Do you want to go on record now, predicting who will be the 2028 Republican presidential candidate?

Frankly, I wouldn’t recommend it. If you’re right, all you’ll get is “Duh, well yeah, it was inevitable.” And if you’re wrong… eternal shame and embarrassment.

I predict Vance, but would be happy with Rubio if it isn’t Vance.

Can’t picture both those dropping out and being replaced by Hegseth, Cruz, or Tulsi, but I’d support them, as well.

Please, no talk of Don Jr.!

And the Democrat POTUS candidate? Haven’t we had enough commies and puppets already?

All humans agree that slavery is an abomination. (The grey area of wage slavery, we won’t go into at this time.)

Was it a mark of genius on Lincoln’s part to place one thing even higher on the scale of morality, instead of taking the easy route, and simply condemning slavery?

It was the Constitution that he was sworn to protect. It was the union, the notion that the government of the people, etc., should not perish from the earth.

Lincoln’s statement may be equivalent to saying that murderers, stranglers, and wife-beaters must be punished, but only by the system of jury trial — which above all must be preserved.

Executive Mansion
Washington, August 22, 1862.

Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.

I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.

As to the policy I “seem to be pursuing” as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

Yours,
A. Lincoln.

In just over five months he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

How come you never hear of veterinarians getting rich performing sex change operations on their animal patients?

Neutering doesn’t count.

Yeah, it’s a walkout. Post no comments about wildcats until conditions improve.

Cougars are OK.

On November 15, 2026, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will officially be one light-day from Earth.

Well, it’s also a light day here, so post a comment if you have anything noticeable to share. Not noteworthy, necessarily, just noticeable.

I’m losing my faith in my bet that the spacecraft will make the Kessel run in less than five parsecs.

Just wanted to memorialize Dohtimes’ description of bathroom noises. Carry on.

I thought driver-less cars would only kill you and drive through active crime scenes when they’re not supposed to. I didn’t foresee this:

Runaway Waymo that dropped passenger at California airport is every traveler’s worst nightmare: ‘It’s not my mistake’
New York Post | May 1, 2026 | Nina Joudeh

A Bay Area businessman’s first ride in a driverless Waymo turned into an airport nightmare when the robotaxi allegedly sped off with his luggage still locked in the trunk — leaving him stranded without clothes, work materials, or answers before a flight to San Diego.

Di Jin said his Monday trip from Sunnyvale to San Jose Mineta International Airport went smoothly until he arrived at the terminal and tried to retrieve his suitcase.

“I pressed the trunk open button, tried to get my luggage, but it doesn’t do anything, and it drives away immediately,” Jin told NBC.

The stunned passenger immediately contacted Waymo customer service, only to be told the autonomous vehicle was already heading back to its depot and could not return.

One Waymo to another: “Have you any Grey Pupon?”

Other Waymo: “No, just some Di Jin.”

But this raises the question: What if you’re in Death Valley and ask the Waymo to wait a minute while you hop out and take a photograph — but you take two minutes?

I sense another screenplay coming on!

Since this post was typed a couple of weeks earlier, I might already be dead. Isn’t that weird?

PLOT:

The main character books an all-inclusive 2-week voyage on a festive partying cruise line. Not trusting his self-discipline with unlimited no-extra-cost booze, he purchases the Nanny Package, to have a responsible person to supervise him.

When the (naturally, good-looking) nanny objects, he points out the loophole in the program — it doesn’t specify that the supervised person must be a kid.

SURPRISING PLOT TWIST:

The main character is not a transsexual or lesbian.

Feel free to throw out your own ideas.

How has the computer age aided or hindered religion?

You can use search engines and search terms to locate biblical passages on any subject you’re looking for, rather than relying on the encyclopedic memory of ol’ Uncle Pete down the road. That’s got to be a positive.

On the other hand, Democrats will definitely put you on a terrorist watch list if you do.