By the grace of God, this is the first time Iโve ever had to stay in a hospital as a patient. Iโm 55. A night in the ICU included. God bless nurses. That is all. Going home today.
Anyone out there have robotic assisted bypass surgery? I had it yesterday afternoon. Spent night in icu, in a room now. I feel like I can go home now. Freaking technology!
The worst part of Mamdani sabotaging the 250th Naval Parade is that none of the Pentagon press is reporting it.
They will move heaven and earth to protect a source willing to badmouth @PeteHegseth, but they wonโt even talk to the dozens of sources willing to explain how Mamdani sabotaged the U.S. Navy.
And this matters because Iโm one guy working for a small independent outlet with a limited budget. We donโt have a large legal department capable of defending sources. We donโt have an army of interns. We donโt have offices in New York City. We werenโt invited aboard the USS Kearsarge that day.
Itโs me, my car, and a phone.
My resources severely limit my ability to disclose more than the tip of this zohrani iceberg.
The greatest sin of the old Pentagon press corps isnโt blowing tiny facts from individual leakers into massive stories, itโs ignoring the really big news stories altogether.
Itโs the sin of omission.
And this isnโt the only story they have chosen to ignore. From missing two of the three Gaza pier deaths to failing to report on the five U.S. Merchant Marine ships abandoned in the Persian Gulf when the Navy left, to name just a few, they are missing major news stories.
Some of those stories would do more to damage the people the angry press corps hates than the stories they choose to report. But they donโt, because real military journalism requires real work, and itโs much easier to reprint social media gossip.
And please donโt think the โconservative mediaโ, will cover this either. Fox News is very supportive of this administration but their Pentagon team lead by @JenGriffinFNC, is almost as bad as CNN and WAPO at manipulating gossip into headline news and they are far worse than Bloomberg and Reuters which at least attempt to uncover stories of real significance.
Norway brought their own fish to the World Cup, and America took it personally.
Roughly five hundred and eighty kilos of it, flown across the Atlantic by a chef who has cooked for the team for thirty five years. Salmon, trout, halibut, brown cheese, a hundred kilos of Jarlsberg, king crab, snow crab, the lot. Four meals a day for sixty people, all shipped into a country with more food than anywhere on earth, on the apparent grounds that none of it could be trusted.
You can see their point. They landed in the nation that looked at cheese and invented a version that comes in a spray can. That looked at bread and made it sweeter than cake. That put corn syrup in the salad dressing and called the bin lorry a food truck. Somewhere in Greensboro there is a team chef who took one look at the local options and quietly ordered a pallet of halibut.
The internet decided this was arrogance. Searches for the Norway diet went up by thousands of percent. A journalist actually asked the coach whether they had enough fish to last to the final, which is the single most Norwegian sentence ever spoken at a press conference.
And here is the joke underneath it. A team eating fresh fish and real cheese has become an international talking point, a novelty, a faintly eccentric Viking eating disorder. Not because it is strange. Because everyone else is running on gels, powders and a fizzy drink the colour of a warning label, and a plate of actual food now looks like performance art.
Norway play England on Saturday. Whatever the score, the fish has already made its point. Turns out the marginal gain the sports scientists keep hunting for was just food that hadn't been to a factory.