Do you understand the difference between the Chinese Spy Balloon, er, meteorological airship, and the Grammy's?

After a rough night, the Rabbi and the Friar are up and at it to celebrate all things Balloon! A weird fish story has them not wondering WTF, while Flori-dah has them wondering WTF? A look at language has them saying putain de merde, Etm!

The State of the Union is coming up this week... let's take bets on what JaBiden will say and not say!

Brutus has made it clear that he has major issues with the proposed Constitution. There are parts of it he accepts as acceptable and even well considered. That said, he also feels that those sections are more or less unimportant and having "fallacious appearances."

After eviscerating the lack of a bill of rights, Brutus moves on to the next issue he has... the Legislature. He feels that it is not well considered, and will be subject to corruption and bribery.

Moreover, he has a huge issue with how much property is being used for apportionment...

The fastest moving story in the world right now is the Chinese Spy Balloon over Montana. Of course, by now, it's probably over North Dakota. Given that we are the only nation ever successfully attacked via balloons, shouldn't we being doing a bit more than summoning ambassadors and twiddling our thumbs about it?

For most of my life I have wondered how it is that two people can look at the same words on a page and see two polar opposite meanings? Back in High school my creative writing teacher told me how that can happen, but it took my Rabbi this week to remind me of it...

The merchant vessel, Arc Integrity, is making its way to Europe, carrying a cargo of military supplies for Ukraine. Specifically, it is carrying Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicles. some are speculating that the Russians could legally attack this ship as it is known to be carrying military supplies. The situation is not unlike that which faced Imperial Germany in 1915-1917. Is unrestricted submarine warfare worth the risks?

Meanwhile, if you think that the Emperor has no clothes, you are a fool. And you're better off just going along with the scam...

In January of 1944, the Allies thought that they had found a way to crack the Gustav Line south of Rome. The bloody battles in Italy had the Allies stalled and desperate to move around the entrenched Nazi forces. From December of 1943 to June of 1944, almost 100,000 allied soldiers were casualties. Most of them, from two assaults intended to break the Gustav Line.

On January 22nd, the Allies launched "Operation Shingle" as a part of the attempt to break out from the beachheads at Anzio. US Ranger Battalions headed to Cisterna as a a part of the overall assault force. What they did not know was that Army Intelligence had misread things, and the lightly held outposts that they expected were already abandoned. Instead, standing in the way was the German 715th Parachute Infantry and the powerful Herman Göring Division.

Under strength and undertrained with numerous replacement troops, the Rangers soon found themselves surrounded and in full on combat with the best troops the Nazi's had to send....

I Survived the Battle of Cisterna: The Story of PFC James Palmer

It's been a rough morning... lots of distractions and shiny objects that are pulling my attention elsewhere. For what it's worth though, I don't really care about the Pelosi tape. The truth is that you don't either, but we all have to pretend that we do because we've been told that we have to.

In California (and everywhere else), there is big money in "servicing" the Homeless...

The Associated Press spent "the" week apologizing for the one sin that requires no atonement whatsoever. Somebody who works at the AP decided that in one of their stories they had referred to "the" French by a derogatory term. It's hard to imagine that such a term exists but in their mind, it does and they had offended "the" entire French world by using the offensive term.

And the entire world, including "The" French, laughed at them.

More classified documents, more fun. More turkeys, more straws...

All this week on What "The" Frock?

There's a reason why there are traditions. They are, in point of fact, solutions to problems that have been long forgotten. And as the good book says, do not remove the boundary stone which your forefathers set...

Since 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have been telling us how much time we have as a species by annual showing us a clock face with the hands approaching midnight. This is used to symbolize the idea that we are almost about to doom ourselves for a variety of reasons ranging from hydrogen bombs to Vladimir Putin. No... I am not kidding.

The thing is that since 1947, they have been entirely and utterly... well... wrong. If I had been 100% wrong for more than half a century, I'd like to think that I'd start wondering if I was doing this right?

I told you a few days back that every single elected official in this country has Classified Documents in their offices, homes, etc. A thirteen hour search of the Presidents home determined that there were even more documents from his time as VEEP, while the last VEEP decided to jump into the game by outing himself as yet another political figure that never cared about or followed any of the rules that you would got to prison over.