In case you missed it, Canada has accused India of murdering one of its citizens, a Sikh separatist, in Canada. The victim, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was shot in his truck in a parking lot in Surrey, BC by masked assistants. This sounds like the sort of thing that Modi would…

Light posting for a while. I’m going to be competing at the Trial by Fire historical cooking competition, and I am hip deep in Apicius right now.

So, FTX is now going after Bankman and Fried for their role in looting the crypto exchange FTX. It turns out that Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, were hip deep in his crypto scam. In a perfect world, they would go to jail too, but taking their…

It be Talk Like a Pirate Day! September 19 every Yarrr Matey!

It turns out that the story is even worse that initial reports. The short version: Lead author Tom Jefferson is a right wing hack who has been espousing junk science for years, and has been paid by the Brownstone institute, which is in turned funded by right wing billionaire and…

So, in violation of EU rules, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia have banned the import of Ukrainian grain. Basically, their governments are pandering to their farmers, who are undercut by cheap grain from the Ukraine. Imposing a unilateral ban appears to be a contravention of the European Union rules, so how this…

I am referring, of course, to Bill Maher’s turn about on doing his show during the strike. Unlike Drew Barrimore, he has long and interrupted record of being a douche bag, so I attribute his reversal not to being convinced of his error, he’s never been convinced of his I…

The NYT Uses Trans Hate to Discipline Its Workers (Everything Is Horrible) Argues that the current anti-trans Jihad at the Gray Lady is primarily about slapping down workers who they felt got too “Uppity” after they got the (really awful) opinion editor James Bennet dropped. Me, I think that it…

It looks like the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ was nearly killed by his Autopilot technology, and learned nothing. After faded lane markers nearly sent his car into oncoming traffic, he would confront his programmers telling them to do their job. The problem is that the technology simply did…