Friday Links - 16 January

Miguel Gonzalez is up first with a great take on The Right being polite. I had to butt in. (Click thru for the meme, it's priceless)

I am done being polite. It is getting us killed.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: Bill Requiring Climate Crisis (scam) Teaching In Schools Dies

I was not expecting this to happen in the People’s Republik Of New Jersey

The New American Digest - Caught In The Middle

What if all illegals are deported? What happens to all those Federal employees that now work for ICE?

Meep at STUMP - RIP, Scott Adams: On Advanced Prostate Cancer Incidence Rates

One of the things I liked about Dilbert is there were enough spreadsheet jokes that people would clip them out and give them to me, and I’d hang them up in my cube(s).

Doris Wise - Why Rabbis Must Teach the Moral Case for Jewish Self-Defense

Rabbis play a central role in guiding our communities, and their wisdom is invaluable. At the same time, when it comes to the safety of our people, clarity is essential. This article is not a critique of rabbis themselves, but a call for clear, direct guidance on Jewish self-defense—because history and experience show that our survival can depend on it.

Clayton Cramer - CNN Leaves Out An Important Element of the Iran Crisis

Why this seeming indifference to the religious dimension? The same progressives that reject all Christian values in the West as theocracy have an actual theocracy abusing women and gays and cannot seem to talk about it. Progressives have largely accepted the legitimacy of Islamic theocracy, I think, because it is an enemy of Christianity and the West.

Midwest Chick's Place - Rats in a corner come out fighting

While I’d really like to see the Clintons, especially Hillary, hauled before Congress, Comer et al had to know it was never going to happen.

The Other McCain - Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition

In the immediate aftermath of last Wednesday’s shooting, it had not yet even been clearly confirmed that Good was part of an anti-ICE protest, and some were still claiming that she was just a random Minneapolis mom who had coincidentally encountered this ICE raid in her neighborhood. But the truth has now been established:

The Silicon Graybeard - Nothing says State Of The Art...

Nothing says "State Of The Art" quite like a graphic of a 50-ish year old design that was mothballed 15 years ago.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 January 2026: One Word - Microplastics Edition

There is no audience for Apple's Vision Pro because there is no content for Apple's Vision Pro because there is no audience for Apple's Vision Pro and this is all somehow your fault according to Apple. (Stratechery)

With the Apple II, and the Mac, and the iPhone, you had to fend off customers with pitchforks.

With the Vision Pro that's a little less true.