1/21/2026

 Wednesday, January 21, 2026

1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

1994 Lorena Bobbitt was found temporarily insane when she cut off her husband's penis

2025   Donald Trump unveiled a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, called Stargate. With planned funding of up to $500 billion in the next four years, the project aimed to build data centers and computing infrastructure across the United States to power AI development 

2025   Trump paused $300 billion of funding for green infrastructure previously allocated in the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

2025  Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for charges including conspiracy to commit money laundering, hacking, and drug trafficking.

2025  Much of Canada and the contiguous United States were impacted by a cold wave, killing one person near Milwaukee

In bed at 9:45, awake at 5:15, half-awake until up at 6:20.  19/26//16.

Meds, etc.  Morning meds at 8:30 a.m.  

Speaking truth to power yesterday, Canada's PM Mark Carney delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. New York Times: Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada delivered a stark speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, prompting global political and corporate leaders in the audience to rise from their seats for a rare standing ovation.  He described the end of the era underpinned by United States hegemony, calling the current phase “a rupture.” He never mentioned President Trump by name, but his reference was clear. . . And he warned, “The middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Trump at Davos.  His speech was even worse than usual. Gratuitous insults to Emanuel Macron, indeed to all of Europe, wholesale disparagement of Europe generally, boundless praise of himself, and countless lies.  Beyond belief.

TACO: Trump always chickens out.  It seems like only moments after Trump's offensive, stupid, boorish speech pretending he was Harry the Hegemon, he met with the head of NATO, announced that the two of them had worked out a "framework" for an agreement on Greenland, and that the tariffs has had announced on a couple of days ago were cancelled.  All it took was unified opposition from Europe and the rest of the world, suspension of the EU-US trade negotiations, cratering of the US stock market, and spiking of bond yields.  He looks like a childish, weak paper tiger. 

I can't write anything meaningful today.  I may have lost my hypergraphia, a bad sign.