7.17.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Hodgepodge of bullet points. 


  • Bad cop.

  • The accompanying video this company put out was pretty wild, and it kind of brings to the forefront the elephant in the room: There's no question that a small drone that fires the equivalent of a handgun would be easy to manufacture. But just wait until it gets combines with AI.


  • Trump doubles down on his very strange claim of a Jeffrey Epstein "hoax."

    • Even the crazies are turning on Trump.


    • He's even lost the Babylon Bee. 

    • This didn't help his case yesterday afternoon.


  • So long (?) PBS and NPR after a 2:30 a.m. vote.

  • The Oval Office, then and now.

  • Call me crazy, but the headline and the subheadline don't seem mesh. (This is on the front page of both the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News today.)
  • The Business Second™. There is no question this is true.

    • Yesterday and 2017: 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold