Did you know that the entire Book Of Kells is online?

Well... It is!

"Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war."

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.

Atrios:

Repeating myself, but for all that was wrong with the journalism/commentary leading up to and during the Iraq war, there was some sense, or at least pretense, that war was a big deal, that civilian deaths were a big deal.

Now we just see whether the line is going up or down in response to various things.

The Iraq war had months of run-up, because Bush wanted to sell it to the American public. He wanted public approval. And, it was part of the 9/11 aftermath, so we were all paying attention. This gave it the appearance of a debate. It wasn't, of course - Bush was going to Iraq no matter what any critics might say. But there was at least the appearance. We could pretend we might influence what happened. And that debate carried on throughout the initial years of the war. Before we all got bored.

But Trump's Iran war was presented to us as a fait accompli. We all woke up one morning and learned the bastard had gone and done it. And there's nothing that can be done about any of it. We can't un-bomb them; we can't bring the dead back; we can't unfuck our international standing; and nobody can stop him from continuing this disaster (the biggest flaw in all of the US system of government). So, what is there to talk about? Nothing we say has any effect (Iraq taught us that lesson pretty well). We can all tell each other how stupid he is, for the 1,000,005th time. Cool, done. On with my day, I guess.