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My comments on SciShow warns 'The Potato Famine Could Happen Again'.

Thanks for adding the needed context to the video. Yes, the British/English made things much worse by continuing to use Ireland as a resource colony throughout the famine, including making the Irish pay their rent in wheat and Ireland being a net exporter of food. They also exported those policies to the rest of the British Empire, as you pointed out. What they did in India, they did it in Ireland first.

Thanks for linking to this post at Link round-up for 9 August 2025 and welcome to all of you who came here following Infidel753's link. Also, welcome to all my readers from Singapore, Brazil, Vietnam, Germany, Hong Kong, Canada, Turkey, Japan, Mexico, and the rest of the planet. I'm giving special shout-outs to my readers from Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong, who provided 20,135, 6,270, and 3,070 page views this past week, respectively, more than the 1,485 page views from my American readers! Thanks to my Vietnamese readers, I passed my page view goals for August 2025 at ~10:10 P.M. EDT July 31, 2025, the earliest ever (the month started at 8:00 P.M. EDT, Midnight GMT). Wow!

My comment on When They Go Low…

We're at the point in Animal Farm where the pigs are altering the Seven Commandments of Animalism. How long before we get to "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others?"

My comment on CosPlay Kristi Wants YOU!

Dean Cain must be desperate, too. He's proof the Superman Curse has gone from tragedy to farce.

My comments on Yahoo! News asks 'How does the 25th Amendment work?' A Veep Day special.

Thanks to Steve in Manhattan for linking to this entry in Mike's Blog Roundup at Crooks and Liars and welcome to all of his readers who came here from his link. Also, welcome to all my readers from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Singapore, Poland, India, Hong Kong, Canada, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Romania, the Netherlands, Japan, Venezuela, Russia (yes, even you), and the rest of the planet. I'm giving a special shout-out to my Singaporean readers, who provided 4,421 page views this past week, more than the 2,788 page views from my American readers! Looks like you're checking in on the mood here in the U.S. May my blog be the right place for you!

Welcome to Crazy Eddie's Motie News! That's a very thoughtful comment of the kind that I usually recycle into a post. I hope you don't mind when I do.

That written, you're absolutely right about the lack of implementing legislation, to say nothing of Supreme Court rulings. An example I was already aware of was a bill by Jamie Raskin to establish "a Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office." That would be very useful right now. Unfortunately, not only did the bill not pass, I'm not even sure it ever came up for a vote.

My comment on Howtown asks 'Where does science funding go?'

Thanks to Infidel753 for linking to this post, which already had 99 page views, and 'I Visited a Mosquito Factory' from 'Human Footprint' on PBS for World Mosquito Day, which already had 343 page views, at Link round-up for 23 August 2025 and welcome to all of you who came here following Infidel753's link. Also, welcome to all my readers from Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the rest of the planet. Looks like you're checking in on the mood here in the U.S. May my blog be the right place for you!

My comment on 'I Visited a Mosquito Factory' from 'Human Footprint' on PBS for World Mosquito Day

Thanks to Infidel753 for linking to this post and Howtown asks 'Where does science funding go?' at Link round-up for 23 August 2025 and welcome to all of you who came here following Infidel753's link. Also, welcome to all my readers from Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the rest of the planet. Looks like you're checking in on the mood here in the U.S. May my blog be the right place for you!

My comments on HIV news for World AIDS Day.

More spam that is likely a scam because of the +234 Nigerian country code. Still, the number of Nigerians who visit is so small that I almost never see them listed among my top twenty for the day. That includes today, spammer. How does it feel to be so unimportant?

And it took about a day for Blogger's retroactive comment moderation to mark your comment as spam and send it to the bit bucket, where it will remain. That's where the next spam for your client went, too. Good riddance!

Switching accounts twice eventually got your spam past the filter. Since it's on-topic, I'll let it stay, even if I think it's a scam because of the Nigerian country code. Besides, I expect Blogger's retroactive comment moderation to mark your comment as spam and send it to the bit bucket, where it will remain. That way, it may not last long enough for me to regret letting it stay.

Sorry, no duplicate spam comments. Deleted.

My comment on the link to Howtown asks 'Where does science funding go?' at MeWe.

Half of science funding goes to military research. The rest goes to health, space, energy, environment, and other research.