The Scratching Post

I don't know about the rest of you, but we Catholics have absolutely fetishized Matthew 7:1-3. “Stop judging, that you may not be judged...

There's been something nagging at me about this whole voter ID debate. The Democrats say that it would disenfranchise blacks and women a...

 This is, without a doubt, the funniest video I have ever seen. I laugh constantly every time I watch it. That’s one talented cat! P.S. Sor...

Happy Mardi Gras! I've been puttering around on my Bobby Lee Bond story and managed to finish Chapter 2. Enjoy! Chapter 1, part 1 . Chap...

Tomorrow is our annual Mardi Gras party held, oddly enough, on Fat Tuesday. We'll have about 50 people, tons of food, 2 mixologists and ...

 ... Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston. Every problem is a baby. Every solution is cuddling. Dig this. 🚨BREAKING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is f...

I once read a book by a primate researcher that started with a charming paragraph something like this. Growing up, I always wanted to become...

 ... a little family wisdom and the last half of the first chapter of my ... novella? book?  Whatever. As my regular readers know, I'm c...

 It looks like the government officials in Minnesota have finally gotten the message. That message must have been something like, "Knoc...

If AI comes to dominate the artistic fields as it seems to be doing, from whence will come new styles? AI does nothing but regurgitate exist...

Coming home from Mobile recently, I got routed through Charlotte. Charlotte is about 34% black. In cities with that kind of demographics, th...

Almost all of this is mine. ChatGPT helped me clean up a sentence or two, but this is almost all me. ------------------------- Cat’s headach...

If the illegal alien Somalis in Minnesota are just as American as you or I the moment they step off the plane, why do they need to step off ...

I'm a heavy user of AI (read: ChatGPT) and I thought it might be interesting to lay out a couple of recent use cases. I'm at the Mob...

Wife kitteh bought me a drone for Christmas because she knows of my pathological fondness for perspective river photos and videos. I'm i...

I had to put that date modifier in the title because AI is changing so fast. My last post , long-winded as it was, definitely TL;DR material...

The sun had gone down without ceremony, as it always did here—no grand curtain call, no applause. Just a gentle thinning of the light until ...

 ... when trying to understand the Islamic world. Two data points. These are Islamic goons patrolling the streets of Shahsavar, Iran. I ...

  Autopoietic (from Greek auto, "self," and poiesis, "creation") describes systems, especially living organisms, that c...