Those eggs are a work of art indeed.

I thought of you when this came across my feed.

(17 min) GRAYLING is an impeccably maintained 65’ power vessel that began life as a purse-
seiner in 1915, later worked as a sardine carrier, and was converted to a yacht in 1997.
She was built in 1915 in East Boothbay, Maine, and worked for more than six decades
before falling idle in the early 1980s. Her history and restoration are detailed in this
video, with stunning archival photographs of her working life provided by Penobscot
Marine Museum, and recent video footage shot by Alison Langley—who edited this
presentation. The video is part of our WoodenBoat Legends series, which is normally
available only to members of our Mastering Skills membership site. The GRAYLING
video, however, is open for public viewing.

Have a good day, and thanks for the OT!

Yves Smith presents a collection of different notions, including that of Alon Mizrahi:

On a much cheerier note, Alon Mizrahi, who prides himself as an expert reader of the psychopathy in Israel, argues that Israel will not launch a nuclear strike on Iran.

There's a lot to ponder in that piece. There's also the "four options" piece of Qasim Rashid. One of the options is nuclear war. You know, there were some people back in the day who thought the end of the world would happen in 1971 or around then, and it didn't, and so boy did they look like fools. Or something.

For some reason, with Trump I am reminded of Charlemagne, or Carolus Magnus in the texts of his time. Charlemagne conquered his way into an empire larger than the Roman Empire of his time, which was then slightly larger than what we now know as Turkiye and occupying mostly the same space. Yet Charlemagne was illiterate: incapable of reading or of writing. Trump, on the other hand, is illiterate by choice, and his empire is shrinking rather than expanding.

But of course the Democrats will save us from the nukes, right? Maybe. If Israel drops a nuke on Iran. "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it," Jeffries will tell us again, having said as much after Iran destroyed all US bases in west Asia.

I'm going to leave you with this quote from that most sage of Establishment Democrats, Kamala Harris. "Iran is a country, but we don't live there, so it's not our country. And when we go there, we are in another country." She totally could have won, right?

NEW — Korean media published an image from today, showing the US dismantling its THAAD and Patriot systems from S-Korea, to send to the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/9XSRVPc1BY

— UK Report (@UK_REPT) March 10, 2026

Trump by the nose is more like....

huevos. Thanks for the music and the links. Having some 'puter issues here, back later.

be well and have a good one

I watched this again to make sure I was right about this. "Something else has to be done," Diesen says at one point. That's good! A realistic assessment, though, would admit to the likelihood of continual warfare for as long as Trump and Mileikowski are in power. They literally have to try someone else. More realistically, from Yves Smith:

Syrian-Palestinian journalist Laith Marouf has argued that wars of decolonization typically take six years. Even if you mark the start of this war as the Hamas raid of October 7, 2023, which Israel blamed on Iran when Iran in fact was very upset with Hamas throwing a spanner in its long-term efforts in the region, it would seem that there is an impossibly long time before resolution. With the prospect of wide-ranging, multi-fronted, lasting and severe damage to the global economy, it would seem that there would be at least an interim major reset well before then. But given that Iran has requirements that the US, Israel, and the West will now find impossible to swallow, how much damage will countries and citizens around the world have to endure before painful concessions are made to Iran?

The key, then, is to get Iran to accept the West's offer of painful concessions. Perhaps several leaders will have to go down in all of the West's countries -- Trump and Mileikowski being the first among many to offer resignations -- before someone can be found who can do the necessary work.