Here’s how my day started: I had one thing that I just absolutely had to accomplish, just one—get my inspection sticker updated. That means, for me, since I now have no one to help with such annoying tasks, getting to the service station I have used for 40 years before they open at 8 am and making sure my car is first in line. Then I have to kill 45 minutes at a coffee shop while they do the inspection, get a call when they are done, walk over to the place, pay, pick up my car and drive home, a less than ten minute drive. To make sure I was first in line, I set the alarm clock that has served me well for 20 years to ring at 7:10 am. That would give me time to wake up, ablute, and get to the station by 7:45.
The alarm rang at 5:35 am. I had set the clock correctly: it just malfunctioned. It’s old, and picked today to break down. Half asleep, I got my super-duper, newest model Apple smart-phone, which I have never once used as an alarm clock, unlike its predecessor. To my horror, the alarm-setting controls were completely different from the earlier model, and absurdly complicated. (This made them better, see.) Half- awake, I tried to puzzle out the device’s twists and turns, which involved two screens, a dial-a-time, a pick-a-sound, volume, a damn check mark, and shifting little buttons to indicate a 7: 10 am wake up alarm. The thing had said “no alarm” and now it didn’t say “no alarm,” which I, fool that I am, assumed meant “alarm.” It didn’t, though I have yet to figure out why. I woke up in a panic at 7:55 am.
I threw on some pants, grabbed my wallet and keys and ran out the door, only to see Spuds looking needy standing behind me. So I hooked him up to his leash to let him relieve himself, which he took his own sweet time doing. Deposited my dog, who promptly went upstairs to take over my bed, ran to the car, sped to the station, and arriving at 8:05 am, found two cars ahead of me, meaning instead of 45 minutes stuck in a shopping and restaurant area, I would be stuck for over two hours, which I can’t afford.
So my inspection sticker is still expired, I got only about 5 hours sleep, I still don’t know how to use my smartphone, and I’m considering either beating my face in with a brick or getting a Jason Voorhees hockey mask and a machete as a prelude to a murder spree.
Amaze me with your ethics eloquence, on the off chance I’m still around to read it.
Ethics Alarms 
Pete Hegseth is been vilified by the Democrats and the MSM about expenditures on lobster and ribeye.
Here is the explation from RedEye:
“The answer to the steak-and-lobster scandal was rather mundane. It was for military dining facilities, in particular those deployed in war zones, or for ships and units whose deployments had just been extended as a sort of consolation prize.“
https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/03/12/hegseth-hatred-leaves-democrat-politicians-and-media-with-egg-on-their-faces-as-well-as-steak-and-lobster-n2200146
No matter how many times leftwingers make a play for the military vote they will consistently prove they have no idea what the military life is like or they do but they hate it.
Someone at our office asked what was the deal with spending money on lobster and steak. Since I knew but wanted another guy to voice it I asked a former marine at our office who wasn’t privy to the question- “what does steak and lobster mean?”
“Means I’m about to be sent to a craphole to be shot at. Or it’s just regular dinner at an Air Force dining facility that I’m not allowed to go to.”
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I find the complaint to be obviously tedious.
What amounts to about .01% of the price of some of the boondoggles the complainers insist are essential for our republic has them raging…?
There’s this weird argument about having plenty of money for bombs but never enough for food for children. Yet I’m sure the math will show that the amount of money the bombs cost is a tiny fraction of the amount we spend on various welfare programs and other quality of life programs.
If the expenditure of the bombs is for a good cause, then the expenditure is worth the price.
If the expenditure of the bombs is for a bad cause, argue against the cause…not the price of the bombs. Because, angry progressives, you never get to cry about the price of anything. Sorry.
To clarify- the army already spends money feeding soldiers. So the price of the steak and lobster *morale treat* should first have subtracted from it the regular price of feeding soldiers.
Then if the progressives want to complain about that paltry sum, which went to a time honored tradition in the military. By all means rant on with your America hating selves.
Kansas revokes drivers licenses of 1700 trans identifying individuals here. Question: does the state of Kansas act ethically here.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/11/report-kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-of-1700-trans-identifying-individuals/
Yelling Allahu Ackbar in a crowded theater.
Would someone have a reasonable claim of self defense for shooting someone if they felt in mortal danger of a man running into a crowd screaming “allah ackbar!” but was not immediately perceptible as being armed in any way?
I would say yes. The idea of those guys having a bomb hidden somewhere is well established in people’s minds, and not without good reason. Shoot him, perhaps make him drop the bomb switch, maybe survive to face trial tomorrow. Don’t shoot him, he probably blows up the whole seating area, if not the building in full. The math (or at least probabilities) makes sense to me.
I guess I’m the lady you’d want in the jury.
Am I the only one who seems to have to sign in to WordPress to comment? Every time?
WordPress puts me through this in phases. Sometimes I can go weeks on a single sign in. Sometimes for a week straight I have to log in every single comment. Even if made minutes apart.
I dread those times because some log in attempts become a crap shoot on whether or not WordPress completely “disappears” my comment. Only for me to copy paste the comment, resubmit, and have WordPress reply “cannot publish a duplicate comment” and I’m sitting there dumbfounded since my first try is not even on the page.
For about three weeks I’ve had to sign in for each comment.
I don’t have a WordPress account but I get a pop-up screen when I comment. I just ‘click’ outside the pop-up window and it goes away.
It’s the subscribe window that pop-up for me, not the login. I just click outside the box and the comment registers. I guess I’ve never been asked to login. Generally, I don’t create online accounts and so if WordPress asked me to login or create an account I wouldn’t comment. But, no loss, I’m not one of the “five”.
For example, if I wrote a comment worthy of “Comment of The Day” it would be equivalent to the 69 Mets winning the world series or Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson.
A little humor for Friday 13th. 😂
Jack, that sounds like a horrible morning.
You can set an alarm on an iPhone without it being a wake up alarm. The morning alarm is far more complicated, but for a simple alarm, hit the clock icon. There is a plus on the right side of the top of the screen. Push that, pick a time, hit the check mark. There are a lot of options, but you can skip them. Those options mean a lot to me, as I use them for a variety of reasons, like school bells, therapy warnings, tutoring times, etc, all with a variety of labels, sounds, snooze options, etc. The basic alarm though is simple and quick. No, Apple does not explain this well and the wake-up alarm sucks to set up.
I want to put out there, is there some ethical or practical reason why we can’t get rid of daylight savings time? Practically everyone wants it. Sure, there’s the debate about whether to keep standard or daylight time, but we pass laws that piss off half the country all the time. What would this matter? Also, even if I got my unpreferred time, the lack of chaos from changing my clocks and dealing with screaming toddlers and starving pets would be worth it. The clock change, especially in the spring, leads to increased deaths, at least by some measures that I have not had time to investigate because my week has been horrible. And throwing off children, pets, and farm animals all for the sake of a tradition that makes no sense today seems…stupid in my sleep deprived brain. Why do we still do this?
Re: Daylight Savings Time.
It is my understanding that Daylight Savings Time was created in the 1910s or 1920s as a way to help schools transport school children to and from schools on busses, and possibly to save on heating oils during the winter months.
Now, it is an an anachronism that should be ended. I thought Trump 1.0 signed legislation and/or an executive order ending the thing. There are three or four state that do not observe the time change and most of the civilized world thinks it’s a silly idea. To me, keeping it going is simply dumb.
jvb
I might have used “anachronism” incorrectly but I really wanted to do that. See, besides, Rush, I do have other musical interests. Case in point: There is this British prog/folk prog band called “Big Big Train” consisting of a number of studio players and heavy hitters in the prog/neo prog genre. Their lead singer/writer/flautist is a guy named David Longdon. Tremendous voice and a terrific lyricist (though Greg Spawton may be a bit better because he writes songs about trains). Here is a YouTube video of the song I am about to discuss:
Longdon wrote this song called “Judas Unrepentant” about an English painter, Tom Keating, from the 1950s and 1960s who restored masterpieces and great works of art. Well, it turns out that Painter Keating was annoyed he didn’t get the recognition or success he thought he deserved (read that as cash) for his great talents. So, he began forging paintings and selling them as original works. But, it seems Ol’ Tom had a bit of a conscience because he included telltale signs of mischief in his paintings that would clearly show the work was not an original. For example, he painted legends in lead paint that would show on xrays. Or, he would paint things that were not of that time periods – anachronisms – much like the guitar Michael J. Fox played in “Back to the Future.”
‘That song has a lyric”
“His time bombs are in place
And anachronisms
Clues pointing to the truth
If ever they are X-rayed”
Well, there it is – that word. I know that Jack has told us how is beloved wife would watch movies and point out inconsistencies in scenes. I do that, too, much to my long-suffering wife’s chagrin.
I like the song but I wonder about the ethics of Tom’s actions. He showed that art critics and experts were nothing of the sort because he fooled them. Yet, by inserting the inconsistencies, did he really defraud people? I would think he did. He, did, though, change the art market by allowing sales of reproductions of great works. Is that simply a byproduct of his unethical actions? I am no expert and I couldn’t tell a Rembrandt from a Titian though I could recognize an El Greco or Picasso but there is no way I would be able to tell if that work were original or a reprint.
jvb
Holy Cow! A Democrat insider’s insider takes a remarkable stance:
Partisanship on Iran Is Dangerous for America – WSJ
David Boies weighs in! Stunning! I wonder whether he’ll never have any work again. He may be an ethics hero.
Remember, he was a pal of Harvey Weinstein and tried to scare the Times reporters who outed Harvey as a serial harasser and rapist into scrapping their story. So he’s already been cancelled.
I thought he was still on the Mount Rushmore of Dem operatives!
Anyway, it’s a refreshingly lucid piece.
After being summarily smack-daddied out of office (securing a whopping 12% of the vote), former democrat Dolton, IL Mayor from Hell/municipal fund spender/embezzler extraordinaire (currently under federal investigation for a missing $1.9 million) Tiffany Henyard packed up her Carpetbag and skeedaddled to Fulton County, GA*** where she’s registered to run for the County Board of Commissioners District 5 seat…as (and this is where it gets GOOD!) a Republican.
***Fulton County being the bailiwick of one Fani Willis, perhaps Henyard chose it thinking it’s likely…um…tolerant of ethics bereft morons?
Anywho, is the Republican Party ethically bound to tell her shove it?
PWS
Yes, the GOP is obligated to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.”
jvb