Thursday, July 24, 2025
Most people arrested by ICE in Wyoming and Colorado this year did not have criminal history
Most people arrested by ICE in Wyoming and Colorado this year did not have criminal history: President Donald Trump said ICE is going after the “worst of the worst.” The agency’s Rocky Mountain data shows otherwise.
Cutting federal funding for academic research will hurt Wyoming
Cutting federal funding for academic research will hurt Wyoming: It's a fallacy that universities use federal research grants to fatten their bank accounts, writes UW Professor David Fay.
Tuesday, July 24, 1945. An unsurprised Stalin.
Truman told Stalin that the US had a new and very powerful weapon that was going to be deployed against Japan, but did not provide the specifics.
Stalin, thanks to deep penetration of the US government by Soviet intelligence, already knew about the Manhattan Project and what it was about, so this was not that much of a surprise. Stalin had actually known about the Manhattan Project three years prior to Truman knowing about it.
The Navy began to bombard Kure, Japan.
Japanese freighter hit from carrier-based aircraft near Tsugaru-Kaikyo, east of Hokkaido, Japan.
North American P-51C-11-NT of the 311th FG, 14th AF, escorting C-47s over China on July 24, 1945.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Monday, July 23, 1945. Pétain on trial.
The trial of Philippe Pétain began.
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Sunday, July 22, 1945. Open to negotiations, but not threats.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus uses obscure committee to launch investigations, audits
Wyoming Freedom Caucus uses obscure committee to launch investigations, audits: The panel voted to audit the Legislative Service Office, subpoena several local officials and investigate the Weston County clerk.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The Casualty List.
Changes in the 119th Congress.
July 22, 2025.
Casualty List
Rep. Mark Green's last day in office was Sunday, leaving 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Green voted for the Big Ugly before leaving.
Tuesday, July 22, 1975. The beginning of the tragedy of Afghanistan.
The Mujahideen began an unsuccessful revolt against the government of President Mohammed Daoud Khan in Afghanistan.
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Monday, July 21, 1975. Title IX.
Sunday, July 22, 1945. Open to negotiations, but not threats.
Japanese forces attempting to breakout of the Pegu Hills suffered heavy casualties.
US Task Force 92 bombarded Paramushiro in the Kurile Islands.
Nine U.S. destroyers penetrated Tokyo Bay under the cover of a storm.
The Japanese government announced that it was open to peace negotiations, but not to threats.
Allied military police were allowed to cross into any zone in Berlin.
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Wednesday, July 22, 1925. Battle of al-Kafr.
John Henry "Harry" Selby, legendary African big game hunter, was born in South Africa. After a lifetime as a ph, he died in Botswana, at age 92 in 2018.
In Memoriam: Harry Selby, Hunter And Rifleman, Dies At 92
Selby was part of the post World War Two generation of professional hunters in Africa, who are more associated with guiding than market hunting. He obtained his professional license in 1945.
The Battle of al-Kafr saw the Druze shoot down a French military aircraft and ambush a column of French soldiers, killing 111 out of 174 members.
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Tuesday, July 21, 1925. Scopes verdict and the Great Syrian Revolt.
University of Wyoming announces President Seidel’s departure 3 months after no confidence vote
University of Wyoming announces President Seidel’s departure 3 months after no confidence vote: UW’s chief executive faced unexpected challenges from start of tenure. Supporters laud his innovation. Critics say he never fit in.
I don't think Seidel did a bad job, and in the current political atmosphere, UW faculty ought to fear who might end up with his job.
Brandon Nimmo: ‘I’m from Wyoming. I’m not supposed to play baseball.’
Brandon Nimmo: ‘I’m from Wyoming. I’m not supposed to play baseball.’: The star outfielder's home state doesn’t offer high school baseball, columnist Kerry Drake notes, but Nimmo was good enough as a teen to be drafted by the Mets in the first round.
Monday, July 21, 2025
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori on the practice of law.
My friend, our profession is too full of difficulties and dangers; we lead an unhappy life and run risk of dying an unhappy death.
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.
Monday, July 21, 1975. Title IX.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect.
Senator Birch Bayh exercises with Title IX athletes at Purdue University during the 1970s.
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Friday, July 18, 1975. Operation IA Feature.
Saturday, July 21, 1945. Warnings to Japan.
American radio broadcasts called on Japan to surrender or face destruction.
In an unauthorized statement to the press, a Washington D. C. posted Navy captain stated the same, adding that the US was "running out of patience".
The Battle of Balikpapan ended in an Australian victory.
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Friday, July 20, 1945. Mistakes were made.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Art, Belgium, Japan, Okinawa, Philippines, Posters, Potsdam Conference, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, World War Two
Tuesday, July 21, 1925. Scopes verdict and the Great Syrian Revolt.
The infamous Scopes trial concluded with John Scopes being found guilty of violating the Butler Act, and being ordered to pay $100.00.
The Great Syrian Revolt started in reaction to the French High Commissioner of the Levant, Gen. Maurice Sarrail, ordering the arrest of nine Syrian delegates and their deportation to Palmyra.
The Soviet Union adopted the metric system, that being the only good thing the Communists ever achieved in the country.
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Monday, July 20, 1925. Salkhad.
Judges, lawyers describe perils of attacking judiciary at Grand Teton National Park gathering
Judges, lawyers describe perils of attacking judiciary at Grand Teton National Park gathering: Legal professionals attending a Wyoming conference look to citizens to stand up for safety and independence of judges.
Sunday, July 20, 2025
The Trump Administration is cutting the EPA by 23% and closing its research branch.
The hatred of science continues.
Blog Mirror: Today in Buffalo… Posted on July 19, 2025 (Longmire Days).
Today in Buffalo…
I've never read one of these books, but they are really enjoyed by a lot of locals.
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 99th edition. A second Perverts and Fellow Travelers Issue.
The following has the best explanation I've heard of the entire Epstein story:
Granted, there's obviously a lot we don't know about Epstein, but what this basically leaves us with is that probably two administrations have kept the full story secret as there's members of the wealthy and political class who would be hurt by the full revelation. That doesn't necessarily mean that Trump is one of them, but it probably means he knows more than one.
The wealthy and powerful protect their own.
The stuff needs to come out. A lot of young women seem to have been passed around like party favors and used, and they've never received justice. They're afraid to come out now, after what those who have, have received.
And also this:
As a slight addition, I think the video, while not directly addressing it, puts to bed the conspiracy theories about Epstein's suicide. He'd gotten away with a prior conviction related to kiddy diddling due to powerful connections. He wasn't going to this time.
And, by the way, this entire matter is a first rate example of investigative journalism.
On a sort of related item, but only in terms of sexual misconduct, Astronomer AI company CEO has resigned following having taken a tryst to a Cold Play concert.
Why?
No, I don't think he should have been cheating on his spouse, but why does that matter for a CEO of a company I've never heard of, when it doesn't matter for those in high public office, or for those who are ultra wealthy?
Double standards, to be sure.
And indeed, that applies to the first item as well. Men get prosecuted for sex with minors all the time. Rich men, however, don't. They should be.
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Friday, July 20, 1945. Mistakes were made.
Belgian Prime Minister Achille Van Acker asked King Leopold III to abdicate for his "grave and unpardonable mistakes."
This entire controversy, largely forgotten outside of Belgium, where it would simmer for years, is hard to grasp, but it started with the unpopular move of surrendering to Germany, which was not supported by the Belgian people. He did not cooperate with the Nazis during the war and in fact was imprisoned during the war, but that did not suffice for people to forgive him. Additionally, he remarried during the war, being a widower, which people also held against him, as the poster above alludes to.
Churchill, Truman and Stalin continued to confer on politics and strategy,
US troops landed and took Balut Island in the Philippines.
Air raids over Japan continued, with P-51s now joining the effort as fighter bombers.
"Temporary location of the Industrial Dept. At the U.S. Naval Repair Base. Okinawa. 20 July, 1945.
Photographer: McGill, 3241 Sig. Photo Dept. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive."
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Monday, July 20, 1925. Salkhad.
Druze rebels captured the French Army garrison at Salkhad.
Sheikh Sultan el-Atrash, leader of Druze revolt in October, 1925.
The Druze have been in the news recently given a conflict between the Druze, who tend to be allied to Israel, and Bedouins.
Nobody ever wanted the French in Syria, excepting of course, the French.
Italy and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Nettuno. The treaty allowed Italians to emigrate to Dalmatia, and was opposed by the Croatian Peasant Party, causing Yugoslavia to take three years to ratify it.
Boise City, Oklahoma, was incorporated.
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Saturday, July 18, 1925. Nazi tome and Scopes trial.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, Adolf Hitler, Art, Evolutionary Biology, German Weimar Republic, Germany, law, Nazi Party, Science, Tennessee, The written word
The Best Posts of the week of July 13, 2025. The Epstein Week.
Sex dominated the headlines this week, including one sexual scandal, the CEO and his mistress at the Cold Play concert, which we didn't really bother with much.
We discussed the Verboten becoming Nicht Verboten.
Saturday, July 14, 1945. Verboten und Nicht Verboten
And the world entering the nuclear age.
Monday, July 16, 1945. Trinity.
Trump took us back to the story of privilege and Hebephilia and Ephebophilia.1
The sad, really, state of affairs for American Men.
The big three met, with one new player.
Flannery O'Connor gave some reading advice.
I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you.
I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
Flannery O'Connor
Out of one jungle war, and into another.
Cy Young set an enduring record.
Tuesday, July 19, 1910. Cy Young.
Cy Young of the Cleveland Naps became the only Major League Baseball pitcher to record 500 wins, in a 5–2 win over the Washington Senators.
MAGA just won't let Epstein go.
We pose a query:
Then and now. Two shirtless sailors.
We posted this today. After I did, something occurred to me.
Thursday, July 19, 1945. Bretton Woods ratified.
Able Seaman Chadwick trimming the beard of Engine Room Artificer Jones, aboard HMAS Hobart.
Anybody notice anything interesting regarding these (Australian) sailors that we'd be unlikely to see in photographs of young men, at least American young men, today?
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Eh? What are those terms.
Hebephilia is the strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children who are in early adolescence, typically ages 11–14. It's a controversial category and is not universally accepted by psychologists on the basis that, in their view, most men are attracted to some degree by pubescent females.
Ephebophilia is a primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19 and showing Tanner stages 4 to 5 of physical development. Obviously, if Hebephilia is somewhat controversial, Ephebophilia is as well.
Basically, things break down as follows:
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By Bruce The Deus, Andreas Mokros - Own work based on Andreas Mokros (2017), “The Chronophilia Conundrum: Continuum or Epiphenomenon?”, in archive of Sex Behaviour, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0882-4, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144677942
At least so far, everyone agrees, seemingly, that anything below the Hebephilia category is flat out weird.
Irrespective of whether the two categories should be in the DSM, which is where the debate lies, in the US older men dabbling below age 18 is illegal, with some peculiar exceptions we won't go into, and most people regard it as flat out immoral, even now. It seems to be the last aspect of sexual morality retained from our Christian heritage.
We've been squeamish about dealing with it here, but it probably needed noting. A lot of what Western Society has been dealing with in terms of sexual scandals in the last thirty years actual deals with adult men being attracted to teenagers, which isn't pedophilia as its commonly claimed to be.
That doesn't excuse it, and maybe noting it is pedantic.
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