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Today a colleague was telling me about his sometimes frustrating experiences trying to explain his technology product to various customers. It turns out that certain kinds of customers are less “tech-friendly” than others.

“But do you want to know which ones are the worst?” he said, “Doctors!”

He suddenly looked very intense. “Doctors,” he said, “have no patience.”

I couldn’t let that one go. “You realize how that sounds, don’t you?”

There was a moment’s pause. Then he realized what he had just said, and we both started laughing.

The killing of Renee Good might just be the incident that pushes our country into martial law. Here’s why.

There will always be True Believers who will accept anything our president says. If he says “the sky is green,” they will wake up in the morning admiring the fine emerald color overhead.

But those True Believers are not even close to a majority. Republicans won in 2024 largely because the undecideds — a much more significant voting bloc — felt betrayed when they learned about Biden’s condition.

When the president blames Good for what happened to her, and calls her a radical left domestic terrorist, nobody but the green sky people believe him. After all, we all saw the videos, and every video clearly shows Good turning her car away to avoid running into the man who then shot her in the head.

Unlike the green sky people, undecideds who voted Republican in 2024 are quite aware that they are being lied to about Good. And nobody likes being played for a fool.

So Republicans are likely to lose the voting bloc of the undecideds, and therefore the 2026 midterms.

And there is one surefire recipe to keep that from happening: Keep sending armed thugs with masks into cities, have them kill some middle class white Americans, then blame the dead victims. Stir and repeat.

Before you know it, you’ve got an angry citizen uprising on your hands. Et voila! The perfect excuse to declare martial law.

I recently read about a high end induction stove technology. It looks just like a regular countertop.

But when you put the right kind of cookware on it, the cookware automatically heats up. As soon as you take your pot or pan off the surface, the smart surface cools down.

Little glowing lights are embedded in the surface, so you know when its operating. Other than that, it’s just like any other part of your countertop. No need to worry about spills, and no crevices for crumbs to get stuck inside.

As technology advances, it would be interesting to generalize this idea.

Maybe if you put down a different kind of vessel, the same surface would be smart enough to cool down or even freeze. Your refrigerator or toaster would just be different kinds of containers on your countertop.

A little further in the future, hard benches by day could turn into soft beds at night. The smart surface would detect when a person is lying on it, and adjust itself accordingly. It would also recognize who is sleeping, and adjust its firmness to their preference.

In the long run we will no longer need garbage disposals. Just drop your egg shells or orange peels on the kitchen counter, where they will be quietly absorbed and disposed of.

We might want to draw the line at toilets. Not because smart surfaces would have a problem with that, but because we might.

This letter is just so brilliant and completely on target.

Fighting fascists is never easy. But being intelligent helps.

Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that in its decisions it will no longer factor in the costs of people getting sick and dying from air-borne fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone and other toxic chemicals in the air. It will only take into account how much any given decision costs industry.

Note: You might think this post is a parody, but it is not. This is literally the new EPA policy, as you can read for yourself.

Given this new focus, it seems to me that it would be logical, for the sake of clarity, for the EPA to change its name. Maybe it could call itself the IPA, or Industry Protection Agency.

One nice thing about this is that agency employees could stay on brand by playing a fun game: Every time another 1000 Americans become sick or die from asthma or heart and lung disease, everyone in the office drinks a pint of IPA.

To be fair, such an activity might lead to charges of corruption. Why are government officials spending U.S. taxpayer money to sit around the office all day getting drunk?

But there is a simple solution to this: In order to keep things aboveboard, all those many barrels of beer could simply be donated by industry.

Problem solved.

Yesterday somebody forwarded to me this beautiful and powerful video, which I would like to share with you. That kind of courage and clear thinking gives me a little hope.

I am still haunted by the last words of Renee Good: “That’s fine, dude I’m not mad at you.” The video from the ICE agent’s phone, just released by the government, shows her saying those words cheerfully, while rapidly turning her steering wheel to the right, in order to avoid bumping her car into the man who a moment later shot her three times in the head.

I think people should make t-shirts with those words printed on them. Although it might now be official U.S. government policy that if you wear that shirt while looking friendly and relaxed, some masked goon is supposed to respond by fatally shooting you in the head.

Meanwhile, here is a video from forty five years ago where the dialog seems to accurately describe, from around 4:00 to 4:50, what’s going on with the current occupant of the White House. I recommend watching the whole thing from beginning to end.

Today somebody was talking about their grandfather. He drank like a fish, yet lived to a ripe old age. “He was always proud of his liver,” they said. “No matter how much he drank, his liver was always incredibly healthy.”

The conversation then turned to their grandmother. “Smoked every day for many years, but still perfectly healthy at eighty.”

It seemed like a theme was developing. I hated to burst their bubble, but I felt I had to speak up. “Unfortunately,” I said, “that’s not how statistics works.”

I’m still haunted by the events in Minneapolis. It’s not just that the killing of Renee Nicole Good was horrifying.

It’s also the way that our government then flat out lied about it, telling everyone in the U.S. that what we had all plainly witnessed had not happened. As they used to say back in the days of Watergate, it’s not just the crime, it’s the cover-up.

Except here it’s something much worse: It’s not just the crime, it’s the gaslighting. Can you really successfully gaslight an entire nation, and get millions of people to disbelieve what they have all just seen with their own eyes?

I hope not.

I’ve started to read the poetry of Renee Nicole Good. Her poems are deep and powerful, and ask important questions about the emotional connections between us as humans.

It would have been good to read future poems by this talented lady. But that is not going to happen.

Yesterday an idiot with a gun murdered her in cold blood, shooting her three times through the head. Her “crime” was the act of swerving her car to get away from him and the other masked ICE goons who were menacingly waving their guns at her.

But the more deliberately evil crime may be the one then perpetrated by our “leaders” in Washington. Despite the abundant video evidence to the contrary, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that Ms. Good was trying to run her car into the idiot with the gun.

That “blame the victim” falsehood was then repeated by our idiot president. Now millions of people have seen those videos, so everyone knows that those were flat out lies.

My heart goes out to Ms. Good’s family. I also weep for our country.

I don’t know whether Stephen Miller is pure evil, but he at least wants us to think he is. Here are his exact words in an interview on CNN earlier this week:

“We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.”

Several fictional characters with similar philosophies come to mind, including Lord Voldemort, Emperor Palpatine, and Sauron. You can probably add to that list.
The most similar real world historical figure might be Hermann Göring. As someone recently remarked, it might have sounded better in the original German.