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September 17, 2026
I discuss various topics in today’s blog.Fuel price riots
It would seem that the war against Iran is causing fuel prices to skyrocket worldwide, resulting in riots across the globe.
Here in Mexico, fuel prices have stayed constant; it helps a lot that Mexico has its own source of oil and doesn’t have to rely on foreign oil. Prices at gas stations are highly regulated here; the price of gas is essentially the same at the local CostCo as it is at a gas station in the middle of the desert in northern Mexico.
Tate’s prison conditions
The Tates are apparently in horrible prison conditions.
Yes, these conditions are inhumane. Maybe having the Tates be under these conditions will get the attention of people in charge of the prisons, who seem to ignore the problem when brown-skinned people have to endure those conditions.
Dirty laundry
Don Henley once wrote a song about how unsavory the press can be called “Dirty Laundry”.1 Seeing how the press is fanning the fires of the Lindsay Clancy situation, I can see how much this song still applies today.
First, the left-wing press doxxed one of Clancy’s jurors, the one who refused to declare Clancy not guilty for reasons of insanity.
So the right-wing press retaliates by doxxing personal information about Clancy’s lawyer.
The right is now painting that same juror as a hero.
The sensationalist press also posted a woke screed saying the juror deserved to be doxxed. The right was not amused (Alt link).
Here’s one stupid quote from that article: “The jurors voted 11-1 for insanity. This indicates that public opinion breaks down along similar lines.” Actually, public opinion is, as I type this, 46% feel she is guilty, 21% feel she is not guilty by reason of insanity, and 33% are not sure.
As Don Henley sang many years ago, the press is motivated by our baser instincts, with “crap is king; give us dirty laundry” being the key lyric from that classic song.2
Footnotes
1: Considering that three of the six members of Toto play in this song, it is almost a Toto song.
2: Since someone has posted slander at Genius that a prostitute was found dead at Henley’s apartment, that did not happen. Henley, in sworn testimony, explained that he hired a prostitute without knowing she was underage, they used a lot of drugs together, and didn’t even have sex. Nobody died. Despire this, the press had a field day dragging Henley through the mud over this incident.