Thoughts, Ideas, and Logs.

  I’ve been reading the news. All of it. From every source. I think my soul has carpal tunnel syndrome. It’s August 6th, 2025, by the way. Spoilers: the future is already exhausting.   I’ve got feeds from Italy, from Europe, from Fox News, from The New York Times… and my brain is now like a browser with too many tabs open, and one of them is playing an ad for a product I don't understand in a language I don't speak.   Let’s start with the big story. According to Fox News, heroic White House envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bravely negotiate an end to the war. According to the New York Times, Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, is meeting with a defiant Vladimir Putin amid rising tensions. According to me, this poor bastard Steve Witkoff is in a geopolitical remake of *Groundhog Day*. His entire job is to fly to Moscow to have his picture taken looking worried next to a man who looks like a bored turtle.   And Trump’s big move? Tariffs...

    What a week. What a day. What a… whatever the hell this is. I read the news this morning and I think my brain is trying to reboot in safe mode.     You see the President? Trump’s been busy. It’s like he’s got a bingo card of global chaos and he’s trying to hit blackout. On Friday, he orders two nuclear submarines to be repositioned because he got into a slap-fight on social media with a guy who used to be the president of Russia. A former president! That’s the geopolitical equivalent of getting into a fight with the guy who used to manage the Blockbuster video. "Move the USS Nebraska. Dmitri Medvedev used a mean emoji. I want him to know we're serious." What's next? Sending a carrier group to the North Sea because some guy on Reddit said the F-35 has "mid-tier handling"?     And in the middle of all this, what's his big domestic project? Building an 8,000-square-foot, kitschy ballroom at the White House. Because when the world is teetering on the bri...

        Alright, alright, you perpetually bewildered occupants of planet Earth!     Glued to your little screens, hoping for… what, exactly? Good news? Ha! Don't make me laugh. The daily dump of global headlines is in, and it's the usual cocktail of incompetence, delusion, and outright lunacy.     Let's start with the former guy, the one with the hair. He's got a brilliant new offer for Canada. Our polite, hockey-loving neighbors to the north. He says they can be part of his "Fabulous Golden Dome System" – sounds like a Vegas casino crossed with a doomsday cult – for a mere $61 billion. But, ever the dealmaker, he's got a special: it's FREE if they just sign on the dotted line and become the 51st state. And get this, he claims they're "considering the offer!" Considering! I bet they're considering moving the entire country five hundred miles further north. Meanwhile, while he's trying to bill Canada for imaginary protection, a US...