Tuesday, January 31, 2023
On Mitch McConnell Saying that the Number One Priority for Republicans In the Senate Will Be to Help Ukraine Defeat the Russians
On DirectTV Deep-Sixing Newsmax (this After Having Already Unloaded OAN Last Year)
Yes, they have a noticeable conservative bent in their coverage but is it any more blatant than the liberal clap-trap coming out of CNN and MSLSD? It certainly doesn't seem so to me (with MSLSD actually seeming more like a insane asylum at times).
On the Fact that as Predictions Go Farther Into the Future, the Margin of Error for Them Exponentially Grows (Factors Such as the State of the Economy, Climatic Events Unrelated to Humans, Wars Throughout the Planet, Scientific Breakthroughs, etc.) and so for Individuals to Say with Precision What the Weather Will Be In the 22nd Century Is Pure Comic Theater
Now, how many of them actually believe what they're saying and acting in good faith (albeit delusionally), some I would say but not many.
Monday, January 30, 2023
On the Fact that Information and Expertise Remain Diffuse Throughout Society and to Think that Central Planning Psychopaths Like Klaus Schwab, Chrystia Feeland, and Al Gore Could Somehow Micromanage Things from Their Unimpressive Little Echo-Chamber Is Preposterous............but They'll Try, Though
Their hubris knows no bounds apparently.
On the Likelihood of Kamala Having the Rioters Back Again (via a Dusting Off of Those Bail Funds, Some Palm Greasing, etc.)
If she was smart............Yeah, I'll just leave it there.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Note to Connecticut State Representative, Kevin Ryan (this In Response to His New Proposal to Have 12 Year-Old Kids Vaccinated Without Parental Approval)
Pushing experimental biological agents with no long-term safety data and which are causing more side effects than all previous injections combined onto children with no parental approval is no way to go through life, asshole. My advice to you would be to resign and keep a low profile for at least a decade 'cause it appears as if you gotten some folks really, REALLY, pissed (yes, I went to your Facebook page and brutal doesn't even cover it).
On the World Health Organization Discussing Nuclear Emergencies and the Need for Proper Medication
And all for what, so that corrosive Western politicians can continue to launder their money in Ukraine and protect our bio-labs there? Give me a break and, yeah, send me to the nearest fallout shelter while you're at it.
On Criminalizing the Healthy Skepticism of Power
It sucks. And all this is happening while the purported "non-fascist" is in charge. Go figure, huh?
Saturday, January 28, 2023
On Project Veritas Recording Pfizer's Director of Research and Development Yada Yada Yada, Jordan Tristin Walker, Talking About the Company Mutating Viruses so that They Can Profit Down the Line with More and More Biological Agents
He was later confronted about this and after going completely berserk said that he was only attempting to impress a date............because as we all know, there's nothing quite like suggesting mass murder when trying to impress a potential companion.
On Trump Calling Out for Peace While Biden Keeps Pushing Us Closer to Nuclear War
And yet the partisan left continues to denigrate Trump while propping up the war-mongering and highly compromised Biden (complaining about an election is apparently worse than millions of individuals instantly dead and millions more gradually from radiation poisoning). Pretty sick, huh?
On Biden 10 Short Months Ago Biden Suggesting that the U.S. Sending Tanks to Ukraine Would Start World War 3
Well, I guess that if chicks can change their mind, so, too, can an intellectually challenged, prevaricating, hair-sniffing, demented, psychopathic, geriatric white cis male as well. Logic says, no?
On Kamala Now Saying that We Need to Pursue "Equity" (a Concept that Has Never Been Achieved In Human History, Mind You) In that Not Everybody Starts Off In the Same Place
Of course one of those different/unequal places is some children having two parents and some just having one (the preferable situation of course being the former; more resources, less stress, more adequate supervision, etc.) and so unless ole Kamala plans to offload millions of dads to equalize things, this one will be a toughie for her, I predict.
Friday, January 27, 2023
On Kamala Harris Leaving Out the "Life" Part of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" When Talking to a Group of Pro-Choice People
Did she think that people wouldn't notice? I mean, I get it that she was trying to please the audience and that the awkwardness of promoting life while also supporting measures to snuff it out would have wreaked of bald hypocrisy............but maybe pick out a different quote to begin with. I'm just sayin'.
On Egalitarianism via Fiat (AKA Coercion)
It's been tried many times and the corollary more often than not has been caskets, body bags, etc.. Of course the approach has never been spearheaded by a genius the caliber of Kamala Harris before and so, yeah, this time it might actually work. Who knows (other than everybody, that is)?
Thursday, January 26, 2023
On the U.S. and a Bunch of Other N.A.T.O. Countries Deciding to Send Tanks, Missiles, and a Whole Bunch of Other War-Waging Bullshit Into Ukraine In What Can Only Be Called an Irresponsible Gambit Into World War 3
This shit needs to end IMMEDIATELY. Ukraine and Russia are two of the most corrupt countries on the planet (https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021) and to risk a possible nuclear war over two fucking provinces in Eastern Ukraine is abject madness. And, besides, how would we feel if the Russians had toppled a government in Canada that was friendly to us and replaced it with a regime that wasn't just hostile but one that was also Nazi-infused (the Russians have already dealt with one set of Nazis and probably don't want another go at it) AND armed with advance weaponry? Not that great, I suspect.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
On Establishment Republican Numb-Nuts, Marco Rubio, Proposing a Bill that Would Make TikTok Illegal In the U.S.A. (as Some Sort of Punishment to China, I Guess)
As much as I would love to see that cesspool of a web-site go away, the morons on it (many of whom are teachers - scary, huh?) will simply take their lowbrow buffoonery elsewhere and, besides, it isn't my call nor is it Rubio's.......And as far as punishing China goes, knock yourselves out, just don't take away free speech from your own people, that's all.
On the Latest Rankings of Massachusetts Colleges and Universities by "College Factual" Having Smith Ranked 16th and Mount Holyoke 18th
Not a stellar day for the Pioneer Valley, it seems. Oh well, at least they edged out Springfield Strip Joints A & M, 'cause had they not done that, oh the humanity.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
On Declassified Documents Suggesting that Former C.I.A. Director and Hardcore Sociopath, John Brennan, Tried to Hide Intelligence Which Proved that the Russians Actually Wanted Mrs. Clinton to Win the 2016 Election - https://www.worldtribune.com/documents-obamas-cia-chief-brennan-suppressed-evidence-that-russia-favored-hillary-in-2016/
On Hearing the Left's Three Major Stock Insults, Conspiracy Theorist, Antivaxer, and White Supremacist, but Never Having Heard the Three of Them Stitched Together
For example, "How 'bout that dumb white supremacist conspiracy theorist antivaxxer. What a piece of shit he is, huh?" Kinda' works, no? Hopefully some hackneyed leftist picks it up as we can all probably use a good laugh these days (at their expense, of course).
On Biden's Inept Press Secretary Suggesting that Elon Musk's Pointed Tweets Directed at Saint Fauci Are Dangerous In that They Could Lead to Violence
All that he said was that the crony-assed career bureaucrat should be prosecuted for his horrific mishandling of the Covid Fiasco. Compare that to the nonstop demonization of Trump (which apparently wasn't "dangerous") and I really have to say, nice try but try again, on that one.
To All of the Conservative Jocks Out There Who Championed an Expanded Security State In the Aftermath of 9/11
So, ya' still lovin' it? Probably not, I'm assuming.
Monday, January 23, 2023
On Capitol Police Tactical Commander, Captain Carneysha Mendoza, Testifying Under Oath that There Were Numerous Agitators On January 6th Who Removed the Security Barriers and Lured Large Groups of Protesters to the Capitol Grounds - https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/13/what-the-january-6-videos-will-show/
He also talked about how the police used pepper balls, rubber bullets, flashbangs (a less than lethal grenade that may have caused the fatal heart attacks of two protesters), and gas to subdue a crowd that was relatively inactive until the cops showed up. Yeah, we definitely need to see a lot more of that footage.
On Finland's New Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, Telling ABC's Fareed Zakaria that Her Country Was Prepared to Help Ukraine (Financially Only, Let's Hope) for as Long as it Takes to Defeat the Russians
Sunday, January 22, 2023
On with Everyone (Even CNN Now) Focusing On Mr. Biden's Handling of the Classified Documents, Are We Not Missing Out On an Even Bigger Question; i.e., What's In the Fucking Things?
My intuition tells me that it's likely a bombshell but a bombshell that we'll probably never know about, a la Epstein's little black book, etc..
On the Twitter Files Being One of the Greatest Stories of Our Generation (the Security State and a Presidential Campaign Colluding with a Behemoth Organization to Silence Conservative Voices and Repress Stories Which Show Then-Candidate Biden to Be an Absolute Piece of Shit) and the Leftist Corporate Press Either Ignoring it or Shamelessly and Moronically Downplaying it
They talk about cats with nine lives. Well evidently this bullshit and slanderous entity, CNN, must have at least twice that 'cause they just keep on survivin' one career-ending fuck-up after another. Of course they could also have some sociopathic billionaire bankrolling them and that wouldn't surprise me, either.
On War Criminal, Tony Blair, Going to the Fascistic World Economic Forum Shit-Show and Pushing for "Injectables" and a Planet-Wide "Digital Infrastructure"
So a guy who should have been convicted years ago for crimes against humanity has opted for yet another go-'round of bald tyranny. Those leopards, huh?
On CNN Finally Covering the Biden Family's Suspicious Business Dealings - https://www.foxbangor.com/national-news/cnn-reports-on-biden-familys-shady-business-dealings-over-two-years-after-ny-post-gets-panned-by-critics/
And the obvious question of course is, why now? My suspicion (and, please, forgive me for repeating this) is that a) the Democratic machine has finally concluded that this Biden fellow is a an absolute train wreck and needs to go (especially if it can be done without hurting the overall brand) and b) the media shits have gotten this message loud and clear. As for the coverage itself, none of it is even remotely new and the fact that they're seemingly focused on the low hanging fruit makes their "revelations" even more pathetic. Sorry CNN, ya' still suck.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
On President Biden Continuing to Shamelessly and Moronically Claim that a Capitol Police Officer, William Evans, Was Killed On January 6th by Those Big, Bad Insurrectionists (All of Whom Were Unarmed and In Many Instances Waved In by the Cops but Whatever) and Not by the Actual Murderer, Some Louis Farrakhan Fan-Boy
He hasn't spit out this gem as many times as the "Nazis are fine people" fairy tale but it's definitely in the top 5, for sure. I mean, just ask the fact-checkers.............What, a little too sarcastic?
On Nancy Pelosi Ordering an Exorcism at Her San Francisco Mansion After Her Husband's Hammer Beatdown at the Hands Some Retarded Chap - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11661885/Nancy-Pelosi-held-EXORCISM-San-Francisco-mansion-try-banish-evil-spirits.html
I was going to have some fun with this and proclaim that the story had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation but being that the source was her daughter, Alexandra (a surprisingly well-adjusted gal from what I've seen), and not some Russian spy donning a wig, I sadly had to forego it. Oh well, next time, maybe.
On Crazy Leana Wen Writing an Editorial for the Washington Compost Suggesting that We've Been Over-Counting Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths by Not Differentiating the Cases "from Covid" and "with Covid"
Hmm, where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, right here and pretty much every other locale which entertains people with IQs over that of a zucchini. Of course now that crazy Leana has said it I feel so much better......and so do you, I bet.
Friday, January 20, 2023
On the Fact that it Appears as if the FAA Has Widened its EKG Parameters for Pilots from a High-End Range of 200 msec On the PR Interval All the Way to 300 msec - https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/01/18/faapilots-heart-damage-n2618419
I haven't seen a fact check on this yet but if one does come out it'll consist of the fact checker going to the FAA, the FAA proclaiming that it was just a typo or bookkeeping error, the fact checker taking everything said as gospel, and ultimately rendering the claim as FALSE. Just a question of when.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
On the Fact that Only Van Morrison Could Get Away with this and Get Away with it He Does
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
On the Grievance-Mongering Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee, Putting Forth a Bill that Would Make Any Social Media Shit-Post Which She Deems to Be Espousing White Supremacy (Loaded Verbiage that the Slant of Course Fails to Define) Inflammatory Enough to Cause Some Idiot to Perpetrate a Hate Crime an Accessory to that Hateful Crime
And of course the definition hate speech will be determined by buffoons like Lee who have a long history of saying idiot things and who would take a diarrhea caliber shit on the Constitution if left to their own moronic devices. No thanks, I'll pass.
Biden's Classified Documents Problem - an Inside Hit?
It seems to be the opinion du jour lately and, while it does make sense (Biden being such a hot mess now that to call the guy a liability doesn't even remotely cover it), the "plan" apparently hasn't made it yet to the programmers at CNN and MSLSD in that they're still spinning for the poor slob. The next couple weeks will likely tell a lot, huh?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
On Sam Harris Bringing Up Dead Children Again (In a New Podcast Where He Attempts to Make Some Peculiar Defense of Covid Orthodoxy)
I used to like this guy a lot because he was interesting and difficult to pigeon hole. Lately, though, a little too tribal for my taste. And now this thing with kids, too much.
On Me and Inclusion
I'm fully down with "inclusion"......but only if I get to select WHO (John McWhorter and Glenn Loury - yes, Joy Reid and Don Lemon - no) I'm including. Freedom of association, in other words.
Monday, January 16, 2023
On Hunter Biden Taking a 50% Pay Cut from Burisma Just Four Months After Obama and His Pops Left the White House In 2017 - https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-bidens-ukraine-salary-was-cut-after-joe-biden-left-office/
There are so many possible explanations here that I actually filled in one whole line on a blank piece of paper listing them. It even gave me writer's cramp.
On the Talented but Generally Second Banana Actress, Janis Paige, Cracking the Hundred Barrier Last September
On Hunter Biden Apparently Paying the "Big Guy" 50 Grand a Month to Live In His Home
On Former HHS Science Adviser, Paul Alexander, Admitting What Anyone with a Scintilla of Common Sense Already Knew, Namely that the Six Feet Social Distancing Concept Had Zero Science Backing it Up and Was Just Something that the Career Bureaucrats Pulled Out of Their Bungholes
Yeah, the real tip-off for me was when I saw that some European countries had the social distancing number at 3 feet (1 meter) while others had it at 4 1/2 feet (1.5 meters) or 6 feet (2 meters) and ultimately realized for certain that it was pure, unadulterated bullshit. Of course it's always nice to hear a former government ramrod admit to anything and for that fact alone it was satisfying.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
On Why People Like Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Tulsi Gabbard, Aaron Mate, and Glenn Greenwald Go On Tucker Carlson's Fox Show
Oh, I don't know, maybe it's because Tucker's the only person on cable who allows principled liberals to voice their concerns about censorship, America's proxy war in Ukraine, and the incestuous relationship between big tech and the U.S. security/surveillance state. He also has killer ratings. That doesn't hurt.
On More Classified Documents Being Found In Biden's Garage, Right Next to His Corvette (No Worries, Though, as the Garage Was Locked)
Typical Biden move but, honestly, I'm a little more concerned that the the fellow's still driving. Talk about a threat to national security, huh?
Saturday, January 14, 2023
On Bacharach Showing Up Before Lancaster In a Recent Auto-Complete for Burt
You needed more evidence that planet earth is descending into another dark age? I give you this as proof.
On the FAA System Being Down
No worry as this can easily be rectified through more "racial equity", "inclusion", "income redistribution", and "environmental justice". Just as ole Mayor Pete. He'll tell you about it.
On Character Actresses Generally Not Being Considered Attractive
Friday, January 13, 2023
On the Migrants In El Paso Magically Disappearing from the Streets of that City Just Before President Biden's Arrival
Well we can't have any embarrassing press down there, now can we? 'Course not.
On the Number One Cause of Death In America Now Being Coincidence - https://twitter.com/DavidWolfe/status/1612994071362146309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1613213653934968832%7Ctwgr%5Edf87236042278a3f932b6109c1a2102e09c252b8%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwsau.com%2F2023%2F01%2F12%2Fcoincidence-now-the-leading-cause-of-death%2F
Yep, just surpassed heart disease, I heard (though, yeah, there does appear to be a fair amount of overlap between the two). QUITE the development.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
On the Fact that the Mainstream Media Hasn't Done a Single Hard-Hitting Piece On the Government's Response to Covid, Fauci, or Even Big Pharma and Instead Have Parroted the Prescribed Narrative from These People While Simultaneously Running Cover for Them with One Biased Fact Check After Another
I'm all for freedom of the press (though, yeah, taking your marching orders from the state, not the best example of it, for sure) but I'm also in favor of free speech and if the government takes away our Constitutional right and DUTY to call these mother effers out for their corruption, stupidity, etc. where does that leave us, folks? Not in a good way, I'd surmise.
On the Fact that Progressive Authoritarianism Is Precious Little Better than the Right Wing Version and Unless My Sane Liberal Friends Begin to Understand that, and Soon, Regrets Across the Political Spectrum I Foresee
When Bush 2 amped up the surveillance state after 9/11 he took a lot of heat for it (a lot of it deserved) from celebrities such as Bruce Springsteen.......Well, they've apparently changed their mind, haven't they? In a big way.
Contra O'Reilly's Person of the Year (12 Days too Late)
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
On the Independent Media's Focus On Ray Epps Constantly Being Called (Drum Roll, Please), a Conspiracy Theory
The asshole's on video telling the crowd that they had to go "into the Capitol" and now we have some incriminating text messages, one of which informs a relative that he "also orchestrated it". How this in any way makes for a conspiracy theory one with a functioning cerebral cortex will probably never know and, yet, in the mind of the modern-day leftist, absolute sense it apparently makes. Go figure, huh?
On Ava Gardner Turning 100 Last Month
I haven't seen any recent pictures of her (a joke) but I'm more than positive that she still looks smoldering. How could she not?
Continuing
For some reason Blogger wouldn't allow a text from that last post. Oh well, I was just going to counsel the Slimes to......talk amongst itself. You know, to reconcile, that's all.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
On the AP Writing a Story Entitled, "UN Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked", In Which They Assert that if Global Warming Isn't Reversed by 2030 Rising Sea Levels Could Wipe "Entire Nations Off the Face of the Earth"
The problem here is that the story wasn't written in 2019 but rather 1989 and the projected date for this horrifying event wasn't 2030 but rather 2000. Yeah, it appears as if the 12 year doomsday scenario has quite the long pedigree........................................................................................................P.S., The scenario comes from a 2019 paper by the great Michael Shellenberger so a major hat-tip to him of course.
Monday, January 9, 2023
On Doctor Fauci Saying this a Month or so Before Trump's Inauguration
"There will be a challenge for the incoming administration............and there will be a surprise outbreak."............Pretty impressive, huh, this prognostication of his? Too impressive, maybe?
On Typing, "Climate Change and Cannibalism", Into a Search Engine and Actually Getting a Fair Number of Results
Yeah, I was having some fun combining climate change with a whole host of other bad things and decided to push the envelope a bit and, yep, it worked.
On Independent Journalist, Glenn Greenwald, Laying Waste to Yet Another Corporate Media Narrative, this One Regarding January 6th - https://rumble.com/v247niq-the-enduring-media-lies-surrounding-january-6th-2-years-later-system-update.html
Yeah, I guess that when you don't take bribes from Pfizer and Raytheon the truth gets a wee-bit easier to muster. Works for Glenn anyway.
Sunday, January 8, 2023
On Canada Racking Up Over 10,000 Assisted Suicides In 2021 (3.3% of Their Total Deaths)
I'm OK with assisted suicides but there have to be safeguards in place to make certain that the individual is terminal and that the decision to end life is 100% theirs, because with a psychopath running that increasingly dystopian country, you never know where evil is lurking.
On the Graph that Google, the Idiot Socialist Bimbo from New York, and the Rest of the Sociopathic Climate Change Cultists Wish Would Go Away
My Plan for Depopulation (a Huge Topic These Days, Apparently)?
Simple. Just deep-fry every child rapist on the globe. No it won't get you there fully......but it's a start.
On Howard Stern's New Contract with Sirius Reportedly Netting Him $120,000,000 a Year
So now there's at least one example of some asshole going woke and NOT going broke. Hopefully not a trend.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
On the Fact that We Now Know (Courtesy of the Twitter Files) that Perpetual Liar, Adan Schiff, Had Contacted Twitter to Try and Get Investigative Reporter, Paul Sperry, Banned from Twitter and that He Used the Slanderous and Moronic Claim that the Fellow Was Pushing QAnon Foolishness On the Platform - https://reclaimthenet.org/adam-schiff-twitter-ban-paul-sperry/
Yeah, this ploy was such a bullshit move that even the pre-Musk Twitter was like, "I don't know, Sparky, maybe you're going a little TOO insane on this one."......Humiliating, huh?
Friday, January 6, 2023
On the Fact that Back In 2017, Apple's Disgusting CEO, Tim Cook, Praised China's Commitment to Fighting Climate Change
That's weird, because as of 2022 China had 1,110 coal-fired power plants functioning (with crappy filters, too, I'm assuming), more than twice as many as India and the U.S. combined (https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country/). Must be taking a break from that battle, I guess.
On Certain Places Now Banning the Word, Groomer
Hmm, I wonder, does that pertain to dog groomer as well? Probably, huh?
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
On the Fact that it Now Appears as if the Left's Claim that the Corruption Case Regarding Burisma Was "Dormant" Back When Biden Made His Now Infamous Confession of Having Extorted the Ukrainian President, Mr. Poroshenko, Is Just One More Fucking Lie
Well, at least according to the 2016 calendar (Biden having made his dumb statement in March of that year, just one short month after Burisma's owner, Mr. Zlochevsky, had his house raided).
To the Deep State Shits Who've Been Monitoring My Blog Site and Pushing Me so Far Down the Damned Algorithm that I Can't Even Find Me
You must know that what you've been doing isn't simply unamerican, it's pure fucking evil. I mean, I get it that a lot of you guys are near retirement and don't want to jeopardize your pension but at some point, you know? You gotta' know.
On the Intercept Doing Some Decent Journalism Again - https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/
We just had to get rid of Trump, I guess.......Of course if Trump gets the Republican nomination in 2024 they'll probably stick it to him again, but until then, kudos.
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
On the F.B.I. Having the Hunter Biden Laptop by December of 2019, Likely Knowing Within Days that it Was Legitimate, and Still Going to the Social Media Conglomerates to Peddle Their Laughable Narrative About Russian Disinformation
How in the fuck is this not treasonous? It sure as shit satisfies my criteria.
On the Fact that if Refusing to Pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden Is Somehow Part of Mr. Trump's 4D Chess Then I Politely Ask Him to Take Up Poker, Checkers, or Backgammon Instead
Monday, January 2, 2023
On a 38 Year-Old Doctor from Australia Dying Suddenly and the Early Reaction to it from Great Britain's Lowbrow Site, "Mirror", Being to Dredge up the Claim that the Fella' Had Supposedly Received Death Threats from Pissed Antivaxxers (You Know, as Opposed to Trying to Find Out What Actually Killed Him)
And how disgusting that the asshole who wrote this piece would use the doctor's passing as an excuse to denigrate an entire group of people while simultaneously doing the bidding of Pfizer (AKA, the most fined company in modern history) and Moderna. I don't know about you but I find that exceedingly evil.
On the U.S. and Great Britain Essentially Criminalizing the Journalist/Source Relationship
Sunday, January 1, 2023
On Jerry Brown During His 1992 Presidential Run Coming Out for a 13% Flat Tax (and Thereby Positioning Himself to the Right of Centrists, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas) and Both The New York Times and The New Republic Endorsing it
Wow, so just 31 short years ago, Jerry Brown, The New Republic, and The New York Times were all in the general vicinity of sane. Incredible.