Meep at STUMP is first up with the latest bad news from Chicago. Chicago Pension Squeeze: Fire Pensions Get a Loan as Tax Revenue Delayed; Pritzker Warned Against Signing Sweetener Bill, Signed Anyway
Some of this is both misleading and accurate. It’s not a crisis, by the way (yet), but it is a function of the Chicago fire pensions being deeply underfunded.
William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Buffalo Is Not Sure It Can Be A Climate Doom Refuge Or Something
They’re serious. No, really. They are seriously discussing this claptrap. Loony tunes. Buffalo could not survive without fossil fuels.
The Other McCain - Collective Grievance, Collective Guilt, Collective Rage: A Case Study
Just doing my part to stoke grassroots discontent and demoralization. Anyway . . .
Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat - Does Self-Defense Insurance Promote Gun Violence?
The proposition is ridiculous on its face.
Like owning guns for self-defense, having self-defense insurance is akin to Pascal’s Wager: It’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
Firearms News - Democrats' Attack on Civilian Marksmanship Expansion Plays on Fears with Lies
Left Wingers in Congress Equate Marksmanship Training with Gang Banging
Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment - Antifa Made a Board Game Modeled on Their Real-Life Violent Tactics
Antifa: The Game lets players roleplay as militants with butcher knives, hackers and vandals. It sold out in France.
Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Draft Delays
Tax season is just a few months away and I really need to buckle down and take care of my continuing education.
Jews Can Shoot - Charlie Kirk’s Second Amendment Legacy: Defending the Right to Bear Arms
Charlie Kirk, the late founder of Turning Point USA, never minced words about the Second Amendment. To him, it wasn’t a hobbyist’s amendment, nor a negotiable clause to be whittled away by lawmakers. It was the bedrock of American liberty, the one right that ensures all others. “There is no 1st without the 2nd,” he often declared — and he meant it.
Again from William Teach - NY Times: Being An Un-Funny Comic Is Dangerous Today Or Something
Maybe they were tanked because they aren’t funny and turned their shows into political shows, where every guest is bashing Trump and half the country, where there is no light-hearted late night entertainment, and the shows lose lots of money? Where advertisers in smaller markets saw no monetary value to having the shows on? Someone show me the humor. Was it the insane pro-COVID dance skit that Colbert did?
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 September 2025: Inexpensive Edition
There isn't an AI bubble. There are three separate and distinct AI bubbles all happening at the same time. (Fast Company)
As the article explains, there's an asset bubble, an infrastructure bubble, and a hype bubble, and while they all interact and reinforce each othe
Miguel Gonzalez - Embarrassing Clown Show
I have no idea who thought this was a smart thing to do. I will tell you that none of the ammo-less weapons remained in the hands of the “milicianos” after the clown show was over.
Meep at STUMP - The Week in Meep: The Mortality Thief, St. Matthew the Apostle, Some Walks in the Park
Bottomline (and we finance folks are all about the bottomline): while there are actuarial/finance/risk-related details in the novel, it’s a thriller set in the heart of London.
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