Killers

Donald Trump, starting another war he swore he wouldn't start, inspired the thought that U.S. Defense Secretaries have gone from the technocratic Robert McNamera (above) to the wannabe drunk Pete Hegseth, with no descernable diffrence between them, starting with how stupid they always look. I mean, check out this idiotic visage:

These are NOT faces that inspire confidence. These are faces that say they don't know what they don't know. Starting with right and wrong. And their work, such as it is, speaks for itself.

I'd much prefer someone who looks more honest.

 

They're Only Following Orders

"We’ve just been told that the U.S. military, increasingly concerned about the high number of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries, is spending $4 million of our tax dollars on grants to conduct 'clinical studies' on everything from yoga, to reiki, to transcendental meditation. The Department of Defense says it

…supports the use of alternative therapies if they are proved efficacious.

Now, that should mean that the DOD will conduct meticulous tests of these quack notions, then report their discoveries to the world. Why this should cost four million, is far beyond my understanding,..."

-- James Randi, involuntarily making my head hurt, over at the JREF.