Sadly lost among the spate of celebrity deaths these past few weeks was the departure of The Smartest Man Ever to Write a Song: Tom Lehrer. Bill Whittle brings the receipts.

Rudely caricatured as a drug-crazed lunatic, Hunter Biden recently sat down for a long, in-depth, thought provoking interview that forced everyone who heard it to come to the realization that Hunter Biden is a drug-crazed lunatic.

The belief is spreading like wildfire: enter a few specific prompts into ChatGPT and you can ‘unlock’ the ‘sentience’ that is waiting to reveal the secrets of the Ancients, or the Aliens, or of God Himself. Not only is this a gross (and dangerous) over-estimation of what a Large Language Model is, it also misses the point about what constitutes a genuine, deep and meaningful relationship.

What was being hyped as yet another cruel ICE action against innocent working family men looking for a better life actually turned out to be a mass arrest of career criminals and underage workers. And the person howling the loudest had the dirtiest hands.

A Black Lives Matter protest recently ran headlong into a MAGA counter-protest in Dallas. No one was prepared for what happened next.

The IRS has ruled that it would not be a violation of a church’s tax exempt status if it were to openly endorse a specific political candidate — by name. But just because you CAN do something doesn’t necessarily mean that you SHOULD do something.

RETCON: ‘Retroactive Continuity’ — generally used in science fiction and fantasy to re-write historical lore to make it conform to modern interpretations. That’s what the BBC is doing to their new series on The Norman Conquest: William I of Normandy’s successful invasion of the British Isles and the defeat of the Anglo-Saxon King Harold at the Battle of Hastings.

Jaguar: the classic British sports coupe, driven by men licensed to kill… as well as brow-less, gender-queer humanoids with blue eyeshadow dressed in pink latex bodysuits! What could possibly go wrong?

In a special sneak peek at our weekly Member’s Only Right Angle: Backstage show, Bill, Steve and Scott informally hash out the conflicting theories, emotions, repercussions and possible solutions to the confusion, unanswered questions, suspicions and outright anger generated by the Trump Administration’s handling of the Epstein case.

Prior to the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, Colin Powell famously advised, “if you break it, you buy it,” meaning that nation-building inevitably had to follow any large-scale military action against a hostile routine. Did the magnificently-orchestrated Operation Midnight Hammer finally put an end to this pernicious policy?