Shell Hell

One thing I have read more than once is "I don't care how noble Cole Allen thought his intention was, you can't try to shoot the president!"

Yeah, true, except we don't currently HAVE a President because that man would follow the precepts of the Constitution. That man would do all he can to help his countrymen and not just help himself to all the bribes he can eat. That man would be concerned that Americans got enough to eat, had access to health care, and were able to afford decent housing. He'd care about the economy, about education, about science, about progress.

Currently all we have sitting behind the Resolute Desk is a con-man who has rich friends who know how to flip votes. The rest of us, in his opinion, can just shut up and keep pumping that expensive gas.

So whatever was on Cole Allen's mind that night, it certainly had nothing to do with presidents.

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With that in mind, how often have we heard someone say "If I had a time machine I'd go back in time to kill baby Hitler."

We take such ideas, the cold-blooded death of an infant, in stride because we know a Hitler-less 20th century would have been a different one, possibly a better one, for everyone.

Now let's suppose the movie The Terminator had been about the killer-robot time-traveling to 1933 Germany to kill Hitler. Which side would you root for? After all, Adolf hadn't yet started murdering Jews or invading other countries. Just because WE know what eventually happens doesn't mean Arnold Schwarzeneggar appearing on Adolf's doorstep with a laser rifle pointed at his noggin couldn't talk some sense into him.

In a sense, Cole Allen was Trump's T-800. And, as they say in the movies, "They won't stop. They'll keep coming!"

Will Trump take the hint?

Is the Pope a herring?

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In the Biden years we were headed towards a renewable future where electric energy would be cheap and we'd all be cruising the highways and byways in our electric vehicles running on only the power of the sun and wind.

But low prices for electric power means low profits for the owners of the power companies. The CEOs of such companies have no doubt thirsted for alternative ways to raise prices but they've painted themselves into thrifty corners with their dadgum solar panels and wind turbines.

But then the AI data centers came along, like a miracle, causing prices and profits to spike. These prices will continue to rise for the near future but experts are noting that the data center business is starting to show cracks, and many of the companies, if not the whole enterprise, may crumble. Will electric prices come back down after the crash?

Is the Pope a herring?

- Lefty