War Games - Hollywood Meets '80s Tech

The 1983 movie War Games is still one of my favorites. This video is a bit nerdy, even by my standards. But I don't care.

A lot of the details are nonsense, but it got the smell right. It understood what computer culture felt like in the early 1980s. a smart kid in a bedroom, a modem, a pile of obscure hardware, weird blinking lights, late night modem dialing, and the sense that if you knew just a little more than everybody else, you might accidentally open a door that you were never supposed to find. And that is why this movie still works on computer people.

Of course most of it is Hollywood cheating. If you ever used a dialup modem from the 1980s you know that the screens didn't work that quickly. And that's just one part of it.

When I discovered computers were a giant mathematical puzzle, I wanted one. My parents were convinced that they were just expensive toys, so I didn't get one. (They were expensive.) The IMSAI 8080 was one of the premiere computers of the day that you could hope to have in your home. That was the home computer in the movie.

The question is not was the computer real, because it was. The question is where did the movie actually cheat? And in reality, War Games cheats all over the place. It cheats on what the front panel is doing. It cheats on what the monitor is doing. It cheats on the modem. It cheats on the voice. It cheats on the AI. And yet somehow by cheating in exactly the right places, it winds up feeling more authentic than a lot of movies that were technically more careful.

Wargames Movie Magic: Where it Cheats - IMSAI & WOPR! It is a 16 minute video, so grab a coffee.

Self-Defense Is Legal in California

California District Attorneys hate that. Barstow man acquitted of murder, manslaughter in fatal shooting

A jury acquitted a Barstow military veteran of murder and manslaughter Wednesday following the fatal shooting of another man two years ago, records show.

Patrick Dull, 52, was found not guilty of both charges in the Victorville branch of San Bernardino County Superior Court on April 22, according to court records and documents.

He showed up at one o'clock in the morning and threw a rock through a window. The guy he had a beef with was not at home, but his family was. He came back at 2:15 a.m. while the homeowner was boarding up the window.

Dazzi approached Dull from behind, made threatening statements and then charged toward Dull on the front porch of Dull's home, the attorney said.

The homeowner made one shot to the torso, and called police. The DA really wanted self-defense to be illegal. (The DA was not available for comment.)

Barstow, Califronia is about a 115 mile northeast of Los Angeles, on the way to Las Vegas.

Self-defense is a human right, but DAs in blue states don't want it to be a legal right. (Hat tip to USA Carry)

Trust the Science

Just don't turn your back on disgruntled scientists. Scientist accused of poisoning co-worker’s water bottle after being denied promotion, authorities say

According to a criminal complaint, a person who works at the Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin‑Madison noticed an odd smell coming from his water bottle on April 4 and said it tasted strange.

He also reported an odd smell coming from his shoes and a grocery bag, and told another employee, who then called police.

A lab test of the water bottle revealed a high level of chloroform.

41‑year‑old Makoto Kuroda confessed to that, and putting paraformaldehyde - an extremely toxic substance - in the victim’s drink.

Why? Because the victim didn't follow all the rules.

Kuroda also allegedly became upset when the employee was promoted and Kuroda was not.

But trust the science.

California EV Sales Crash

The headline says Tesla, because the media hate Elon Musk, but the article says all, or most, EV manufacturers are in trouble. Tesla's California sales crash 24% as state's EV market plunges to lowest since 2021 | Electrek

What that 24% represents is the number of Teslas registered in California, in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the first quarter of 2025.

The state’s overall zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market share has plunged to just 13.7% — the lowest level since Q4 2021.

Tesla's sales crash of 24% is not the dig that the folks at Electrek want you to believe. It isn't good, but as Nerdrotic says, this makes Tesla the tallest midget in the room.

The broader picture is even more alarming. Total ZEV registrations in California dropped 40.2% year-over-year in Q1 2026, falling from 95,520 to just 57,111 units. ZEV market share plunged from around 21% in 2025 to just 13.7% — a level the state hasn’t seen in over four years.

The carnage was widespread among EV brands. Mercedes-Benz ZEV registrations collapsed 81.9%, Chevrolet dropped 59.6%, BMW fell 58.9%, Ford declined 58.8%, Kia dropped 48.2%, and Rivian plunged 35.9%. Even Hyundai, which has been gaining ground in the EV market, saw a 30.4% decline in ZEV registrations.

So what are people registering? Hybrids and gas vehicles. Hybrids had a 20.9% market share, as measured by registrations, and gas vehicles were 61.1%.

The hat tip goes to MGUY Australia and his video California CARNAGE: EV sales CRATER by 40% in Q1 2026. The video is about 9 minutes.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 25 April

The Right Way starts us off with Top of the News

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark - 90 Miles From Tyranny
A warning from Britain’s Iranian diaspora - Blazingcatfur

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.22.26 (Morning Edition)

Dana Loesch: No One Asked For This
Don Surber: Obama is tired of Trump winning

EBL - Why is America a Superpower?

Geographical determinism plays a part (it helps), but it is not the only thing though...
AoSHQ: Morning Report 04.23.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 April 2026: Double Stacker Edition

The Pentagon wants $54 billion for drones. (Ars Technica)
Shockingly, even Ars Technica doesn't claim this is an outrageous idea, merely an expensive one. I can't speak for the commenters. I haven't read the comments, and won't.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Circuit Court Judge Nixes Virginia Gerrymander

At Althouse, "'If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future,' Mr. Platner told me, 'it needs to be an antiwar party.'" The guy with the Nazi tattoo. The Persian Jewess @persianjewess, "Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani"

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Trump’s toughest battle and Trump changed the rules. One giant fraud.
Stores You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: No infidels allowed. The lynching of Melanie Gill.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.23.26 (Evening Edition)

Shark Tank: George Moraitis Addresses U.S. Blockade Of Iran, Praises Trump
Shot In The Dark: Depreciated, also, The Eternal Half Hour

The Glibertarians - Thursday Morning Links

Gas Near $4, but US Still Beats Global Prices
Housing crisis hits all ages as homeownership declines nationwide

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 04/24/2026 – More from The Nation!

Sadly I have a feeling that I’m not the only Catholic out there who thinks that Trump is more Catholic than the Pope. And no, that’s not because I think Trump is a saint – it’s more of an indictment of the church’s current leadership..

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.24.26

Don Surber: American exceptionalism lives on
First Street Journal: A Philadelphia Inquirer sob story about a poor, poor, misunderstood murderer

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/22/2026

Brussels Scrambles as Fuel Shortages Hit Europe
The European Commission is set to unveil an emergency energy package on Wednesday, in an arguably late attempt to confront a rapidly evolving energy crisis.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For April 24, 2026

The Iran war remains mostly in suspended animation. The blockade is still in place, and the IRCG tried to attack a couple of ships in the Strait of Hormuz, without notable effect.

Vlad Tepes - Canada is a place that needs watching: Links 1 for April 24, 2026

1. RFK Jr offers a few words on Canadian death care
2. Rural land owners react to the high speed rail scam
3. Is the actual system in effect in Canada becoming clear yet?

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Euthanasia Danger: Danger Zone; Making Suicide Prevention Illegal; Canada Must Kill The Mentally Ill

Suicide hotlines and other such resources have traditionally been about preventing suicide. Now, Scotland is looking to prohibit preventing assisted suicide.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Mamdani’s Folly: Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Problem
Dozens Of Governments Will Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Try And End Fossil Fuels

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 23/26

A horror story of nightmarish abuse . . . and he’s back on duty!
A Syrian Muslim ‘Caregiver’ for the Swedish Elderly

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: down on the problem farm

• EU holds first summit without Orbán as Zelensky joins leaders in Cyprus Antonio O'Mullony
• If Iran Won’t Deal, Here’s What Comes Next Lance Gordon

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/23/2026

Good analysis of Virginia election anomalies here, which discusses disappearing votes, and there is a list of counties where thousands of votes just disappeared here.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3604 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Friday's Political and Current Event Memes from Wirecutter.

Floridians Are Heavily Armed

The bad guys continue to not get that memo. St. Petersburg homeowner fatally shoots intruder in Kenwood, police say

How would you respond to an uninvited guest breaking into your home, shortly after midnight?

A homeowner who was awakened by the man’s attempts to get into the home told him to leave. When the suspect continued to try to break in, the homeowner opened fire, hitting the man at least once, police. He died at a local hospital.

Kenwood is a neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is about 2 miles east-northeast of downtown.

There were three adults and a child home at the time.

So the shooter was, I take it, protecting his family.

The shooter has not been charged, because self-defense is legal in Florida. It is also a human right.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

Department of Education Drops the Hammer on Useless Degrees

From the University Herald: The Department of Education Just Proposed a Rule That Could Cut Federal Aid to Thousands of College Programs. Here's How It Works.

The April 17 NPRM Establishes a Single Earnings Test for Every Postsecondary Program in America — From Culinary Certificates to Law Degrees — With Federal Student Loans at Stake for Programs Whose Graduates Don't Earn Enough

This is, if memory serves, basically the same test given for for-profit schools. It was instituted because some administration (Obama?) decided that some programs were just scams. The usual suspects got a carve out. If you were a "regular university" you got a free pass. This facilitated stuff like the various studies majors, and the other insane degrees.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer, who sums up my take on degrees that don't pay for themselves.

Is there value in programs that do not contribute to a decent paycheck? Certainly. But the government need not subsidize a program that satisfies your desire to learn about Victim Studies.

There used to be a lot of talk about how Germany (and maybe a few other European countries) pay for college educations. I'm not sure what the current situation is, but 30 years ago, Germany didn't pay for everyone to go to college.

If you scored high enough on test taken, basically at the end of high school, AND you were going to major in something the Germans felt was worthwhile, (i.e. engineering, pre-med, etc.) then they would pay for your education. If you didn't score high enough, or you wanted to major in something they didn't care about, you didn't get free tuition.

Of course that was before Germany decided to destroy their industrial base by making electricity expensive and unreliable at the same time.

Long Train Runnin'

Another selection from WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. This is from their March 21st show.

This song is "Long Train Runnin'" by the Doobie Brothers from their 1973 album The Captain and Me.

Is the Ivy League Calling for Killing Old People?

One professor certainly seems to be. The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved : The Other McCain

Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”

Is that overstated? Not so much.

The title of Monyn's book is Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. McCain asks, how would that title sound if you substituted a different demographic?

The headline “Jews Are Hoarding America’s Potential” would probably not be published by the New York Times, nor would the author of such a piece have a book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, let alone a tenured faculty position at Yale Law School.

Haters gonna hate. Read the whole thing.

Friday Links - 24 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Bummer: Chicago Has Already Cancelled This Year’s Cinco De Mayo Celebration

I have to wonder: how many Mexicans actually celebrate this? It actually seems more of a holiday adopted by Americans as a reason to drink, as pushed by beer manufacturers

The Other McCain - IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!

After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.

Chicago Contrarian - Bizarro Chicago: Criminals Get a Pass, Police Get the Blame

In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: stop the criminals.

But in Chicago, the obsession is different.

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside - Take It OutsideYou Just Can't Get There From Here

I headed out to the hunting property on Tuesday afternoon to pull down my treestands. Logging started on Monday, and there was heavy equipment parked everywhere. They’d cut right up to my first stand, opening the canopy in a place that’s always been thick, dark, and dank. The naked stumps and the harsh light cut wrong. It felt like walking into my house and finding someone moved all the furniture.

My Nerdy Home - Disney Reveals Snow White Resulted In $170 Million Dollar Loss [VIDEO]

They had to do so many re-shoots, that movie was completely dead on arrival. It was DOA from the first moment that Rachel Zegler opened her mouth.

The Gun Writer - Why the Trace has problems with guns, gun owners and the truth

Chip Brownlee’s recent story about Emergency Risk Protection Orders, known as ERPOs, which was published online by the Trace is actually well written. It’s completely wrong and chock-full of anti-gun propaganda, but it is well written.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - What a Danish Newspaper Got Right About American Gun Culture

Guntubers — firearms influencers on YouTube and other social media platforms — are reshaping who gets into guns and how. That’s the story Danish journalist Anders Tornsø Jørgensen was chasing when he contacted me recently. It’s one I’d been thinking about already in my Substack post and video, “Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0?”

Peter Sweded - IT BEGINS: Court orders COMPENSATION for vaccine death

A Greek court has ordered the state to pay €300.000 compensation to the family.

Meep at STUMP - Congressional Mortality Update 2026: RIP, Rep. David Scott, 80

Rep. Scott was 80, and people had already been commenting on his health in 2024. His district is a lock. I doubt anybody will be screaming conspiracy.

The Silicon Graybeard - The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is complete

The NGRST is heading for the L2 Lagrange Point, currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Union's Euclid infrared space telescope and a place for passing visitors, such as the Escapade mission on the way to Mars (bottom of that post).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 April 2026: Fresh Baked Edition

Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

The money on the bus goes round and round...

Ace of Spades HQ - China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad. China Wants the US to Bail It Out.

This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I'm 90% sure that the "US" Congress will agree to to it.

Geller Report - THE MAMDANI ACT: Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Deport Immigrants With Extremist Ideologies

Mamdani may have served some good after all. Who’d a thunk it?

Concealed Carry at St. Louis Gas Station

The underlying story happened in early April, but escaped my news filters. Armed Citizen Shoots Teen Who Allegedly Pointed Gun and Opened Fire at St. Louis Gas Station - USA Carry

A 15-year-old was shot and wounded after he allegedly pointed a gun at a man and opened fire at a south St. Louis gas station, according to police. The man returned fire, striking the teen, and remained at the scene to cooperate with investigators.

Based on the reporting done, and the summary of Missouri law that is given, this appears to be legal self-defense.

Based on the facts reported by police, the man appears to have acted in lawful self-defense. Missouri law recognizes the right of a person to use force, including deadly force, when facing an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. A person who has a gun pointed at them and is being shot at is facing exactly that kind of threat.

Gas stations are becoming, or are, a problem area. You're distracted by doing something. Your car is unlocked. You have your keys handy. It seems to be a place that carjackers and other bad guys are targeting. Maybe that has always been the case, and I am just noticing.

Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

NBC News Wants You to Feel Sorry for Federal Workers

Or those out of work because of DOGE. A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

Or maybe they just want you to hate Elon Musk even more; that is the photo they used on X. (Musk worked with Orange Man Bad!)

Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.

Gee. That sounds normal to someone who worked in the private sector.

Here is a typical "you should feel bad for this guy" story. A guy with a decade in government, and apparently no transferable skills.

One year, one massive spreadsheet of job leads and only a handful of interviews later, Burg has returned to the job he had in college, doing carpentry work in his Takoma Park, Maryland, neighborhood, just outside of Washington.

What was it they told coal miners???? "Learn to Code." I forget... Or was that declared to be a hate statement when it was applied to out-of-work journalists?

Here is another "boo hoo" statement."

WellFed, an organization that supports former federal workers, estimates just 25% of its members have found new jobs. OneAID, an organization of former USAID workers and their implementing partners, estimates at least 50% of its membership is still unemployed.

They went to work for the federal government, and thought that it meant life-long feeding at the taxpayer-funded trough.

Many of the former federal employees who spoke to NBC News said working in public service felt like a calling. Months of unsuccessful job applications have chipped away at their mental health.

Oh No. They can't follow their bliss. Or something.

Grow up.

And it isn't unique to DC. Here is a story from the Hollywood Report: I Used to Be a Hollywood Writer. Now I’m Lugging Lumber From Home Depot. It’s an Upgrade.

In the latest in THR's series about life after Hollywood, a former TV and film scribe undergoes a gut renovation as he settles into a second career as a construction worker.

That was probably the result of straight white men being told to get lost.

Chicago Public School Teacher Charged with Assaulting Student

I miss civilization. Teacher charged with beating, choking 12-year-old is sixth CPS employee accused of assaulting students this school year - CWB Chicago

A Chicago Public Schools teacher is accused of beating and choking a 12-year-old student inside a South Side classroom, making her at least the sixth CPS employee charged this school year with physically or sexually assaulting students.

Alayne Pierce-Collins, 37, faces felony counts of aggravated battery of a child causing great bodily harm and aggravated battery of a child by strangulation causing great bodily harm.

Click thru for details on the other 5 cases.

Poor people in Chicago are trapped into sending their children to public schools, and the public schools in Chicago are terrible, in every way you can imagine.

The SPLC Was Always a Scam

The Other McCain has something interesting to say about SPLC. SPLC’s Clayton Bigsby Moment

Liberals had a weird nostalgia for the “heroic struggle” narrative in which they taught a lesson to those benighted bigots down in Dixie, and they’d pay big money if you could keep that narrative alive, which is what Dees and the SPLC were really all about. Sometimes you’ll hear conservative critics of the SPLC contend that the SPLC originally did worthwhile things, but then strayed from their noble mission. No — it was a scam from the outset, an elaborate fraud to collect money from gullible liberals.

Read the whole thing.

Texans Are Still Armed

Home Invaders are still getting shot. HPD: Homeowner shoots alleged intruder in Independence Heights

Houston police said a man crashed his car near Truman Street and Old Yale Street just before 2 a.m. Sunday.

He allegedly jumped over a fence and broke into a home by smashing a window in the door.

The homeowner took exception to that, and shot the guy.

Cops showed up and and the guy taken to a local hospital where he was listed as stable.

They don't say anything, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that drugs were probably involved. Or why do you break into a random house after crashing your car?

Self-defense is a human right. Good guys 1, bad guys 0.

The CIA versus a Sitting President

The Last Refuge, or The Conservative Treehouse, describe themselves as a "Ragtag bunch of Conservative Misfits." The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President - The Last Refuge

This is the warning.

The CIA tried to remove a President.

Unfortunately, now we watch the silence.

I see a lot of punditries missing the forest as they peer intently at the trees.

The CIA tried to remove a sitting President.

We now know the real reason CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s name was never ¹permitted to be mentioned. It’s not the name Eric Ciaramella that presented the issue, it’s the organization where he was working, the CIA – That’s what needed to be protected.

Click through for the details. There are a fair number of links.

AI Hallucinations from Wall Street Law Firm

Stop using AI for important stuff. Sullivan & Cromwell law firm apologizes for AI 'hallucinations' in court filing

This would be funny if it wasn't happening all the time. The client in the case should sue for every dollar they've spent with S&C in the past 3 years. And then some.

April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.

The unstated undercurrent... "Please don't disbar us for being stupid!"

This is from X. (The NYT article is behind a paywall - as they all are)

• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
• Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
• Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code

Are you using AI to do your work? God help you, because the AI will not.

I don't actually know if the partners charge that $2000 per hour, but I wouldn't be surprised. This is how S&C describe themselves:

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law.

They might need to rethink that "modern practice of law" part.

Large Language Models are NOT Truth models. They do not know what is true. They know what sounds good.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 22 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

10. Victory Girls Blog: Clarence Thomas, National Treasure, Praises Declaration
11. Virtual Mirage: Can I Talk Like a Pirate?

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.21.26 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Even electricity is leaving blue states
Elizabeth Nickson: Trump Is A Moderate – What’s Coming Is Far More Conservative,

EBL - Saturday Night Girls with Guns

Battles of Lexington and Concord
EBL: More Girls with Guns : Revolutionary War

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The party of perverts. A moderate cleric. Dumb and Dumber.
China Carney’s Canada: She fought back.

Political Hat - News of the Week (April 19th, 2026)

Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby Is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part
Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided free anytime

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/21/2026

Global electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power use higher

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - US Navy Fires On, Captures Iranian Blockade Runner

Ars Technica shocked Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious. Hat Hair's Salena Zito is pleased to reports Kash Patel and Sen. David McCormick Team Up to Fight Fentanyl in Pennsylvania.

Vlad Tepes - Forget WHY they are doing this to you. Come to understand WHAT they are doing, the why is a distraction: Links 1 for April 21, 2026

2. The switch of Great Britain into a totalitarian police state must not be dismissed. Much like once Texas is Islamic, the rest of the US will fall like dominoes, once the US is Commu-slamic then so goes the commonwealth.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 8: The Moscow Times reported, “Putin Demands Answers as Russia’s Economy Undershoots Expectations.”
Invading Ukraine became the biggest mistake in Europe since Hitler invaded Poland.

The Glibertarians - Tuesday Morning Links

Dems Push Bondi Contempt Over Epstein Files No-Show
ActBlue Employees Plead the Fifth over 100 Times During House Depositions

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

The Midwest Chick Saturday Meme Drop………….
Pirates Cove WP: Collapse Of Spirit Airlines Pretty Much Biden’s Fault

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Is America on the Verge of a Nuclear Renaissance?
This Piece From the NYT Drips With Contempt for Him, So You Gotta Love Him

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 21/26

Women feel profoundly unhappy, distrust men, loathe their country, and view motherhood as optional at best.
Young, Angry Leftist Women are Destroying Britain and America

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Shifting and Regressive Nature of Progressivism

• Schadenfreude Of The Week: Majority Of New York's Pending Wind And Solar Projects Getting Canceled Francis Menton
• Looks Like Commerce Raiding is Back on the Menu CDR Salamander

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 04-19-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3600 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Tuesday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Monday Memes from Granite Grok

Your Home Is Not a Free Fire Zone

Not even if you are confronting bad guys. Augusta teen car burglar booked, homeowner still charged with shooting him - The Augusta Press

Investigators say homeowner Antonio Davis, 49, reported seeing three masked individuals targeting his black 2019 Mercedes-Benz. Davis told deputies he retrieved a firearm and opened fire as the suspects fled, striking Mosley in the leg.

The key part of that statement is, "as the suspects fled."

In most places in the US, you can only use deadly force to defend against imminent threat of death or grave bodily injury. You cannot use deadly force if people are running away.

The homeowner was charged with aggravated assault.