Don't You (Forget About Me) was written for the 1985 movie soundtrack for Breakfast Club. It was recorded by Simple Minds. That band originally turned it down, but eventually accepted. It became a breakout hit for that band. Today we have a cover of that song.
This is "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Black Stone Cherry, featuring Tyler Connolly, and Theory Of A Deadman. It was released in January as a single ahead of their March 2026 album, Celebrate.
He apparently thought it was a good idea to break into an occupied home. “He Fired, I Fired”: A Springfield Homeowner’s Tale of a Fatal Self-Defense Shooting
How would you deal with an armed intruder at roughly half-past midnight?
According to the reports, a 28-year-old man named Anthony Walker Jr. was killed in the 1700 block of Maiden Lane. But this wasn’t just some random act of violence; it was a confrontation that proved exactly why so many of us choose to carry, even when we’re just relaxing at home.
Springfield, Ohio is roughly 30 miles northeast of Dayton.
When you’re staring down the barrel of a gun in your own living room, you don’t have the luxury of hesitation. The homeowner had his own firearm ready, returned fire, and neutralized the threat.
I don't know what the 911 response time is in Springfield, but I am sure it is measured in minutes, not seconds. Even if he could have dialed 911 - he could not, since he was faced with an armed intruder - that would have done him very little good in the moment.
The Springfield Police Division has been clear: this was self-defense. The shooter, who clearly had his wits about him, managed to defend himself against an armed assailant.
Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.
It's free and worth the price. 1 in 4 Canadians in long-term care were given anti-psychotic drugs without diagnosis, report finds - The Globe and Mail
One in four Canadians living in long-term care homes were prescribed anti-psychotic medication without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a new report that highlights serious risks associated with using the powerful drugs.
Because people who are drugged out of their minds don't cause problems.
“Inappropriate use of antipsychotics can carry serious risks, including adverse reactions, cognitive decline, falls and even death,” the report cautioned.
And if you don't want to be drugged, Canada's doctors now kill more people than Canada's guns.
I can't wait until we have socialized medicine.
Hat tip to Clayton Cramer: What a Great Healthcare System!
University. Former UCSB student government president sues school alleging antisemitic harassment | The College Fix
UC Santa Barbara’s former student government president recently filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging she was the victim of antisemitic abuse and harassment while campus leaders did nothing to protect her.
The lawsuit alleges Tessa Veksler, who is Jewish, was the “victim of repeated and systematic assaults and other abuse by a horde of antisemitic instigators on campus.”
She begged for help from the powers-that-be, but UCSB administration did nothing.
Click thru for the details. Pretty standard antisemitic slurs dressed up as "just against Israel."
I leave this here for no particular reason.
Moonshine Animations has a video that makes me smile. PISTOL ONLY
The Other McCain asks a question. ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN TEXAS?
Please note the question mark in the headline, because officials are not saying that it definitely is terrorism, but it kind of looks like it.
Officials are never sure, unless those officials are in Europe, and then it is only terrorism one time out of 100.
Click thru for the details.
William Teach at Pirate's Cove notes that Washington Post Seems To Have A Sad That Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is Dead
Remember when they referred to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar”? Glowing obituary. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. First, though, this is what you are seeing from Iranians
After we get a glimpse of the celebrations that Iranians everywhere are holding, we get back to the WaPo.
They can't be bothered to write about the dead guy with any bit of truth.
Nothing so far about him lording over a brutal, murderous regime, one which supported terrorism throughout the Middle East, trying to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews via proxies, killing Americans in Iraq, killing other Muslims/Arabs in the ME, having women stoned, gays hung, and so much more.
If Trump had something to do with his death, then the WaPo believes he must have been a good guy.
And the media is genuinely confused about why no one pays the least attention to them anymore.
Click thru and read the whole thing.
Which is always a bit of a shock. Man who fired shot that killed man, injured 2 others after bar fight in Allentown will not be charged, acted in self-defense, DA says | Allentown Area | WFMZ
The Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office says a man who fired shots at three people, killing one and injuring two others, at a bar in Allentown last year was justified in his use of force.
The man will not be charged, because he was acting in self-defense and the defense of others.
The incident in question took place on December 19th, so considering that very little happens over the holidays, I suppose this isn't a bad time frame for a DA in Pennsylvania.
The man who fired the shots at the three people during the fight reasonably believed that the use of deadly force was imminently necessary to protect the person from the risk of death or serious bodily injury, the DA’s office said.
Self-defense is a human right.
If you have been living under a rock, you might not know that British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosted the BAFTAS Film Awards. While these things are usually just another pointless awards show, this year one of the films was I Swear, which was about the life of John Davidson. Mr. Davidson has an extreme form of Turrette Syndrome known as coprolalia, which causes him to have verbal uncontrolled outbursts. He shouted the N-word during the show. The internet has been melting down.
And in particular, Grace Randolph, "everyone's favorite bad take factory," decided to jump in, with no knowledge of Turrette Syndrome (she basically admitted that in a post on X) and has been roasted by absolutely everyone I like on YouTube.
I don't watch Grace Randolph except to see the clips. There were more previously, as one YouTube podcast even had a segment "What kind of dumb sh*t did Grace say this week." Drinker called her "the middle-aged liberal white woman who makes it her business to be offended on behalf of the rest of the world." She puts the AWFL in Affluent White Female Liberal. But then Grace Randolph was demanding he apologize for something that he could not control. (Spoiler alert, he did apologize, just not on Instagram/X/F*c*book/etc. He did it privately to the entertainers who were on stage.)
Marvin Montanaro at Geeks and Gamers has an article summarizing the entire thing. Grace Randolph Attacks Nerdrotic As Her X Meltdown Continues in Wake of BAFTA Tourette’s Incident
Marvin M. captures the basic problem. Even after she was told how she was wrong, she carried on.
Randolph did not walk back her position and continued posting about the incident.
At one point Randolph posted a survey asking how we should segregate the disabled, so as not to cause other people distress.
Pierry Chan, of Nerdrotic Daily, cut together 3 videos from various sources. I've listed two below, but you should be able to find the other if you are interested.
This is Critical Drinker's video The BAFTA's Showed Us Who People Really Are
You know, normally I'd greet the prospect of the BAFTAS, basically a low rent British version of the Golden Globes with a bunch of celebrities that nobody in America has ever heard of, with about as much enthusiasm as a 3-day corporate seminar about correct spreadsheet usage.
The video is about 8 minutes long.
Anyone and everyone who has anything to say about pop culture has been piling on. I mentioned on X that I don't think I've seen a dogpile like this in a couple of decades. Takes me back to the early days of the web, or even bulletin board systems.
The videos are all about 20 minutes, which is why I embedded Critical Drinker's 8 minute video above. I know, that is a lot of video, but it is fun to laugh at the woke left, and you don't have to watch, so much as listen.
There are more, but I have not seen all of them. Clownfish TV, WDW Pro, Midnight's Edge, Derek Anderson - The D.A., Mr. H Reviews, and more have all chimed in. If there is someone you like in the pop culure arena, they probably have mentioned this, either on YouTube or on social media.
Here is the X post where Grace R. basically said that she had no idea how Turrette Syndrome worked before calling for John Davidson's head. (She now knows, becuase she has been community noted several times about the way Turrette Syndrome and coprolalia work.
Thank God the Affluent White Female Liberal (AWFL) is here to save the day.
No matter how Tourette's works, that the BAFTAs subjected Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo to that is outrageous and shameful.
— Grace Randolph (@GraceRandolph) February 23, 2026
This was handled SO poorly - footage is forever, and also this man Davidson will have to deal with the horrible fallout as well.
Except of course Randolph's problem with the N-word is very context specific.
Grace Randolph loves the N-Word @DDayCobra @Nerdrotics pic.twitter.com/aCc5GHOAIx
— Pierry Chan (@pierrychan1984) February 25, 2026
They seem to have forgotten that for a while. Pro-abortion professor backs out of Notre Dame leadership role amid protests | The College Fix
Professor Susan Ostermann will not accept a leadership role at the University of Notre Dame, administrators announced Thursday after the scholar’s pro-abortion beliefs attracted backlash from students, professors, and alumni at the Catholic institution.
The Observer, Notre Dame’s student newspaper, broke the news of Ostermann’s decision on Thursday, ahead of a scheduled protest opposing her as the new leader of the university’s Liu Institute.
The interesting part is the protests by students.
Maybe there is some hope for society.
Despite her decision to step down, the “March on the Dome” protest will continue as planned, sophomore Luke Woodyard told the student newspaper.
“This is great news, but although we won the battle, the war wages on. The fact that this pro abortion professor could ever be appointed signifies a much deeper Split between the students, deans, and administration,” Woodyard told The Observer.
The students at Notre Dame are more Catholic, and more conservative, than the people running Notre Dame.
The Right Way is first with Top of the News
In The Mailbox: 02.24.26 - The Other McCain
How the U.S. Helped Bring Down Powerful CJNG Cartel Leader "El Mencho" - Fox News
EBL - Mr. Roboto : Volkswagen
26 February 1936 : Adolf Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
Volkswagen Commercials
Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.27.26 (Morning Edition)
Cedar Sanderson: Invisible Horses
Defending The Wood Perilous: Hell is a Holodeck,
The Bugscuffle Gazette: After Action Report
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 27 February 2026: Flying Or Non-Flying Edition
Firefox has a new switch that lets you turn off all its AI features with one click. (Firefox)
And then turn on just the ones you want, if any.
Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island
The Democrat Party’s America: Spanberger’s rebuttal. Why we go berserk.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The global vaccine racket. Paul Joseph Watson – This is mad.
Political Hat - Quick Takes – Dead Canadian Babies: Newborn Babies Euthanized; Disabled Babies Euthanized; Poor Babies Euthanized
Eugenics is back with euthanizing disabled babied. Yet again, Canada learned well from the Dutch.
Taking eugenics to the next level, apparently having poor parents is a euthanizable disease.
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.27.26 (Evening Edition)
Transterrestrial Musings: Hiatus, A Good First Step, and Celebration
Victory Girls: Suddenly Tim Walz Has A Plan To Fix Fraud
A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Hillary Testilies in Epstein Probe
The Beeb, World Economic Forum boss quits after review of Epstein links. Sundance, After Being Named in Epstein Files WEF President and CEO Borge Brende Resigns. Just gonna guess he's not MAGA. Ace, Another Harvard Professor Exposed as Friend of Epstein.
3. I think one way to really improve the situation for the majority of reality centric people would be to make Alberta, Saskatchewan, and maybe one or two other provinces the 51st, 2nd and possibly 3rd US state.
Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 02/27/2026 – More from The Economist!
The crummiest job in Washington—congressman—is getting worse
Yes, we should pity these poor folks who are away from the job more often than they work and have this weird habit of becoming stinking rich via their office.
The Glibertarians - Wednesday Links in the Afternoon
“Sir, this isn’t a Waffle House, but we’ll do our best.”
FBI searches home of LA School District superintendant. Hopefully, the start of a long and prosperous investigation.
Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links
When Democrats Make Donald Trump The Normie In The Room, They're Losing
Fetterman: No, Seriously – How Do You Not Stand?
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 2/26/26
Western globalists won’t last long.
The Clash of Civilizations Restarts History
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Democrats' Spanberger Strategy Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Them
• Democrats told on themselves - Tom Knighton
• Why would Anyone Hate Daddy? And other Questions from my Senate Confirmation Hearing - Jeremy Carl
Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 02/27/2026
Over at American Stasi – Shawn Ryan interviews a CIA Officer Who Was Hit With Havana Syndrome. This is a rare, openly kinetic facet of the war we are looking at here every day.
I leave you with There's A Reason For This Sign.... from The Feral Irishman, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, Friday Meme Thing from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3442 from 90 Miles from Tryanny, and Friday's gifs from Wirecutter.
It is too easy to feed them BS. From Thomas Germain at the BBC: I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
It's official. I can eat more hot dogs than any tech journalist on Earth. At least, that's what ChatGPT and Google have been telling anyone who asks. I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
People are currently in the mode where if an AI LLM tells them something, they believe it. It is why lawyers are submitting briefs citing fake cases, why it will give you bad information about poison, etc. It is too easy to fool them. This is because they are Language Models, not Truth Models. They really only know what sounds good.
To demonstrate it, I pulled the dumbest stunt of my career to prove (I hope) a much more serious point: I made ChatGPT, Google's AI search tools and Gemini tell users I'm really, really good at eating hot dogs. Below, I'll explain how I did it, and with any luck, the tech giants will address this problem before someone gets hurt.
It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. The trick exploits weaknesses in the systems built into chatbots, and it's harder to pull off in some cases, depending on the subject matter. But with a little effort, you can make the hack even more effective. I reviewed dozens of examples where AI tools are being coerced into promoting businesses and spreading misinformation. Data suggests it's happening on a massive scale.
You should read the details, but the tl;dr version is from the original X-Files.
Trust No One
It turns out that "Garbage In - Garbage Out" still applies in 2026.
Hat tip to Schneier on Security: Poisoning AI Training Data
These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted.
They suffered a failure of the victim-selection process. 2 women shot, arrested after alleged armed robbery
Two women were shot after allegedly arriving at a residence with the intent to commit a robbery, according to a release from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO).
Coffee County, Georgia is about 95 miles southwest of Savannah, and about 160 miles south-southwest of Atlanta.
The two women had gone to home intending to commit a robbery. After a struggle with the homeowner, the homeowner was able to retrieve a shotgun, and fire one shot. Both women were hit. Cops had them taken to a local hospital, and then taken them to the county lockup.
Police say that both suspects were charged with
- Two counts of aggravated assault
- Two counts of armed robbery
- One count of home invasion in the first degree
Self-defense is a human right, and this did not take place in New York.
Pirate's Cove has a post on the Left placing blame. The Massive Northeastern Snowstorm? Your Fault
You knew this had to be coming, right?
While William Teach links to a story about the "science" behind the Nor'easter, he also has some pics from the 1888 Blizzard that hit New York.
And a few posts from X/Twitter. One points out that during the height of the storm, wind power in the impacted areas were shut down. (Too much wind risks burning out the bearings of the wind turbines.)
Whatever happens, the answer is more taxes, and global communism. Don't you want to save the planet? Don't you believe in science? Whatever. It is all your fault.
This is another song that I was reminded of by WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. In late January they were revisiting the music of 1996. I remember this song being on the radio, but like so many songs from that era, when it faded from the radio, it faded from my life. I may need to revisit the work of Fiona Apple, because this song is quite good.
This song is "Shadowboxer" by Finona Apple from her 1996 debut album Tidal.
The Other McCain brings us an analysis of why the Left keeps trying to replace things that work, with things that they believe sound good. The Worst People in the World (Part II)
You will never understand liberals until you read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. However often I’ve recommended that book over the years, I occasionally feel the need to repeat the recommendation for the simple reason that Sowell demystifies what would otherwise be incomprehensible, i.e., the persistent tendency of the Left to make their own good intentions an argument for supporting policies that are objectively harmful to the very people that liberals claim to be “helping.”
I would like to point out that when those policies fail, the cognitive dissonance causes a lot of problems, usually ending in violence.
After touching on the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, and dip into the history of 2014, and the Kaitlyn Hunt case, we get an analysis of some of the TDS around the American Men's Hockey victory at the Olympics. Click thru, it is entertaining. Except for the bits about how the Left believe their good intentions are not paving the road to hell.
Don Surber starts things rolling with Alabama and Team USA defeat Canada
What really shocked Canadians is the realization that 49 of the 50 states are better off than Canada financially. They accept that America in whole has a better economy. What galls them is that those southern states are better off. The TDS crowd believes slavery is still alive in the SEC states.
William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Surprise: Charlotte’s First EV Fire Truck Not Working After One Month
If only someone had warned that doing this stuff was a Bad Idea
Lone Star Parson - Why Is Our Architecture So Hideous?
It's said with justice that a nation's architecture reflects its soul. A soul which is beautiful, good and true will build accordingly, see the great gothic cathedrals. A soul which is ugly, bad and false will create monstrosities.
Liberty Park Press - 4 Dead in WA Stabbing Rampage; Deputy Shoots Suspect
In a state where anti-gunners have been pushing increasingly restrictive gun control laws in recent years, the incident serves as a stark reminder that such laws do not prevent deadly crimes.
Clayton Cramer - You Can't Stop the Signal
Why not prohibit having the knowledge of how to machine he parts on a conventional mill?
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 25 February 2026: Spinning Wheel Edition
Speaking of Meta, an AI security research at that company running an experiment with OpenClaw - a local tool that connects to other AI systems and to your application - watched it happily delete all her emails, ignoring instructions to stop until she hit the reset button on her Mac. (Tech Crunch)
OpenClaw is also woefully insecure, so if you do set it up it's just as likely that someone will do that to you while you sleep.
The Other McCain - An Odd Sequel to the Bubba/‘Brittni’ Saga
The protest against Bryan Dawson was, in fact, an attempt to punish and silence 1819 News for publishing the truth about Bubba/“Brittini,” but the students also mentioned Dawson’s criminal record.
Impro Guns - ScroogeMc-10
Brazil of course.
And DAs HATE that. Apparently. Man acquitted of murder in Grand Rapids shooting after self-defense claim
A man has been acquitted of murder for a confrontation that ended in a deadly shooting outside a Grand Rapids bar.
Now the defendant in the case is prohibited person, so he faces some weapons charges, which may explain why the DA thought he could win.
It started as bar fight between two groups. One group had been escorted to the exit by bar security. When the other group left the bar, the defendant had been punched in the head, leading to a self-defense shooting. There was video of the shooting.
Now it isn't self-defense because the shooter says it is. Perhaps the DA felt there were gray areas that a trial was justified, and perhaps the DA hates self-defense, thought he could "win" against a defendant with a prior conviction. DAs mostly don't like self-defense, though to be fair, I have no knowledge of Grand Rapids or what the DA is like.
Probably. From The Register: LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.
Click thru for the details.
The technique employed by the authors is not a universal privacy solvent – it's only successful some of the time. But it's successful often enough that those posting online under a pseudonymous account should not assume their identities will remain unknow
Probably enough that journalists or activists in questionable countries should be worried. And you can add United Kingdom to the list of countries that don't like freedom of speech.
Age verification schemes that being pushed in UK, Australia, and Europe are not about protecting children; they are about destroying privacy. The upcoming war on VPNs is about the same thing.
