the houthis are in the middle of a volcanic field.

if we could trigger the volcanic flow, we could literally rain hellfire on them.

that would feel good.

this isn't quite what i'm imagining.

these bombs are like giant icepicks that use gravity to cut through a structure before detonating.

i actually think we should be able to put a robot on the tip of the bomb that excavates through the structure, so that it's less a question of using the physics of mass to smash your way through in a collision and more like throwing a dart at a mountain that can burrow it's way through it when it gets there like a giant metallic groundhog before letting it rip mid mountain.

i wonder if you could actually trigger an inactive volcano using the same mechanism. that would be pretty brutal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster

empires are sometimes conquered, and sometimes collapse.

more often, the empires that are the most stable and last the longest are eventually overrun by illegal immigration and taken over by barbarians. trump is a dolt, but he's basically right about this - the barbarians are our greatest real threat.

the ongoing barbarian houthi pestilence may justify r&d spending on new weapons designed to direct payloads underground. these weapons could also be used against hezbollah and eventually against iran. i'm imagining something launched by ship that lands at pinpoint precision and burrows into the ground before it detonates remotely. this would be well within our engineering capabilities to get a prototype for almost immediately.

that's right.

these are our enemies. they are barbarians, and we will need to fight them forever. there is no end to this war, and we have to fight it continually, with resolve, or they will destroy us.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/middleeast/us-airstrikes-yemen-houthis-may-be-relishing-them-intl/index.html

you're not going to hear this critique from the soft-left.

this article is not left wing, it's boiler-plate neoliberalism, pushing the idea that developing markets get better with foreign investment and more property rights. yuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/06/trumps-tariffs-may-be-perilous-for-small-heavily-indebted-countries-in-global-south

if you are a member of the trump administration (and somebody is reading this), and you do care about eradicating child labour, you have an opportunity here. this is in alignment with the administration's goals. the reordering of global trade could very well occur with global standards on child labour, if it is guided that way. it is your responsibility and opportunity to get that done.

this just in: kathy lee gifford is organizing a major protest against trump's trade policy, with a million wive march planned to descend on the capital.