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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Thursday, April 02, 2026

Trump's speech on the Iran War -- The Gettysburg Address, this was not!

I'm not sure that Trump's speech on the Iran War was the worst presidential speech in American history, but, it was certainly getting there. It was repetitive, uninformative, demented, delusional, confused, inaccurate and effectively meaningless. What is particularly disturbing is how the media is trying to downplay just how very bad it actually was. Rather than simply admitting that the US president isn't playing with a full deck, the media is attempting to pretend that this was actually a serious speech that was intended to convey information, rather than acknowledging that Donald Trump, even when on national televsion, is basically just talking to himself, for his own pleasure, at hearing his own voice reassure himself about how magnificent he always is.