Tonight's ONT Sounds Legit

Did I ever tell y'all that I once failed a spelling test in 3rd grade because I titled the paper “Speeling”? I didn't, actually, it was my handwriting, not my spelling. This was back in the stone age when we wrote in cursive, and I failed to make the loop of the first l significantly taller than the loop of the e that preceded it, so even though I knew how to spell spelling, it looked like I wrote speeling.

This Article Jibes Best With What I Know About Turkey, Syria and the Kurds

10 Questions To Ask About Trump’s Removal Of Troops From Syria

Someone asked me last week what I thought about our “abandonment” of the Kurds. I told him “When the Islamists are fighting the Commies, I stand back and root for casualties”. I don't know that the above article is 100% accurate, but as I said, it jibes with what I do know.

Video Of The Week

There's nothing even particularly outstanding, or funny or anything about this video, I'm just light on content tonight.

Crazy Hit & Run Driver Is Blocked Into A Parking Spot After Hitting Multiple Cars!

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This Is Really Cool

The Last Incan Suspension Bridge Is Made Entirely of Grass and Woven by Hand

The Incas never invented the wheel, never figured out the arch, and never discovered iron. But they were masters of fiber. They built ships out of fiber (you can still find reed boats sailing on Lake Titicaca). They made armor out of fiber (pound for pound, it was stronger than the armor worn by the Conquistadors). Their greatest weapon, the sling, was woven from fibers, and was powerful enough to split a steel sword. They even communicated in fiber, developing a language of knotted strings known as quipo, which has yet to be decoded. So when it came to solving a problem like how to get people and goods across the steep gorges of the Andes, it was only natural that they would think about the problem in terms of fiber.

Five centuries ago, the Andes were strung with suspension bridges. By some estimates there were as many as 200 of them, braided from nothing more than twisted mountain grass and other vegetation, with cables sometimes as thick as a human torso. Three hundred years before Europe saw its first suspension bridge, the Incas were spanning longer distances and deeper gorges than anything that the best European engineers, working with stone, were capable of.

I think it's neat that they re-weave it every year, even though there is a modern bridge a few hundred feet away. Would you cross this bridge? I think I would.

Anybody Got A Light?

Lots of lighters

There are some really cool lighters at the link, but personally I'd like to have one of these. I don't smoke anymore, and if you do you can't in my house, but it would be a pretty cool conversation piece to keep on your desk.

Musical Interlude

The Marxists Have Been Wildly Successful

Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?

Don't soar all over me, it's true. There's a good segment of the younger generations that you can't even talk to about issues because they don't share a common frame of reference. “Individual liberty”, "personal responsibility” and “limited government” might as well be phrases in Klingon for all they understand. You can like it or not (and I DON'T), but it's silly to deny that the “long march through the institutions” hasn't been wildly successful.

Big Tech Spying

Here's a thread on how our tech spies on us:

Bon Mot

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