Move along. Nothing to see here.

I'm so old I remember that Osama bin Laden's goal with 9/11 was to get the US to overreact and get itself tied up in a war that would destabilize its, and the world's, economy.

But nearly two months into a shipping supply shock, you’d think that investors would wake up and act accordingly. In fact, their compulsive wishful thinking is making the crisis worse, by not providing the kind of signal that has historically gotten Trump to back off his most destructive impulses. Sadly, this time it may be too late, given the operational control of the Strait of Hormuz that’s firmly in Iran’s hands.

The evidence that investors are overlooking the implications of the current situation is piling up. The war’s end is no longer the point at which things will return to something approaching normal. U.S. inflation was at 3.3 percent last month and is expected to rise further, and the second-order effects on goods that are derived from fossil fuels or rely on energy—in the latter case, all of them—haven’t even hit yet. Diesel and jet fuel, the heavy transportation fuels, are rising faster than gasoline. There are trucking costs and fertilizer costs and plastic and aluminum packaging costs, all of which will spark more core inflation, which hasn’t budged much relative to more volatile benchmarks like energy.

Bin Laden also thought the US's overreach would lead to the west withdrawing from the ME, resulting in a ME unification, etc.. That still seems pretty unlikely.

We can believe:

1. Trump is fine with everyone knowing he is so out of touch with Christianity that he doesn't recognize a traditional depiction of Jesus.
2. Trump is fine with everyone knowing he's lying because there's no way that looks anything like a fucking doctor.

Idiots.

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 13, 2026 at 12:44 PM

Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"

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— Lis Power (@lispower.bsky.social) April 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM

Today’s conservatism is the opposite of what liberals want today, updated daily.

Food blogger Adam Ragusea steps up to tell some truth.

Kristi Noem's cross-dressing husband might have been exposed by an undocumented immigrant seeking retribution over President Trump's Department of Homeland Security policies.

Here's the deal ... Axios White House reporter Marc Caputo posted on X Tuesday that he received a "weird" tip in February about Bryon Noem's secret gender bending impulses, which include photographing himself wearing huge fake breasts and pink spandex shorts.

But, get this ... Caputo says the tipster was "an immigrant sex worker" who was possibly in the country illegally, and "wanted to go public about Noem’s husband using her services online -- it was vengeance for DHS’s immigration enforcement."

I truly don't care about his kinks. But props to the 'sex worker' for lighting this guy up.