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Friday, February 27, 2026

"ISI what you did there..."

Relations between the neighboring countries have deteriorated recently over Pakistan’s accusations that the Afghan government is harboring the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

So Pakistan's casus belli is that the Afghani Taliban are sheltering, arming, and training the Pakistani Taliban... which if you know anything about the history of the Taliban is some world class irony.

"Actually, Pakistan is the name of the doctor. The creature is called Pakistan's monster."

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Tab Clearing...

An app that warns you when it thinks smart glasses are nearby.

When you're finally over the effin' snow.

Jim Grey encounters enshittification.

Last Memes Before the Weekend!

Didn't we just leave this party?

Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel, is urging embassy staff to hop any flight they can get out of the country, and pronto.

Those wishing to leave “should do so TODAY,” Mr. Huckabee wrote in the email, sent at 10:24 a.m. local time. He urged them to find a flight out of Ben-Gurion Airport to any destination for which they could book passage.

The embassy’s move “will likely result in high demand for airline seats today,” he said in the email, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times. “Focus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.”

For a guy who ran on a platform of not getting us into any foreign wars, this president sure does seem to enjoy getting involved in them.

Also, remember when we "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program? Everybody from Al Jazeera to CNN does. Now we need to re-obliterate it or something, I guess.

Meanwhile, Pakistan and Afghanistan are basically in an actual shooting war now, if a largely desultory and remote controlled one thus far.