grab them by the p*ssy."

The West Highland Way looks amazing.

Tasting History has been putting out some great videos lately.

Feeling: Happy

I've updated my List of NES strategy guides with several more guides and downloads.

• Israel has bombed more journalists.
• People are still fired up over Kamala Harris.
• At a convention for the National Association of Black Journalists, Trump told people that Kamala Harris suddenly "happened to turn black." He deserved the boos he received. The entire Q&A was a shitshow, which anyone could predict, as Trump constantly attacked his Black hosts and lied to them non-stop. Trump was faced with his own racist past of claiming Black people aren't Americans, telling them to "go back where they came from," and calling various black people "animals," he even said immigrants were coming for "black jobs!" A lot of people didn't think he should have even been allowed to address Black journalists, but, I'm glad they put him in front of three strong Black women who gave him enough rope to hang himself.
• The Democrat law protecting LGBT students has gone into effect, but all the Republican states are challenging it.
• Republican Brent VanNorman, while speaking at a church, told the flock the USA should require all elected officials to be Christian. This would be a violation of the Constitution, but theocrats have never cared about the law.
• J.D. Vance's comments about wanting to give parents extra votes have not gone unnoticed to those people without children. Well, I guess you can't impregnate a couch.
• If you like summer, you might think global warming will be good, but it won't.

Feeling: Happy

I've updated my list of favorite books.

• Israel bombed Iran in order to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas. This will probably not end well.
• The Heritage Foundation, an American hate group, published their plan to end democracy in the USA and turn the nation into a Christian theocracy; Project 2025. Republicans were shocked that Americans weren't very receptive to their idea, and are trying to distance themselves from the project, despite it having been written by a bunch of Trump employees. Now the project's director has resigned, but the damage is done.
• Putin's invasion of Ukraine has led to the deaths of thousands of young Russian men. While he doesn't care how many die in his goal of restoring the Soviet Union, he does still need bodies to be fodder for the war machines, so he's telling Russian woman to stop going to college and get to baby making as soon as possible and have eight children so their sons can be the next to die. He also said they Russians need to have more children to preserve their "ethnic group," which I'm sure isn't coded white supremacy.
• Elon Musk, calls himself a free speech absolutist, but he has a long history of ending free speech for the speech he doesn't like. His latest example of hypocrisy came in the form of canceling a Twitter account because it was raising too much money for Kamala Harris.
• The Villages in Florida is a planned community for the elderly that's also almost exclusively white. While it's not illegal for people of color to live there, the fact that it is populated primarily by people who were on the beneficial end when segregation was in place means that the area is largely in favor of Trump. Well, the area just had a massive Harris rally! Speaking of which, here's why Republicans are having such a hard time bashing a black woman, despite trying for years.
• A historical investigation shows the USA is responsible for the death of 973 Native American children who we tried to "civilize" in boarding schools.
• Republican pundit Candace Owens is a flat-earther and Holocaust denier who also thinks Satanist invented evolution.

It's not all bad news, there are puppies.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading The Swiss Family Robinson.

• It doesn't matter that you're the VP nominee, if your political party is one of white supremacists, and your wife is the daughter of Indian immigrants, expect a lot of racist attacks. Even as Usha Vance walked on stage at the RNC the almost exclusively white crowd held up signs demonizing immigrants. But, because he has to bend the knee, J.D. Vance can't speak out against them, and must hold his tongue even when Trump invites a well-known white supremacist to dine with him. Speaking of keeping bad company, J.D. Vance is also friends with Curtis Yarvin, a man who proposed a "humane" alternative to committing genocide on unproductive Americans, basically, create the Matrix, and use them for energy.
• Tim Pool may be a good Nazi, but he's not very good at guessing.
• Hotter temperatures are causing the Great Salt Lake of Utah to dry up, which is releasing tons of CO2 into the air, which is causing the weather to heat up more. A great example of a feedback loop.
• Despite all their pro-family claims, Republicans are largely the party of child abuse.
• Creating false narratives to mock dangerous people may be fun, it may even be effective, but it's not the way to foster a beneficial society.

Addressing the claim, people who don't believe in the Christian god choose hell for themselves.

Feeling: Happy

Last Friday, I beat the AI modes in the Atari 2600 game Surround.

• Not content with bombing civilians in Palestine, Israel is now also bombing civilians in Lebanon. Meanwhile, those Palestinians who make it out of the Israeli military prison, Sde Teiman, say, with all the torture and dehumanizing abuse, it has become the latest Guantánamo Bay. There is something a bit mortifying that the superlative worst prison in the world is no longer the Soviet's Gulag or the Nazi's Dachau, but a torture chamber run by the USA.
• At a rally put on by hate-group Turning Point, Trump said the quiet part out loud and told Christians, if they vote for him, they'll "never have to vote again" because all future elections "will be fixed" in their favor. While Trump is receiving cheers for openly describing his fascist wet dream, Americans old and young are rallying behind Kamala Harris.
• Despite taking liberties with his childhood, and not having sex with couches? and becoming a Yale lawyer turned venture capitalist, J.D. Vance keeps trying to convince people he's a simple salt-of-the-earth hillbilly. But, when he isn't mocking women who like cats, and talking about how bad Big Tech is, he's investing in tech firms that torture animals. And probably having sex with couches.
• As Xi Jinping slowly turns China into a totalitarian police state, many Chinese families are trying to migrate into the USA, but, because we have such a terrible immigration system, they're having to sneak in through the Mexican border.

Yes, black widow webbing is stronger than high grade steel.

Catholic priest Jeffrey Burrill, one of the top administrators of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is very angry, very angry indeed that his personal information was leaked... from the gay hook up app Grindr.

Feeling: Happy

I've added several new flavors to my list of hard ciders. I've also made a lot of updates to my list of NES games without a clear ending.

• Nearly everything Republicans say about migrants is a lie largely fueled by racism. This isn't surprising, as Republicans are pretty racist, and they're angry they're not allowed to be open about it anymore. This is why they purposely mispronounce Kamala Harris's name. While they can claim it's just childish name calling, it's largely because they're racist. Thankfully, their racism sure isn't helping them win the black vote which helped Biden win last election. And, when they try to hide their racism, they have to rely solely on the popularity of their policies, which means attacking Kamala Harris because she wants to, clutch your pearls, decrease litter!
• Part of why it;s so important to win this election is because dictators are working together to dismantle democracy everywhere in the world, and Trump is helping them.
• No-fault divorce is the law that allows a spouse to file for divorce without permission from the other. This is what allows women with abusive controlling husbands to get to safety. Naturally, misogynistic Republicans are against it, in particular, J.D. Vance.
• Iowa became the latest state, upheld by their Republican-only Supreme Court, to criminalize abortion before many women are even aware they're pregnant.
• As usual, we have to rely on Democrats to support binding codes of ethics, and, as usual, corrupt Republicans are against them.
• Republican Glenn Youngkin embraces nepotism by appointing Antonin Scalia's daughter to the Virginia Board of Education after she failed to get elected.
• Vivian Wilson the child Elon Musk abandoned for not being manly enough, describes her father as rarely present, narcissistic, controlling, quick to anger, and uncaring. Musk, proving all of that accurate, described her as being "dead, killed by the woke mind virus."
• Why did Trump pick a young inexperienced poor public speaker to be his vice president? Because Trump loves a toady. Thankfully, most Americans do not.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for the various arrow key layouts keyboards have used over the years.

• Kamala Harris seems to be quite popular. I'm surprised Trump hasn't yet used the N-word to describe her, but he did refer to her as a "victim." Sadly, over the years, Trump has probably made a lot of women victims of sexual assault. And, knowing how racist and sexist their party is, Republicans are begging their members, please don't make any racial slurs in public.
• A lot of Republican women who wanted Nikki Haley to win, and hate Donald Trump, are now moving their support to Kamala Harris. As a typical Republican, Nikki Haley supports her party over country, and is trying to stop the "Haley Voters for Harris" from using her name. It's not working.
• Republican VP hopeful JD Vance believes that parents should have more voting power than people without children.
• Democrats in Michigan have banned the so-called "gay and trans panic" criminal defense where ultra-macho-quadruple-straight men say they had to kill someone because they became terrified when they discovered the person was queer.
• Bush-appointed Republican Judge Reed O'Connor blocked a law that would ban modifications to rifles to make them closer to an automatic machine gun.
• Southern Baptists fired their public policy president, Brent Leatherwood, for making a statement in which he praised Joe Biden. Strange that they don't mind anyone in their religion praising Donald Trump, whose Christian credentials are, shall we say, suspect? Leatherwood has had a target on his back for a while because he isn't as anti-abortion as other SBC members want him to be, so this wasn't unexpected. But, the next day, the SBC said, no Leatherwood wasn't fired, and instead fired the person who fired him! It's nice to see such a hateful organization in chaos.
• The Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk pledged to donate $45,000,000 a month to Trump. Supporting fascists isn't the way to make one's self popular these days, so, in addition to its many other problems, Tesla profits dropped 45% this quarter, and, with it, Musk's net value dropped a staggering $16,000,000,000. Now, either as damage control or just plain greed, Musk is now claiming he never pledged any money to Trump, although, he did admit he's forming a Super PAC to allow for millions of dollars in donations for Trump.

Even in a small country like New Zealand, Christian churches abuse people en masse. An independent inquiry discovered that, since 1950, Christian churches in New Zealand have abused around 200,000 people, a large percentage of them were the native Maori people.

Feeling: Overwhelmed

• Israel is still bombing civilians and the USA is still giving them the bombs to do it. I'm glad to see Jewish heroes protesting the genocide, and Netanyahu's invitation to speak in front of Congress.
• When Republicans are convicted of fraud, they are made the party's nomination for president. When Democrats are convicted of fraud, they're forced to resign. The two parties are not equal.
• Despite their words saying they love their Judeo-Christian heritage, the actions of Christian nationalists is to obliterate Judaism, and they will use Project 2025 to do so.
• Republicans often think it is their duty to have as many children as possible to ensure a strong national population to overthrow other nations. J.D. Vance is one of these Great Replacement racists which is why he insults Kamala Harris for not having children which is not helping his image among the very large population of Americans who choose not to have kids. He also called her a cat lady, which has a lot of cat ladies angry.

Feeling: Happy

I beat my first Sinclair ZX81 game, 3D Monster Maze.

• Kamala Harris has already won enough support from the Democrat delegates to become the party's nominee for president, so she'll probably get the official endorsement in August at the Democratic National Convention. Meanwhile, Trump, who doesn't understand how nominations or endorsements work, is demanding to be paid money for criticizing Biden. In fact, Trump has for some time been threatening to sue any state that might put someone other than Biden on the ballot. This is why it's important for politicians to actually know how politics work, so they don't repeatedly make themselves look like an inexperienced fool the way Trump keeps doing.
• The racial slurs are already pouring in over Kamala Harris. Trump advisor, and noted white supremacist, Sebastian Gorka described her as "colored" while other Republicans pundits claimed life is much easier for black women.
• The close of the RNC shows just how fascist the party has become.
• Trump is appealing his $450,000,000 fraud case. No not that fraud case, or that one, this is the one where his company lied to his business partners about the value of his company in order to cheat them out of money.
• Russia has sentenced another American journalist to prison for the crime of reporting on Putin's human rights violations. After a secret trial, Alsu Kurmasheva was sentenced to over six years, if she isn't murdered by Putin's goons first.
• Police once again shot and killed a black woman in her own home. Sonya Massey called the police after she suspected a criminal on her property. Two officers arrived, and, due to their incompetence, didn't reassure her, but only scared her even further. Eventually, they scared her enough that she felt she needed to defend herself from them, so they escalated the situation by pointing a gun at her. Massey apologized and slunk away, but trigger-happy Sean Grayson, a cop with skull tattoos all over his arms, shot her in the face. He then told his partner to not even bother with first aide. Prosecutors who have watched the body camera footage of both officers concluded that Grayson was never in any real danger and killed Massey unnecessarily. Grayson was eventually fired and arrested, and currently awaits trial, though it's unlikely he will actually be convicted.
• Just a reminder, not voting because none of the candidates are perfect only makes things worse.
• Trying to canvas as a Republican is hard when people are politically aware.

Brain implants probably are the wave of the future, and many companies have already made progress in the field. Too bad Elon Musk is pulling his usual and screwing it up.

Feeling: Happy

Over the weekend, I beat the SNES game Pieces.

• Right after Republicans blew their biggest wad bashing Biden at the RNC, Biden made all their vitriol worthless by dropping out of the race and endorsing his VP, Kamala Harris. This gives three months for Democrats to get their act together. While Gretchen Whitmer, Pete Buttigieg, and Gavin Newsom are potential candidates, so far, most of the big names are behind Harris. As expected, Republicans, who themselves were calling for Biden to drop out, are now claiming him dropping out was a Democrat coup. If Harris does win the Democratic nomination, expect to see a lot of racist and misogynistic hate speech from Republicans.
• J.D. Wentworth, oops, I mean, J.D. Vance, like many Republicans, is a white nationalist who follows the great replacement conspiracy theory and thinks white people need to have more children in order breed out undesirable colored folk. This also explains why he wants to end Daylight Saving Time, not because he understand time-keeping, but because he thinks it makes white women infertile. It should be noted that Vance was helped into the spotlight by none other than Oprah who has a long history of king-making trash.
• Facing genocide from Russia, Ukrainians have become more interested in their own history so local a book manufacturer was receiving a boon in orders for books about Ukrainian culture, that is, until Russia bombed it. More civilians murdered, more blood on Putin's hands.
• Bernie Sanders was on Stephen Colbert and was, as always, intelligent and well-spoken.
• Trump admitted that he supports political corruption. In his own words for why he donated to politicians in the past, "I've got to give to them, because when I want something, I get it. When I call, they kiss my ass." It recently came up that he and his daughter gave a combined $6,000 to Kamala Harris when she was running as the attorney general of California. Harris said she simply donated their money to non-profits supporting civil and human rights for Central Americans.
• Health insurance has become more expensive, not because it costs more, but because CEOs are greedy.
• In addition to hotter weather, rising sea levels, mass extinctions, and more erratic hurricanes, climate change is also throwing off time keeping systems by making days slightly longer.
• Republican Jared Kushner, who is vehemently against helping refugees, just learned that his grandparents were Holocaust refugees who survived thanks to US aid.
• Christians in Tennessee just lost taxpayers another $15,000 to Satanists for refusing them equal treatment under the law, in addition to all the other taxpayer money they wasted in the lawsuit.
• Like a lot of children in the 1980s, I was a big fan of Hulk Hogan. I looked up to him as the "good guy" who defeated the "bad guys" like the rich snob Million Dollar Man, the cheater Roddy Piper, and the turncoat Sgt. Slaughter. Although I found wrestling too childish to watch before I reached my teens, I still had nostalgia for the "good guy," a nostalgia which was wiped away when I saw Terry Bollea, AKA, Hulk Hogan endorse a fascist. That the sort of behavior from ignorant redneck sellouts like Kid Rock.
• A lot of nations don't allow election campaigning too early because it's a huge waste of money, it's not very meaningful, and it creates election burnout.

New facts about the GameCube.

Why nothing from the Enlightenment can be found in the bible.

Feeling: Happy

I beat all the artificial "intelligence" modes in Street Racer. Only 10 games until I reach 500!

• Democrats tried protecting LGBT students by passing a law to prevent schools from discriminating based on gender or sexual orientation, but judges in Kentucky, as well as several other Republican states, said "no!" schools have a right to refuse or abuse gay and transgender students. While the USA continues its descent into fascism, South Korea is granting health insurance benefits to same-sex couples.
• Tuesday saw an apt microcosm of how things will be under Republican rule. The Republicans brought in 4,000 additional out-of-state cops to police the RNC. One pack of Ohio cops saw a black man, Samuel Sharpe, carrying a knife in public for self defense (which is not a crime, and Republicans sure love it when white men people carry guns in public). From a distance, they shouted for him to drop the knife, but, he probably couldn't hear or understand what they were saying. It didn't matter, they were thirsty for blood. Five of the cops began shooting at Sharpe, and some of them hit him, so yet another innocent black man was murdered by police. Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said the Ohio cops who murdered Sharpe were heroes because Sharpe was clearly dangerous and intent on hurting someone, so needed to be publicly executed, though he couldn't give a reason for why he was dangerous.
• Republican claiming they unity is just another one of their lies because pretty much everyone at the RNC put forth violent rhetoric against Democrats.
• Republicans keep mocking Biden for using a teleprompter, despite all of them using them all the time, including Trump, but Mike Johnson's awkward slinking off the stage proves just how incapable they are at speaking without one.
• Racist liar, Lou Dobbs has thankfully died. He will be remembered for losing his job at CNN for stopping coverage of the Columbine High School massacre, being rehired and losing it again because he kept lying about immigrants, being an Obama birther, a climate change denier, hating Muslims, hating Jews, becoming an election denier, and finally worshiping Trump as his new god. Good riddance.
• Republican J.D. Vance may be a spineless toady lacking morals and principles, but at least he has a beard.
• Israel continues bombing Palestine civilians into dust which is frightening all the other Muslims in the surrounding areas, and some of them are going on the offensive. Houtis in Yemen have successfully sent a drone bomb into a Tel Aviv apartment building, murdering one civilian and injuring several more, and they claim they will be sending many more. This is what happens when you back people into a corner. As the largest donor for war machines to Israel, we should expect the next drone strike to target us.
• Republican Neil Friske was arrested and jailed at 2:45 AM because he was chasing a stripper with a loaded gun. He is being investigated for sexual assault and illegal use of a gun, but is currently out on bond.
• Just a reminder, Nazis are not good people, and they all vote for Trump .
• Democrats forgave another $1,200,000,000 in predatory student loans for around 35,000 American firefighters, social workers, teachers, and other public workers. That would be amazing for them, if Republican judges, who are beholden to the predatory lenders, didn't block the forgiveness program.
• In the expected Russian kangaroo court, American journalist Evan Gershkovich was convicted of "espionage" (translation: reporting the atrocities committed by Putin) and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Continuing the trend of willful ignorance in the USA, the ACT college entrance exam has made its science section optional.

Feeling: Happy

Last night, I beat the only two AI game modes in Video Olympics.

• Elizabeth Warren was on Stephen Colbert and she was as optimistic and articulate as always.
• Trump-appointed Republican "judge" Aileen Cannon first postponed the trial which was to see how many crimes Trump committed when he stole Top Secret documents from the White House and left them unattended in public, then she outright dismissed the case. Thankfully, the investigator are appealing, but it will not occur until after the election, and, if Trump wins, he will have the entire investigation dropped.
• Because Tucker Carlson was growing ever more prone to fits of delirious laughter and began interviewing testicle tanners, he was booted from Fox for being just too big of a wackjob. But he's still a big deal to the particularly crazy Republicans.
• Three of the delegates at the RNC had to get permission from a judge in order to attend the klan rally because they're under indictment for the crime of trying to subvert the 2020 election. These are some of the most important people in the convention and they're criminals.
• Americans are supposed to have a right to privacy when they aren't committing crimes. However, Republican J.D. Vance doesn't think so. He wants the police to have the authority to monitor people who live in states where abortion is illegal to see if they leave the state to get an abortion.
• How embarrassing to be a Republican for the past several years. You have to throw all of your morals, ethics, and pride out the window to endorse someone you hate because you value your party over your humanity.
• Thankfully, a lot of Trump's crimes are state level, so there is still a slim chance he might be convicted, but only if he loses the election.
• Savannah Chrisley's parents were found guilty by a jury of their peers of defrauding banks out of more than $30,000,000 and were order to pay restitution and sent to prison. Savannah was asked to speak at the RNC where she claimed her parents were actually arrested and jailed by Democrats who hated them because they were devout Christians.
• Kyle Gass, the musical talent in the comedy rock duo Tenacious D made a joke about his birthday wish being the next shot at Trump wouldn't miss. This received condemnation from moral luminaries like Elon Musk, and band mate Jack Black was so offended by the gallows humor that he not only canceled their tour, but may disband the band.
• Now Biden has COVID.

When Christians claim their religion is responsible for Western values, they don't seem to know that Western values are not part of their scripture. The reality is, secular values are responsible for the great shift in the ethics of their religion.

Feeling: Happy

I've significantly updated my list of winnable Atari 2600 games. I've broken out the list into subcategories to make room for growth and started tracking games whose scores reset back to 0 after they get too high. There is also a section for games confirmed to not have a victory condition, and every remaining game I still need to check. Only 542 titles to go!

• Of all the spineless toadies in the Republican party, Nikki Haley included, why did Trump pick the inexperienced freshman J.D. Vance as his VP? Vance's recent interview may hold the answer. If (or should we say, "when") Trump asks J.D. Vance to violate the US Constitution, would he do it? Vance stated clearly for the record, unlike Mike Pence, yes, he will defy the Constitution to make Trump stay in power.
• Even if they try to keep quiet about it, Republicans will continue to embrace Project 2025.
• After the shooting, Republicans were told not to change their speeches, but to try and tone down their typical calls to violence. Obviously, they didn't. In fact, hoping to endear himself to the ignorant mob, Republican Ted Cruz once again very racistly blamed murder and rape on Central American immigrants and refugees, despite all the evidence showing they're far less likely to commit crimes than the average American.
• Republican Steve Bannon is in prison, and will likely soon be joined by his close friend Guo Wengui who has been convicted of defrauding people out of over $1,000,000,000.
• Floridians fought hard to let the citizens, rather than politicians, decide if their state will decriminalize abortion. Their November ballot will include a vote on whether abortion rights will be part of the state's constitution in order to prevent Republican monsters like Ron DeSantis from taking those rights away from women. But, proving he's a monster, DeSantis keeps lying about the proposed amendment, even requiring the ballot to read allowing abortion will "negatively impact the state budget." Obviously, it won't, but DeSantis also repeated many other lies claiming that abortions make women infertile (they don't), that they would reduce the state's credit rating (they won't), and that they would somehow decrease the state's education (they couldn't possibly).
• Violent American terrorists in the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are getting a reprieve thanks to the Republicans on the US Supreme Court. They ruled that these terrorists who tried to prevent the certification of the 2020 election couldn't be tried for obstruction because, in their opinion, obstruction only applies to destroying records, not violently stopping the election process. Because of this, a lot of these white American terrorists are having their charges dropped or decreased to mere trespassing, so some of them will be out of prison in time to violently overthrow the 2024 election.

This video gives a brief overview of all of the different sects of every major world religion.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the Atari 2600 Activision version of Checkers.

• Republican J.D. Vance is notable for saying that Trump is "America's Hitler," a "cynical asshole," "cultural heroin," "reprehensible," a "terrible candidate," warned his fellow Christians that "everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man," that he'd rather, "vote for a third party," said, "Trump makes people I care about afraid," "I can't stomach Trump," and "I'm a 'Never Trump' guy." But, like all other Republicans, J.D. Vance has no spine. He deleted all of his posts critical of Trump, knuckled under, bowed down, kissed the ring, and is now the running mate of America's Hitler.
• Republicans claimed the shooting was the fault, not of Trump pushing political violence, not of lax gun control, not even of a lack of mental healthcare, no, the real fault lies with workplace diversity and women.
• By ending Chevron Deference, the Republicans on the US Supreme Court have not only caused long term damage to the environment, but to every scientific and technical concept in America's future. Their ruling basically said, Judges do not have to trust the experts of their field, and should make decisions on high technical matters, even if they don't understand them, anyway they see fit.
• In a leaked audio recording where Trump ranted about conspiracies to RFK Jr, Trump explained why he doesn't trust doctors or vaccines, especially the one that helped get through safety protocols and personally took.
• Elon Musk is giving $45,000,000 to Trump. If you buy any of Musk's products, you're helping to fund Trump.
• Don't give up because of the botched assassination attempt. We need a strong Democratic voter turn out now more than ever.

Yet another megachurch had to shutdown after its primary preacher was caught raping children. Christian pastor Zachary King repeatedly raped a 15-year-old girl.

Feeling: Happy

I took the girls to the Secular Summer Retreat and they again had fun swimming, crafting, digging in the dirt, riding in a canoe, and making smores.

Over the weekend, I beat the Atari 2600 port of Warlords.

• Someone finally tried to assassinate Donald Trump, I'm surprised it took this long. While the world would be a better place if he were dead, assassination is not an acceptable way to handle this. Had it succeeded, his lunatic followers, many of who are law enforcement and military, probably would have started another civil war, but, since it failed, this will only add sympathy to Trump who is already milking it for all it's worth, despite not caring when other politicians are targeted for assassination, and will certainly help him in the election. As expected for such a high-profile event, there are a lot of manipulated images and conspiracy theories already floating around, particularly on misinformation sites like Twitter, trying to steer the narrative to any view imaginable. Many of these lies are coming directly from Republicans. For example, Trump has been calling for violence for years, and even helped cause a violent insurrection, yet Republicans are blaming Biden, despite the fact that the shooter was a gun nut who was bullied for wearing camouflage to school and a registered Republican. And, as usual, the best source of clear an concise information is Wikipedia.
• When the criminal gets to appoint the judge that rules on his cases, don't expect justice. Trump stole Top Secret documents from the White House, left them unattended for weeks in a public place where they may have been copied or stolen, then lied to the FBI about them. But, Trump-appointed, and woefully inexperienced, Republican Judge Aileen Cannon, who has been protecting Trump ever since he appointed her, finally dismissed the case on a very suspicious technicality. And talk about good timing, she dismissed the case within hours of the start of the Republican National Convention so Trump can be formally confirmed as their nominee; it's almost as if she's working for them.
• More people are saying Biden let someone else be the Democrat candidate, and Republicans are blaming Biden's gaffs on getting the COVID vaccine, but somehow forget to mention that Trump got it too.
• Trump called cryptocurrency "a scam," and a "disaster waiting to happen." Then he learned that he could use that scam to scam his gullible followers into buying worthless NFTs, and then some crypto-bros gave him millions of dollars, so, now he loves cryto!
• Just a reminder, here we are 40 years later, and a lot of the problems with the country can be traced back to Ronald Reagan.

A look at all the games that never got to be after Nintendo canceled the 64 DD.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the Atari 2600 game, Tennis.

• Maybe instead of focusing on how old Biden is, you should focus on how stupid and evil Trump is, and how all his decisions were bad.
• Armin Papperger is the CEO of a German industrial company that has been providing Ukraine with weapons to defend itself from the Russian genocide. Putin tried to have him assassinated.
• Trump was found guilty of using campaign money to cover up having cheated on his wife. He is now arguing that the Supreme Court ruling that allows presidents to commit any crime they like should grant him immunity from that crime, despite the fact that Trump committed the crime before he became president.
• Republican pundits have published a book called "Unhumans," in which they explain why people with Leftist views are not human and need to be stopped, and they got an amazing list of people to review it.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the Atari 2600 game, Championship Soccer.

• After several failed attempts to assassinate his political rival, Alexei Navalny, Putin finally had him arrested and murdered in prison. His widow then tried to tell the whole world about her husband being murdered by Putin, so Putin responded by issuing an arrest warrant, so he can murder her too. At the same time, Putin has outlawed the only remaining independent Russian news source, The Moscow Times. While Biden says the USA will offer strong support to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia's genocide, Trump continues to see support from Putin, knowing he will continue to be a Russian puppet. Thankfully, the UK's new government is stepping up to help stop Russia from their invasion of Europe. Of course, at the same time, Biden is also giving Israel 500-pound bombs to commit their own genocide on the civilians of Palestine.
• Once again, Biden may be old, but Trump will carry out the Republican's Project 2025 despite his lies he doesn't know anything about it. Speaking of Project 2025, Oklahoma Republicans are getting rid of their social studies curriculum and replacing it with a new one written by a Project 2025 co-author.
• Black people aren't a monolith, so don't expected them to save us again.
• Over 101,000 people who want agency over their bodies signed petitions in Arkansas to put abortion access to a vote. Republicans, who eschew democracy, rejected them. Fascists don't care about the will of the people.
• I'm glad someone finally said it, and proud of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for saying it. Republicans on the Supreme Court have been caught accepting bribes and need to be impeached.
• Trump's latest klan rally was just a screed of lies.

Looking at the very first English arithmetic text book.

When Christians tell you their god is the best, remind them of how they act when they follow their god.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the Atari 2600 game, Ice Hockey.

• Israel bombed a United Nations school being used to shelter refugees. At least 16 more civilians were killed.
• A lot of people are criticizing Biden for being too old, but, don't forget, while the Trump team is embracing Project 2025, Biden is actively against it. While Trump has aided the Russian genocide, Biden is helping Ukraine defend themselves.
• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted a large number of very expensive bribes personal gifts and purposely hid them from public knowledge even though he supposed to disclose them. This should be a crime, but, would you believe it isn't? Thankfully, senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden want to open an investigation to see what other ethics violations he committed, including tax fraud.
• Racist Republicans believe people of color are secretly working together to take over the country, a racist conspiracy belief called the great replacement theory. One way they claim this is happening is through rampant voter fraud among people of color. Obviously, there is no evidence of such voter fraud, in fact, most voter fraud in 2020 was committed by white Republicans, that facts don't stop Republicans. They are trying to pass a law called the "Save Act" which would make it harder, not for immigrants to vote, but for US citizens, particularly the poor.
• D'Vontaye Mitchell became the latest unarmed black man to be killed by law enforcement. There is at least hope for justice because the men who killed him were private security guards, not cops, so there is a slim chance they might be held accountable.
• Another one of Trump's terrorists who tried to take over the country on January 6th has pleaded guilty, this time it was B-list actor, Jay Johnston.

How Christians are still lying to teens about what it means to be LGBT.

How do we make nearly silent electric cars louder.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a bunch more to my video game glossary. I'm now up to 1,531 entries!

• Israel continues to bomb refugee camps filled with fleeing civilians. Their latest strike killed several more children. Meanwhile, Russia has bombed a children's hospital in Ukraine, and imprisoned artists who speak out against Putin, but India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi still gave Putin a big welcoming hug.
• An attorney explains what it means for presidents now that Republicans have made them immune to crime.
• How abortion bans paradoxically cause more deaths, particularly among women who want to have children.
• Most of the judges Trump appointed were woefully inexperienced, many were proven unreliable, but almost none of them were properly vetted. We keep finding skeletons in their closets that would ordinarily have been found before they were allowed to have authority over people, but, because Republicans rushed through the whole process, they missed a lot of red flags. Take Joshua M. Kindred for example. Despite being young and inexperienced, he was fast-tracked to become a US District Judge, only to have it come out a few years later that he was frequently having sex with his subordinates.
• Kellye SoRelle, the lawyer for the terrorist group Oath Keepers, will plead guilty for taking part in Trump's failed insurrection.

How plants are able to "see" in color.

An interesting story about... fonts.

Feeling: Happy

I did a five mile hike yesterday, and jogged for one of the miles. Not bad!

I've beaten and added a page for the Atari baseball game, Home Run.

• If you aren't familiar with Project 2025, the Republican plan if Trump wins the election, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read about it. The same group that issued the plan also said they're currently in the process to taking over the USA in a revolution that will "remain bloodless," but only if Liberals surrender to them. Their goal isn't just to remove all political safeguards, but to turn the USA into a literal Christian theocracy.
• While the USA might be circling the drain, both France and the UK have overwhelmingly voted against their far-right party.
• Further tarnishing their image, but saving their prescious money, Boeing made a pretty sweet plea deal with the Justice Department. Boeing has to admit they lied to the FAA about the safety of their planes, a lie which lead to the deaths of 346 people, and pay an additional $487,300,000 in fines, however, this will shield them from far more expensive criminal wrongful death lawsuits from the 346 families of the people they killed. Speaking of major companies that lied to the US government and got a slap on the wrist, it was discovered that GM had been lying about how much pollution their trucks and SUVs create. After nearly 6,000,000 vehicles were sold which produce more pollution than GM claimed, the whole problem will go away with GM paying a fine of $146,000,000.
• After being mocked for saying she didn't believe the Earth is round, Republican Candace Owens decided to put reality on trial while claiming "science" is a Pagan cult.

A Christian mega-church has temporarily shut down because their insurer will no longer cover "abuse liability." And, because the church keeps getting so many cases of sexual abuse, they can't afford to run without it!

The science behind why a water-powered car can't work.

Feeling: Happy

Happy Independence Day... while it lasts.

I finished reading The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

• Legal scholars are weighing in, and they tend to agree, the US Supreme Court really did give US presidents the legal protection to murder people.
• Cops in Lexington, Mississippi thought they were real tough guys when they arrested a woman for filming them (which isn't a crime). Being quite racist, the cops just saw a black woman and wanted to harass her, so they attacked her, and threw her in jail on trumped up charges. They would later discover the woman they falsely arrested was Jill Collen Jefferson, a Harvard-educated civil rights attorney investigating racist police in Lexington. Once they discovered the extent of their blunder, police let her go, praying things would just blow over, but it was too late. Now the racist cops of Lexington are being investigated by the Justice Department.
• If the Kennedy Nixon debate taught us anything, it's that looks matter more than policy... except, the oft repeated story about the debate is not based on actual evidence.

The psychology behind a strange experiment which concluded that people tend to prefer worse pain.

Feeling: Happy

I've added about 80 more entries to my Video game glossary.

• Once again, the Republicans on the Supreme Court are purposely destroying the nation. The latest ruling from the self-proclaimed "law and order party" is that some Americans are simply above the law. Every Republican on the court agreed that a president should be allowed to do literally anything they want (rape, murder, everything is now on the table), and, as long as they performed the crime as an official act of their presidency, they cannot ever be held accountable. They argued this is necessary in order to prevent a president from arresting their predecessor after every new election, something that has never happened before! This is fantastic news for Trump because it means he cannot be held accountable for his many, many crimes. His election tampering in Georgia, his calls for a violent insurrection, his quid pro quo in Ukraine, his coaxing Mike Pence not to certify the election results, none of those are crimes anymore! His lawyers are already demanding his many criminal cases all be thrown out because he's above the law. And if you say, surely his secret backroom deals were not "official" acts, Republicans have you covered, they said that everything a president does while president is an official act unless it is palpably beyond their authority. Now, you could look for the silver lining and say, how short-sighted of the Republicans, don't they realize Biden is now allowed to do all sorts of crimes before he leaves office? Yes, that is (shockingly) now true, but this is how Republicans really hurt their country: Biden, in fact, most Democrats, are not going to do that. It's only Republicans, with their petty dreams of fascism, that are going to use this ruling for their personal benefit to bring about the downfall of the country. In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spelled it out saying Republicans have made presidents "a king above the law," and "With fear for our democracy, I dissent." Well folks, it was fun while it lasted; time to move on and let the US collapse under its own stupidity.
• Police officers Pete Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales have been indicted for allowing a gunman to keep murdering children at Uvalde Elementary, and refusing to even try to stop him for over an hour. While I doubt anything will come of this since US law states can't be charged with a crime for refusing to do their jobs, it's nice to see at least an attempt is made to hold them accountable. Too bad they were American presidents, they wouldn't have to worry.
• The white supremacists that put together the Unite the Right klan rally in Charlottesville, where a white supremacist purposely drove his car into a crowd, murdering one woman and injuring several others, have been ordered to pay the cost of the rally, a fine of $2,800,000, split evenly among the eight racists. They should have been presidents.
• Republican Victoria Spartz was caught trying to sneak a gun through airport security. She claimed it was an accident, and she just forgot it was there. Forgetting that you have a deadly weapon in your luggage doesn't make me believe you're mature enough to have one.

There are a lot of really gay animals, so why isn't their behavior showing up in published articles?

Jordan Mechner does a postmortem on his groundbreaking game, Karateka.

Feeling: Happy

• I didn't watch the presidential debate because political debates lack substance, and I already knew that I would vote for a trained monkey over Trump. Biden made it clear that he's too old for the job, but Trump is a literal fascist. It's sad that these are our options, but, just like I intended, I'm still going to do the right thing and vote for the one who isn't a Nazi.
• In the process of trying to obliterate Ukraine, Russia keeps accidentally bombing itself. So far, at least 38 bombs with faulty navigational systems have landed within Russia's own borders rather than their intended targets, civilians areas in Ukraine. Most of these have fallen on farms and small villages, and, due to the low quality of the bombs, many of them don't even detonate, so there are few if any casualties. However, even if there were thousands dead Russian civilians, Putin wouldn't care. While the official Russian death toll has been severely downplayed, back in 2023, a mercenary leader claimed around 120,000 Russian soldiers died in Putin's attempted genocide, but Putin doesn't care how many lives are lost, he just wants to achieve his dream of restoring the USSR to its former glory, not realizing it was the corruption and lack of humanity that caused it to fail in the first place.
• Police officer Patrick Husnay shot a 13-year-old boy in the back, killing him, because the boy was carrying a toy gun.
• The Republican Justices of the Supreme Court of Texas agreed that it is a criminal act for doctors to treat their patients with gender-affirming care.
• As the Summer Olympics gear up, it's important to remember that they're extremely corrupt, and a blight on every city that hosts them.

Animals can count, but only up to four.

YouTube is trying to fix it's massive misinformation problem by turning to crowd sourcing. I don't have much faith in the wisdom of the mob.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for video games which inadvertently contain a hiding spot where the player is safe from enemy attacks.

• I didn't watch the presidential debate last night because I knew it would be a dumpster fire, and CNN certainly helped by letting Donald Trump lie about everything for an hour and a half without ever once calling out his bullshit. And, terrifyingly, there are still a lot of people who still can't make up their minds. At least the UK is learning from their mistakes.
• Following Louisiana's lead of forcing a specific religion down the throats of other people's children, Oklahoma Republicans are now violating the first amendment by requiring public school teachers to "teach the bible." Apparently, fifth graders in Oklahoma don't know enough about rape, incest, and genocide.
• Still believing Trump's election fraud lies, Republican Shelby Busch, The head of the Republican party in Arizona, is trying to find out the identities of election officials because she wants them to be publicly executed. But she said she may not murder them if they turn out to be Christians.
• The Republicans on the Supreme Court have effectively legalized bribing politicians in order to keep themselves safe from all the secret bribes they've accepted that are coming to light. But even they can't figure out a legal way to keep Trump's adviser Steve Bannon out of prison.

Jimmy Carr roasts religion for 10 minutes.

Seeing how little some people know about cover songs make me proud of my musical knowledge, while at the same time reminding me how old I am.

Feeling: Happy

After a lot of frustration, I finally beat Super Mario 64.

• Republicans all over the country have been filing lawsuits to prevent companies and public institutions from hiring people of color, and, sadly, they've been winning.
• In the last presidential election, Republicans, with a collection of lies, cheating, and literally demanding politicians "find" more votes, almost succeeded in stealing the vote for Trump. This election, they're ready to do it again. Republicans in swing states are already crying foul and suing states for how they certify votes so they can exclude competent voters.
• When they aren't paying Republican groups to criminalize gay people, Chick-fil-A is employing child labor and calling it summer camp.
• A con artist to the very last, Alex Jones tried selling herbal supplements as Infowars was taken away from him to be liquidated.

Now out of prison thanks to a Trump pardon, convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza embarrassed himself in a debate with Alex O'Connor.

According to Jesus, real Christians are supposed to be able to perform miracles, so why can't they?

Feeling: Happy

I've added another 66 entries to my video game glossary.

• Same sex marriage has been legal in the USA for some time now, and, while there are still many Republicans who are trying to re-criminalize it, particularly those on the Supreme Court which is frightening, a large percentage of Republicans had finally stopped trying to fight it. Of course, four years of Trump's endless vitriol has re-emboldened the bigots, so there has been a troubling drop in support lately. Thankfully, Democrats are taking another step toward completing the process of accepting LGBT people and Biden is giving a blanket pardon to US soldiers who were punished for being gay.
• Oklahoma Christians decided a good use of taxpayer money was to start a Christian school to convert children, and, horrifyingly, the state's school board agreed! Thankfully, a state court blocked the school, pointing out to Christians once again that using taxes to force religion on children violates the first amendment (although one Republican Judge claimed stopping a school from using taxpayer money to convert children to Christianity violated the first amendment!). The Christians are highly offended that they aren't allowed to use other people's money to force their religion on other people's children, and say they will appeal the decision. These are the same type of people who think it's okay to punish people for not attending their church.
• Trump left any number of top secret documents laying about in public spaces at his golf course. After he was told to return them, he refused, then he ordered his lawyers to lie about them. Finally, the FBI had to be called in to recover the stolen state secrets, and, while they documented what they found hidden by Trump, they have no idea if any was stolen by foreign spies, or what they might have taken. All of this has resulted in criminal charges being brought up against Trump, and Trump has offered a wide variety of lies and excuses, but his latest is particularly harmful. He's claiming that it is the FBI who mishandled the process! Although his case is being tried by a judge he appointed, she is not impressed with this tactic, but she did still offer Trump a solid by postponing the trial until after the presidential election, meaning, if Trump wins, he can simply end the investigation and declare himself innocent.
• Under Putin, Russia has been arresting, imprisoning, and even murdering journalists. Most of them have been Russian citizens, but they're currently holding a secret trial for an American journalist, falsely accused of espionage.

Virtual memory. Where did it come from, and how does it work?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a lot to my video game glossary. It now has 1,338 entries!

• The ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel have been pretty quiet while Benjamin Netanyahu executed the final solution in Gaza. They got to sit at home and read their version of the Torah while never having to get their hands dirty. However, now that Israel's Supreme Court ruled they have to be included in the draft, and they might be the ones getting killed, suddenly they don't like Netanyahu all that much.
• Speaking of drafts, Republican men often complain that it's unfair that men can be drafted, women cannot. So, lawmakers are trying to pass a law which would allow women to be drafted, but Republican Josh Hawley is also complaining about. It's almost as if all they want to do is complain.
• The US Supreme Court agreed to review the case against the new Republican law in Tennessee where politicians made it a crime for doctors to treat their patients according to the best current medical practices.
• Republicans blame refugees for trafficking fentanyl into the USA, but, the reality is, most refugees are fleeing drug lords, not helping them. Drug lords know that people who look and act American are far less likely to be hassled at border crossings, which is why nearly all of the illegal street drugs entering the USA are being brought in, not by refugees, but by American drug mules.
• Being LGBT in Idaho is tough as it is a mostly rural state with some of the most bigoted laws against LGBT people in the country. And, while the Conservative Mayor of Nampa, Debbie Kling, said that gay people being allowed to exist doesn't "reflect the personal beliefs and convictions of myself, Nampa City Council, and many living in Nampa," the city had it's first large Pride festival.
• Elizabeth Wolf, a white woman in Texas, was arrested for trying to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian girl after getting into a drunken racist argument with the little girl's mother.
• Every lie Fox says about crime actually applies to the January 6th Trump insurrection.
• Why do so many people lack trust in government medical establishments? Because other branches of the government, namely the US military, use government medical establishments to kill people.
• Another Christian pastor, Bobby Hawk, has been credibly accused to sexually harassing little girls. His church eventually allowed him to resign, but it's very unlikely he'll ever be punished.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the visual novel One Night Stand.

• Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the ceasefire with Gaza because that would prevent him from being able to kill more Palestinians.
• Rural populations all across the USA have been steadily in decline for decades. There are many reasons for this: many people in small towns eschew growth, those from the 1950s-60s baby boom are dying off, the consolidation and automation of farms means not as many people are needed to work them, many couples are foregoing children because the economy has been ruined by the wealthy and they can't afford to have children, etc. While the pandemic briefly slowed the shrinking, there is no end to it in sight, and rural towns are turning into ghost towns. There is actually a pretty simple solution to this problem, invite migrants to live in rural towns to prop up their populations. Of course, the fact that many decent people are compelled to move out of small towns because the remaining people are so racist kind of puts a damper on that option. Case in point:
• While at a Christian rally, Trump channeled his inner Roman bureaucrat and said he wants to see immigrants fight for his amusement, as the church-going crowed cheered. It shouldn't have to be said, but, if you enjoy watching vulnerable people compete in blood sport, you're a monster.
• Fox keeps trying to downplay their own poll which shows Biden in the lead, while also making wild accusations that Biden is on drugs, as fair and balanced journalists are wont to do.
• Trump's presidential term was fraught with constant failures because almost nobody in his circle knew what they were doing, yet, despite their bumbling, they still almost managed to bring the country to its knees. However, the term Republicans have in the works has had a lot of planning, and those plans show it would be utterly catastrophic. You could hope that US citizens would demand better of him, but, his supporters are practically brain dead. This isn't such a good thing to have going on while Russia and North Korea forming a new Axis.

A game designer talks about the top 100 games which taught him game design.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I beat the adventure game Abzû.

• Fearful of the Democrats plan to increase taxes for the criminally wealthy, Trump openly told billionaires he will make them money by cutting taxes specifically for them, and, fearful that their convicted felon might actually have to pay for his crimes, Trump's sheep are donating more money than ever, despite him treating them like garbage at his rallies. The end result is, Trump is now sitting on record campaign donations.
• How the media, including the so-called Liberal media, has been actively lying about student protesters and siding with the genocidal Israelis.
• A whole bunch of Trump's cronies and supporters have gone to prison for a large variety of crimes. One of the most noteworthy is Steve Bannon who was held in contempt of court for refusing to cooperate with the investigation into the January 6th insurrection. Bannon tried avoid prison by arguing that he wouldn't be able to comment on the presidential election from prison (isn't that a good thing?), and, though a Republican judge agreed, the other judges who are completely incompetent did not, so Bannon will indeed have to report to prison on July 1st. He only needs to serve a 4 month sentence, hardly a punishment for all the criminal he shielded.
• Christian groups are urging churches to force their religion as far as possible into the lives of other Americans, reminding their followers the current Republican-majority on the Supreme Court already have and will continue to rule against the first amendment.
• It's scary how eager people are to hurt themselves and their country by ignorantly choosing the path toward authoritarianism.

The problem with an all-loving god that also tortures people for eternity.

Feeling: Happy

I've made a brief pages for Web browsers and Firefox, and added a list of Firefox extensions I've found beneficial.

• Still angry at sabotaging their own religion by keeping it barbaric, Christians are using their political authority to try and force other people's children into their religion. Louisiana Republicans are doing this by requiring a display of their favorite version of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. Kentucky tried this clear violation of the first amendment back in 1980, and it was shot down then, but, with the current batch of unqualified Republican judges on the bench, who knows?
• Large scale voter fraud doesn't exist is the USA, but Republicans keep lying that is does to keep their sheep mad. This has led to a lot of conspiracy Conservatives who fancy themselves voter vigilantes trying to find illegal names on voter registrations. Unfortunately, since they don't know how the registries work, they're wasting a lot of taxpayer's time and money trying to remove the names of legitimate voters, particularly those with inconsistent addresses, like students, soldiers, people who have lost their homes, people fleeing abuse, and so forth.
• Republican Royce White tries to defend using campaign donations at a strip club.
• Every crime index in the USA shows that crime is down and has been trending down for decades. Also, polls show that people think their own local neighborhoods are safe. So why is it polls also show people think crime is out of control? Could it have anything to do with that exact phrase showing up in Conservative media every few minutes?
• Sadly, for years to come, we will have to keep debunking the COVID-19 lab leak lie.

A long lecture on the strangeness of space.

Feeling: Happy

Today, the USA celebrates the emancipation of slaves which occurred on June 19, 1865. However, it wasn't until the 13th amendment was ratified that they actually gained their freedom, on December 6, 1865. And then, it wasn't until the end of lynching, Jim Crow laws, segregation, black church burnings, redlining, and the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that they even started having a chance at equality. Also, since some of them are still in office, here are the 14 Republicans who voted against making Juneteenth a federal holiday.

My list of things Conservatives have "canceled" now contains over 150 things.

• Having the full support of North Korea isn't the flex that Putin thinks it is. If the only country you can get to support your genocide is the world's worst totalitarian regime, you're the baddies. Speaking of which, the United Nations has issued a statement that Israel is likely guilty of war crimes for repeatedly bombing civilians.
• Republican Matt Gaetz's friends have been arrested and convicted of child sex trafficking, and, despite their being evidence that Gaetz himself was involved, his position as a Senator has made it very difficult for law enforcement to investigate his alleged crimes. Thankfully, the House ethics panel has decided to expand their investigation and, hopefully, put this sleazebag on ice.
• In order to stay relevant, Republicans keep claiming they're the only ones who can stop the crime epidemic in the USA, just one problem, crime has steadily been decreasing for years.
• 89% of Republicans voted to restore the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to honor those soldiers who fought and died to uphold slavery. Thankfully, Democrats actually think slavery is something to be ashamed of rather than honored, and the vote failed. But, here are a list of names for those racist Representatives.
• In order to prove how great his brain is, Trump once again talked about passing a dementia test, only he couldn't remember the name of the doctor who administered the test.
• Even as Republicans keep trying to criminalize being gay, Thailand is legalizing same-sex marriage, making it the first Southeast Asian nation to do so!
• Now that cannabis is legal in Maryland, Democrats are pardoning 175,000 people convicted of marijuana possession. In the process, they are specifically pointing out the failure of the American war on drugs.
• Republican Mary Morrissey reminds us just how petty her party can be. For the past several months, she has been purposely dumping water into the bag of her Democrat colleague. Now that she's been caught, suddenly she's sorry.

Just because someone is in a lab coat, doesn't mean they're a real doctor. Just ask all the fakes who conjure up fake evidence around transgender people.

Finally explaining why ice is slippery.

Feeling: Happy

I beat my first Halo game, Halo: Reach.

• Republican Mark Robinson is going into an election in North Carolina. Just a reminder, he thinks trans people are maggots, says gay people make him sick, thinks women deserve to be beaten by men, and denies the Holocaust, you know, the typical Republican stuff.
• Police officer Timothy Barber was found guilty of using his authority to sexually abuse a 16-year-old girl. His judge sentenced him to probation instead of prison time, and the South Bend Police Department not only didn't fire him, but they purposely shielded him from Indiana Law Enforcement so he could keep his police certificate and keep working! In South Bend, Indiana, Law enforcement is corrupt at every level.
• Democrats are making an easier path to citizenship for undocumented migrants married to US citizens. While I see this as a step in the right direction, I fear it will increase human trafficking and spousal abuse for citizens who may lord this over their undocumented spouses. Simply making it easier for anyone who wants to be an American would solve this problem.
• Christian megachurch pastor, and prominent Trump supporter, Robert Morris confessed to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl many times, over a series of years, but he blames the 12-year-old girl because she was being so flirtatious.
• Fox finally turns on Trump.

Why only a small fraction of bacteria can be grown in a petri dish.

Christians keep trying to deflect when it comes to Yahweh's ordained genocides.

Why dredging the ocean floor is probably a terrible idea.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading Dale Carnegie's 1936 self-help book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. I was not impressed.

• Republicans continue to be corrupt and shady and dangerous.
• Snake oil salesman and professional liar Alex Jones has been trying to hide all his money in overseas accounts and with his family and friends order in order to avoid paying the $1,500,000,000 fine he owes to the parents of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook shooting, people who he encouraged his rabid followers to terrorize. However, since he's made it clear that he doesn't intend to ever pay them, a judge has ruled that he must now liquidate his personal assets in order to pay them.
• The Stanford Internet Observatory was the world's most prominent organization which studied the spread of misinformation on the Internet. Their goal was to not only track lies online, but understand why these lies spread so quickly. Naturally, a group that studies propaganda and lies very quickly earned the ire of Conservative groups, and after Republicans weaponized congress against the organization, it has all but been shut down.
• One of the few good things Republicans did during the Trump administration was to ban bump stocks, a mechanism attached to a rifle that allows the gun to fire hundreds of bullets a minute. This was done after one man, by using rifles with attached bump stocks, murdered a staggering 60 people and wounded 413 more, the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in American history. Ordinarily, Republicans do everything in their power to prevent a ban on guns after a mass shooting, but, because all the murders took place at a country music festival, Republican actually did something. Sadly, the Republicans on the Supreme Court just overturned the ban, so, expect yet another mass murder in the near future.

Why only a small fraction of bacteria can be grown in a petri dish.

Christians keep trying to deflect when it comes to Yahweh's ordained genocides.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the Radix song, Tilbury Fair.

• Republicans keep trying to explain how Hunter Biden being convicted of crimes that may land him in prison is all part of Joe Biden's diabolical master plan, but he's also a doddering old senile geezer. Well, if he wanted, at least he could still sell liquor.
• New evidence reveals Republican Clarence Thomas has been hiding the fact that Conservative billionaires gave him even more bribes very expensive gifts.
• Why do police keep killing bystanders in totally unnecessary high speed chases, and why do we keep allowing them to get away with it?
• Author Alan Gratz wrote a children's book titled "Ban This Book" which talks about why some books are banned. As expected, Florida Conservatives banned it.
• Previously, I thought Elon Musk, who keeps outing himself as a racist, sexist, and all around bigot, is a terrible person, but the companies he bought are probably still worthwhile. However, after seeing Tesla shareholders vote to pay him $56,000,000,000, more than any company ever, I no longer think that.
• The conversion to electric vehicles not only will happen, but it must happen if we want to continue surviving on this planet. It's sad that Republican dinosaurs keep hurting EV progress in the USA, because it's allowed China to completely dominate the future of the industry.
• Most Americans really do prefer the message of Democrats. Too bad they really suck at getting their message across.

Nintendo is becoming more successful at using the law to erase its own games.

Feeling: Okay

• Remember during Pride Month the corporations only celebrate Pride when they think they can profit off you.
• World leaders have decided to take the frozen assets of Russian oligarchs and lend their money to Ukraine in order to help them defend themselves from Russia. Poetic.
• Frustrated that Trump's many crimes are finally being taken seriously, House Republicans are striking back in a way that isn't accomplishing much. They voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for not handing over to them audio tapes of a private presidential meeting. Republicans routinely kept secret tapes of Trump, especially he demanded a quid pro quo from Ukraine, but Republicans don't care about making blanket laws to make our government less corrupt, they only care about helping themselves. Regardless, this is a purely symbolic gesture, as it is up to the Democrat majority to decide how to punish Garland, and they won't.
• In an effort to make themselves even more irrelevant in the modern world, Southern Baptists voted to officially view in vitro fertilization as immoral. They will not only preach that it is sinful, but they will urge lawmakers to prevent everyone else from having access to IVF.
• PragerU is not an accredited educational institution, but rather an ultra-Conservative propaganda mill and hate group. This, in itself, is troubling, but the fact that seven states now its purposely dishonest hate speech as part of their curriculum is terrifying.
• Putin keeps trying to return to the days of the U.S.S.R. as evidenced by Russian war ships are once again being docked in Cuba.
• I haven't seen any Democrats claiming the system is rigged against them because Joe Biden's son was convicted of several crimes. Even Biden himself is agreeing with the decision and refuses to pardon his son. Despite their faults, it is very clear that Democrats want equality under the law far more than Republicans.
• Samuel Alito and his wife have made it very clear what kind of home they keep, and it's not very just. They may get off on flags, but nobody loves them more than flag-humper Trump.
• Despite creating one of the worst limitations on the USA's refugee asylum program, Republicans are still angry at Biden. Their racism will never let them be happy about brown people.
• The abortion pill is safe for now in those states where it is legal.

What would it take for you to believe in a god? Evidence.

Feeling: Sad

As expected, my grandmother died shortly after we arrived to see her. I'm gratified that I was able to say goodbye to her, and that she could see her great-grandchildren one last time.

I beat the NES port of Super Dodge Ball at its hardest difficulty.

• To start Pride Month, Republican Dave Williams sent out an email which read, "God Hates Pride," and urged his fellow Republicans to burn rainbow flags. This hateful behavior is completely expected from the party and Conservatives in general. Even the Roman Catholic pope, despite his charm, often uses slurs against LGBT people and still refuses to let them be part of his church (or women, for that matter). Like all forms of hatred, this is based on ignorance and fear, and so many of these people quickly side with other hateful Conservatives pretending to be doctors. This is yet another culture war that Conservatives are losing, one that will continue to make them look like villains. Case in point, Republican Ron DeSantis, who claims to adore the US Constitution, just saw his ban on transgender teens be ruled unconstitutional.
• Trump is a convicted felon and, if the meeting with his probation officer doesn't go well, he may have to accept the nomination from the Republican National Convention from jail. But don't worry, he has plenty of important celebrities trying to keep him out of prison, A-listers like Dr. Phil and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And he wants you to know, he doesn't care what happens to you, as long as you vote for him.
• The Washington Post has a pretty brutal article which catalogs all the police who used their authority to rape children and teens, and how so many of them, even when found guilty, are rarely punished.
• India also is slowly moving towards authoritarianism.

Which is more viral an actual virus, or an Internet meme?

Feeling: Sad

Heading down to Tennessee tomorrow morning to see my mom's side of my family, and, probably to say goodbye to my grandmother.

Last night, I beat the most basic ending of Hollow Knight.

• The Israeli military claimed it executed a precision strike against terrorists. In reality, they bombed a school full of refugees killing at least 30, several of whom were children.
• Democrats wrote up a bill that would make sure states couldn't ban contraception devices like condoms and the birth control pill because they believe having control over one's reproductive system is a universal human right. Republicans blocked it because they are the forced birth party.
• Democrats are trying to pass a law that would require hospitals to report to a national database when they have to treat a gunshot wound. You may ask, surely they already do that? Of course not! Republicans keep preventing any attempt to combat gun crime, even something as simple as merely knowing how many people are shot.
• When Trump was campaigning under the slogan "lock her up," 58% of Republican voters were agreed that convicted felons should be banned from holding office. Now that Trump is a convicted felon, only a mere 23% still think that. Either way, Disney has to update the Hall of Presidents.
• Police officers Jordan Steinke and Pablo Vazquez pulled a woman over and then handcuffed her and locked her in their police vehicle which they had parked... on train tracks. While the cops were searching her car, a woman they locked in their vehicle saw a train headed towards her and screamed for help. The cops ignored her. Then, the train driver, seeing a vehicle stopped on the tracks, blared its horn. The cops ignored it. Finally, the train smashed into their vehicle with the woman trapped inside. She barely survived, but was left severely injured. Two years later, the incredibly stupid and reckless behavior of the cops resulted in a $8,500,000 payment to the victim, and who knows how much more in legal fees. Despite all that, rather than be put in prison for their crimes, the cops were sentenced to... probation.
• Biden's executive order blocking refugees has gone into effect, and the USA has already started turning away the needy. But this isn't nearly enough for Republicans.
• Trump thinks he's a good Christian and a moral man because... Evangelicals vote for him.

A deep dive into the 8 and 16-bit era of The Legend of Zelda.

Feeling: Happy

Last night, I beat the NES action RPG, Crystalis.

• The job of journalists isn't to just report what people say, it's also to report if what they say is a lie or not. This is why the coverage of Republicans is so infuriating, they lie so frequently, but the media often gives them a free pass.
• After his first trial resulted in 34 guilty verdicts, and his next ones will hopefully result in many more, Trump is becoming more enamored with the idea of weaponizing the US government to imprison his political rivals, all the while still claiming that the FBI tried to assassinate him.
• Weidong Guan, chief financial officer of the Epoch Times, a Chinese-run pusher of Conservative propaganda, has just been arrested for money laundering, specifically taking money from insurance fraud and funneling it into the Epoch Times, to the tune of $67,000,000.

Billionaires unliving themselves because they were too stupid to take into account basic engineering principles is funny, but exploring the ocean's depths is still a worthwhile endeavor. And, since the US government refuses to fund it, we're stuck waiting for billionaires to do it.

Why the Christian religion as practiced by many Conservative Evangelicals is a crime against humanity, which encourages them to commit the most deplorable acts of barbarism.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page listing the Library of Congress's list of Books That Shaped America. Of the current 100 on the list, I've read 16.

• Last year the House of Representatives began a new reimbursement program where members could get paid back for the money they spent on food and lodging during official government business, even if they didn't have a receipt, they could use the honor system. The problem here is that the House of Representatives consists of people like Republican, and confirmed buyer of underaged teenagers for sex, Matt Gaetz, who found himself at the very top of the reimbursement list, having been "reimbursed" more money than anyone else in the House. But don't worry, I'm sure none of the money was spent on raping minors (although, he doesn't have the receipts to prove it). The program was mostly abused by Republicans, naturally, but still saw a lot of Democrats taking advantage, proving, while they're not as dishonest as Republicans, they're still not to be trusted.
• One high school student, angry for her school's administration capitulating to Republican book banners, walked across the stage at her graduation and handed the superintendent a copy of The Hand Maid's Tale.
• If you were a business owner and one of your employees started ranting online and accused another employee of murdering people, and refused to stop, it's pretty obvious you'd have to fire them. But, if that employee complained that you only fired them because they were a Christian, and you lucked out and got a woefully inexperience Trump-appointed Christian zealot as your judge, you'd be out millions of dollars and have to rehire the unhinged Christian bigot.
• Iceland elected their second female president.
• Biden is once again on the wrong side of history, signing an executive order to cease the legal processing asylum seekers on days when there are also a lot of illegal border crossings. This would be like creating a law which cancels food stamps if there is too much shoplifting. The fact that a Democrat made such a cruel law serves as a reminder just how far Republicans have pulled US politics to the right.

A closeup look at how cicadas make their clicking noise.

The craziness of jumping spiders and how they see color.

Feeling: Happy

On Sunday, I finished re-reading The Incredible Journey.

• Trump has built his campaign on the promise of "law and order" saying all criminals should be sent to jail without leniency (and often saying they shouldn't even be given a fair trial). And yet, now that he's been convicted of a couple dozen crimes, and will likely be convicted of scores more, suddenly Trump has gone soft on political crime, even claiming one of his most popular catch phases, "lock her up," in reference to Hillary Clinton, had nothing to do with actually sending her to jail.
• Racism is still alive and well in the USA. And Germany too.
• Thanks to Republican lies, it is now estimated that 4,700,000 students in the USA now receive taxpayer money to attend a religious school, a violation of the first amendment which cost us over $3,000,000,000 a year.
• Hoping it will endure him to Trump so he'll be picked for VP (even though Trump can't stop mocking him), Republican Marco Rubio is repeating Trump's election lies.
• Mexico elected an engineer named Claudia Sheinbaum as their first female president.
• Russia was caught bribing Conservative European politicians with hundreds of thousands of euros through their propaganda arm, Voice of Europe, which is now being sanctioned.

Making a battery with energy drinks.

Using science to increase your determination.

Feeling: Happy

Finally got the project I was working on completed at work. What a week!

• The good news is, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial. This will cost him a huge amount of money to appeal, and will no doubt color people's opinion of him going forward into his several future criminal lawsuits. The bad news is, his conviction will have very little effect on those who plan to vote for him in the fall. The silver lining is, even if Trump wins the presidency, he still can't pardon himself to get out of state crimes.
• Both Germany and the USA have given Ukraine permission to use their weapons, not just for defense, but, now, for limited offenses in Russia. Hopefully, bringing the war home to Russia will cause enough outrage for Russian citizens to finally convince Putin to give up on his genocide, but I fear it will not.
• As the Israeli army pulls out of Jabalia leaving little more than a smoldering craters, Pew Research asked Israeli citizens how they think the war is going. Over 70% think the invasion of Palestine is an acceptable military response, or that it needs to be even more aggressive!
• With the latest political corruption and bribery exposed among his fellow Republican Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, Chief Justice John Roberts is refusing to meet with Democrats to outline a code of ethics for fear it would decrease judicial independence. Of course, the whole reason the Supreme Court needs a better code of ethics, because the Republicans keep pushing a partisan political agenda and accepting bribes, proves just how dependent they are on other Republicans.
• Yes, Republicans are trying to limit contraception, primarily the ones that give women control of whether they get pregnant, and, yes, that includes Trump.
• Look at me, I'm, MTG!

Want to watch an 8 and a half hour long video of all the original Half-Life games running concurrently in order to show the chronology of each game?

Feeling: Happy

• Israel claimed the bomb they dropped on a civilian refugee camp in Rafah was the smallest bomb they had. It turns out, it was actually a massive 250 pound American-made GBU-39. In fact, a large percentage of the bombs dropped on civilians in Gaza have been American made. Republicans in the USA are proud of giving bombs to Israel to murder innocent civilians, in fact, Nikki Haley herself wrote on one bomb, "Finish them!" It was probably dropped on a children's hospital. As it is, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development said that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is "worse than ever."
• Republican Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito nearly always sides with the most extreme Conservative interpretation of any law. This is to be expected, as he was hired specifically to do this, but that doesn't necessarily make him wrong. Human judgment is fallible, and it could be that the most extreme Conservative interpretation really is the most just (despite it being almost universally wrong historically). But, as a judge, Alito is supposed to at least pretend he isn't favoring one group over another, and that's pretty hard to justify when his homes keep exhibiting flags which demonstrate, not just a political partisanship, but an all out preference to those who tried to overthrow the US government. But don't worry, Samuel Alito has just assured us that Samuel Alito can't be influenced, and can and will fairly judge the January 6th insurrectionists, you know, the people who called a SWAT team in the hope they would murder the mother of a Capitol police officer!
• China's authoritarianism continues to worsen as 14 pro-democracy activists were found guilty in Hong Kong and are being sent to prison.
• Jordan Klepper talks about traveling to Estonia and the fears the Estonians have for when Russia chooses to invade them next.

Minute Earth explains how birth control works.

A rather dull but informative interview about the gnostic gospels.

Feeling: Happy

• Another senior official at the State Department has resigned claiming Israel did indeed obstruct aid to Palestine civilians, and the Biden administration was wrong to side with Israel's lie.
• Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito was caught flying another flag used by the ultra-Right at his beach house.
• Not surprising, RFK Jr condemns the removal of Confederate monuments. Libertarians are all about freedom of speech and expression and all that... for white racists. I never see them defending the freedoms of people of color.
• Why the US government prides corn over all other plants.

Why people threaten to kill themselves for attention and control.

Reviewing the Three Body Problem regarding evil gods.

Feeling: Happy

Over the weekend, I beat Sylvan Tale on the Game Gear.

• The Israeli military has been corralling Palestinians into a very small refugee camp in Rafah. Hamas fire some rockets at Israeli tanks, and the tanks responded by attacking the refugee camps, causing a major fire in their tents, and killing 45 more civilians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly said it was an accident, but still has no plans to stop his war machines or even slow them down. Since many Israeli officials don't even think Palestinians are people, you have to wonder if this was even an accident. Here in the USA, Donald Trump doesn't even think Americans are people as he promises to "crush" the Americans who are protesting the Israeli genocide and expel and .
• Republicans are still milking the totally real and not at all fabricated Trump assassination attempt.
• The thing about running for president is that everything you say is recorded, so, after you bash someone for being mentally incompetent and evil, it doesn't look good on you to then say you're voting for them for president.

How the "man-o-sphere" is profiting off fearful poorly-raised men.

How morel mushrooms sometimes kill people.

More reasons for why you should replace your lawn with native plants.

Feeling: Happy

• The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must immediately halt its offensive in Rafah calling it a moral disaster, but Israel refuses to stop bombing civilians.
• North Carolina has a monument where a Confederate soldier stands atop a plaque which reads, "In appreciation of our faithful slaves." And, can you believe it some people think it's racist and want it removed? Why can't they appreciate historic slavery?
• Trump, at a rally, once again praises murderous authoritarian dictators.
• Another one of Trump's January 6th goons is headed to prison. Alex K. Harkrider will serve two years for bringing a hatchet into the Capitol.
• At a fundraising rally, Trump told fossil fuel executives, if they donate to his campaign, he will immediately green-light their projects. Toxic fracking, leaky pipelines, offshore oil spilling, it doesn't matter, give him lots of money, and he'll remove safety protocols and anti-pollution laws to make it happen. Trump is asking for bribes right out in the open.
• Trump is claiming Joe Biden is trying to murder him. Will this cause him to rethink his belief that presidents should be above the law? If you think so, you're clearly not paying attention.
• Biden may be boring, but, unless you want the USA to collapse, you better vote against Trump.

When Elon Musk paid far too much for Twitter, he promised to rid the site of bots, but his stupid decisions resulted in a dramatic increase in bots. And this isn't just a problem with Twitter, most social media platforms are now swarming with bots, and the huge push for AI is only going to make the problem worse.

Part of deconstructing your religion means discovering how it has poisoned your view of culture and social situations.

Feeling: Happy

• Israel thinks anyone who believes Palestine deserves to be a nation state is helping terrorists, but the reality is, the majority of the world believes Palestine deserves to be a nation state. Pretty much the only hold outs are the USA, because the Christian Nationalists living here believe having Israel dominate the region is necessary to bring about the end of the world, which they think is good, and those nations with strong ties to the USA and Christian Nationalism.
• Republicans in South Carolina purposely created a race-based voting map in order to disenfranchises black voters. Initially, the courts ruled that this was a clear violation of the US Constitution, but Republicans appealed to the US Supreme Court, and the Republican justices, including Clarence Thomas, just approved it!
• Trump kept saying he would definitely testify at his trial in order to give what he called the truth. Of course, Trump lied. Thankfully, the few lawyers he could find stupid enough to represent him aren't doing him any favors. Since he's slept through most of the trial, Trump doesn't care much about the outcome, he's far more concerned with how he looks in courtroom sketches.
• Republican Nikki Haley reminds us she's full of it, and even the few Republicans who don't worship Trump, are still sycophants who fall in line, assuring everyone that even after all the crimes, corruption, and personal attacks, she'll still vote for him.
• US military intelligence has stated that Russia, ruled by Putin who desires to return Russia to its former Soviet glory, has likely launched a weapon into space. It's just like the Cold War all over again!

Does giving money to a large corporation to donate to their charity of choice actually benefit the world?

Feeling: Happy

I made a page for the cute short game, Run Santa Run.

• Israel continues to prove its genocidal intent. All Spain, Ireland, and Norway did was say, in order for there to be peace in the Middle East, Palestine needs to be allowed to have its own country, and Israel not only denounced their claim, and kicked their nation's ambassadors out of their Israel, but said they were helping terrorists!
• The war on women and reproductive health continues. Republicans in Louisiana are placing mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs which induce abortion, on their list of controlled dangerous substances in order to make it a crime for people to possess or mail them. Trump said he is open to states banning contraception, then, after someone told him what contraception is, backtracked. And Christians in Ohio were once again caught barring entry to clinics, but, this time, the state's Department of Justice is pressing charges.
• It's a bit sad how easily Conservatives fall for Russian propaganda.
• 18 of Trump's people have so far been charged with election crimes in Arizona for trying to overthrow the state's presidential election. The criminals include Republicans Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn, Mike Roman, John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Kelli Ward, and many other Conservative criminals..
• Conservatives are whining crybabies who get offended by everything all the while claiming they can't get offended by anything.
• Fair and balanced Supreme Court justices we do not have.
• Randy Rainbow explains why we can't make Trump our next president.

The complex engineering of duct tape.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray.

• It's nice to see nations like France, Belgium, and Slovenia backing up the ICC's calls for the arrest of the leaders of Hamas and Israel, as both appear to be guilty of crimes against humanity, but the USA, led by Conservative Christians who support Zionist ideals in order to help expedite Armageddon, continues to repudiate it. And, police continue to beat, electrocute, and torture student protesters.
• Trump was once again caught sharing Nazi propaganda on social media. I wonder if his VP will be a Klansman?
• Climate change is creating a lot of refugees. Unprecedented storms are destroying homes, and many parts of the world are becoming too hot to sustain life, so people are seeking a chance elsewhere. In the USA, Republicans bus these refugees to freezing climates, abandoning them without food, shelter, or proper clothing. In Europe, Conservatives are abandoning refugees in the African desert.
• When Colin Kaepernick took a knee to protest police murdering black people, Republicans complained that football is no place for politics. When Harrison Butker told women the most they should want out of life is to be baby incubators for their husbands, that gay people are dangerous, abortion is evil, and in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy are for degenerates, they applauded his views and defended his free speech. Thankfully, even the private Christian school where he made his hateful comments says he doesn't speak for them! But why the double standard? Colin Kaepernick was completely shut out of the NFL while all that has happened to Harrison Butker is the NFL said he doesn't speak for them.
• The world isn't fair. You get filmed jacking off one guy in a crowded theatre while claiming to be a family-values Christian, and suddenly nobody respects you.
• The Biden/Trump debate will not be worth watching, but, at least it's fun to mock the entire premise.

Some interesting things caught on camera during the last solar eclipse.

Feeling: Happy

Over the weekend, I beat Super Bomberman 3. Just like with 2, everything was fun until the very end.

• The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas for kidnapping and murdering Israeli civilians, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for ordering war crimes against Palestinian civilians. While the ICC's call for their arrest is largely symbolic, especially since Biden called their very factual claims outrageous and refused to support them, it's nice to see some world leaders trying to be on the right side of history. In related news, after Israel responded to the kidnappings with a genocide of Palestine, Iran sent a large volley of rockets and drones into Israel, but most were shot down before they reached their intended targets. Israel said they would retaliate, and, there isn't any direct evidence of their invovlement, but now the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, is dead after his helicopter crashed.
• Flying an upside-down flag is a sign of distress indicating you need help. In more recent years, it has been used as a symbol of protest and lack of confidence in the government. When Trump tried to steal the US presidential election, it was used by insurrectionists as a symbol to justify their crimes. The fact that the same symbol was flow at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, is not surprising since he's a staunch Trump supporter and has voted against the civil rights of women and minorities in nearly every case he's ruled on, but it's still quite troubling.
• Republican Glenn Youngkin said, "Let me be crystal clear: I support access to contraception," while vetoing a bill that would guarantee women access to contraception.
• Republican Ron DeSantis eliminated all mention of global warming to government documents in Florida, which has made it very difficult for them to explain the current record-breaking heat wave.
• Because the Republican Senate refused to do their job to vote on judges during the Obama administration, they blocked the appointment of hundreds of judges causing severe damage to our judiciary. This allowed Trump to elect a huge number of woefully inexperienced and radically barbaric judges, further crippling our judiciary. And this has certainly been paying dividends to Trump, as they have been and continue to help keep him out of prison (along with his fellow sleazebags), which is helping keep him a viable presidential candidate. However, this travesty has also caused Biden to swing more liberal than expected, and he has since appointed more women and people of color as judges than any president in history.
• Republican Rudy Giuliani may have declared bankruptcy, but he's still spending like crazy and refusing to pay his debts like a proper deadbeat.
• Since they don't have anything important to do, Louisiana Republicans are on the cusp of requiring all public schools to advertise for a specific religion (Constitution be damned) by forcing them to place a large poster of one of the versions of the ten commandments in every classroom in the state.
• Angry that their loser monuments have been torn down, Virginia Republicans are changing the names of their public schools to honor slavery.
• Republicans have had to give up every last vestige of morality and pride they possessed in order to continue supporting Donald Trump.

How good intentions to form a charity can be warped for evil.

Feeling: Happy

My girls have their second dance recital tonight!

• When students began to protest the USA helping Israel murder Palestine civilians on the campus of Columbia University, President Minouche Shafik was no doubt aware of two important things. First, the US Constitution, which Republicans worship, but don't read, guarantees people the right to peacefully protest on public land, which includes the campus of Columbia University. Second, Republicans have been forcing university presidents to resign for allowing students to exercise their civil rights by protesting on campus. With these two facts in mind, Shafik had an important decision to make: allow her students to protest, or call in the goon squad to beat them to a bloody pulp. She chose the latter, probably hoping it would make her look good to Republicans and they wouldn't force her to quit. However, what she failed to remember is, Republicans despise everything about higher education, and they certainly don't care for people of Arabic descent. Nothing she could do would ever win her the affection of Republicans, they were always going to want her fired. She could have at least ended her job with dignity, but, instead, she has just lost the respect of her faculty who voted with a 65% majority, no confidence.
• You know your political party has become a cult of personality when members are fighting each other over who loves Trump the most.
• Knowing they've gone too far, and fearful their hateful anti-woman stance will hurt them in the upcoming election, many Republicans have become silent on abortion, and one of them, Larry Hogan, is now even saying he's become pro-choice! Of course, he doesn't say he'll actually do anything to restore abortion rights, but it's wonderful lip service. And, since Trump is under a gag order because he won't stop trying to bully jurors, his fellow criminals are doing it for him.
• Since 1976, Texas has not only executed more people than any other state, they have executed more people than 30 other states combined! So, to hear about Texas's Republican Governor Greg Abbott actually granting a pardon to a death row inmate is rather shocking news. But then you learn that the man he pardoned Daniel Perry, a man who made several online posts about how badly he wanted to murder Black Lives Matter protesters, called BLM protesters "monkeys," then purposely drove his car into protesters, and, when an unarmed Garrett Foster approached his car, Perry opened fire on him with an assault rifle, murdering him in the street. He also had a thing for under-aged girls. Anyway, Abbott didn't just prevent the execution, he gave him a full pardon, and Perry has been released from prison, and will be given back his assault rifle. Republican Greg Abbott is a racist who protects murderous racists.
• Do humans understand less today than they did centuries ago? Well, this Conservative talking head thinks so.
• I honestly don't care about a debate between Biden and Trump. A wannabe tyrant who can't shut up against an out of touch geezer, both of whom should have retired decades ago? No thanks.
• How is the opioid epidemic going? Have the guilty parties finally been punished? Have the victims finally been helped?

You may have heard the statement, "a little inflation is a good thing," but why?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the 1992 DOS game, Capture the Flag.

• Israel admits even if they were to successfully eliminate Hamas, they still don't have the slightest idea what they'll do to help the Palestine civilians whose lives they ruined in Gaza. My guess is, they don't care in the slightest.
• Climate change continues to get worse, sea levels are rising, temperate zones are becoming more jungle-like, and dangerous weather is getting worse. Venezuela has become the first nation in the Andes Mountain Range to have all of its glaciers melt, and the particularly vulnerable regions are those expected to lose their coastline and see massive hurricanes, places like Florida. Sadly, Florida Republicans have decided to remove the words "climate change" from the government, so future decisions will not be allowed to even mention the global challenge, let alone take it into account. One way we can help decrease our massive pollution problem is to switch from livestock to lab-grown meat for our protein. It's still a ways into the future before it can become affordable, but, regardless, Republican states are banning that as well.
• With puppy-murderer Kristi Noem out of the running, Republicans are falling over themselves trying to get on their knees and service Donald Trump in hopes of becoming the next wannabe VP.
• How and why Trump has to keep defending himself from sexual assault charges.
• In case you've forgotten what absolute garbage Republican Mitt Romney is, he thinks Biden should have pardoned Trump for his criminal hush money trial.
• Libraries are very important, especially to the poor and middle class, which is probably why Republicans hate them so much.
• Nearly everything Republicans say about gas appliances is a lie.

Geologists argue over the need for the Anthropocene.

Might it be possible to actually build a liquid robot?

A former Mormon explains why Mormons aren't Christians.

Feeling: Sleepy

• Biden slowed the deliverance of war machines to Israel because they kept using them to mass-murder children, and Republicans hated him for that, but Israel was undeterred and continues to bomb hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees, so, as punishment, Biden is... giving them $1,000,000,000 worth of war machines. Speaking of genocides, Russia continues to invade Ukraine and is once again gaining ground, and Putin is using American Evangelical tactics to keep it going.
• Let's keep those contempt fines coming. Considering that Trump has several more trials in the near future, maybe he'll nickel and dime himself into the poor house. And, yes, it's good to see all the people Trump threw under the bus back to haunt him. Hopefully, he will reap what he has sown.
• In addition to shooting puppies, Republican Kristi Noem keeps claiming Native Americans are in league with drug cartels. While tribe members are sometimes caught with drugs, so are white people, but Noem isn't focused on white people having drugs, just Native Americans. This selective racism has earned Noem a ban from the tribal land of seven tribes.
• Lauren Handy, the Conservative Christian who broke into an abortion clinic and barricaded the doors, and who was also discovered to have fetal remains in her home, has been sentenced to four years in prison for her crimes. Let's keep this up!
• When Congress gets to decide whether Congress is legally allowed to perform insider trading, don't expect them to take into account your best interest.

Eight science misconceptions you should protect yourself from.

Southern Baptists preach sexism, racism, homophobia, and all other manner of bigotry, so it's not wonder they keep losing members.

That Cybertruck is really making headlines... for smashing idiot fingers.

Feeling: Exhausted

I thought I was heading back from Mexico on Sunday, but I forgot I made the plans until Monday, so I had to spend another day in paradise. Shucks.

On the airplane, I finished Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium.

• Lots of fun stuff has happened in the news while I was gone. Trump's trial isn't going well for him as his lawyers are learning how hard it is to defend a creep who constantly cheats on his wives with much younger women who remind him of his daughter.
• RFK Jr. claimed he had a worm in his brain, that ate part of it and then died (because his brain is so toxic?) causing him such cognitive impairment, he lost a huge amount of money so his ex-wife couldn't get in the divorce. But, now that she's committed suicide, he's magically back to normal and totally sane enough to be president.
• Biden slightly delayed weapons to Israel because they won't stop using them to murder innocent civilians, and Republicans are accusing him of being just as bad a Hamas and anti-Semitic. This is a bit unusual considering their hatred of successful Jews like George Soros.
• Who would have thought that writing about the time you shot a puppy because you couldn't train it would be political suicide? Certainly not Republican Kristi Noem.

If you're ever in Chernobyl, don't eat the mushrooms!

Languages keep going extinct, so why is the total number of known languages still increasing?

Feeling: Excited

I've started a page for the FM Towns, a line of home computers released only in Japan.

I'm heading to Mexico tomorrow. See you on Monday.

• The Israeli army, bloodthirsty and unchecked, has invaded and conquered Rafah, a Palestinian city on the border of Egypt where a million and a half Gazan refugees were trying to survive. Egypt is very angry about this, and France and China are demanding an immediate cease-fire. Having large portions of the world hate you, especially people who have nothing to lose because you killed everything they held dear, is this sort of thing that brings about terrorists attacks.
• Putin is about to enter his 25th year as dictator for life as he starts another term stolen from the Russian people. In his time he has pushed the country into war, severely damaged the nation's economy and global reputation, ordered thousands of Russian soldiers to their deaths, outlawed independent journalism, eliminated education in the nation's universities, brought about barbaric social norms, and had many of his political rivals assassinated, including a recent failed attempt at the President of Ukraine. This is the exact same thing that will happen in the USA if Trump is reelected.
• Republican Mike Collins shared a video of real American patriots holding flags and pretending to be an ape in order to mock a black person. When questioned why he would share a video of a racist person, he acknowledged there "seems to be some potentially inappropriate behavior" in the video.
• From the bulk of Libertarians I've spoken to, I'm not surprised by their party's current request, to have Trump speak for them instead of their own politicians.
• Donald Trump always makes unwanted comments about the appearance of other people, so it's no surprise that he's fat-shaming his political opponents. It's wrong to shame people over how they look, but not how the eat pizza.
• Disgraced doctor Sherri Tenpenny claimed that the government was controlling people with 5G cell towers through implants hidden in vaccines which make you magnetic. This led to an investigation which resulted in her having her medical license revoked. And, although she hasn't changed her mind on anything, her website shows she's still preaches BS like homeopathy and chiropractic, Ohio just gave her back her license to practice medicine. Next thing you know, she's going to say vaccines cause turbo cancer.
• Comedians continue to take shots at Republican Krist Noem just like she takes shots at puppies.
• Let's see what's going on in cocaine news.

The science of avalanches.

Feeling: Happy

To add to the growing list of memes about women feeling safer meeting a bear in the woods than a man, I give you Good Charlotte's Girls & Bears.

I'm now over 3/4 of the way through Phantasy Star IV, and I have to say, I'm not really liking it all that much.

• Even though there is nowhere for them to go, Israel told another 100,000 civilians to evacuate because so they could bomb their homes into oblivion. And, angry that journalists keep revealing their crimes against humanity, Israel is now invading over the offices of news organizations within their borders. Freedom of the press be damned!
• Trump was again found in contempt for trying to influence jurors and will be fined another $1,000. Still hoping for that jail sentence.
• Columbia University responded to student protests with police violence, which only outraged more students causing the protests to get bigger, so the university escalated with even more police violence, which has made things even worse, and now, the school has had to cancel its usual graduation ceremony. I'm sure Trump can solve everything.
• Trump doesn't exactly leave any fans in his wake, his tired, stinky, sleepy wake.
• The patriotic truth of fast food companies.
• Jesse Watters tries to solve poverty with Republican math.
• After an internal investigation, the Chicago Police discovered that 27 of their own officers were members of the US terrorist group, The Oath Keepers. Although they fired several, they still have nine of them on their payroll and have finally decided not to do anything about it, despite some of them having disturbing records.

Christian youth preacher Robert Fenton convinced the parents of a 14-year-old girl that his god told him he had to marry her. The parents agreed to allow it, but only after she got older, but that didn't stop the preacher from repeatedly sexually assaulting her. After years of evading law enforcement, Fenton is finally in custody.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading A Planet of Viruses.

• So far, over 2,200 students across the country have been arrested for protesting the US funding Israel's genocide. And, while Israel can still count on the USA to keep them afloat, the rest of the world is learning their true nature and even cutting ties with the country. At least Trump doesn't have to worry about protests on his campuses, what with Trump University being shut down for embezzlement.
• In an effort to make more money, Boeing has steadily been reducing to quality and safety of their airplanes. It got so bad, that several Boeing employees sacrificed their jobs to warn the public about collusion between Boeing and the FAA improperly re-certifying their 737 Max, the plane that kept automatically crashing and killing people. Boeing was accused of retaliating against the whistleblowers, one of whom was John Barnett who died apparently by shooting himself, just before he was supposed to give testimony against the company. That raised a lot of eyebrows, but, not as many as another whistleblower, Joshua Dean, who, despite being a healthy 45-year-old, suddenly died of a bacterial infection.
• United Methodists, the third largest Christian denomination in the USA, just voted to allow LGBT clergy members. This is just more proof that Conservatives are losing their culture war.
• Another one of Trump's January 6th terrorists has been sentenced. Ryan T. Nichols received the most severe punishment yet, five years in prison, and a $200,000 fine for stealing a cop's pepper spray and spraying it back at officers.
• In Missouri, women are not allowed to file for divorce against their husbands if they're pregnant, regardless of how abusive they may be. And, since state Republicans criminalized abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, women are kind of stuck. While Democrats don't have the clout to bring back abortion, they're still trying to give women back some autonomy.
• Trump's lawyers try to keep him awake during his trial with papers, but the only thing that will keep him awake is himself. I guess he's just been up all night deciding if his pick for VP should be someone who shoots puppies for fun.

Social media is seeing a resurgence of the apologist argument, the laws of my god must be divine because they go against man's desires. Apparently, they never considered that, not all people desire the same thing, the laws of every other religion goes against man's desires, secular laws also go against the desires of a lot of people, and by saying "man's law" you just expose your sexist patriarchy.

Feeling: Happy

I finished re-reading Very Far Away from Anywhere Else.

• More police violence at UCLA and Dartmouth. Cops are using semi-lethal means like stun grenades and caustic aerosols to quash the first amendment rights of students.
• Trump's inability to keep his mouth shut is costing him money, and his judge warms it may even land him in jail.
• As our election draws nearer, Russian propaganda is increasing on social media, especially TikTok. In particular, Putin is trying to convince Americans to stop helping Ukraine protect from his genocide.

Oh, good, a new celebrity "psychic."

Feeling: Okay

Mowed the lawn yesterday, got a new crown on my tooth today, about to finish another book... making progress.

• Students all over the country continue to protest against the USA helping Israel ethnically cleanse Palestine. Up until now, police have been beating them, pepper spraying them, and arresting them. But now, emboldened by police abuse, counter protesters are attacking students, and the police are just sitting back and watching. However, despite all their authoritarian violence, the number of protests around the country is actually increasing.
• Thanks to Republicans, abortions are now criminal in Florida after only six weeks, effective today.
• People are really digging into Republican Kristi Noem for murdering her puppy, as they should be.

Why you shouldn't trust a conspiracy-loving sportsball player.

Why you shouldn't trust a genocide apologist to teach you about morality.

Feeling: Okay

I've written scripts for removing percent encoding from file names and 7-zipping all of the folders in a folder.

• Proving that his genocide isn't about recovering hostages, Benjamin Netanyahu said, even if Hamas and Israel agree to a ceasefire, he will still order the Israeli military to invade Rafah in Southern Gaza.
• Police, mostly ordered by Republican politicians and school presidents fearful of Republican politicians, continue to wipe their feet on the US Constitution and arrest protesters at universities around the country. Republican Glenn Youngkin expressed his support of arresting 80 students at Virginia Tech. Mike Johnson was booed while visiting Columbia University where many students are now in jail. Riot police showed up at the University of Utah to crack skulls, and students are being pepper sprayed at the University of Texas. There are many others, but it would take too long to list them all.

All the Star Wars prequels and midquels have made some of the lines in the original series a bit muddled.

Why do we eat so few carnivores? Is it because they taste bad? Because they're more dangerous? No, it's something else.

Feeling: Blah

Slowly feeling better and about two-thirds of the way through Phantasy Star IV.

On Sunday, I finished reading the third edition of The Official Book of King's Quest.

• Despite the Israeli military purposely trying to kill them for trying to prevent starvation in Gaza, the World Central Kitchen is bravely resuming aide work in Gaza.
• Republicans continue to call for the elimination of the first amendment's right to peaceful assembly.
• To get someone to thrown their homeland under the bus takes a special kind of brainwashing, just ask Republican Victoria Spartz who, despite being born and raised in Ukraine, voted against protecting it from a Russian genocide.
• Putin again makes good on what Trump keeps dreaming about, putting journalists in prison.
• It should go without saying that Michigan is not paying to house Mexican terrorists, but that's just the latest outlandish lie offered up by Donald Trump.
• In Republican Kristi Noem's soon to be published memoirs she writes about her dog Cricket who she had a hard time training. Rather than find a trainer to teach he what she was doing wrong, Noem took her dog to a gravel pit and shot him.
• Once again, the fact that the Republican Supreme Court Justices are even entertaining the idea of criminal immunity for presidents means they aren't fit to be judges.
• If the US government don't want the public to make wild speculations about UFOs, it would help if you didn't constantly lie about them.

Another example of why scientists should stick to their area of expertise.

Feeling: Sick

Today, I finished reading Ellen Tebbits.

• Mylissa Farmer was thrilled to be pregnant and eager to become a mom, until, at only 17 weeks, her water broke. There was no chance of her fetus becoming viable, and a very high chance that she would develop a severe infection that, if untreated, would kill her. All the doctors agreed, if she wanted to live and be able to try for another child, she needed an immediate life-saving abortion. Sadly, Farmer lived in Missouri, a Republican state which criminalized abortion. Although there was an allowance for saving the life the potential mother, this wasn't allowed if doctors could detect cardiac activity. Of course, by the time cardiac activity stopped, the dying fetus would already be rotting in her uterus. Thankfully, Farmer was wealthy enough to be able to take time off and travel out of state to get her medically necessary abortion. While it's tragic that Farmer had to such a horrible ordeal, she has certainly learned from it and has become a pro-choice activist.
• Republicans like Greg Abbott are all about personal freedom. Like his freedom to violate the first amendment rights and order the police to arrest the people he doesn't like. Because they hate his freedoms!
• In an effort to keep Trump out of prison, completely unqualified Supreme Court Justice and alcoholic sexual abuser Brett Kavanaugh claims that most Americans favor pardoning the crimes of former presidents like Richard Nixon, a criminal Kavanaugh really adores. Except, no they don't. Several recent polls, particularly those conducted after Trump considered pardoning himself, show that only 38% of Americans approve of Nixon's pardon.
• Many people in the US government claim they're trying to ban TikTok because it spies on its users, except, so do all the other social media companies, so, why aren't they trying to ban them all? It's because they know the US government buys your personal information from social media companies, but, because TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, it's much harder for them to buy your info. The goal of these government agents isn't to protect your personal information, it's to make a US branch of TikTok so they can buy your personal info more easily.
• An Israeli strike killed an entire civilian family, including a pregnant women. Doctors were able to surgically remove the baby and put her in intensive care in hopes of keeping her alive, but the premature infant, named Sabreen Jouda, has died. More civilian blood on Israeli hands.
• A history lesson for how Republicans injected themselves into Christianity, how it was initially successful, and how it's now biting them in the ass.
• After months of dragging his feet, and potentially allowing it to be lost to Russia, Republican Mike Johnson finally brought to a vote a bill to give military aide to Ukraine. And for doing the absolute bare minimum, the media is calling him a courageous hero.

Sadly, it's just as important now as it always was to call out those who use their religion to justify genocide.

The Genetically Modified Skeptic explains what it would take to reconvert to Christianity. And, though his criteria are far more relaxed than mine, most of today's Christians still can't accommodate them.

Feeling: Sick

Aside from walking my dog, I spent yesterday in bed. I never like being sick, but I'm glad to get it out of the way before I go on vacation next month. And, being in bed all day did allow me to get through the first quarter of Phantasy Star IV.

I finished re-reading A Long Way Down on Tuesday. This time in audiobook form.

• Once again, the USA has to rely on our youth to be our moral compass. Students at Emerson College in Boston, the University of Southern California, and the University of Texas at Austin are all seeing student-led protests calling for the USA to stop helping Israel commit genocide. Naturally, the police have been called to violently attack and arrest peaceful protesters. In Washington D.C., the ACLU is helping the Arab Student Union sue the District for unlawfully censoring high school students. And, of course, Trump is once again trying to protect the Nazis and Klansmen by claiming their Charlottesville rally where a white supremacist murdered a young woman and tried to kill many more, was comparatively a "peanut."
• Donald Trump is claiming American presidents should be immune to all laws. This claim is so ridiculous and so completely flies in the face of justice, that any judge who values law and order would immediately dismiss such a case and never even consider... oh wait, the Republicans on the Supreme Court are actually going to hear the case. Speaking of incompetent Republican Justices, they also don't believe that medical abortions should be allowed even if the mother's life is at risk.
• Tennessee Republicans passed a bill allowing their teachers to carry guns in class which is expected to be signed into law by Republican Governor Bill Lee. After that, we get to ask who has killed more students in Tennessee schools, the gun men, or the teachers. My bet is on the teachers.
• I'm very pleased that Arizona finally has the guts to charge the criminals who tried to steal the election with actual crimes.
• Once again, it is up to the Democrats to petition the EPA to decrease pollution and save us from climate change.
• Trump can't stop violating gag orders, but, will the courts actually do anything about it?
• Maybe if we didn't focus on the minutia of Trump, the actual scandals would be more important?

Feeling: Blah

Last night I finally finished another childhood goal: I beat all the scenarios, got a megalopolis on Freedom and on easy difficulty in a regular map in the SNES port of SimCity.

• Republicans were going to call for the resignation of Minouche Shafik no matter what she did because they hate higher education, but she could have at least taken the highroad and got the backing of liberals to fight for her. Instead, she called the police to violate the first amendment rights of peaceful protesters at Columbia University. The tools of the tyrants do what they do, and police are only exacerbating protests at other schools making the problem worse. This wouldn't be necessary if Israel defended itself with honor, but the US, even as it's giving them billions of dollars in war machines, is also accusing Israel of 103 pages of human rights violations. You can't defend the actions of a country when they include raping female prisoners, torturing male prisoners, and murdering journalists and doctors. Meanwhile, Google has fired another 20 workers for refusing to help build military software for the genocidal Israel. In a press release, CEO Sundar Pichai said the workplace isn't for politics, but then, they're writing software for governmental use, so they're the ones making it political.
• Republican Supreme Court Justices are deciding where it should be a crime to be homeless. Unsurprisingly, of the groups hoping to keep homelessness a crime is a Christian group which uses the homeless for free labor.
• In Russia, criticizing the Putin administration will get you five years hard labor.
• With the latest victory for the victims of Lawrence Nassar, Michigan State University, the Olympic Committee, and the Justice Department have now been fined almost 1 billion dollars. This is why you don't protect rapist.
• Democrats successfully lobbied the FTC to ban non-compete agreements many companies force on their employees! Not only that, but companies who used the highly immoral practice to turn their employees into indentured servants now have to let them know the non-competes are null and void! This will help tens of millions of workers who were to their employers find better jobs! Thanks Obiden.

14 things a former preacher wants you to know about religion.

Are smart phones bad for us? Yes, but probably not much more than anything else.

Feeling: Happy

Went to a D-Squared's birthday party on Saturday which was a blast!

• The majority of House Republicans voted against sending military aid to Ukraine, probably because, just like their leader Donald Trump, they're indebted to Russia. Thankfully, nearly all Democrats voted to help Ukraine and the measure passed. This is good news for Ukraine as Russia is ramping up for a new genocidal invasion. And speaking of genocidal invasions, the majority of both parties voted to fund Israel's genocidal invasion of Gaza, even as we're accusing their military of human rights violations, even though Israel rejects the accusations as "the height of absurdity," and even though Benjamin Netanyahu said he would use our money to escalate the invasion.
• Students have begun peaceful protests at Columbia University in hopes of raising awareness of Israel's genocide of Palestine, but the school's administration, led by president Minouche Shafik, thinks they live in a future Republican States of America (that we must diligently prevent), so she called in the police to arrest the students, destroy their property, expel them, and evict them from their dormitories.
• Being on the Trump jury is serious business that is going to upend lives.
• Trump is still attracting Proud Boys terrorists to his rallies, but, much like his hush money trial, they're just too stormy for him.
• Southern US Volkswagen workers voted to unionize. Good on you!
• You too can dodge taxes, all you have to do is be born into a criminally wealthy family and remain unethical.

What if Mario's cat suit made him really act like a cat?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for a game I'm sure I won't ever again try to beat, Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge.

• Israel is bombing Iran now. The USA claims we're not involved in the offensive. Well, except for the bombs they're dropping were made in America and given freely to Israel, but that doesn't mean we're involved, right?
• Republican Austin Smith, who claimed Democrats stole elections through voter fraud, was running for reelection in Arizona and the senior director of the US hate group, Turning Point. Well, he has resigned from Turning Point and dropped out of the election race after it was discovered he committed voter fraud by forging signatures on his nomination petitions.
• Trump thinks the one and only way to lower inflation for food prices in the USA, by drilling for oil. It goes without saying that helping Exxon make money won't lower the price of milk, but you can't expect such a weak mind to make sense. Anyway, I'm happy to see that Democrats are banning oil drilling in much of Alaska.
• Republican Ron DeSantis signed a law allowing religious chaplains in public schools. Well, not any religion, of course, he's only allowing the religions he likes. This obvious violation of the first amendment will result in Florida tax payers once again footing the bill for a lawsuit they are guaranteed to lose.
• Republicans once again fail to get anything done because everything they do is for show.
• Ope. Looks like Democrats regained control of the Michigan Congress. Let's hope they get some good work done while they have it.
• How giving companies control over Medicaid has made it much worse.
• What kind of person is it that still thinks Trump is mysterious?

A technical look at how the NES handles sprite priority.

Feeling: Happy

I've created a page for the catcher video game, Kaboom!

• Emboldened by the fact that nobody is stopping them, Israel in now also toying with invading the West Bank, murdering civilians, burning down their houses, and even killing their livestock hoping the Palestinians will starve to death. Also, Google, no longer interested in their former motto, "don't be evil," has decided to help the Israeli military exterminate Palestine by selling them cloud and AI services. When Google's employees protested, saying they didn't want to take part in a genocide, Google fired them.
• Because of the US Supreme Court, Republican states were allowed to criminalize abortions, and most of them did. From a political standpoint, this has been a pretty disastrous move for them, because most of the fence-sitters are now thinking they've gone too far. The state where this backfired the worst is Arizona, whose all-Republican court ruled that an 1864 law which criminalizes abortion (created before Arizona was even a state), did indeed go into effect. Seeing how bad this makes them look, Republicans, even those who previously spoke in favor of the law, have been publicly backtracking their support, saying it's too extreme and needs to be reformed. However, when it comes time to vote, Republicans keep voting to keep the law in place exactly as it is.
• During jury selection of another one of Trump's many trials, Trump is once again trying to intimidate the jurors, and the court appears to be incapable of stopping him. Maybe we should give presidents total immunity.
• Republicans in the House initially failed to get even their own party to vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. They claimed he wasn't doing enough to stop illegal immigration at the Mexican border, but, in reality, Democrats had put together one of the most comprehensive border control laws in US history, one which Republicans favored, but, when Trump told them to vote against it because he wanted to be the one to pass the law, they shot it down. After so many failures, they voted again to impeach Mayorkas and just barely made it. But, as expected, when the vote went to the Senate, it was immediately dismissed for having no merit or evidence whatsoever.
• John Leguizamo implores his fellow Latinos to not vote for Trump.

Calling yourself a cultural Christian doesn't mean much, but acting like a bigot means a lot.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading Neil Gaiman's M Is for Magic.

• Israel is now threatening a counter attack on Iran. I wonder how many countries they think they can fight at once?
• Unsurprisingly, the Republican Supreme Court justices are trying to protect the January 6th insurrectionists from prosecution.
• In what appears to be a case of fraud or embezzlement, the office of Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders failed to report charging tax-payers for a simple wooden lectern which cost... over $19,000.
• By lying about his history, Republican Tim Sheehy makes it difficult to trust. Was he was shot overseas while serving in the military, or did he accidentally shoot himself when he dropped his gun?
• Tennessee Republicans finally made good on making the bible their official state book, though, to get around that pesky first amendment, they had to do so in a very round about way.
• Sleepy Donald Trump has a hard time staying awake in court.

Trying to debunk an amorphous medical condition is harder than you'd think.

What would it look like to create a family tree of world religions?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the 1974 arcade game, Clean Sweep, perhaps the very first block breaker video game.

• Like so many other Palestinians, the Hamada family was ordered to evacuate their home. All six were in a car together when an Israel tank fired an American-made shell at their vehicle murdering everyone inside except for two girls, 15-year-old Layan and 5-year-old Rajab. Layan called for an ambulance, but, as she was talking to them, the Israeli soldiers fired a machine gun at the vehicle and murdered her too. The phone was disconnected, and, when the emergency operator called back, Rajab, the 5-year-old picked up. For three hours, while surrounded by the corpses of her family, Rajab begged for someone to come and rescue her. An ambulance was dispatched to the scene, but, when it arrived, the Israeli tank blew it up too, murdering both paramedics inside. The phone call ended with more gunfire as Israeli forces shot at the car again, finally murdering Rajab as well. When asked why they killed fleeing civilians and paramedics, Israel denied having anything to do with it, but the recorded emergency call and satellite footage prove they were lying.
• Idaho's all-Republican Supreme Court ruled that the Republican law which criminalizes health care for teens which Republicans don't like, can be enforced while the constitutionality of the law is debated, claiming teens who are prevented from receiving the health care their doctors say they need, "suffer no harm."
• Trying to untangle Trump's stance on abortion requires a lot of work.

Philip Ball explains what life is and how it works.

Feeling: Happy

My daughters and I finished listening to an audiobook of Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

• With Israel purposely trying to murder as many Palestinian civilians as possible, there was bound to be retaliation from Palestinian allies. On Sunday, Iran attacked Israel. The extremely expensive anti-missile defense system paid for by the USA and UK kept nearly all of the projectiles from landing in Israel, for now. Don't think this will be the last attack, nor the only country to do so, now that Israel is provoking the entire Muslim world.
• At a rally, Trump fans chanted "genocide Joe," and Trump responded, "they're not wrong." They're either too stupid to realize Trump is an even stronger supporter of genocide in Palestine, or they don't know what the word means. Probably both. And, when they're not blowing their entire life savings on Trump's failing social media platform, they're rallying behind the first former president to ever face a criminal trial.
• There is a growing number of refugee corpses piling up on the Texas border as Texas Republicans continue to lock them out and purposely destroy all food, water, and shelter left for them.
• After discovering how the Catholic Church, for decades, protected child-raping priests, several states have changed their statute of limitation laws on sexual assault to allow them to be prosecuted. But majority-Republican states, well, they like to keep protecting the rapists.
• Republicans are still trying to figure out how to make their total abortion bans look favorable, and it's not working.
• Until we figure out how to have 100% certainty and also predict the future, we should probably ban the death penalty.

Finally, the new Avatar logo isn't using Papyrus.

What is piranha plants had legs?

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading the L. L. Bean Hiking and Backpacking Handbook.

• Democrats cancel another $7,400,000,000 in student loan debt. With this round, they have now canceled the debt of 4,300,000 Americans. Hopefully, this is a step toward making higher education free in the USA.
• The all-Republican Supreme Court in Arizona ruled in favor of a Civil War era abortion ban, and now Republicans are trying to pretend like they weren't in favor of it literally the day before.
• Thanks to Democrats, the EPA is setting a limit on the amount of PFAS (or "forever chemicals") that can exist in drinking water.
• Republican super-donor Leonard Leo refused to comply with a Senate subpoena over his role in bribing corrupt US Supreme Court Justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
• Back in 2006, police officer Jonathan Stone was suspended for five days for trying to have sex with a 16-year-old girl. During the investigation, Stone threatened to murder his supervisor and rape his wife and daughter, which got him fired. A few years later, Stone was elected as a Republican in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He's currently serving on the committees for Criminal Justice and Public Safety and is county chair of Donald Trump's election campaign.
• A look through the latest conspiracies of 2024.
• Republicans are now just grifters for Putin.

A few interesting infographics: lethal dosages, largest marine species, and the most venomous snakes.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the King's Quest compilation, King's Quest: Collector's Edition.

• You may not be excited about Biden, but don't forget the alternative is a fascist.
• Trump admits that his stance on abortion changes with whatever is popular, which isn't winning him any votes.
• Trump's excuses for why he should be pardoned from his crimes keep getting worse and worse.
• Any time you think it's not necessary to be hyper vigilant of a government's authority, keep in mind that Russians just passed a law criminalizing music because they don't like the tempo.

Assuming you didn't melt your eyes with fake eclipse glasses, enjoy this compilation of the eclipse videos on MinuteEarth.

Alex O'Connor, AKA Cosmic Skeptic, does an AMA.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the Windows utility program Rufus, which lets you make bootable USB drives for your favorite OS.

• The USA's unflinching support of Israel as it commits genocide in Palestine is unconscionable.
• Trump's chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who hoped he could retire his way out of jail, is going to jail for five months as punishment for helping Trump commit fraud.
• We tried to warn everyone during the Hillary Clinton / Trump election, a Republican victory would be catastrophic for the Judicial Branch. And, after Trump elected over a hundred federal judges and three Supreme Court Justices, none of whom are qualified for their positions, everything has been going downhill. The latest hit occurred in Arizona where the state's Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 criminalization of almost all forms of abortion for any reason can go into effect, even though it was written before Arizona was even a state! While this might help turn Arizona blue for the upcoming presidential election, the damage to women is done, and won't be undone any time soon.
• Although Republicans will continue to make it impossible to prevent violent or incompetent people from getting guns, at least Michigan is punishing parents who give guns to violent children. The parents of the Oxford school shooter were convicted and sentenced to 10-15 years each.
• Rick Morrow was on his local school's board of education until he publicly claimed that children with autism are actually possessed by demons because his god "doesn't make junk," and the demon possession which is making children autistic can be cured with an exorcism. Thankfully, he was forced to resign.
• Republicans Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman put together a racist robocalling scheme targeting black people in an attempt to prevent them from voting. They are now being fined $1,250,000.
• Republican Scott Cepicky warned Americans that pharmaceutical companies are surreptitiously injecting common food products with vaccines like lettuce and tobacco.
• When they're not raping children, the Vatican is claiming gender-affirming care as a threat to human dignity.
• Trump does more racism at a dinner for wealthy donors.

What would an eclipse look like on a different planet... or moon?

Feeling: Happy

The total eclipse was a very surreal experience! 10 out of 10, would eclipse again. Unless you're willing to travel overseas, it's going to be a while for the next ones.

I've added a page for the disc image program, Magic ISO Maker.

I finally beat the Detroit scenario in the SNES port of SimCity. Took a couple dozen failed attempts over a 25-year span, but it's finally in the bag! I hope to finish up the game before too long.

• Trump once again refers to immigrants and refugees as "animals."
• Trump has never cared for the working class, and never will. All he ever does is cut taxes for rich white men.
• Finally, an elementary school that's Trump-approved.
• Finally, a Trump playlist.
• A NORC poll shows that over a quarter of Republicans don't believe in the separation of powers in government, and want Trump to have unilateral authority.
• In a first of its kind, a European court ruled that Sweden violated the human rights of its citizens by not addressing climate change rapidly enough.
• Republicans are trying to rework the electoral vote because they know they could never win a popular vote.
• Trump-loving Republican Dave Williams got angry that a journalist was reporting on him, so he took the same approach as his hero and had law enforcement ban the press. First amendment be damned!
• How a really smart great business man can lose $1,000,000,000 in one day.
• Angry than trans people exist, Trump wants to create a "Christian visibility day," which is the same kind of bigotry where racists want to create a white history month.
• No, Elon Musk is not a Nazi, but, his views are eerily in-line with them.

How not to find yourself in a cult.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading The Giver.

Assuming the weather is acceptable, I will be heading to Ohio or Indiana on Monday to witness the solar eclipse first hand!

• Israel's genocide in Gaza and bombing of food workers isn't winning them any fans. When asked about Israel's invasion of Gaza, Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "get it over with," and "you've got to have victory," and "finish what they started." Gosh, it's almost as if he's telling him to execute their "final solution."
• Trump said at a rally, if an immigrant breaks into your home, he will deport you.
• Although they're slowly coming around to gay people, Republican's are still openly bigoted against trans people.
• Unsurprisingly, RFK Jr's running mate is spewing lies about both vaccines and autism.
• Corporate DEI is designed to look good, but not actually change anything, but Republicans hate it anyway.
• Republicans finally came up with a feasible border wall design.

Why do techbros keep pushing food delivery apps even though restaurants hate them, their workers hate them, and they keep losing money?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the Queen song, Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together).

• Israel fired missiles at food workers killing them (they claim by accident), and Biden has verbally chastised them, but he will still continue to give them more missiles.
• Anthony Graziano murdered his wife and kidnapped their 15-year-old daughter Savannah. Law enforcement was sent after them which resulted in a high speed chase and gun fight down the road. After Graziano crashed his pickup, Savannah escaped her murderous father and ran toward the cops, who unleashed a hail of bullets on her, killing her.
• Kim Taylor, wife of Republican Jeremy Taylor, will be going to prison for voter fraud. Once again, there is a small amount of voter fraud, and most of it is committed by Republicans.
• How can we depolarize the nation and grow as a society? It involves education and empathy... so, I guess we're screwed.
• Glad to see Trump's social media bubble burst and everyone stupid enough to invest in it lost their shirts.
• Trump did long term damage to our country that will be with us for decades, but, one good thing he did was to make the average American more skeptical.

When asked to pick a random number, why do people so frequently choose 37?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for character encodings. Currently, it has an ASCII table with each code's numerical value in hex, decimal, octal, and binary, as well as the percent encoding for URLs, caret notation for old terminals, and escape character for C-like languages. I'll add more as I encounter them.

• Trump desperately sought money to cover his $175,000,000 bond, despite claiming he had a half-billion in cash, before finally getting covered by a high-risk auto loan company. The loan that was finally secured came with an undisclosed interest rate, and, considering Trump's expertise at defaulting, it was probably extraordinarily high. I would feel bad for the company, but, at this point, everyone knows that Trump never pays his debts.
• When Trump isn't bankrupting companies, he's lying about everything, like loving the bible (he hasn't read it), or speaking to the family of a murder victim, he did not.
• Trump, the world's best Christian, celebrated Easter by not talking about Christianity and instead rambling incoherently on social media.
• Instead of trying to address the nation's problems, Republicans are trying to rename an airport after an insurrectionist.
• Libre by Nexus, a company which secures bond loans for immigrants, has been fined $811,000,000 for purposely lying to immigrants in order to bleed them for more money.
• Major Lee Wai-Shun had just completed his police academy training and signed his name to receive his law enforcement certificate. However, Police Chief Maggie DeBoard saw that he signed his name using Chinese kanji, and halted his graduation. DeBoard, being a bit racist, won't let Lee become a cop until he signs his name "in English." Does she think "Lee Wai-Shun" is an English name? Does she not know that her own name "DeBoard" is probably Dutch or Flemish? Would she complain if a cop whose last name was "González" wrote their name in Spanish? Does she not know the English language and the Latin alphabet are not the same thing? The reality is, signatures are often illegible, which is why they're pretty meaningless today. I often "sign" my receipts with a smiley face and, somehow, the company's still get my money because I also had to print my name on all forms using the Latin alphabet.
• How Republican anti-abortion laws can weaken healthcare for everyone.
• While I agree that AI has the potential to solve many problems in the world, tech companies aren't using it for that, they're using it to displace human workers in order to make money for themselves.

Why eclipses travel west to east.

The more I learn about religion, culture, and science, the less relevancy I find in Richard Dawkins. His latest claim is that Christianity is fundamentally decent, but Islam is not. His bigotry stems, not from comparing their holy books (the bible is -far- more evil than the koran), but from the fact that he's comparing the domesticated version of Christianity he lives in to the feral form of Islam that is foreign to him. If a person were to reverse this and compare a domesticated form of Islam seen in Western nations, to the feral form of Evangelical Christianity found here in the USA, he would probably come to the exact opposite conclusion.

Why being "all-knowing" doesn't make any sense.

Feeling: Happy

• Israel has escalated their genocide and is now bombing humanitarian aid relief volunteers for delivering food to starving Palestinians. Israel claims the bombing of food workers was an accident, but they did it three times. This is all fine by Republican Tim Walberg who wants to drop nuclear bombs on Gaza. Unfortunately, all this violence is only further destabilizing the rest of the Middle East, which, in turn, is hurting the rest of the world.
• Republicans in Florida have banned abortion at six weeks and their supreme court upheld the law.
• The best Christian ever, AKA bible salesman Donald Trump, posted his (Fox says "completely unfair") highly-discounted $175,000,000 bond for his New York fraud trial, but he might end up paying more on his other trials now that a judge has expanded his gag order and he keeps violating it.
• When Republicans say "corporations are people," what they really mean is, "corporations have more rights than people."
• Why does a crashed cargo ship cause Conservatives to become even more racist?

It turns out, this whole time, Hydrox was the original, and Oreo is the cheap knock-off.

I'm glad to see Andrew Szydlo is still blowing things up for the children.

Feeling: Happy

I've added pages for the Flash games Heiankyo Parameters and Dys4ia.

• Transgender Day of Visibility has been observed on March 31st for all 15 years that it has existed. Easter, on the other hand, is observed based on a complex system of moon phases and equinoxes resulting in an ever-changing date somewhere between the end of March and, depending on the denomination of Christianity, as late as May. This makes the Republican claim that Biden himself specifically chose to celebrate in on the same day on Easter, particularly ignorant. Instead of being ignorant like they are about trans people, considering unlearning one of the many conservative lies.
• Trump actively destroyed the USA while he was President, and continues to profit off doing so. How quickly we forget.
• Republicans continue to hurl racist attacks at Brandon Scott, Mayor of Baltimore blaming him for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge because he supports diversity.
• California is raising their minimum wage to $20 for around 500,000 workers. Many fast food companies (who have been raising their prices consistently for years and are now more expensive than some restaurants) are complaining that they might have to raise prices.
• Another crypto conman is going to prison for losing billions of people's money, but they keep investing.

Are "woke" people depressed?

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which I really loved (minus a misguided ending). I also beat two Flash games, Dys4ia and Heiankyo Parameters which I'm working on pages for.

• Russia continues its genocide against Ukraine, using drone missiles to take out their electrical grid. And, when they're not trying to obliterate Ukraine, Russia is helping North Korea obtain nuclear bombs.
• Trump is calling the January 6th insurrectionists hostages and heroes who he guarantees will receive a presidential pardon. Of course, he was president on January 6th, and could have pardoned them, but he was too busy calling them criminals who needed to be locked up. When he's not supporting terrorism, Trump is struggling with simple words and shilling bibles.
• Republican Brian Pritchard, the vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, went along with Trump's election lies, but, after an investigation, it was discovered that he voted illegally nine times!
• You've probably seen the meme which compares the federal minimum wage to the price of McDonald's hash browns pointing out that Americans can only buy two hash browns an hour. Normal people would see this as a reason to force companies to pay their workers more money, but not Republican Glenn Youngkin.
• One good thing about RFK Jr. is that he's stealing some of the crazies away from Trump.

The strangeness of elastic knots.

Periodic Table of Videos has released a new one on tungsten.

Feeling: Okay

• In addition to non-stop bombing of civilians, Israel is purposely blocking food and medical supplies to Gaza leading to starvation. The UN is now saying this could be considered a war crime.
• Narcissists are particularly good at convincing other people to do their dirty work for them. Just look at everyone Trump has convinced to follow him, most have either wound up in jail or seen their livelihoods taken away. The latest example is John Eastman, one of Trump's many former lawyers, and one who helped Trump try to steal the election. A Judge has written a lengthy decision arguing that Eastman should be disbarred. Eastman is working toward an appeal, but, in the meantime, he can't practice law.
• Republicans continue their war on women's rights, while at the same time trying to get them to vote Republican. It's not going so well.
• James Comer laid the Republican impeachment cast against Biden on the table. It was a combination of lies, exaggerations, and conspiracy theories with practically nothing of substance.
• Someone was stupid enough to buy Truth Social?
• The Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by a cargo ship causing the bridge to collapse and several people were killed. The ship appears to have suffered mechanical failure which prevented the pilots from avoiding the bridge. There isn't any evidence of sabotage, and the ship was owned by a Singaporean company, so, naturally, Republicans blamed Democrats and Mexicans because Republicans are racist.

PRRI conducted a poll about the change of religion in the USA, and it shows not only that religion is still dying in the USA, but that a large cause of its death is their hatred of LGBT people.

Maggie Mae Fish talks about Barbie and Stanley Kubrick.

Feeling: Cold Sore

Last night, I beat the micro-Metroidvania, Fairune.

• The UN voted on a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the Israeli hostages. The USA, who has been in favor of Israel's genocide all this time, did not vote in favor of the resolution, but, at least this time, they didn't prevent the vote. The resolution is non-binding, it's just a way for other nations to express their position on the genocide.
• Trump has once again been ordered not to defame or threaten jury members before a trial, no, not that trial, this time in his hush money corruption trial. And, since he keeps incurring huge fines for all his crimes, and nobody is stupid enough anymore to give him loans, what with the decades of fraud, he's turned to shilling bibles, which his clueless Christian followers will no doubt vacuum up.
• Once again proving that US politicians are above the law, Republican bigot Ken Paxton, who was so corrupt, even his fellow Republicans helped impeach him, is finally being "punished" for accepting bribes over nine years ago, but it amounts to community service and a fine of $271,000, probably a lot less than he made from all the bribes. At least there is still an ongoing FBI investigation against him.
• Racist Republican Tim Burchett saw a photo of a person of color in handcuffs following the Kansas City parade shooting and immediately assumed he was a murderous illegal alien. The person turned out to be just a fan who who mistakenly targeted by the police (probably because they're racist too) and set free, but Burchett's post made the rounds and now, the man he targeted is suing the politician for defamation.
• After a backlash from both their journalists and viewers, NBC has decided it was a mistake to hire professional liar, Republican Ronna McDaniel, and rescinded her job offer.
• Contrails are clouds that briefly form behind high-flying airplanes, but, if you believe in baseless conspiracies, you think they're mind-control chemicals sprayed by the government in order to subdue Americans. Which is why ignorant Republicans Steve Southerland and Monty Fritts are trying to pass a law banning them.

The Orthodox Jewish sex strike would be funny if the reason behind it weren't so horrible.

Feeling: Cold Sore

I've added a page for the Green Day album, Dookie.

• To Trump, immigration and Social Security have a lot in common. He doesn't understand either of them, but still thinks they're both bad and need to be eliminated. So, he feels justified in lying about both. Undocumented workers can't benefit from Social Security because they don't have Social Security numbers, however, bringing in a bunch of migrant workers would bolster Social Security by having them pay into the system, thereby making it more stable in the long term.
• Trump's lawyers said 30 companies turned him down for a loan, but Trump still bragged that he had a half-billion in cash, but was refusing to pay his $454,000,000 New York fraud bond. Despite his lies, he was still granted a huge favor from New York judges who said they would cut his bond by more than half to $175,000,000 if he would pay within the next 10 days. Trump said he would, but probably doesn't have that kind of money.
• Less-extreme Republicans keep realizing that they can't get any serious work done because their party keeps moving more toward ultra-Nationalism, so they're resigning. The latest is Mike Gallagher, who only just turned 40, but is already done with his fellow Republicans.
• Republicans decided the real problems with the nation's budget is that rainbow flags are occasionally flown at US embassies, so, in their latest budget, they banned them. Democrats are now, once again, trying to undo Republican bigotry.
• How to differentiate between criticism, dark humor, and stochastic terrorism.
• Elon Musk's anti-free-speech lawsuit has failed. A judge threw out his lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate who published research on the rise of hate speech on Twitter ever since Musk took over.
• Fox celebrates women's history month.

According to a new Gallup poll, regular church attendance in the USA has been on a steady decline for decades. In 2003, it was 42%, in 2013 it was 38%, and, in 2023, it has fallen to only 30%, the lowest in US history.

The inconsistencies of bigots on social media.

Feeling: Cold Sore

Over the weekend, I finished re-reading Judy Blume's Blubber. I also bought myself a mahjong set and taught Gabby how to play mahjong solitaire.

For the past couple days, I've had a cold sore in my nose. While this is a bit painful, and causes my nose to constantly run, it's certainly preferable to having one on my lips where everyone can see it.

• In continuation of their genocide, Israel is now claiming ownership of an additional 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of Palestine. This is part of Israel's long term goal of obliterating Palestine, and, so far, thanks in part to the USA, their genocide has been quite successful.
• Trump's lawyers have been arguing that he doesn't have enough money to pay the $450,000,000 fine for his New York fraud trial (one of many trials he's facing), and need more time to adjust his finances, a clever stalling tactic. But Trump has such a fragile ego, he can't bare the idea of people thinking he's not extremely wealthy, so, in public, he's declared that of course he has the money, he just refuses to pay the fine! This won't help his deadline today. This is good news considering that Trump is still hugely popular, changing his follower's minds is very hard, and he keeps escalating his violent rhetoric and supporting the January 6th terrorists.
• Republican Ronna McDaniel worked as the head of the Republican National Committee. While there, her job was to lie to the press in order to protect fossil fuels industry, Christian nationalists, and the various horrible things done by her fellow Republicans, including the attempt to steal the US presidency. Despite all this, Trump told the Republican party to ditch her (probably because he hates to see women with authority), so she was forced to resign. Since then, she has been hired by NBC as a political analyst, a move that has caused the network's actual journalists to say NBC made a big mistake hiring a professional liar.
• Why Evangelicals are so ride or die with Trump, from the perspective of an ex-Evangelical.
• Stewart Rhodes, ultra-Conservative founder of the terrorist organization Oath Keepers, and who is now in prison for sedition, has a son who described the hell of having him for a father.
• Elon Musk's masculinity is so fragile that he thinks rich women donating to charity is literally destroying Western civilization.

Why there isn't an eclipse every month.

Feeling: Cold Sore

Last night, I beat Gamedesign's Solitaire.

• The death of Nex Benedict, the non-binary teen who was beaten by classmates and died the next day, has been ruled a suicide because the teen's death was apparently unrelated to being attacked, but because they took too much Benadryl in combination with Prozac. Whether this was simply an accident or the result of depression from a long history of being bullied in a school and state controlled by Republicans who hate everyone who isn't straight was left unsaid.
• Ronald Reagan's political career is a long history failures, one of the most egregious is trashing everyone with mental health issues. He kept cutting funding to mental health programs resulting in many patients being dumped on the streets to become homeless and dangerous, particularly in California. In a form of poetic justice, Reagan was not only shot by a man with undiagnosed mental illness, but ultimately died from a degenerative mental illness. Unfortunately, his fellow Republicans learned nothing from Reagan's failures, and continue to mock and dismiss mental illnesses to this day. Thankfully, Democrats in California are trying to clean up Reagan's mess by finally providing mental health care coverage to the homeless.
• Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen, now adult, who traveled across state lines with a borrowed assault rifle to murder BLM protesters, was invited by Charlie Kirk, leader of the hate group Turning Point USA, to talk at the University of Memphis. Expecting to have a warm welcome in Tennessee, Rittenhouse was shocked when the crowd turned out to be people that don't like racist murderers or hate group leaders, and after failing to defend his racism, Rittenhouse eventually fled in fear.
• The Vatican's official rules include things like, no abortion, no birth control, no in vitro fertilization. And while Catholics will nod their heads about this in church, when it comes to how they live their lives, they don't seem to care, in particular when it comes to IVF.
• How the elimination of pensions and proper retirement funds have ruined retirement in the USA.
• How predatory loan companies and ridiculous requirements from companies have made student loans skyrocket in the USA.
• Conservative films aren't just filled with bad content, they're also badly made, because the people who make them eschew all forms of art, including film making.

Here are a couple animated bar graphs which show the sales progression of video game consoles over the years. Both have issues, but they're still fun to watch. One and two.

Feeling: Cold Sore

I've added a page for Macintosh Classic's built-in Jigsaw Puzzle.

• Social media tends to be the bleeding edge of what's trendy, and Republicans are an anathema to trendy. However, they do both have one thing in common, they're breeding grounds for misinformation, particularly about birth control. Various people online with hordes of followers are convincing their followers to stop using birth control based, not on evidence, but their own personal anecdotes. Similarly, Republicans like Cindy Ledbetter who is trying to ban IUDs entirely because of her ignorance of the device.
• Yes, Republicans are planning on cutting Social Security and they have been for years.
• Biden has nominated the very first Muslim American to the federal appellate judge, so, naturally, bigoted Republicans are, without evidence, calling him a terrorist. Republicans are effectively a hate group.

Simone Giertz tries to get out of a building rut.

An argument for why any god that is prefect, all-powerful, and all-knowing, and created the universe, must also have created evil.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday, I finished reading Looking for Alaska. It was pretty good. I also reread the children's book, Freckle Juice.

• The Republican attack on women has led to the criminalization of abortion in several states, but, as is common with criminalization, this has actually led to increases, specifically with abortion pills which can easily be mailed into states where abortion is now a crime. And, Jon Stewart has been covering abortion for a long time.
• Republicans continue to indirectly support Putin's genocide in Ukraine and very directly support Netanyahu's genocide in Palestine. And you know who we really need to listen to when it comes to Gaza? Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner! He reminds us that Gaza has very valuable waterfront property, if only Israel would just "finish the job."
• The US Court of Appeals had to once again block Texas from breaking US and international law by violating the rights of immigrants and refugees.
• Five cops calling themselves "The Goon Squad" are going to prison for violently torturing and sexually assaulting two unarmed black men. So far, Hunter Elward got 20 years and Jeffrey Middleton 17.
• Thanks to anti-vaxxers, measles continues to rise in the USA.
• Jason Phillips, a member of the violent hate group Proud Boys, was celebrating St. Patrick's day by getting drunk, driving his car without seat belts, and speeding. He crashed and killed himself and one of his passengers. Thankfully, he didn't kill anyone else.

Bed bugs aren't as bad as you think. They don't carry disease, and they're easy to kill if you use the effective methods.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I beat Easy Joe 4, the last game in the series. I also beat the Sharp X68000 port of Shanghai, which leaves only the arcade port left, but I think that port loops forever. And, today I beat the European version of Contra on the NES, Probotector.

• Trump frequently parrots Hitler, probably inadvertently since I doubt he's ever read him, but his latest spewing of anti-Semitic vomit was to say, "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion."
• Republicans sent a variety of goons to election sites in order to tamper with voting machines in a desperate attempt of finding evidence of voter fraud. Of course, they didn't find any because it was just another Republican lie, but, by tampering with the voting machines, they committed crimes of their own, and now, one of those goons, Stefanie Lambert, has been arrested because of it. Also, Republican Peter Navarro was hoping to use Trump's strategy forever delaying his lawsuits to stay out of prison for his role in the January 6th insurrection, but his latest appeal was denied, and, to prison he will go. While it's nice to see these criminals getting what they deserve, the fact that Trump can so easily convince them to break the law is very unsettling.
• The charade of an election in Russia gives the murderous Putin an impossible 87% of the vote. While decent nations are rebuking the sham, the monstrous leaders of North Korea, China, and India sent their congratulations.
• In a debate where he argued against the right to free speech, Republican Steve Halloran read a passage from a book where a woman is raped, but he changed the name of the victim to his Democrat colleague. Republican calls for violence against Democrats have become very common, but Republicans rarely go as far as to publicly describe raping Democrats.
• After absolutely horrible people were set to be honored with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Award, the organization behind the award, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, was so strongly ridiculed, they abruptly canceled the event.
• The White House has largely supported Israel's genocide in Gaza, but their latest public claims at least give the appearance of criticism, claiming Israel lacks a coherent and sustainable strategy for defeating Hamas.

Which tricks will help you escape a police dog? Not many!

Feeling: Happy

Over the weekend, I beat the Macintosh Classic and FM Towns ports of Shanghai. Only a couple ports left! Also, I've added a template for the albums I own, and the albums I don't own. And, today, I beat Easy Joe 3.

• Baring his violence and bigotry even further, Trump warned that, if he doesn't win, there will "be a bloodbath," and that immigrants are "not people." He is once again saying out loud the Nazi rhetoric other Republicans follow, but have enough self control to keep quiet.
• As Israel continues is genocide in Gaza, tens of thousands are dead, and thousands more are now missing, and presumed buried in the rubble.
• Republicans in Arizona are staging violent protests requiring a large police presence which are making it impossible for the local government to hold meetings or get any work done, but tell me again how it's the black people who are disruptive.
• Anonymous Nazi cartoonist Hans Kristian Graebener had his true identity revealed. Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist who protects Nazis, but not the people who expose Nazis, so Twitter is currently set to block any account that even mentions Graebener's name. Naturally, this censorship overreach is only amplifying Graebener's exposure. But, then, Musk frequently bans everyone who angers the Nazis.
• The amount at which Conservatives spread misinformation about transgender people is equivalent to a hate group, but here's the truth.
• A look at the amateur content shilled by the Daily Wire, and why Republicans have no choice but to eat it up.
• Another witness acknowledges that Trump shared military secrets in order to show off.

Anyone can drop an egg from the roof and have it not crack, but, can you keep an egg intact if you drop it from space?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for The Dark Side of the Moon. Also, the majority of my game pages now link to sites where the games can be played online.

• It's nice to see at least one established Democrat calling for Israel to oust their criminal war-monger prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, before he finishes ruining Israel.
• The same Republican who was hired to investigate Biden's mishandling of classified documents not only said Biden didn't break any laws, but also said Trump's mishandling was far worse, and did break laws.
• State-run medical boards are usually too underfunded, too in-bed with doctors, and too ignorant of doctor's crimes in other states to ever punish doctors who kill patients through gross negligence.
• The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation is disgracing Ruth Bader Ginsburg by using her legacy as a civil rights champion to honor the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, and Michael Milken, all extremely terrible people.
• No, Social Security is not going bankrupt any time soon, but, yes, it still needs immorally wealthy people to start paying their fair share.
• Because we train AIs with racist stuff, they produce racist results.
• James Crumbley, father of the teen who murdered several classmates in Oxford, Michigan, has been found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter for giving his son access to the guns he used. He and the mother (also found guilty) will be sentenced in April.
• Chick-Fil-A is a religious company that donates money to anti-LGBT hate groups because being gay is evil. Just ask Stacy Lee Austin, owner of a Chick-Fil-A in Ohio who did the Lord's work by driving 400 miles to commit statutory rape against a child.
• More violent Trump supporters from January 6th are still being identified. The latest is John E. Banuelos who is being charged with bringing a gun to the failed coup and firing it.

One fact for every Academy Award winning best picture film.

Why the problem of evil still damages religion.

Feeling: Happy

I've reworked my multiplayer category system and created a new page for multiplayer games. I also re-audited all my game games and added multiplayer status to a bunch I missed before. I still need to do this for my non-video games. Yesterday, I beat the European version of Super C, Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces.

• Trump once again put one of his unqualified relatives in a position of major power in the Republican party, further rotting them from the inside.
• Robert Hur described Biden as a forgetful old man in his report he gave to Congress, but, he left out the part from the transcript where he admitted Biden he had photographic recollection.
• A 14-year-old girl had been raped, and police officer Rodney Vicknair was called to protect her, instead, he groomed her and raped her too. He has since been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
• Republican Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six of the 41 counts against Trump in his Georgia election racketeering case, though he still faces 10 felonies.
• Christine Blasey Ford has published her memoirs where she describes being sexually assaulted by US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh's hearing where he acted like a petulant child, and how Republicans ganged up and attacked her for bringing up his history of drunken sexual assault.
• Republican hatred of LGBT people knows no limits, but, thankfully, juries still care about their fellow humans and acquitted Tara McGovern's protest in Iowa where only queer people were arrested.

Why are fathers often incapable of having a relationship with their children after a divorce? Because it was the mother who did all the work to keep the relationship in place.

How religious apologists so frequently misremember things in their favor.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for a very influential video game, Heiankyo Alien.

• I wish more people in the media would call out Republicans for being anti-patriotic.
• Uvalde, Texas is best known for having a police force too cowardly to stop an elementary school shooting, but cruel enough to arrest the parents who tried desperately to save their children. Enraged citizens, whose children were brutally murdered, demanded answers. After Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez came back from vacation, he defended the inaction of of his officers and say he needed time to figure everything out. After two years of stalling and multiple attempts by the city to keep the police records confidential, the city has finally come up with a solution. Rather than fire Rodriguez for gross negligence, they let him resign in a ceremony where he was honored by Mayor Cody Smith who said the city was grateful to have him. Rodriguez will be replaced by another cowardly police officer from the same group who watched kids get murdered.
• Denver police were trying to recover a stolen truck, so they ordered a SWAT team to raid a home, because, apparently, you need an entire SWAT team to apprehend a car thief. Rather than perform an investigation, the cops trusted the truck's owner to use a phone-tracking program to locate his phone which was also inside the stolen truck. The cops didn't bother to verify anything, they just sent out a SWAT team to the address he gave them. It ended up being the wrong address but, after battering down the garage door, ransacking the home, and nearly tearing the owner apart with police dogs, they finally arrested a 78-year-old grandmother who had nothing to do with any of it! After a lawsuit, the ignorant cops cost tax payers $3,760,000, but all of them are still working as Denver police officers.
• Why does Trump keep praising Hitler and other dictators?
• Disgusted by the unethical actions of his fellow Republicans, Representative Ken Buck is resigning prematurely. This weakens the Republican majority in the House even further, at least until he is replaced.
• Alexei Navalny was assassinated by Vladimir Putin, but Putin wants to make sure everyone knows anyone who oppose him will be murdered, so he also put out a hit on Navalny's former chief of staff, Leonid Volkov.
• Republicans in South Carolina and Missouri, who are all doctors, dontchaknow, are criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors.
• Racist Conservatives have always been afraid of out-group races voting illegally, even though it's never happens enough to swing an election.
• Is Biden sleepy or speedy? Fox can't seem to decide.

Mathematicians are still trying to solve a problem that's thousands of years old.

Why reality never aligns with scripture.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I finally beat Tetris Attack in hard mode only to discover if I wanted to see the true ending, I'd have to beat it without any continues, and, oh yeah, there is a hardest mode too. Such a tease! I also beat the Commodore 64 port of Shanghai. I'm much closer now to beating Hollow Knight. I'm getting very close to beating Hollow Knight as well. This game has been amazing.

• Not wanting to fail at stealing the presidency again, Republicans are firing the last vestiges of their old guard. Anyone who isn't a Trump fanatic is being sacked at the RNC. to free up money to help Trump pay his growing legal debts, and even states are removing for example, angry that Wisconsin's Republican State Assembly speaker Robin Vos wasn't pro-Trump enough to lie about the 2020 election, Republicans have successfully petitioned for a re-vote of his position. They want to make sure, for this year's election, whoever is in charge will break as many laws as possible to help Trump steal the election.
• Elon Musk met with Donald Trump, and has been meeting with him for a while it seems. The latest chat was Trump hoping to dump his social media web site on Musk, but getting turned down. Musk has already lost his status as richest man in the world from tanking one social media site, does he really need to burn another?
• John Barnett worked at Boeing for over 30 years and saw the company's descent from an aviation powerhouse to a manufacturer of shoddy planes that kill people. Only a couple days after blowing the whistle on the company's engineering shortcuts and internal corruption, he suddenly found himself dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Boeing says it's sad that he killed himself.
• Speaking of potentially murderous aviation companies, remember, David Dao? He is the Asian-American doctor who was kicked off his flight by United Airlines in 2017 because they gave up the seats of four paying customers to United employees, then, when he refused to give up his seat, United called in a bunch of security agents who very quickly began beating him senseless. They broke his nose, knocked out his front teeth, and caused a lot of internal injuries in his head. Then, the CEO of United tried to cover up the attack by lying about it, but video and pictures of Dao's bloodied face were released all over social media. After a settlement (hushed up by United), facial reconstructive surgery, and hiding out for a couple years, Dao has finally decided to give his side of the story.
• At a Republican rally in Kansas, where attendees paid up to $300 to hear Ted Nugent swoon over Trump, they could also attack an effigy of Joe Biden.
• Fueled by violent talk from Republicans, anti-LGBT hate crimes continue to rise in the USA, having increased for the past four years.
• A recap of Biden's State of the Union and the extremely creepy Republican response.
• Political news continues to depress, primarily because of bigoted Republicans.
• Open misogynists Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Romania in 2022 for rape, assault, and sex trafficking, but the case has been falling though, and the two were eventually released. Well, they are once again arrested in Romania, this time, on behalf of the UK, and, again for sexual assault.

Alex O'Connor replies to a click-baity Christian video which cherry picks atheist arguments, fails to address them properly, and has a lot of a lot of internal inconsistencies.

How NES games saved the game state using a battery.

Why the USA is so bad at financial literacy.

Feeling: Happy

Over the weekend, I beat the best time in track 5 mode B for Excitebike, and I beat the Atari ST port of Shanghai, and the European version of Guerrilla War on hard mode.

• Russia has escalated their genocide in Ukraine, creating larger bombs and specifically targeting civilian infrastructure. Better get Tucker Carlson in there to justify the genocide. In other genocidal news, Israel is lying about rape war crimes to help justify their genocide against Palestine. And, maybe we wouldn't need to air drop so much food in Gaza if we weren't also paying for Israel to starve them?
• Republicans in Iowa are doing their best to eliminate the first amendment by arresting protesters for identifying the bigots in the state. In addition to targeting anti-racism rallies, they're now arresting all of the trans people who take part in transgender rallies. And, in Texas, Republican Matt Schaefer said that every elected official in the USA is obligated to worship his god. And, in North Carolina, you've got Christian Nationalist, Mark Robinson.
• Trump is the kind of guy who mocks people's disabilities because he sees anything out of the ordinary as a weakness, so, it's no surprise he's mocking Jow Biden's occasional stutter.
• Trump paid E. Jean Carroll $83,300,000 after he failed to convince a judge to delay the payment. This is on top of the $5,000,000 he paid her last year, and the $400,000,000 he still owes her, all for defaming her after he sexually assaulted her.
• It turns out, giving a company a near monopoly and huge government contracts ends up causing them to produce crap.
• I didn't watch the State of the Union speech because they tend to be just the guy in charge bragging or lying about their accomplishments, but, apparently, the gossipy high school Republicans tried to mock Biden made themselves look the fool.
• Texans do not like the invasion of unwanted outsiders; i.e., the National Guard.
• Billionaire Angela Chao, sister-in-law of Mitch McConnell, just drowned to death in her Tesla. She accidentally backed into a pond and the car shut off, but, apparently, Tesla's don't have a way to open its doors or roll down its windows without the vehicle being on, so she was trapped inside as it slowly filled with water and killed her.

Dr. Robert Sapolsky explains why free will definitely doesn't exist, while Dr. Kevin Mitchell explains why it definitely does.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I beat the Atari 8-bit port of Shanghai. I also added the distribution model to the video game template, so, in additional to all the existing models, I now have a category and page for commercial distribution.

• Republican Nikki Haley had a fairly strong showing before dropping out of the presidential race, and, while a lot of her fans say they hate Trump, don't count on them to do the right thing. Being a Republican means not voting in your best interest and instead voting for the person who hates minorities as much as you, and then using AI to generate pictures of yourself surrounded by black people with mutant fingers.
• Bernie Sanders was on Stephen Colbert and said a lot of important things.
• Back in 2022, when Putin ordered the Russian military to conquer Ukraine, he was hoping for a quick victory catching most of the world off guard. Putin feared Ukraine would get NATO status, and yet another former Soviet nation would be lost forever, and the West's presence would be further strengthened along the Russian border. However, the billionaire oligarchs Putin helped spawn had been cutting corners in Russia's military for years, which caused Putin to severely overestimate his military's power, and the invasion was a spectacular embarrassment. While Russia may still win this war of attrition since it has vastly more resources, and will certainly win if Trump wins the presidency, as he is beholden to Putin, Putin's desire to push back NATO has severely backfired. Because of Russia's hostilities, two nations who were previously lukewarm on the idea of joining NATO, have both applied for ans gained NATO status, Finland in 2023, and just now, Sweden.
• Deadbeat Trump tried yet again to delay payments for his misdeeds, but a judge ruled that he must pay the $83,300,000 for defaming E. Jean Carroll by Monday. After that, he still owes her another $450 million.
• Yet another heat record. After crunching the numbers, February 2024 is now the hottest February in world history.
• A couple years of driving Twitter into the ground has caused Elon Musk to slip to number two. But, the important thing is, the billionaires are doing well with their Bond villain bunkers.

Understanding Brownian motion.

A swing and a miss for Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Feeling: Happy

I finished adding the personal template to all of my video game pages. In addition to making it easier to categorize which games I've beaten, haven't beaten, and can't be beaten, I was able to create new categories for video games I own, don't own, and can't own.

• Democrats are forcing wealthy businesses to pay their share in taxes and cutting deductions on employees who are paid over $1,000,000 a year, and using that money to reduce taxes for people who make less. This is the exact opposite of what Trump did.
• Colonel Benjamin Jonsson saw a problem in the Air Force: people of color were frequently being passed up for promotions over white people, not because of a difference in skills, but simply because the Air Force is biased in favor of white people. Rather than sit idly by, Jonsson worked to ensure racial equality among his fellow soldiers. Republican Eric Schmitt, who, as far as I can tell, never served in the military, and has a history of trying to keep exonerated black men in prison, is now blocking Jonsson's promotion because, like most Republicans, Schmitt does not approve of racial diversity.
• Melvin Jay became the latest unarmed black man murdered in his own home by a trigger happy cop, Braxton Shelton. This will keep happening until we do away with dangerously incompetent and violent las enforcement.
• Maryland passed a law removing the statute of limitations on child sex crimes, so, naturally, they were sued by Catholics. Fearful that their long history of protecting child rapists will come back to haunt them, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington just lost their lawsuit, and is now claiming they will appeal the ruling and they may actually have some luck now that the US Supreme Court is mostly Republican and Catholic.
• When Alabama Republican Judge Tom Parker ruled that his interpretation of his bible proved embryos are people, he knew it would severely damage IVF in Alabama. One IVF clinic is now facing four lawsuits regarding embryos being discarded, and more are surely on their way. In an effort to not lose IVF entirely in Alabama, and further damage the anti-family reputation of Republicans, politicians scrambled to pass a law protecting IVF clinics from lawsuits, but good luck keeping that in place when your constituents also believe frozen embryos are people.

Why NES Tetris crashes and has other strange effects when you get to really high levels.

Feeling: Happy

Rough day at work!

• With Super Tuesday over, we now have our official presidential candidates. Biden won every primary, and, while Nikki Haley won Vermont, she lost all the others and has since dropped out. We now get to choose between an old geezer who supports Israel's genocide, and an old geezer who supports Israel's genocide, but is also a massive criminal who is actively trying to bring about the destruction of the country. And, sadly, it's still going to be a close race.
• Trump is proud of inciting his failed coup which left several cops dead and continues to defend his insurrectionists (not enough to pardon them when he had the chance, but, you know). To make matters worse, the Republicans on the Supreme Court are doing everything they can to help him. And, as he's preparing to leave politics, Republican Mitch McConnell has decided to endorsed Trump ensuring his already highly tarnished legacy will forever be seen as the villain of democracy.
• Trump-appointed Judge Mark T. Pittman has ruled the businesses may not work to right the racist wrongs of our nation's past. As a Republican, Pittman not only doesn't believe racism exists anymore, but he also believes slavery, segregation, redlining, etc., some of which was still legal in his life time, no longer has any effect on Americans anymore, even the people who lived through it in their youth. Therefore, his ruling makes it a crime for companies to work to bring racial minorities out of poverty.
• Just a reminder, migrants commit crimes at a lower rather than native-born Americans.
• Many people are afraid the COVID vaccine is so toxic a single dose might kill them. Well, here's a 62-year-old man in Germany who is still perfectly healthy after purposely receiving 217 doses.
• Conservative Christians don't take sex crimes all the serious as can be seen with Liberty University's failure to report students who committed sex crimes to the police. Because of this, the "university" was hit with a $14,000,000 fine and must also spend another $2,000,000 to get security systems in place that are actually up to code.
• Minnesota's new flag not only looks better, but also eliminates the questionably racist imagery from the 1893 version. However, Republicans fear change and don't so much mind questionably racist imagery, so a multitude of them decided to protest the flag at the state Capitol. Did I say "multitude?" I meant, eight.
• Republicans love to lie about how LGBT people are causing permanent damage to school children, but, do you know what is really causing permanent damage to school children? Football.

Having an AI promote certain types of videos over others is causing video makers to evolve their content to a single monoculture.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I beat the Apple II port of Shanghai. Only seven ports left until I've finished them all! Also, as I've been adding a template to the personal section of all my video games, it's been bugging me the games I completed before August 2011 don't have an accurate completion date (August 2011 is when I created a Wiki page for my list of beaten video games, so I can check the editing history of the page to see the date when I added games). But, thanks to my habit of blogging every time I beat a video game, I have records in my Old News section going back as far as 2001. So, by combing though all of my old pages, I was able to update the exact win date for dozens more games. Now, the only games which still have a vague completion date are those I beat in my teens or were so unimportant I didn't bother to blog about them. Having accurate historical dates makes me so happy!

• France succeeded in making abortion a constitutional right.
• Ohio Republican J.R. Majewski, who, after mocking people with mental disabilities, said he would never drop out of the race because he knew he would win, has dropped out of the race.
• Colorado removed Trump from their presidential ballot because, since section 3 of the 14th amendment states, nobody who engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the USA is allowed to hold office. However, the Republicans on the Supreme Court are forcing Colorado to put him back on the ballot, not because they claim he didn't engage in insurrection (that matter still isn't settled because Republican justices are purposely holding up the case until after the election), but, even worse, in their ruling they took away a State's right to decide the matter for themselves, claiming that individual States are not allowed leave off names from the ballot, only Congress may do that. Once again, Republicans always support big government when it helps them.
• Speaking of big government overreach from Republicans, Ron DeSantis signed a law that made it illegal for private companies to have anti-racism training. An appeals court has declared his racist law not just a violation of the first amendment, but "the greatest First Amendment sin."
• When Republicans on the Supreme Court aren't helping Trump, they're trying to come up with reasons for why a machine gun isn't a machine gun.
• Yes, Biden is super old, but I would rather have a literal corpse in the White House over Trump.
• Trump is a dead beat. Every time he has to pay the bills, he never has the money.
• Republican Mitch McConnell is evil.

If you hated Amber Heard in the Johnny Depp lawsuit, it's probably not because of any evidence, since there was credible evidence he was abusive to her, but because of misogynistic content social media content shared by bots.

There is a lot of trash in space, and we may have to clean it all up with space lasers (as long as they're not Jewish, amirite?).

Feeling: Happy

I beat all of the releases of the 8-bit version of Win, Lose, or Draw. Also, last Friday I beat the PC-8800 and PC-9800 ports of Shanghai.

• Republican Mark Robinson is the Republican front-runner in North Carolina's race for governor. To get an idea what kind of person he is, let's look at his past. He said children who survived a school shooting and spoke out in favor of gun control are "spoiled little bastards." He called the survivors of rapists Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby "whores." He doesn't think Black people should have anything to do with Jews because he believes they're Satanists. He describes LGBT people as "filth." He hates successful women, especially Michelle Obama. Obviously, he's a horrendous bigot and hate preacher, which is why Donald Trump adores him and thinks of him as a roided-up MLK Jr.
• A collection of all the arguments Israel and the USA are using to justify their Gaza genocide.
• Trump has been running crooked businesses for his whole life, but he's always been very good at setting up loyal goons to take the fall any time the law arrives. His latest fall guy is his former Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg, who was already in trouble, but is now expected to plead guilty to additional charges of perjury for lying about helping Trump defraud New York.
• Chris Hayes talks about how Republicans in the Supreme Court are helping Trump, and so is Russia, which, despite Trump saying "Russia, Russia, Russia," is still a thing.
• Gun control is ridiculous and unnecessary, just ask the child from Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy (a K-5 public school in Virginia) who just brought a loaded gun to school.
• Global warming is more consistently hotter than ever.

Ken and Roberta Williams talk about getting back into the video game industry.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong which was very good and eye-opening.

• For his role in the failed attempt to overthrow democracy, Trump's name has been removed from the primary presidential ballot in Illinois as he should in other states.
• Brandon Fellows fancied himself a revolutionary when he heard Trump's calls to overthrow democracy. He broke into the US Capitol on January 6th and smoked marijuana in a Senator's office, but that just resulted in three years in prison. Unhappy with with way the trial was going, he became belligerent and eventually called the Judge a "modern-day Nazi," which got him another half year, that shut him up. Another one of Trump's gravy seals, Ronald McAbee, a former sheriff's deputy, was sentenced to at least 30 months, but up to 70, and fines of $32,765 for violently attack Capitol police.
• Texas Republicans have been requiring doctors to turn over private medical records to them in hopes of finding reasons to arrest doctors for providing gender-affirming care. This clear violation of HIPAA laws has resulted in them being sued by an LGBT rights group. In a second example of big government overreach, Texas is ignoring the first and fourth amendments and allowing their police to arrest anyone who looks like they think might be an illegal immigrant, translation, anyone with brown skin. Obviously, randomly arresting people because of their race isn't just illegal, but antithetical to a free society, so a judge has blocked their illegal law.
• Putin finally allowed Alexei Navalny, the man he had assassinated, to be buried, however, he still deployed riot police to prevent mourners from being allowed to see his body.
• In an effort to push their religion on others, Montana Republicans passed a bunch of laws targeting pregnant women and doctors making various forms of abortion illegal. Thankfully, a judge declared their laws a violation of the state's constitution and blocked them.
• How Republicans and Christians lie about trans youth and where the 80% lie comes from.
• Ice cream is the new tan suit.

Phone and online scammers are awful, and, what's worse, they're often people who have been kidnapped.

How some math nerds broke Wall Street.

Ruth Gottesman donated $1,000,000,000 to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to ensure free tuition to all future students. This is the largest donation made to a medical school in US history, and, despite having far more money, it wasn't made by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg. While I applaud Gottesman for her philanthropy, the fact that the USA has to rely on the gifts of billionaires to fund education, the only thing that allows a society to improve, is a dire sign of the times.

Feeling: Happy

Yesterday I finished re-reading Extra Life: Coming of Age on Cyberspace.

• After their poorly-thought-out "embyros are people" ruling which shut down IVF clinics all around Alabama, Republicans scrambled to claim that they support IVF. So, Democrats put forth a bill that would guarantee access to IVF clinics, to which Republicans immediately shot down, because they were lying about supporting IVF. This isn't anything new, there have always been Republicans who support their fundamentalist religions more than the Constitution they swore to uphold. But, even when they really do support IVF, they still want to control women. Spurred by this desite, Republicans all over the nation are trying to push for more, like in West Virginia where they are going to force teens to watch anti-abortion propaganda videos in public schools. Seeing how quickly abortion rights can be stolen away from them, France is working toward making abortion part of their constitution.
• Trump lost his case arguing that serving US presidents should be immune to criminal prosecution, which, of course he did. A president is not a king or a god, and we live in a nation where laws are supposed to apply to everyone equally. The fact that he would even make an argument like this means he doesn't believe the concept of law and order that he keeps hypocricizing about. Trump appealed the ruling to the US Supreme Court where there could be three potential outcomes. The first, the Court refuses to hear any more of his utterly ridiculous arguments and let the lower court's decision stand. No more time would be wasted and Trump would have to pay the consequences for his crimes related to January 6th as any fair and just society requires. The other two outcomes are both bad, but one is by far worse; the Court could overturn the ruling making the USA a monarchy where presidents can literally do whatever they want with impunity which would be the end of democracy in the US. Alternately, they could hear the case and agree with the lower courts, but this means there would be a long delay in the ruling, possibly even until after the presidential election, helping Trump potentially win the election, and allowing him to dismiss the case or pardon himself. Although the names are not listed on their decision, you can be sure it was the Republican majority who decided to hear the case, which means, at the very least, they're helping Trump win and delaying justice, which gives you an idea of just how corrupt they are.
• As Israel continues the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the death toll has reached 30,000. Maybe we can get them some ice cream, will that help win over the Michigan Muslims?
• Vladamir Putin is threatening to drop nuclear bombs on any NATO countries who send troops to help Ukraine defend themselves.
• Republican JR Majewski demonstrated his party's sympathy by calling people with mental disabilities "f*cking r*tards." When he received backlash for this, he played the victim saying, "I will not be threatened!"
• Just a reminder, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a nut who does a lot of drugs and is kind of racist.

If you want to try a multi-day backpacking trip, here are some good trails for beginners.

Feeling: Happy

Don't forget to vote today.

I've added a page for the original Rogue.

• Proving that he is still really racist, Trump says there needs to be a new category for crime in the USA just for immigrants. He bases his belief not of evidence, because all the evidence shows that migrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than citizens born in the USA, but based on Trump's outlandish lie that immigrants are escaped mental patients like from "Silence of the Lambs." He also said black people like him more now that he's been indicted, because, in Trump's ignorant racist head, getting a mugshot and committing crimes makes him more appealing to black people.
• Texas and Florida Republicans were all set to follow in Alabama's footsteps and declare embryos people, but then they saw all the backlash in the state, and Florida decided to put a pause on it.
• Jon Stewart explains how watching TV on your phone is still watching TV.

Examining the "denominations" of atheism.

Feeling: Happy

I beat the arcade VS. System version of Vs. Excitebike and added a couple better high scores to my list. I've also added links to more games that can be played online (over 200!).

• Still angry for failing to steal the presidency, but unwilling to accept how pathetic he is, Trump took his anger out on the Republican National Convention and said the head needed to be replaced. And, since Republicans are pathetically spineless and do whatever Trump says, Ronna McDaniel is stepping down even though Republicans don't even have anyone to replace her. Even when he's grifting, Trump doesn't bother making a plan.
• So far, the Alabama ruling that embryos are people has only hurt women trying to have children as clinics in the state have halted their IVF services. But just because Alabama is in the top ten states with the most high school drop outs and the bottom ten for bachelor's degrees, don't think the ignorance of Alabama is relegated to their ignorant state. A large percentage of Republicans all over the country are equally as indoctrinated and ruling on behalf of their church. 125 Republicans just in the nation's House of Representatives have signed a bill to make Alabama's decision a national law.
• Republicans in Oklahoma addressed Nex Benedict, the 16-year-old who died after being beaten in a school bathroom by classmates for being non-binary, and Senator Tom Woods, like a Nazi, said of the slain teen, "we don't want that filth in our state." This bigoted hateful view is lousy in the Republican party. Utah Republicans succeeded in banning trans students from participating in school sports, though, thankfully, a judge who didn't hate LGBT people reversed it. But now Republicans in that stat are making life absolute hell by bullying girls who don't look feminine enough. Natalie Cline posted a picture of a teenage girl on social media and claimed, incorrectly, that she was transgender.
• Supreme Court justices are quite corrupt, and none embody corruption more than Republican Clarence Thomas.
• By being a fascist, Trump has successfully convinced the media that every other Republican, despite their ultra-right views, is a moderate.
• As global warming continues to get worse at an accelerated rate, a lot of people are going to have to migrate to other places... like Duluth.
• Some More News makes some predictions for 2024, and while it's not very uplifting, it is pretty realistic.

Explaining mean, median, and mode by looking at the number of spiders we eat.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a bunch more to the category of games which can be played online.

• As expected, the Republican Tom Parker's ruling that embryos are people is only hurting families trying to get pregnant. So far, three clinics in Alabama have completely halted IVF services. Texas, which is also run by religious zealots might be hot on their trails as they keep putting women's lives at risk by refusing abortions even to ectopic pregnancies.
• According to his surviving family, Russia has officially declared Alexei Navalny's death in a Siberian prison "natural causes," which makes you wonder why they won't release his body and are demanding his family allow them to bury him in a secret unmarked grave. Obviously, Putin had Navalny assassinated, which Trump equates to his lawsuits, so, to punish Putin, the Biden administration has issued an additional 500 new sanctions against Russia and entities that supply goods to Russia.
• Because it is largely filled with anti-science Republicans, Florida is having a small outbreak of a disease that should have been eradicated: measles. And, since the state Surgeon General neither understands nor believes in medical science, Joseph Ladapo is not telling parents the proper way to keep their children safe (i.e., social distance and vaccinate). He's not even telling them to keep their kids home for the recommended 21 days, he says parents can send their kids back to school whenever it feels right to them! Although measles usually isn't deadly, the fact that it's extremely contagious and spreading is good reason to make sure you take evidence-based precautions, and never follow the advice of Republican morons.
• In yet another speech where he proves he's going to be a dictator, Trump compared US Democrats to the Axis forces of World War II.
• Texas Republicans, who claim they value personal freedom more than anything, once again rule that public school administrators can force students to cut their hair to the specific length the administrators choose.
• Republicans in Virginia are trying to pass a law that would allow them to prosecute public libraries and librarians who don't prevent children from seeing books Republicans don't like (i.e., books that aren't the bible).
• The Republican star witness against Joe Biden, Alexander Smirnov, was not only discovered by the FBI to be lying, but also to have ties to Russian espionage organizations. Naturally, Fox responded by saying that makes Biden even more guilty!

Feeling: Okay

I've added a page for video games which can be played online. I still need to add more games, but I've got a good start so far.

• Republican Ron DeSantis, still angry at his presidential failure, is taking it out on Florida's homeless.
• Republican supporter Mike Lindell issued a public challenge. He claimed to have proof of a Chinese plot to steal the presidential election and would give $5,000,000 to anyone who could prove him wrong. So, someone proved him wrong, and Lindell refused to pay. Almost a year later, a judge is requiring him to pay up. However, it's unlikely he ever will, not just because he intends to appeal the ruling, but also because Lindell has bankrupted his company trying to support Trump's lies of voter fraud. At this point, are there any Trump supporters left who aren't bankrupt or in prison?
• If you were holding out hope that Republican Nikki Haley would have a more enlightened view of personhood than her fellow Republicans, she also thinks embryos are people.
• If your union is the Teamsters, you should probably get a new union. They're donating money to the same party that keeps trying to obliterate unions.
• Christian megachurch preacher Brian Houston recently posted on social media the phrase, "Ladies and girls kissing." Which was clearly him searching for porn, but he typed it in the wrong box. Rather than fess up, Houston is doing what Christians do best, lying to cover it up.
• When you keep losing hundreds of millions in lawsuits, you have to spend you whole life shilling trash.
• While Putin keeps murdering his rivals and throwing journalists and professors in prison, Ukrainians continue to fight for democracy.
• How Christians always forget about all the bad stuff in their religion when it's convenient.

Anyone can get scammed, especially if you're a self-entitled nitwit who thinks they're too smart to get scammed.

Feeling: Okay

I broke out pages for Voyageur and Furs and updated my category for games where you can play as a person of color.

• The US's unwavering support for Israel continues as they not only vetoed a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire, but defended Israel's genocide at the International Criminal Court of Justice.
• One of Trump's stated goals should he win the presidency, after he pardons himself, is to stop using make-shift civilian prisons to house and deport refugees, but deploy the US military and have soldiers put refugees into military prisons, then use military planes to deport them. What could possibly go wrong?
• Democrats canceled another $1,200,000,000 in student loan debts to predatory loan companies, bringing the total to $138,000,000,000, which is fantastic news, but still a long way from the proposed $430,000,000,000.
• It's amazing how much money you can make by lying to people about COVID-19.
• Ruby Franke had a YouTube channel called 8 Passengers about using her Mormon beliefs to raise her many children, but certain remarks she made and punishments she inflicted on them caused many viewers to become concerned. This, in addition to her eldest daughter contacting child protection services for years, finally resulted in an investigation. It turned out, behind the scenes, Franke was frequently starving and torturing her children. One child escaped, and, with cuts all over their body and the duct tape used to bind them still on their legs, begged a stranger for food. After that, Franke was arrested and convicted. She was just sentenced to 4-60 years in prison.
• Many Alabamans support their new law where embryos are considered people because they value children so much their state is ranked 47th in child welfare.
• Republican Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote how homophobic bigots should definitely be allowed to serve on a jury in a case about an LGBT person. By his logic, Nazis should be on juries for Jews and Klansmen should be on juries for black people.
• Jon Stewart explains why former Fox host Tucker Carlson is now making Russian propaganda.

Magnets can distort CRTs, but what happens when you use a massively powerful neodymium magnet?

Feeling: Okay

After finishing the 1980 version of Oregon for the Apple II, I've decided to break it out into its own page. I'm also going to break out the other minigames from the other MECC compilations and make pages for each game, starting with Nomad.

• Not satisfied with merely criminalizing all abortions, Republicans on the Alabama Supreme Court have ruled that frozen in vitro embryos are people, and, if a lab damages them, even if by accident, they can be charged with a crime related to the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. This will lead to a massive decrease in in vitro fertilization in Alabama, as even a small mistake could result in a physician going to prison, and certainly make is vastly more expensive, pricing out only the wealthiest of patient, so couples who are having difficulty conceiving children will suffer even more. This is the sort of ridiculousness that comes about when stone age religious beliefs are allowed to run amok. There is one silver lining, in the judgment, Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker (closely allied with Republican child molester Roy Moore) went nuts with his religion. He quoted a bible writing, "Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself," and also wrote, "Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory." By doing this, Parker made it very clear that his ruling was a religious decision, which makes overturning it due to a violation of the first amendment much easier. But, considering that the US Supreme Court is also mostly religious lunatics, that will still be a long time from now. This will certainly create a lot of interesting new lawsuits as pregnant women began suing the state for all sorts of strange reasons where they fail to treat their embryo as a fully-formed US citizen. This won't just be pregnant women driving in the carpool lane, it's going to get very bizarre.
• Three teenage girls in Owasso High School in Oklahoma attacked their fellow classmate, Nex Benedict, taking turns hitting Benedict in the head because Benedict identified as non-binary. Benedict lost consciousness and initially couldn't walk on their own. The next morning, Benedict collapsed at home and stopped breathing. An ambulance arrived, but Benedict was declared dead later that evening. So far, none of the teens who attacked Benedict have been arrested and people are also pointing to Republican Ryan Walters who hired far-right extremist Chaya Raichik to work in Oklahoma schools as inciting the violence since both frequently preach hate against LGBT children.
• Hayley Williams and Allison Russell, two musicians, were set to be honored by the Tennessee government for each winning a Grammy, but Republican Jeremy Faison doesn't like Allison Russell, so he removed her from the list of honorees. Faison, who was helped expel black members of Tennessee Congress, but not white members, was called out for again removing the black musician, but not the white one, so Faison responded saying, he doesn't hate her because she's black, he hates her because she supports common sense gun control. Whatever the reason, Hayley Williams is now refusing as well, not wanting to honored by a state whose government excludes black artists. Maybe Tennessee can honor Republican hip-hop stars?
• Whelp, it looks like the CDC has just given up on trying to stop COVID-19.
• When it comes to stopping climate change, there are some strategies that are far more cost-effective than others, so we should focus on them.
• Off the cuff, Jordan Klepper talks term limits and gun control.
• Despite claiming the USA has never been racist, Nikki Haley's memoirs paint an America that was quite racist to her Indian parents. How did she so easily forget all of this? Well, it doesn't help that her nearly all-white private school, like so many others in the USA, didn't teach about the USA's racist past.
• Putin's reach is quite far. Maksim Kuzminov made headlines after he defected from Russia to Ukraine, but, while hiding out in Spain, he was murdered.
• Our illusion of choice continues to shrink as Capital One buys Discover Card.

What happens when you put hydrophobic powder on a hydrophilic surface?

Feeling: Blah

Yesterday, I beat track seven on the FDS port of Vs. Excitebike. That was a process!

• With Alexei Navalny, murdered, and the corpse having mysteriously disappeared so an autopsy can't be conducted, Putin has once again disposed of his few remaining political rivals, and Trump, still a thrall of Putin, refused to condemn the murder. Now Navalny's widow is vowing to continue her husband's work to stop Putin. She is extremely brave as she will no doubt be murdered in the near future.
• Every time there is a mass-shooting, Liberals call for sensible gun control, and Conservatives refuse.
• If you're wondering why prescription drugs are so expensive in America, it's because the CEOs get paid more money than the companies spend on researching better manufacturing technologies.
• Having sex with your employees is a bad move, but it doesn't give a free pass to criminals.
• Trump claiming Biden isn't mentally fit is the like the pot calling the kettle black if the pot were also a thieving rapist.
• Disgraced former General Mike Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in order to help the Trump administration steal the presidential election. But, instead of going to prison, he was pardoned by Trump and walked free. His home state of Rhode Island has a Heritage Hall of Fame which honors famous Rhode Islander, and the Republican majority board decided to induct the criminal. This not only caused nine of the board members to resign, but several other inductees are now refusing to accept being honored by the group saying being put on the same level as the traitor would be an insult.

Why gods never meet our expectations.

Feeling: Sick

Today I beat the MSX2 port of Shanghai, and last night I beat the TRS-80 CoCo and Sharp X-1 ports.

• After multiple failed assassination attempts and several years as a political prisoner, Putin has finally made good on murdering his political rival Alexei Navalny. And, if you listen to Trump's lawyers, this sort of think should be acceptable.
• Greece has legalized same-sex marriage. This is not only good news for Greece, but, with every other country that accepts it, it makes it that much harder for Republicans to re-criminalize it.
• Trump's civil fraud case in New York has concluded. His business has been fined over $350,000,000. He'll probably be dead before the appeals process concludes, but it's a proper aftermath to leave his criminal family.
• Despite being the child of Cuban immigrants, Republican Marco Rubio is now latching onto a form of the white supremacist Great Replacement theory suggesting that Democrats are helping Central American refugees and immigrants in hopes that they will out-vote Republicans. I guess he doesn't realize that he is living proof that not all immigrants will be so grateful of being allowed to become a US citizen.
• On Valentine's Day, Trump begged people to love him.
• Republican Matt Rosendale had just announced his campaign for Montana Senate, but, Trump endorsed his rival, so, without even trying to fight, he dropped out.

If UV light kills viruses, why don't we use it everywhere to stay safe? Oh yeah, because it also kills us.

Feeling: Sick

Last night I beat the very short graphic adventure, Goodbye, Doggy and today I beat the MS-DOS port of Shanghai.

• It's not enough that they're steadily conquering their neighboring nations, now Russia appears to be violating the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 by building a nuclear-capable object in space. But, because Trump says no, the Republicans will keep falling in line with Ukraine and the Southern border. Every time I see his supporters try to defend him, after he mocks yet another US soldier or tries to put one of his inept family members in charge of the government. I am reminded just how much more education this country needs.
• Deputy Jesse Hernandez had handcuffed and detained a black man in the back of his patrol vehicle. Then, he heard a loud noise coming from his vehicle, naturally, before even checking to see what the sound was, he threw himself to the ground and unloaded his pistol into the vehicle in an attempt to kill the handcuffed man. He also called to his partner that he was shot and his partner also emptied his gun into the vehicle. The sound turned out the be an acorn falling from a tree and landing on his vehicle. And Hernandez completely imagined being shot. Thankfully, both deputies were so poorly trained with their guns that all of the couple dozen bullets they fired missed the man inside, but, it goes without saying that he was severely shaken by the deputies' reckless behavior. Neither cop was charged with a crime, and Hernandez was allowed to resign.
• Another mass-shooting happened. Republicans will ensure they keep happening.

Mathematician answers math questions.

Feeling: Sick

I added a page for the Etta James song, I'd Rather Go Blind. Also, last night I beat the Commodore 64 original of Wheel of Fortune.

• When Russia invaded Ukraine's Crimea peninsula back in 2014, Republicans were in an uproar and demanded President Obama stop such a hostile act from a war-mongering nation. Then Trump took office, and, while he has plenty of monetary debts in Russia, he must have some serious skeletons in Russian closets because he can't stop kowtowing to Putin. And, since Republicans are spinless, none more the Lindsey Graham, they do whatever their dictator says, so now they are all now voting against Ukraine. And while it's easy to mock pathetic Republicans, it doesn't do anything to ease the hell that Ukrainians are going through right now. And, to justify his extremely costly invasion, Putin keeps getting worse. Now anyone who even questions the Russian genocide is being thrown in prison.
• Israel is expanding its genocide further into Lebanon by responding to a terrorist attack by bombing civilians.
• Republican George Santos was so corrupt even other Republicans told him to cool it, but kleptomaniacs gonna klepto, and he kept on embezzling. After turning his New York district and the Republican party into a punchline, he was finally ousted, shockingly, even by some members of his own party. And this worked out nicely, because, after a special election has held, Democrat Tom Suozzi flipped the seat.
• After their initial embarrassing failure, Republicans regrouped and voted again to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, not for no particular reason. This time they won by a single vote, although, because they just voted against their own immigration reform bill, and because the Senate has a Democrat majority, it won't go anywhere.
• The USA is once again pitting two old white geezers against each other in an election where, regardless who wins, America loses.
• When Trump isn't encouraging Russia to invade US allies, he's taking credit for the economy, winning the Super Bowl, and even Taylor Swift's ability to sing.

Why making the blue LED was so difficult.

Feeling: Sick

My children keep infecting me. I beat the MS-DOS port of Wheel of Fortune. I also added a couple new boycotts to my list of things Conservatives have "canceled."

• The Senate finally passed a bill to help defend Ukraine from genocide, but unfortunately, it was in the same bill where they are funding Israel's genocide. Meanwhile, Republican JD Vance is telling Ukraine to just surrender and let Russia take their land.
• Republican Mark Robinson said that trans women should be arrested for using the women's room. When asked where they should be allowed to use the bathroom, he responded saying, they should find a corner outside somewhere.
• Republican Josh Schriver, who promises he's not racist, posted about the Great Replacement.
• Proving he will always favor nepotism, Trump's endorsement for the new leaders of the Republican National Convention, his daughter-in-law.

If you've ever been interested in programming your own Game Boy game, here's how you can get started.

There is not atheist culture, well except for all this.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for the fantasy author Richard A. Knaak.

• Republicans in Missouri voted to criminalize abortion even when a girl is raped by her own father, with Rick Brattin defending his vote saying, "by God's grace, [forcing women to birth a rapist's fetus] may even be the greatest healing agent you need in which to recover from such an atrocity.
• In trying to explain why Republicans failed in their unethical impeachment attempt, Marjorie Taylor Greene made herself look even stupider than normal. Someone should indicked her.
• Republican Peter Navarro, who took credit for masterminding the January 6th insurrection and shielded Trump from an investigation by refusing a government subpoena, was hoping to remain free while he appealed the judges contempt of court conviction, but he has been ordered to report to prison. Just another one goon loyal to Trump who he threw under the bus.
• When it was discovered that Biden had Classified government documents in his garage he immediately returned them. When it was discovered that Trump had purposely taken Top Secret documents away from the White House, he refused to return them, then ordered his lawyers to lie about them, then he was finally raided and some of the stolen Top Secret documents were recovered. Republicans are crying that they both did the same thing (they didn't), with the same severity (it wasn't), and that Biden should also be indicted for obstruction of justice like Trump (he won't).
• Climate scientist Michael Mann has received a lot of flack from Republicans about his research, but none went as far as Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn who not only refused to believe his claims, but put together a smear campaign calling him a child molester. However, Mann sued the pair for defamation, and eventually, and thankfully, won. Now the conservative writers have to pay him $1,100,000!
• The largest survey ever conducted of transgender people shows that, even when you factor in all the abuse, bullying, and death threats they receive from Conservatives, 94% of them are happier after transitioning.

There is a fine line between having privacy and catching criminals, and it probably shouldn't be decided by the police or Apple.

When you describe the case for Christianity in full, it doesn't sound very compelling.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for CDisplayEx, a comics/magazine reader, and Attribute Changer, a Windows program that lets you toggle a file's attributes (including its system status) as well as modify a file's date time stamps. This makes 100 software pages in my wiki!

• Palestine is currently trying to fend off a genocide from Israel, but that's not good enough for white supremacist Bert James Baker of Texas, who also wants to murder all Palestinians in the USA.
• As expected, Russia has barred Boris Nadezhdin from running for president because, apparently, it is necessary to support the genocide of Ukraine to be a Russian president.
• Bernie Sanders was on Late Night and talked about why American healthcare is so bad and why Trump needs to be defeated.
• Seeing Trump lose lawsuits makes me happy.
• Gina Carano was a prize fighter turned actress who, during the COVID pandemic, mocked people for wearing masks, repeated Donald Trump's lies about the election, and suggested that anyone who hated her for her ultra-conservative political views was like a Nazi murdering Jews in concentration camps. Obviously, that didn't go over well, and she was fired, so, now she's trying to sue her former employer, trying to force them to put her back in their films. I guess it's fitting that her lawsuit is being funded by someone with a lot of ties to white supremacy: Elon Musk.

Why Shigeru Miyamoto is a legend.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for The Wallflowers' Bringing Down the Horse.

• House Republicans had their vote to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, for a very vague "not performing his duties" claim. Although Republicans have the majority, and could pass a symbolic impeachment that would fail in the Senate, they still desperately wanted to be able to show their voters they were doing something to protect the border after killing the immigration reform bill that they helped create. But, four Republicans, still angry at their colleagues for killing their immigration reform bill, ended up voting no on the impeachment.
• I'm a bit surprised, but pleased that Jennifer Crumbley, the mother who bought her troubled teen a gun and he ended up going on a murdering spree in his school, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The father is on trial in March, and, hopefully, he'll be found guilty as well. Since Republicans won't let us stop violent people from obtaining guns, we have to go after the people who give them guns.
• Allowing a president to have total immunity against prosecution unless they are impeached is a terrible idea. The president could hire hit men to murder his political allies, then, if he's in fear of being impeached, have the hit men murder the impeachers, and they can never be charged with a crime. Thankfully, Trump lost his appeal, as was expected, but it probably wasn't intended to be serious anyway, he was just stalling for more time in hopes of becoming president again so he could pardon himself.
• One of the scary things about all the people who were slowly arrested for trying to overthrow democracy on January 6th is how many of the insurrectionists were involved with the military, police, and government. Take for example, Kevin M. Alstrup, he is a security officer for the State Department, and he was there to stop the Biden inauguration.
• The EPA passed a new anti-pollution regulations which will prevent 4,500 deaths a year, 290,000 sick days, and save Americans $46,000,000,000 in health costs. Naturally, Trump says he'll dismantle it and every single other anti-pollution law.
• Racist cops in Colorado have just lost their state $1,900,000 for handcuffing and pointing their guns at crying unarmed black children who were forced to lie face-down on scorching blacktop in the summer because the ignorant cops thought the SUV that they were driving was a stolen motorcycle. None of the officers were charged with a crime or even fired for their extremely dangerous misconduct. Two of the completely inept cops are Darian Dasko and Madisen Moen.
• Elizabeth Warren was on The Late Show and was fantastic as usual.
• If you freak out over pop singer, you probably shouldn't be calling other people a snowflake.
• When it comes to Biden, Fox goes out of their way to fact check, but they still came to the conclusion that the economy is doing great because of him, but Trump is still there to take the credit.

Feeling: Happy

I finished reading a book that haunted me for over 30 years, the Trumpet of the Swan.

• Former General Jim Mattis joined the Trump Administration as secretary of defense, and, like so many others before and after, resigned in disgust, ashamed of himself for throwing away his legacy and being hoodwinked by a conman. He went on to write a book about how fully incompetent Trump is, which, to some, earned back their respect, but maybe they'll change their mind when they discover he has been keep secret his multiple meetings with the United Arab Emirates.
• Republican Kari Lake has a habit of surreptitiously recording her fellow Republican politicians and then using what they say in confidence with her as blackmail. So far, she's caused the chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, Jeff DeWit, to resign. She may have got her way in this regard, but now voters seem to hate her for exposing just how corrupt their party is.
• Democrats aren't as bad as Republicans, but they're still not great.

Why dividing by zero is undefined in five levels of complexity.

When you describe the "facts" of Christianity with accurate terminology.

Feeling: Happy

On Saturday, I beat the FDS prototype of Shanghai making it the seventh port of the game I've finished. I've also updated my list of video games I want to play to remember what other games I want to play when I next have an opening for a game (which will be a while as I'm in the middle of Hollow Knight right now).

• Because Trump needs everything to be about him, he's told his fellow Republicans to destroy the immigration reform bill, while, at the same time, complain that it's awful (even though they helped draft it). This has angered some Republicans who were really hoping to finally be able to claim some kind of win to show their voters they're not dead weight, but, most of them have fallen in line, as usual, choosing party over country.
• Republican JD Vance admits he would have deliberately committed election fraud and not approved the electors of Democrat-voting states unless they voted in favor of Trump. He's admitting to conspiracy to commit election fraud on national television, and his voters are eating it up.
• Russia is preparing for another sham election where there is only a single candidate who wants to put a stop to Vladimir Putin's genocide in Ukraine, and, because of that, he's likely to be barred from the election.
• Wayne LaPierre admits that he stole money from the NRA to buy his family and friends lavish vacations and gifts.
• Republican Jake Hoffman, known best for conspiracy and election fraud, is now proving his love of freedom by trying to ban the public display of any religions he doesn't like.
• What your parents learn from watching Fox.
• Trump is still afraid to debate Nikki Haley, but she certainly has the Republican's female vote.

Why we need to start harnessing the power of our poop.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I beat the original Japanese FDS version of The Legend of Zelda. I've also added more design documents for those who are interested in that sort of thing.

• It's nice to see that some people in the USA and EU are acknowledging Israel's genocide of Palestine, and warning them that they may eventually be held accountable for crimes against humanity.
• Needing to come up with some new thing to anger their viewers, Republican pundits freak out over a pop singer who doesn't have any ties to politics... but she might!
• Trump tried to sue Christopher Steele for building the dossier which included Trump allegedly watched prostitutes pee on each other and bribing Russian politicians, which sounds pretty plausible by the way, but his case was thrown out in part to his long history of making harassing lawsuits.
• Florida Republicans, in an attempt to ban LGBT pride flags from school, is trying to ban all flags with a "political ideological viewpoint." Ignoring this is a clear violation of the first amendment, don't they realize that a flag with a political ideological viewpoint includes the American flag?
• In 2017, whistleblower Joshua Schulte released tons of classified documents to WikiLeaks which described how the CIA cracked the security of American software and bypassed anti virus programs in order to spy on people. Their software allows them to see and hear you inside your home through your smart TV even when it appears to be off, monitor all your text messages and emails on your phone, get the passwords of every web site you log into, monitor home security systems, and much more. The release even pointed out that the CIA was spying on US allies. Schulte was caught in 2020, and, after torturing him in jail for a couple of years, they finally got around to sentencing him to 40 years in prison, which, considering his age, is close to a life sentence.
• "Racism is dead," cry the white people who were never affected by racism. Meanwhile, Alan Filion, a 17-year-old from California, has been running an online service where you pay him to send in a phony terrorist attack to the police so they dispatch a SWAT team, and he frequently preyed on HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) and mosques. These fake calls, the process is called swatting, happen multiple times a day in the USA, and, because they involve trigger-happy police, sometimes result in totally innocent people being gunned down by cops.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page which describes the video game longplay.

• Republicans are largely pro-Russia because Trump is pro-Russia, so they have been trying to cut funding to Ukraine as much as possible. Thankfully, the European Union is stepping up and helping them.
• During literally every day of the Trump administration they complained about illegal immigration, but, despite having control of the House, Senate, White House, and majority of state Governors, they seemed to only be able to pass laws that cut taxes to the wealthy. Now that Democrats are in charge, there is actually a bill for tougher immigration laws, but Trump is demanding Republicans don't pass it because he wants to be the one to take credit for it. So, Republicans are killing the bill for immigration reform in hopes that Trump will win, and only then will they vote in favor of it. Until then, enjoy this corrected version of Trump's racist speech.
• If you donated to Trump's political campaign, all you really did is pay for his criminal lawsuits. In 2023 alone, $50,000,000 of donations were squandered on trying to keep Trump out of prison. And because Trump's history of not paying his lawyers resulted in him having to scrape the bottom of the barrel, they keep losing anyway, so now he already owes over $88,000,000 in damages to a single person.
• Late at night Robert Dotson heard a pounding on his door. Not expecting anyone, and seeing several dark shapes outside, he grabbed his gun to protect himself. He went to the door with his gun in his hand and was murdered in a hail of bullets, having been shot 12 times. When his wife heard the noise she went to the door and the men began shooting at her too. They fired 19 bullets, but they all missed. When the smoke cleared, the murderers turned out to be New Mexico police who pulled a real whoopsy-daisy by going to the wrong house and killing the wrong man. Dotson's family sued, but New Mexico's Department of Justice dismissed the case claiming that shooting people to death for defending their home was in accordance to New Mexico police conduct, so no charges will be filed against them!
• Republican Werner Reschke wears his bigotry loud and proud stating that the only people who are fit for public office are Christians. Not atheists, and certainly not Muslims.

What music was like on the IBM PC before sound cards.

Going behind the scenes in Left 4 Dead.

Feeling: Happy

What happens when you combine the Mario universe with the band the Presidents of the United States of America? I've also added a page for Open-Shell, the continuation of Classic Shell.

• Although Republicans keep pushing their hate speech against trans people which emboldened people like Aimenn Penny to firebomb a church, it's nice to see the courts aren't fooling around with sentencing. Penny may not be remorseful, but his $10,500 fine and 18 years in prison will serve as an example to anyone else who thinks they should become a terrorist.
• Fox is freaking out over Taylor Swift and their free-speech-advocating talking heads are demanding she not be allowed to give her opinion on politics because they think she's part of the deep state and involved in foreign militaries, seriously. They're also reminding everyone that Republicans have Ted Nugent -AND- Kid Rock!
• With Nikki Haley attacking Trump's intelligence, it's really getting under his skin, so he's once again reminding everyone that he took a senility test several years ago and didn't fail.
• Republicans espouse free speech and personal privacy from the government as tantamount, and that's why Republican Dusty Deevers is trying to pass a law which not only bans all forms of pornography, but also lets the government spy on your text messages and, if they find anything of a sexual nature that isn't directed toward your spouse, put you in prison for 20 years. These are the same Republicans who claim other countries hate us because of our freedoms.

The science of counterfeit pens, and why they don't stop counterfeiting.

Why "love languages" aren't science, but also aren't that awful (unlike the guy who thought them up).

Feeling: Happy

I watched the Super Mario Bros. Movie with my family last night. It was okay. I like all the cameos in the background and fan service, but the plot was predictable.

I more fully fleshed out my battery backup page and correct some errors. I also added MSX and Super Cassette Vision games to the list of games.

• Republicans in Michigan and Ohio, were caught saying their final goal is to criminalize transgender treatments entirely for everyone. But, since they know it would make them look bad, they said they should try to do it in small increments. First, they would start by criminalizing trans care for teenagers, then ban trans people from adult sports, and finally applying those same laws to adults in general. Despite claiming they're all about personal freedom, Republicans believe they should get to decide what other people do with their bodies. The specific hateful Republicans who are trying to do this are Brad Paquette, Josh Schriver, Tom Kunse, Lana Theis, Jonathan Lindsey, and Gary Click. Obviously, this isn't relegated to the North, Republicans in Texas are violating the spirit of HIPAA laws and demanding to see the private medical records of trans people in hopes of putting their doctors in prison.
• Law and order Republican Chip Roy urges his fellow law and order Republicans to ignore the Supreme Court and take the law and order into their own hands.

Want to know what the Catalan Numbers are?

Woah, Abobo's head is kind of too big.

Want to got to an indoor rain factory on wheels?

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page for video games which have a battery backup and created a list of almost every game which uses one.

• That's gonna leave a mark. After losing a civil defamation case against Jean Carroll and having to pay her $5,000,000 Trump kept flapping his big mouth and lost another civil defamation case against her and now has to pay her another $83,300,000! Hilarious!
• Most Republicans secretly despise Trump, but, because they're spineless goons, publicly, they say they adore him. Too bad Nikki Haley can only win unimportant towns like Dixville Notch.
• Republicans really hate government earmarked money, except for when they constantly use it for their own projects.

When Christians teach their children to love their neighbors and care for others, it often causes them to stop being Christian.

Captain Disillusion explains the importance of shutter speeds.

Feeling: Happy

I've added a page which talks about when games re-populate previous maps with more powerful monsters in order to keep the game interesting. There is also a smaller page for static difficulty. I've also started a list of games I want to play so I can keep track of games that I want to play when I next have free time. If you know of a game I should add to the list, let me know.

• Well, that will stop them! The UN ordered Israel to try harder to not murder innocent people in Gaza. Problem solved! Genocide averted!
• Trump says losers shouldn't be claiming they won. Hm, project much?
• In Florida, both Republicans and Democrats have taken complete leave of their senses and are trying to pass a law that makes it illegal for children 16-years-old and younger to use the Internet to communicate with other people, with a $50,000 fine for any parent who lets their child use social media. Republican Fiona McFarland, who is clearly educated in both technology and pharmaceuticals, said social media was like "digital fentanyl."
• Trump rioters broke into the US Capitol in order to topple American democracy, overturn an election, and publicly hang Mike Pence, and they murdered a cop in the process. Well, Republican Elise Stefanik thinks these people who are finally being caught, tried, and punished for their crimes, are actually American hostages. One of those "hostages" is James Little, who served only two months in jail and was in the process of serving three years of probation, but appealed his initial sentence and succeeded in having the rest of his probation overturned. But, when Little showed no remose and referred to himself as a "political prisoner," the judge lost patience, and expanded his initial sentence by another two months.
• Unsurprisingly, the clinic in Trump's "law and order" White House was handing out drugs with little to no oversight, handing out powerful pain killers and stimulants as though they were candy.

Yes, you can get kicked off a jury for being too smart.

Feeling: Happy

I've added the bulk of my itch.io library to my list of video games I own and did a lot of housekeeping with my video game genre pages.

• Once again proving that this isn't about stopping terrorism, it's about killing Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not end his invasion in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages, there probably isn't anything Gaza could say at this point that would stop him, he's dead set on wiping out Palestine.
• Republican Peter Navarro, who took credit as the mastermind for the failed Republican attempt to steal the presidential election, then refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to protect Donald Trump, is finally being sentenced. Of course, because he's a rich white male politician, don't expect justice.
• DeSantis has gone back to languish in the swamps of Florida.

28% of Americans now describe their religion as "none," a percentage that is now larger than any single religious denomination. This loss of bodies if probably why they keep lying to seem relevant.

Feeling: Happy

I've written a page which describes the various relationships that can occur between a player's skill and a game's challenge.

• Republican voters, wanting to prove to history that they support criminals, say they would still vote for Trump even after he's found guilty for election fraud.
• Republican Ron DeSantis looks pathetic as he kowtows to Trump.
• Texas touts personal freedom as a sacred inalienable right which is why Texas schools force students to have specific haircuts, just like North Korea. The rules also only pertain to male students, especially if they're black, because freedom is only free if it lets yon control a specific race and sex. In one case in particular, the school's superintendent Greg Poole praised himself saying, forcing black boys to cut his hair is all part of "being an American."
• Kevin Monahan is the NRA's idea of a good guy with a gun. He has guns, keeps them at the ready, and uses them to defend his home. Like, imagine if a 20-year-old woman was looking for her friend's house and pulled into his driveway by mistake, then, after realizing it was the wrong address, she began backing out, why, this would be clear and present danger against Monahan, so, like any red-blooded American, he should be able to defend himself by shooting at the driver and murdering her, right? Thankfully, Kevin Monahan has been found guilty, but, even if he spends the rest of his life in prison for his reckless gun behavior, it won't bring back the girl he murdered.

Don't let Christians steal secular values.

Haven't seen this commercial on TV in a while.

Feeling: Happy

• In their effort to exterminate Palestine, Israel continues to torture detainees.
• Republicans have been bitching non-stop about immigration for years, and now their speaker says they have no interest in trying to reform the problem. This is all about whining and not doing their jobs in Congress. But don't worry, those in state congresses are picking up the slack, like Republican Justin Humphrey who is trying to pass a law that would ban public school students from wearing animal costumes.
• Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr. was arrested for armed robbery even though he was living in California when a crime happened in Texas. How did this happen? The stores used faulty facial recognition software on footage from grainy surveillance cameras, and it claimed a match to Murphy, who used to live in Texas. This led to a warrant for Murphy and let the real criminal go free. When Murphy was next in Texas, he was arrested and put in jail where he was beaten and raped by other inmates. Murphy is trying to sue the stores involved, but the cops who didn't even attempt any investigative work, once again get off without so much a slap on the wrist.
• The trial for Jennifer and James Crumbley is underway. They are the parents who bought a gun for their teenage son even though they knew he had mental problems, and went on to murder several people at his school.
• The Supreme Court ruled that the razor wire Texas Republicans illegally put along the Mexican border to keep out asylum seekers can be removed until the Court rules on the matter. As is typical, only the racist Republican justices ruled in favor of keeping it up.
• Trump's court cases aren't going so well for him, bu he remains in high spirits because he has a crack legal team. And, Republican debates continue to be canceled since Trump won't take part in them and everyone he mocks ends up licking his butt.
• Back in the day, preachers used to bilk the poor by asking them to donate their money, but the poor are wising up, so now preachers are bilking the poor with cryptocurrencies!

The complexities of dealing with forgeries in religious texts when the original author may have been legit, but people later tampered with their work, and all we have left are the tampered versions.

The strange philosophy of being a sports fan.

Feeling: Happy

I expanded my refutation to the argument where people defend slavery by claiming Africans sold their own kind into slavery.

• With Ron DeSantis dropping out, Republicans have to choose between a pathological liar who several times admitted to sexually assaulting women, bankrupted large portions of the US government the same way he bankrupted his companies, and dreams of use the police and US military to crush Americans who don't like him, and a woman of color. For the large majority of them, this will not be a difficult choice.
• With the rise of authoritarianism around the world, it's nice to see Germany standing against it.
• The paperwork in Ohio for running for political office doesn't say anything about listing past name changes, so anyone who changed their name wouldn't even know they would need to include any previous names. However, if they don't, they can be immediately disqualified from running for office because of a law 29-year-old law, that appears to only be affecting transgender politicians.
• Democrats are again meeting to expand access to contraception and abortion to people living in states where reproductive health care has been criminalized.
• Turn out a jail in Mississippi has been burying inmates who died or were killed while incarcerated in their backyard and just not telling anyone. Each corpse gets only a metal rod with a number, and the jail is currently up to number 672!
• Why it's so important to fight for justice, even if you won't personally benefit from it.
• Sure, Trump won't care if his followers die, as long as they vote for him, but they'll get this really neat casket.
• Trump is still bragging that he passed a test where you have to identify if an animal is a lion or a camel.

How COVID can cause severe cellular damage in some patients making physical exertion extremely difficult.

Feeling: Happy

I finally finished switching over my video game pages to using templates, a process that I started last June. My next step is to add a template for the personal section which will answer the following questions: can the game be owned, do I own it and in which format, can the game be won, have I beaten it and in which ways, and when did I beat it? I've gotten started and you can see an example here. After that, I might add to the main template multiplayer capabilities and audio/video capabilities. *Sigh*, a video game librarian's work is never done.

• Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, refused to decreased the scale of their invasion into Palestine, and, in fact, clearly stated that his goal is to obliterate Palestinian entirely and conquer their land for Israeli. You know, genocide.
• The report on the Uvalde, Texas police has been published, and it describes the many ways in which Texas police cowered in fear and refused to even try to stop the shooter from murdering 21 people, and, instead arrested those concerned parents who were willing to risk their lives to rescue their children. Of course, since none of the cops will actually be punished for their many failures, the investigation and report was just a very expensive waste of time that won't actually change anything.
• When Jaci Statton went to the hospital last year she was devastated. She and her husband had three kids already, and they were looking forward to their fourth, but the hospital discovered the growing fetus had a chromosomal abnormality which caused it to start growing cancerous tissue. This is a rare but life-threatening complication that can be fatal to both the fetus and woman, and Statton needed an abortion. However, because Oklahoma Republican criminalized abortion, they couldn't perform a necessary abortion until her life wasn't in immediate danger. The hospital staff told her she should expect to see her blood pressure skyrocket and, even though she was only 25-years-old, it trigger a heart attack which will do permanent damage to her organs. Only then will Republicans let hospital staff treat her (and even then, some Republicans still prefer she die as pert of their god's will). After several other Oklahoma hospitals refused to help, Statton and her husband drove to Kansas and got the life-saving abortion she needed, although, because it took so long, the cancer grew even more, and she will now need cancer treatment. Absolutely dumbfounded by the ordeal, Statton filed a federal complaint saying the hospital should have allowed the abortion because her life was in danger, but the Biden administration dismissed it, saying the Oklahoma hospitals did nothing wrong.
• In addition to challenging dictionaries and encyclopedias, Florida is also eliminating diversity efforts in college and trying to wipe out the teaching of sociology.
• Maybe Trump should stop hiring lawyers just because they look like the daughter he's sexually attracted to?
• If you have to point out that you're the first person of color in over 200 years to hold office in a state, you probably shouldn't also claim it's never been racist.
• The next presidential election is going to be, once again, dangerously close, and we will have to vote between the lesser of two evils. Maybe the Democrats should have held a primary?

Alex O'Connor's opening speech about gods being a delusion.

Comparing how video games look on a modern clean display to how they looked on a CRT television and how pixel artists used the blurring of the CRT to enhance their art.

Feeling: Happy

I re-re-read Bridge to Terabithia.

• Republicans continue to refuse to help Ukraine. Not surprising since Trump is so much in bed with Russia, and Republicans are still hoping he'll win the presidential election and allow Russia to annex the entire nation.
• Well, I guess we know why Republican Nikki Haley couldn't bring herself mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War. While being interviewed on Fox, she said the US has "never been a racist country." Really? Not when slavery was legally protected? Not during the Jim Crow era? Not during segregation? Not when it was still legal to refuse employment or housing simply because a person was black? Never?
• Kenneth Bonawitz, another one of Trump's criminals who belonged to an American terrorist organization and attacked Capitol police, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
• Republicans in Florida are now demanding the review of dictionaries and encyclopedias to see if they should be banned from public schools for defining sex.
• The UK's Space Minister, a Conservative politician, can't identify Saturn, or Jupiter, and can't even tell the difference between Mars and the Sun.

Christians keep trying to rewrite history to make themselves look less evil.

Some new predictions for 2024.

Feeling: Happy

I've done a lot more house keeping in my Wiki. Video game pages have been updated with the template through T, and there are lots of new uploads. These high-resolution Famicom Disk System posters are particularly nice.

• On January 6th, Donald Trump fomented a coup against the US government in an attempt to steal the presidential election. He used Twitter to help rally his unruly mob, so, when a special counsel started an investigation into Trump's crimes, they got a search warrant for all of his Twitter data. They not only demanded Trump's Twitter information, but also put a gag order on Twitter telling them they couldn't tell anyone about their demand because, if someone did, it was reasonable to expect someone loyal to Trump to try and delete the data before they could get it. Wanting to protect Trump, Twitter refused to hand over his data, so they were hit with a $350,000 fine, and still had to hand over the data. Now, with the company going bankrupt because Elon Musk is a moron, they need every penny they can get, so they tried to get the fine dismissed by using the same anti-American tactic as Trump, claiming that US presidents can't be held accountable for any crimes that they commit. U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, and, while four of the judges were appointed by Trump are ruled in favor of the USA having a king, thankfully the other six were sane, and rejected Twitter's incredibly stupid claim, so Musk still has to pay!
• Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins, and Timothy Rankine, the three police officers who tortured Manuel Ellis to death by electrocuting him and them choking him until he stopped breathing, were not only cleared of all charges (the Washington police said torturing an unarmed man to death is within their rules of acceptable conduct), but they will also be given a huge bonus of a half-million dollars each! All they have to do is voluntary resign and get a job at a different police department!
• Republicans have discovered that it's much safer to do private interviews on Conservative media outlets that will pander to them and never question their beliefs, rather than have a public debate.
• Higher education really needs to distance itself from rich racist donors if they want to keep from having rich racist donors decide how they have to run their schools.
• Republican Josh Hawley, the guy who raised his fist in solidarity to the MAGA mob who murdered a Capitol police officer, wrote an open letter titled "Our Christian Nation" where he repeats the usual lies about America being founded on his bible, he's been doing that for years, and essentially argues that the USA needs to be even more Christian Nationalist than it already is.

I don't smoke pot, but a lot of my friends do, so it's important for them to be aware of how it affects their sleep cycle.

What happens to your hand when you purposely get yourself stung dozens of times by yellow jackets?

Feeling: Happy

I've added lists of the American Library Association's most challenged books with links to the ones I've read. I've also updated my list of video game playing devices which still needs a lot of work.

• Trump won the Iowa caucus with more votes than all the other Republicans combined. This was too be expected and serves as an important reminder of just how vile and hateful Conservative voters have become. They watched Trump say he would continue to profit off the American people through corruption, use his authority to attack his fellow Americans, and use the same talking points as Adolf Hitler, and said, "that's my guy!"
• Bernie Sanders is, once again, one of the few politicians in the USA willing to do what's right. He's forcing the Senate to choose sides on whether the USA should investigate Israel's war crimes. This will probably just result in most of Congress voting to ignore it, but, at least now, the senators can't remain silent. They will either have to take an unpopular stand against a warmonger ally, or go down in history saying they refused to look into calls of genocide. Israel is a nation that is now putting its own citizens in prison for criticizing their invasion.
• Republican Greg Abbott said, if it wasn't for the Biden Administration, Texas wouldn't be deporting refugees, they would be executing them on sight with a gun!
• Iran increased the prison sentence of Narges Mohammadi claiming that, even from prison her fight for women's rights undermines the Islamic Republic. If women's rights undermine your government, your government deserves to be undermined.

Libertarians in the Arizona desert thought they were really smart when they found a loophole to bypass the state's law requiring homes to be built near a permanent water sources. However, after many lost access to their temporary water source, they quickly realized the law was there to protect them from making a very expensive mistake. Many home owners are now stuck living in a house with no water and have to pay to have water trucked in from miles away, which costs more each month than their mortgage!

It's amazing just how far off people are in regards to the scale of the universe. Here are a few songs to help you wrap your head around it: Scale of the Universe by Boyinaband, Galaxy Song from Monty Python, and Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs.

Feeling: Happy

Last night I beat another silly Flash game, This Is the Only Level: Adventures in Singularity.

• The Daily Show teaches us how to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and how not to.
• Trump claimed no wars during his presidency, and Fox didn't challenge his lie. Trump also keeps claiming his bigoted no-Muslims-allowed rule prevented terrorist attacks during his presidency, which was also an unchallenged lie.
• Trump can't keep his lying mouth shut in court, and, if he wins the presidency, he won't have to, he'll just pardon himself.
• How the criminalization of abortion really hurts woman.

It's a bit frightening when a retired judge reveals they've been a conspiracy theorist all along.

Ever wondered why we have seven days in a week? Hint, it's not because of the bible.

Feeling: Okay

I've added a few dozen more entries into my video game glossary, finished the letter S in my video game template renovation, and started reading Bridge to Terabithia for the third time.

• South Africa is calling out Israel for committing genocide in Palestine. How embarrassing for the rest of the world to have South Africa, the nation best known for Apartheid, be the one to state the obvious.
• With US Republicans supporting Russia, I have to tip my hat to the UK who is pleading ￡2,500,000,000 to Ukraine's survival.
• The Republicans who agree with Trump's lawyer that a president should be allowed to assassinate their political rivals don't seem to realize it would mean for Trump now that Biden is in office.
• Vox put together a great video about how the politics of Michigan have changed over the past couple decades, and how Michigan has become a bellwether for the country.
• Republicans in Maine are furious that their state took Trump off the ballot for his insurrection crimes. So they tried to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and start a special investigation. They failed.
• Republicans still refuse to let Hunter Biden be public with his testimony.
• Good news! Republican Carlos Ayala, who worked as an elections official in Maryland, has resigned after being arrested as one of the January 6th insurrectionists. That's not the kind of person you want anywhere near your ballots!
• An 11-year-old boy called the police to report a domestic disturbance at his home so Officer Greg Capers showed up and immediately shot the 11-year-old in the chest. The boy's parents tried to sue the police, so Capers was given a paid vacation while an "investigation" was made and concluded that Capers did nothing wrong, and he was put back on duty.
• With the cold weather causing people to huddle in small poorly ventilated areas, COVID is again on the rise and once again killing over 1,000 people a week. Update your vaccine!
• Idaho Republicans are trying to repeal their state's constitution to once again allow tax payers to be forced to pay for religious schools.

The science of fireworks.

Why the slavery, bride kidnapping, racism, genocide, and sexism of the bible was actually not the foundation of Western culture.

Feeling: Okay

Yesterday, I finished reading Tarzan of the Apes. It's quite different than most of the adaptions made about it, and a hell of a lot more racist!

• If they can't reach a new budget, Congress will shut down the government on January 19th, and, even if that passes, there will be another expected shut down on February 2nd. But Republicans have their favorite Christian Nationalist at the helm, so, we should expect them to solve this, right? Nope, several hard-liner Republicans who think the US budget needs to also stop refugees killed their own deal.
• In addition to trying to impeach Biden for no specific reason, Republicans are also trying to impeach the secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. They claim he isn't following the laws of Congress, and, when asked which specific law Mayorkas didn't follow, Republicans couldn't name one.
• If you listen to conservative media, you may believe shoplifting is at an all time high. In reality, it's been decreasing for some time. But, you know what's been going up and is now larger than all forms of shrinkage combined? Employee wage theft.
• Trump's lawyers claim a sitting president can't be charged with a crime unless they are successfully impeached, so the judged asked his lawyer if a president accepted bribes, sold US secrets to our enemies, and had the military assassinate an innocent American, but wasn't impeached, could he be charged with a crime? And Trump's lawyer finally said no!

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick had to be kicked out of the College of Cardinals because of so many credible accusations of child rape against him. The Vatican tried covering it up for a long time, but it finally, his rapes, and their cover-ups, made national news. Well, today it looks like another victory for the religion of rapists because he will never be punished. The case against his was suspended due to him suffering dementia.

Several reasons for why flying sucks so much now and how to fix it.

A person diagnosed with sociopathy answers questions about what it's like to have sociopathy.

Feeling: Okay

I've updated my list of favorite songs by year to include a top five of every year from 1960 to 2014. The number one song of each year is in bold to help it stand out. There's a lot of Queen.

• Angered that his many crimes will keep him out of the White House, Trump again drums up his riotous mob by threatening bedlam.
• Proving they never cared about children, 15 Republican governors have opted their states out of a federal program that would feed hungry children, at no cost to the states.
• Trump's train of thought hasn't seen a rail in years. I mean, magnets, how do they work?
• After failing to point out that the Civil War was fought primarily over slavery, Republican Nikki Haley tries the old, "but I have black friends," argument.