Join Doctor J, the Volgi, and GorT as they discuss the 2021 (2020) Olympics! GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for … Continue reading →
The Gormogons wish, collectively, all of you have enjoyed the last ten years of frivolity and pithy commentary. We’ve gone from a bunch of no-name jackasses with various dependency problems and a seldom-read website to, in only a decade, being … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, It’s been a while since Dr. J.’s posted, but the latest edition of ‘Teh Trumpzesz Must Rezign!!!!!!!!!@11!!!Eleventy!!@onE!!!!!!!’ pushes the narrative that Trump is too sick for office, unlike those strapping and robust Presidents Harding, Wilson, Roosevelt, Eisenhower and … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, It wouldn’t be an election post mortem without all of your Gormogons providing commentary. Dr. J. was taken aback by the vast swaths of pussytude infecting the half of the voters that voted for Hillary Clinton in response to her … Continue reading →
Dr. J. would like to apologize for his prolonged absence (except to Fred who probably welcomed Dr. J.’s prolonged absence). The Lil Resident fell ill about two years ago (the first of two major illnesses in two years), right at … Continue reading →
Apparently, the 2016 NASA budget involves sending a probe to the Galilean moon of Europa. Because of its frozen oceans, it has been speculated that organic material maybe present, and by extension, the conditions for (unintelligent) life to exist, and … Continue reading →
At coffee, this morning, Dr. J. asked his fellow Gormogons their predictions for election day: GorT chimed in first: “I think the Republicans will pick up about seven seats in the Senate putting them at 52. I think the GOP … Continue reading →
The case for the conservative political philosophy was never made better than by then actor and former SAG president, Ronald Wilson Reagan: Given how far afield we’ve wandered since 2008, let alone 1981, it’s good for us to have a reminder … Continue reading →
Dr. J. updated his computers to Yosemite (aka 10.10) the other day and was admiring the default wallpaper on his desktop computer from across the room. There was a profile in the side of the mountain. Not only that, the … Continue reading →
If you can’t win an election, run unopposed, right? President Obama was blessed not having to face legitimate opposition in his state senate or his senate runs because of untimely information released about his opponents sticky divorces (are there any … Continue reading →
h/t Geeksaresexy.net Dr. J.
Continue reading →Gentle Readers, Dr. J. finds Scotland’s bid for independence somewhere between cute and amusing. It would be like the gulf coast, or, perhaps California, Oregon and Washington voting to leave the U.S. depending on your point of view. The upside … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Our beloved Hello Kitty has been making headlines lately. There has been debate among the chattering classes that the official [mouthless] spokesmodel of the Gormogons has been revealed not to be a cat, and is simply an albino … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Before one of you gets all #waronwimmen on Dr. J. let him state, for the sake of full disclosure that his great-grandmother and grandmother died of breast cancer. His aunt ultimately died of complications from treatment for breast … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Like Clan Czar, Clan J. took in the Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend. The four of us, Dr. J., Mrs. Dr. J., the Lil Resident and Lil Medstudent all loved it, This was no easy feat as … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. saw this casting news this morning. Lucy Lawless will be joining the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast this fall in an unspecified role for an unknown duration of episodes. Dr. J. would like to make a casting … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J.’s thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the Malaysian Airline that appears to have been shot down in the Ukraine by Russian or pro-Russian forces. President Obama gave an odd forty second acknowledgement yesterday … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, As you are aware, The Czar is, among other things, our Grammarian-in-Chief, a title Dr. J. will never own. Weird Al is back! He’s putting out parody videos like he’s back in the ’80s. Dr. J. suspects that … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Happy Bastille Day! This is just a friendly reminder as to how quickly democracy can transform into mob rule, and ultimately tyranny 2.0. and In the words of the greatest president in our lifetime, if not the 20th century, … Continue reading →
Dr. J. loved GorT’s tribute to Nikola Tesla, however, GorT didn’t quite get it right with regard to Tesla’s fan base. Back in the 1980s, the ladies loved Nikola, and indeed, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark (OMD) made a video … Continue reading →
No, not that change of life! Dr. J. spent a good amount of his training time in research related activities, and actually held a grant or two from the NIH at various times in his career. At a critical juncture … Continue reading →
XKDC.COM posted this cartoon today: It shows the surface area of all of the solid celestial bodies in the solar system. Just like on heart, some real estate is better than others for building a home, it nevertheless is pretty cool. … Continue reading →
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Human_Fertilization.png One of Dr. J.’s hep-cat progressive friends from on teh Facebook posted this article from the Atlantic during her wailing, rending of garments and gnashing of teeth as a consequence of the narrow-in-scope Hobby Lobby decision. The article tries, like so many, … Continue reading →
It is all as Dr. J. has foretold. The Supreme Court upheld the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 5-4. Dr. J. expected more intellectual honesty from the ladies (and Mr. Breyer) of the court, resulting in a 7-2 or … Continue reading →
From the Fox News link on the Redskins Trademark ruling, this quote from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “Daniel Snyder may be the last person in the world to realize this, but it’s just a matter of time until he is … Continue reading →
Today, the US Patent office ruled 2-1 that the Washington Redskins’ trademarks are patently offensive. What his means is that folks can make legally make Redskins memorabilia without paying royalties to Dan Snyder, the Redskins and the NFL. The Redskins, … Continue reading →
Dr. J. wrote on this subject over a year and a season ago, that is that new life begins at conception. That is scientific fact. It has stronger evidence than global warming, and certainly stronger evidence than man-made causes of … Continue reading →
The other night, Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) was soundly defeated in his primary by Virginia citizen David Brat. The punditosphere proceeded to navel gaze and read the tea leaves as it is not everyday, or even every primary, in which an … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Superbusy is evolving into the new normal for Dr. J. Today’s mailbag has three letters. The first comes form Operative Run SMC regarding the Apple/Dr. J. Axis: Dear Dr. J., So, I think Apple knows who you all … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, One of Dr. J.’s colleagues posted this meme on his Facebook page. It is emblematic with the problems of environmental leftists in particular and leftists in general. Their point is obvious. The pollution in cities in the early … Continue reading →
Our beloved Archivist, the one and only Marie writes: I’m catching up on lackadaisical reading; my apologies. Re: April 18th, “The Science of Contraception”, I think you nailed the 4 associations on the continuum quite fairly. As a Millenial Catholic, … Continue reading →
Dr. J. took in the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune last week. The movie discussed director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to make the movie Dune in the early 1970s. Dr. J. highly recommends the movie if you are a film junkie and/or are curious to … Continue reading →
Dr. J. saw this many moons ago, but it took Volgi’s Baltimore post to motivate him to post it. Besides Dr. J. has a gap in clinic and feels guilty for his conspicuous absence. He’s been buried on the inpatient … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, the Retired Spook writes: Dear Dr. J., Thought you might find this story interesting. Tuesday night, I got home from work to find that only one of the horses had showed up for feeding, so I grabbed a … Continue reading →
Over at NRO, Dr. Donna Harrison, the president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, reviews the science of contraception in the context of various methods ability to passively, or actively kill a fertilized egg. It is a … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. has never been thrilled with the president’s foreign policy. Bowing to foreign leaders, alienating friends, acting overly friendly to rivals and enemies, unilaterally disarming, making red lines and letting them be crossed, droning enemies, hiring the … Continue reading →
If Koch is the devil, then here’s one of Hell’s Bells! Gentle Readers, The editorial is two days old, but Dr. J.’s been recredentialing, and saving lives, in that order. Charles Koch, who the Progressives have portrayed as the devil … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. received this missive in his email today: Dr. J. scratched his head on this one because, he was of the understanding that pixels came from pixel mines in remote deserts such as the Jundland Wastes. Nevertheless … Continue reading →
Dr. J. wrote The Czar earlier today: Dear The Czar, You pretty much nailed my issues with the show. Sagan’s show was a series of self-contained episodes. Each one had a logical flow and a beginning and an end. Sagan … Continue reading →
Operative RKB Writes regarding Dr. J’s recent post: Dear Dr. J.: False premise: substantial numbers of government documents are printed with inkjets False minor premise: Of those documents printed on inkjet printers, the text to graphic ratio amounts for a … Continue reading →
“Dr. J. would return that $400M to the taxpayers. ‘Puter would be a better government steward of it than the Democrats.” – Confucius (The Notorious OEV) Gentle Readers, Dr. J. has been hideously busy of late, and as a consequence, … Continue reading →
Over at National Review Online, also known as the other, albeit Flash and pop-up ad laden, intersection of Popery and Conservatism on the internet is a forum on two very important cases being argued before the Supreme Court today. Specifically, Sebelius, Sec. … Continue reading →
This is about how qualified I am for the job. Dr. J.’s lefty Facebook friends have been going apoplectic regarding the fact that anyone would have objections to President Obama’s moderate, even-tempered and exceptionally qualified, albeit young Surgeon General nominee, … Continue reading →
…who knew? Dr. J. wondered if he was in the right place… Clan J. was traveling back from Dr. J.’s ancestral home, and stopped by The Maryland House off I-95 at about 4:30 in the morning to void, buy more … Continue reading →
Operative SMC writes: Dr. J, The following comes from my favorite local bank. The CEO sends a weekly email to customers from the economist Robert Genetski. The following article by Genetski is illuminating on the 2008-present recession/depression. Here’s a link … Continue reading →
Motown Philly…back again! Gentle Readers, Dr. and Mrs. J. and the J.lings are leaving the confines of the #snowdome and are headed north to visit Mama J. and the J.-in-laws this week. He leaves the blog in The Czar’s more … Continue reading →
We don’t need no welfare state…everybody pulled their weight… Gentle Readers, If you pay attention to the debate on food stamps, earned income tax credits, section 8 housing, extending unemployment, etc…conservatives argue that it creates a disincentive to work and … Continue reading →
Our reach is vast. This morning, your Gormogon overlords had their 1.5 millionth hit. This translates to a hit about every thirty seconds since our inception. Over seven thousand and six hundred posts later and the hits keep coming. We … Continue reading →
Hypercubes are cool. Dr. J., like GorT, checked out Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos deux. He will re-watch the episode as he didn’t quite finish it out because he had a case of the sleepies. While he found the pacing a little … Continue reading →
Apparently the Russian Army is storming a Ukranian air force base in Crimea, despite calls for a diplomatic solution during their phone call yesterday. I will make it legal… Remember President Obama’s words to former President Medvedev? “After my election … Continue reading →
Dr. J. typically walks in lock step with GorT on most issues, especially the mocking of self-important left wing celebrities who support causes that either offend the sensibilities of (e.g. Planned Parenthood), or by effect keep the regular folk down … Continue reading →
So far so good. Maybe we will have it available for deployment in your hometown next winter. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Yesterday you learned that in space, no one can hear you scream, unless you’re Hello Kitty. Today, or friends at NPR, YES OUR FRIENDS AT NPR posted this at their blog. Hermiting is really working out for the Hermit Kingdom … Continue reading →
Let the kids play, and call the games straight Gentle Readers, Dr. J. always believed that referees are best not noticed. Invisibility correlates with quality officiating, especially in high stakes settings. There are two example that he would like to … Continue reading →
The Retired Spook writes: Dear Dr. J; I don’t suppose I could prevail upon your inherent good nature to have Mandy target the Anti-Snow Ray about 100 miles further south, could I? It’s nothing personal, but growing up in Alabama, … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. saw this article in the Washington Times, in which a movement is described proposing to have upstate New York* secede from greater NYC. This would be a partial secession as partitioned upstate and NYC would be … Continue reading →
Nothing like a little armored hellfire to spice up the games… Dr. J.
Continue reading →To: The Inscrutible Mandarin From: Dr. J. Re: Operation Snowdome Dear Mandy: The Orbiting Anti-Snow Ray works! New Atlantis remains snow-free! Suck it Atlanta! Best, Dr. J. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Gentle Readers, We have a winner in the Westminster Dog Show, and the Best in Show was a Fox Terrier named Sky. The Terrier mafia strike again. Her time down the hill wasn’t the best, but her reverse triple copter … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, In addition to the Olympics, the Westminster Dog Show is taking place! That’s an event that will never be hosted in Sochi, for very obvious reasons, including the fact that the Venn diagram of dog show people and … Continue reading →
Flame on! Gentle Readers, As you know, Dr. J. is the Olympics aficionado of the group. He would have posted this sooner, but he watched the Opening Ceremonies DVR’d as it was Senior Night for the Bene Gesserit Witches basketball … Continue reading →
Created by Chris Kolmar and our new friends at Movoto and also featured at Geeks are Sexy: The nice thing about pocket dimensions is that they’re bigger on the inside… h/t Movoto.com Dr. J.
Continue reading →Dr. J., as you know, is not a fan of the Obama administration, but in addition to good willed disagreements with the President on policy, his perception of the President and the First Lady, is that they do not strike … Continue reading →
“The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” … Continue reading →
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for New Yorkers under the reign of former Sandinista fundraiser, Mayor deBlasio. Horse drawn carriages are on their way out, unless city council continues to stall the issue. The first big blizzard of … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Back in the day, a lot of prime time programming was within the same continuity. For example, the Fonz was friends with Laverne and Shirley, and ran into Mork from Ork. Facts of Life was a Diff’rent Strokes … Continue reading →
Operative SMC writes after a stint in deep cover: Dr. J, It’s been a couple of years since I last wrote: kids can have that effect as I’m sure you know. Bill Vallicella (maverick philosopher) linked to his friend. I’ve … Continue reading →
Did you catch the State of the Union last night? We didn’t! The truth is that your Gormogons found far better things to do with our Tuesday evening. The Volgi: I watched the Caps-Sabres game. ’Puter considers nothing sweeter than … Continue reading →
Ole’ Grandaddy Dr. J. is the official Apple Aficionado™ of the Gormogons. While the love of Apple by the other Gormogons range from mild amusement, to grudging admiration, to apathy, to outright loathing, Dr. J. is the water carrying fanboy. … Continue reading →
Dr. J. apologizes for the delay in posting this missive addressed to the Czar but forwarded to Dr. J. from the one and only Uncle Jay: Dear Dread & Awful.: A vast smoke screen, wasn’t it? This whole Polar Votrex … Continue reading →
NYT Headline: World to end tomorrow, women and minorities hardest hit. Gentle Readers, Dr. J. would like to expound upon ‘Puter’s ‘Putertastic ‘Polemic posted earlier today. Hey, even if it isn’t as good as your last job, it’s good enough! … Continue reading →
The prayer candle that Dr. J. lit for Lady and Loki J.’s breeder. Lady J. and Loki J.’ breeder suddenly fell ill this week with meningitis and is in the intensive care unit. He is critically ill and while it’s … Continue reading →
Dr. J. would like to wish a congratulations to his Philadelphia Eagles for winning the NFC East outright against the hated Dallas Cowboys, and knocking them out of playoff contention in one fell swoop. Come by the Castle for a … Continue reading →
Sexy Actuary is going to be the hot Halloween Costume in 2014. Girls with glasses, meow! Well, Ed Henry, F. Chuck Todd, Major Lt. Col. Garrett and the rest of the White House press corps (not corpses) can stop asking … Continue reading →
Quit doodling in the margins and get the translation right! Gentle Readers, Dr. J. got a bunch of mail in the last couple of days. The first was from our friend Mark Spahn. It wasn’t directly to Dr. J. but … Continue reading →
Meet Billy.* Billy is the poster boy for Organizing for Action latest fuck-up-the-holidays-with-political-conversation-that-is-not-welcome-at-the-dinner-table. This risible ad campaign is encouraging its email list to talk up the great success that is Obamacare and the Healthcare.gov website. Has the president signed up, … Continue reading →
This landed smack dab in the middle of Dr. J.’s Facebook feed this morning from none other than Dr. Benjamin Carson: It is going to be increasingly difficult to attract outstanding students to pursuing careers in the medical field. This … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, The Holy Father, Pope Francis continues to make headlines, what with the Time Man of the Year award and all. LTC Dan (@LTCDanR) writes: Dear Dr. J., Thoughts? Comments?, LTC Dan Dear LTC Dan, Thank you for writing … Continue reading →
Eric Brown, came up with this nifty compare and contrast between Odin and Santa. The evidence does not have the same weight as the Amazon as front for the North Pole conspiracy, but it is compelling, nonetheless. The Lil Medstudent … Continue reading →
College in the age of the 13th Imam, PBUH! Gentle Reader, The Czar, our self-styled merry prankster has gotten each of us more than once. The cherry in ‘Puter’s Manhattan, hilarious stuff! Dr. J., as an act of revenge, pranked … Continue reading →
The bad news is that Obamacare negatively affects you, our gentle reader. The good news is that Julia is equally bad off. Remember Julia? We lampooned her here a while back. Someone from the Independent Women’s Voice organization came up … Continue reading →
It snowed in New Atlantis last night. Here, the house elves in J. Abbey take a break from scullery duty to enjoy the view of last nights snowfall. Lady J. can be seen gamboling about the courtyard, hunting for game foul. … Continue reading →
As with Loki, the smile only takes the Lil Medstudent so far at school and nowhere with the family. Dr. J.’s busy with being on the consultation service in the hospital this week and last, and dealing with the Lil … Continue reading →
Who else is a suitable companion for The ‘Malcolm Tucker’ Doctor! Sounds like ‘Puter was joyriding in GorT’s time machine again. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Dr. J. lives with an Alabama fan (the Lil Medstudent) and an Auburn fan (the Lil Resident). Dr. J. and Mrs. Dr. J. tend to root for the nearest SEC team to New Atlantis, or our host’s team, just to … Continue reading →
The Metric System….for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for 10,000 years. Dr. J., for a physician and scientist, is strangely comfortable with the Imperial Measurements. He leaves his cc’s, milligrams, meters per second and … Continue reading →
The Holy Father is welcome to join Drs. J. and. Laffer at NACC for Thanksgiving Dinner. We’ll talk macroeconomics. Friend of the Gormogons, Anthropocon writes a fantastic blog piece on Pope Francis’s recent writings. It is definitely worth a good … Continue reading →
This will make sense if you watched the Day of the Doctor Gentle Readers, This contains spoilers, but as it is after the 48 hour embargo period, Dr. J. decided to start off with spoiler free reviews then delve into … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J.’s been horrifically busy of late, so he hasn’t been able to write much of substance and you’ve had to suffer the slings and arrows of My Little Pony jokes and puppy pictures, and not much Gormotastic … Continue reading →
Introducing Loki J. – Lord of Chaos Gentle Readers, We have a new addition to the J. clan. This weekend, we welcomed into our home Lady J.’s half brother, Loki J. Old Grandad, Eng CH Harana Alfie Boe. Lady and … Continue reading →
A compromise, in the name of peace and sanity, ending the rift between between the Pi’sts and the Tau’ists, the later group includes GorT: From xkcd: Conveniently approximated as e+2, Pau is also known as the Devil’s Ratio (because in … Continue reading →
The operative known as Ghost writes to Dr. J., rather than The Czar: O Wielder of the Scalpel Most Fine, I normally write to my overlord who shall not be named, but this…was so…you, that it could not be helped. … Continue reading →
Man, it’s been a sucky year or two, Charlie Brown. The retail sector has no shame. They have been pushing their Christmas decorating earlier and earlier every year. Indeed, the Charlie Brown Easter special back in 1974 was hip to the … Continue reading →
