Jun 21, 2024 – It's been pretty interesting watching the carefully worded but dire warnings coming out about just how tenuous the future of reliable power is in the Empire State. On June 6, the folks who manage and operate the state's electrical grid, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), issued their 2024...

Jun 21, 2024 – This is a little lighthearted note for a late Friday post. Current affairs, yeah, but the cultural side, you might say.I only heard about this video thanks to Bingley seeing it on Ace's sidebar. Judging by the results when I popped it into X, holy smokes.Dang near missed another international...

Jun 24, 2024 – No, this melancholy little group of protesters aren't Hamasholes. They're, well, former students and supporters of a now-defunct Philadelphia institution of higher learning. A university that had survived 150 years among the pantheon of Philly's finest schools.Elmo & ⁦@PhillyPolice⁩ at the front of a march up Broad Street urging authorities...

Jun 13, 2024 – I read this last evening, and I was so horrified at the thought...even now, it's hard to process. Even knowing the utter incompetence and malevolence ensconced in this vile administration and the little regard in which they hold the lives of our precious military members, it catches my breath thinking of...

Jun 13, 2024 – Yeah. I'm talking about Miami, Florida - that place with the subtropical climate. That place where the humidity hits you like a mugging when you open the front door?That Miami.We lived there for a few years after Daddy got out of the Marine Corps and started flying for Eastern. It...

Jun 13, 2024 – Just when things seemed to be simmering down a little bit - not great, you understand, but the waters weren't roiled and there were dribs and drabs of good news - What a week! Our 700ft wide, 50ft deep channel was opened & we welcomed our largest container ship to Seagirt...

Jun 18, 2024 – Everyone's flailing favorite fool, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson - probably fresh off another vacation in a fragile flower quiet room - who has absolutely nothing else going on in that formerly fair city to concern himself with and obviously nothing but excess money to blow, has taken the occasion of...

Jun 18, 2024 – The EV retail market just lost another one of its marquee, OG play-yahs: Fisker.Fisker filed for bankruptcy protection late on Monday, as the U.S. electric-vehicle maker looks to salvage its operations by selling assets and restructuring its debt after burning through cash in an attempt to ramp up production of...

Jun 18, 2024 – So, this is all just kind of fun speculation, mind you. Brought on, of course, not by my twisted imagination - even I have my limits - but by a convergence of events and signs from the Heavens.First, what was that rumble from the turgid bowels of the WaPo?Was Taylor...

Jun 18, 2024 – He is joining New York Governor Kathy Hochul on the "ban the masks on the subway" platform, and maskholes are goin' bonkers in Yonkers, Bronx and beyond.HOW DARE THEYOh, the irony.NY Governor Hochul and NYC Mayor Eric Adams plan to ban masks on subways: pic.twitter.com/OSqTJGvQaG— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 17,...

Jun 20, 2024 – Someone finally did some #mathz, and it pretty much confirms what POTATUS' unholy war on responsible borrowers and taxpayers is doing to responsible borrowers and taxpayers: indebting us further.In the "obvious to us, not so much to the oblivious gimme-gimmes," the unending handouts are starting to tote up on the...

Jun 20, 2024 – Biden's open border has allowed 345,000+ unaccompanied minors to cross into the United States.Dan Bishop tells Mayorkas the score:"Your policies have led to 345,000 unaccompanied children entering this country... You apparently believe this to be a game, Mr. Mayorkas." pic.twitter.com/s7Nmv5uoMQ— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 19, 2023And by "unaccompanied," they...

Jun 24, 2024 – Things have gotten so desperately stupid lately that it's hard to get out of bed sometimes.But one makes the effort anyway and, after a bit, winds up feeling pretty hopeful. It helps to get the farm chores done (aka feeding the inside animals and the outside ferals) and the watering,...

Jun 24, 2024 – There just are no words to describe what happens when these lithium-ion battery thingees of damn near any size get froggy and go fiery.Yeah, it's spectacular but I sure as hell don't want to be anywhere near them.The latest horrible mishap was this morning in Korea, at a Li-ion battery...

Jun 14, 2024 – This is one of those hilarious, discomfiting political surprises that a smugly confident opposition doesn't see coming out of the woodwork and it is shaping up to be pretty daggum interesting.For the past year, the Tories in the United Kingdom have done their level best to prove they were utterly...

Jun 14, 2024 – If you thought that the vicious and still ongoing backlash to the vaccine mandate would have given the Department of Defense pause for at least a little while before they started using American troops' status as virtual indentured servants of the state for experimentation purposes, think a-frickin'-gain.The Progressive Wokesters, who...

Jun 14, 2024 – The G-7 summit in Puglia, Italy has been a parade of some pretty memorable moments already, and none of them have to do with earthshaking political announcements or new agreements. It's all personalities and intrigue - so different from any other time, other than Merkel snarling at Trump.This year's edition...

Jun 19, 2024 – Is it hot where you are right now?Seems like the whole country's en fuego, judging by the temperature maps I've seen.As meteorologist Ryan Maue noticed (tongue-in-cheek, so don't go off on him) CNN was having a most righteous melt-down...  ...because heat and hot has never happened before, ever, ever, EH-VAH.CNN blames...

Jun 17, 2024 – European observers are using the word "rattled" to describe European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen's uncharacteristic flailing, and it's really a sight to see. But that's what's happened since the EU elections a bit over a week ago knocked the legs out from under of most of her supporters, and...

Jun 17, 2024 – Ford has had an awfully good quarter on the EV and hybrid side of the business if you only look at the sales numbers the company reported in May.Ford Motor’s U.S. new vehicle sales rose 11.2% last month compared with May of last year, boosted by strong sales growth for...

Jun 17, 2024 – What else would we have to talk about otherwise?Their politicians and the operators behind them are second to none for brass spherical objects.If it's not their rodential governor trying to stay in power by getting his wife elected, or their twice indicted senator of the heavily weighted suits in his...

Jun 17, 2024 – In case you hadn't heard, besides having to deal with Rishi Sunak, mushy peas, ULEZ cameras, and Hamasholes clogging London streets on Saturdays, Britain is going to spend about a week in a climate cauldron of boiling temperatures and humidity. They're scheduled to be suffering an excruciating "blast" of heat.I...

Jun 19, 2024 – There's a swirling cauldron of accusations and recriminations in Broward County, Florida, right now over what's a pretty clear-cut case of breaking the law.This all started back in November when a Broward school board member got a tip that one of the teens playing on the girls volleyball team at...

Jun 19, 2024 – Now, I'm no legal scholar - I just play one here at HotAir - but this recent development seems to be a tad one-sided to my untrained jurisprudence brain.Lemme toss it out there and see if you agree.One week ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to hold the quavery-voiced,...

Jun 19, 2024 – On the last day of May, there was an absolutely ghastly knife attack in Mannheim, Germany, which was the poster child for everything that has gone so horribly wrong with Merkel and company's much-ballyhooed, open-door immigration policies.A "right-wing, anti-political Islam" activist, standing in the square with a small gathering of...