
Federal Charges Filed Against Suspect in KXTV/ABC 10 Shooting
A guy shoots up a TV station in front of several witnesses, gets arrested, and is out on bail the next day. Nobody thinks that gun control is going to help.

Federal Charges Filed Against Suspect in KXTV/ABC 10 Shooting
A guy shoots up a TV station in front of several witnesses, gets arrested, and is out on bail the next day. Nobody thinks that gun control is going to help.

What Jimmy Kimmel said about Charlie Kirk shooting that got his late night show pulled
Jimmy Kimmel initiated a new battle front in our civil cold war.

Heated exchange between Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and FBI Director Kash Patel
That’s just funny.
At Congressional hearings, the politicians are always grandstanding and putting on their own show, rather than asking questions. It’s about time someone calls bullshit.
Nobody does a big show like England.

This sweetheart is running for Attorney General of Ohio. Elliot Forham is a Democrat, but even the Democratic Party doesn’t like him.
Fairview Park city council president resigns after comments that showed him to be a cold-hearted bastard who isn’t disturbed by people being assassinated for disagreeing with him.
The story has a happy ending, so that’s nice.

My good friend and colleague, Chris Boch, recently posted on his blog about the naive views of the US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. I know something about that.
Early in my teaching career, I attended a summer workshop at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. The physicist in charge, Andrew Zwicker, is the guy on the left wearing sandals.

Police said up to 150,000 people were in London on Saturday for the “Unite the Kingdom” rally
With so much going on in the US, it’s easy to lose track of events in other countries. The British are pissed off enough about something to have this gigantic rally. I thought everything was going well in the UK. The government had solved all their problems, and had the resources to send five policemen to arrest one popular comedian for posting three lame jokes on X.

Fairview Park neighbors outraged by city council president’s comments after death of Charlie Kirk.
Ohio suburbs are boring. We don’t expect a city council president to be a far Left extremist.

Whatever can happen, will happen, if you wait long enough.
That is an operating principle in modern physics. There is a 1 in 6000 chance that a nickel dropped on to a table top, will rest on the edge of the coin. If you dropped a nickel every 10 seconds, within 17 hours, you’d expect a nickel to land on the edge. It’s a very unlikely event, but it will happen.
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