Mike Wolfinbarger

I had a couple of them do that in the past, but barely noticed this one. But I also caught it last year at Dad’s funeral. Maybe prior infection by a similar strain makes a difference. Weird.

RadarScope 5.5 is rolling out today for Apple platforms, Android, and Windows. It includes MRMS, GOES, and RTMA products for Pro Tier Two and AllisonHouse customers on Windows, and new watch and warning types for all platforms.

The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

Immigration-driven diversity increases innovation
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

“Show us on this doll where the mustard touched you.”

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

“Everybody’s Had to Fight to Be Free”: Tom Petty’s ‘Damn the Torpedoes’ Turns 40 Recorded at a time of roiling complication for the Heartbreakers, Petty’s virtuosic hooks and desire for resonance made this the band’s finest—and angriest—album

"In a time of seemingly infinite polarization, his truculent, life-affirming catalog is one of the few things most Americans can actually agree upon." Happy birthday to the man behind 'Damn The Torpedoes'. Here is an overview I wrote for the Ringer a few years back. www.theringer.com/2019/10/18/m...

Remember what I repeated over and over and over again for years like it was a goddamn assignment, the biggest lesson my life so far has taught me: borders also keep you in.

If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

I thought aligned until I actually looked at it. Now I think between.

Timeline cleanse

District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually mean—i.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."

Every year, the Heritage Foundation puts out an "economic freedom" index, ranking every country in the world by (more or less) how lightly they're regulated.

There are four Nordic countries in the top 15.

Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now

YouTube video by Robert Reich Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.

The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.

That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.

For us, we’re either with folks who know and just want to find moments of joy by not talking about it, or they’re in various stages of denial or supportive of it all and look at us like we’re speaking gibberish.

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks

average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything

If you're explaining that you're not dead, you're losing.

There's the authoritarianism, and then there's the just shitting on humanity parts - eg, the vaccine and renewable energy cancellations - which are a new nihilist twist on historical authoritarianism, death for its own sake. (Calling RFK eugenicist is giving him too much credit for reasoning.)

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict

Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor