Bitchin Dave's newsletter

The mid-term  elections are right around the corner, and while elections always matter, this one feels like it is more consequential than any in recent memory.  It seems clear that our country will go through another change as a result of the outcome: either we slide further into some sort of tyranny OR we see the pendulum start to swing back toward a middle ground. I'm hopeful that the latter option shall come to pass and we can move forward with better days ahead.   But to get there, we need to ensure that EVERYONE we know gets out and votes.  It's important to not take this for granted, and to tak...

There is a group of people, in cooperation with Purdue University, looking for Amelia's Earhardt's plane.  They've poured over the transmissions, satellite images, maps, and other available data and they thought they had a lead. Among the reasons were a satellite image that looked like maybe it was a plane, and a transmission fragment where Earhardt appears to say "New York" ... and a shipwreck for the SS Norwich was found nearby. So maybe she was giving a location in a way? The researchers went in cautiously optimistic, but same up empty.  The "plane" turned out to be fallen trees. And there was no evidence to support her having been on the islan...

The Nobel Committee is a mostly apolitical organization, that doesn't kowtow to pressure to simply give the award away. Pretty much since he took office the first time, a certain man with an orange complexion says he deserves it, and has pressured the committee to award it to him. But they have ignored him. And then Maria Corina Machado - the person who became the president of Venezuela after T-rump invaded the country and installed her - decided to give him the medal she won in 2025, awarded for: Her tireless work in promoting democratic rights for Venezuelans and working to move from dictatorship to democracy .   ...