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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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Monday, July 13, 2026

Trump's behavior goes from bad to worse.

Trump's saber rattling has driven oil prices up to a level higher than they've been at in more than a month, and, once more, the Strait of Hormuz is fully closed to traffic. There doesn't appear to be any clear off ramp here, since neither side is even slightly inclined to compromise. Trump wants full control over the region, and, so do the Iranians. On the whole, the Iranians are in a better position to enforce their claims, largely because of geography. They are there as a nation, all Trump has is vulnerable aircraft carriers in the region, at terrific expense. The longer this goes on, the more economic problems the US and the world will have, and Iran's government and social structure largely make them immune from these kind of pressures. It seems likely that Trump will pay a very steep price in November for his military antics, which have little chance of actually impacting Iran to any significant extent, as we have seen, over and over again. So, Iran is likely to "win", simply because Trump's power base is evaporating for further action against Iran, while the Iranian regime is actually being stabilized somewhat by Trump's indiscriminate attacks on it. On the whole, Iranians prefer their own government to Trump's bombing campaigns. Simple enough, really!

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