After Stephen Miller said some crazy shit last week, Gandalf rolled a joint of Sauronic Palantir and got some folks to confess what we all know is the truth.

On the morality of synaptical reserve versus launching your ambush on your own vanity. The reason the world refuses to change is because you do. That, unfortunately, does not make you a bad person. It makes you perfectly normal. Overwhelmingly so. OK. Go back to sleep.

Some thoughts on the operational integrity of "constitution", as the Founders and some 18th-century political philosophers thought about that idea. Just having a constitution is not good enough. It has to be both respected as a document with continuing relevance to the people, and it has to have real power to constrain and coerce even the bad presidents and others to obey its limitations of their power. And if it isn't doing those things, then it isn't working for the people who are the reason for it to exist at all. And they need to get a newer model.

There is a Tarot card that describes your (and our) current dilemma. It is a card about desperately being afraid to overthrow oppressive regimes and circumstances, because who knows what that will cost and what that will bring? As I will explain to you, there is a mechanism at work that will liberate you from this terrible moral tension, no matter what you want. You may not love the remedy of course, but you cannot say you did not ask for it. And it will be merciful—in a big-picture way of thinking about that.

Wherein I come at the problem of aggressive stupidity installed as the arbiter of excellence from a number of perspectives. This is more a pie in the face than a critical rebuke. Well, there is a rebuke in the pie too of course.

In this podcast, I explore what exactly it is Pete Hegseth believes and what he is trying to do, and why you should be trying to do everything you can to stop him.

But for example, there is just way too much in common between the thinking of Pete Hegseth and another guy with a Norwegian name—Anders Behring Breivik.

This is not really an official podcast. It is a poetry break. And make whatever you want of the alleged or imagined difference.

It is just a poem plus some comments on the hard political reality.

What kind of Nazi is Elon Musk. Just a cosplay swaggerer, seeking tech-nazi cred with his Junior Injustice League incels? Or is Elon Musk more like the kind that totally gets and supports the underlying assumptions of the German political party, AfD?

That is what this podcast seeks to answer.

Listen and learn.

A look at the insane energy policy of Donald Trump, as he revealed in executive orders yesterday, showing among other things his love of coal.

Yep, with Trump in charge, the skies will fill with filth, the atmosphere will clog up with even more carbon, the climate will spike with heat, and the weather will burn and drown like it has never done before.

You voted for it.

Now you and your kids will get to pay quite dearly for doing so.

I discuss the Trump-Hitler doctrine, or Trump's foreign policy. Whether it is a joke or not, it is a further effort by Trump to normalize fascism and criminal conduct on the part of the USA, like the USA needs any more help on that count.