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As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be Nick Charles.
Interesting
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be Nick Charles.
It was only a matter of time.
Guardians’ Emmanuel Clase, Luis Ortiz indicted on charges linked to illegal sports betting
Ortiz was arrested Sunday in Boston and will appear in court Monday. Clase was not in custody as of early Sunday afternoon.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It was only a matter of time.
Hypothesis: old people are so crabby because they are still watching commercials.
I hope all of y'all bemoaning the lowering of standards of network TV know the average primetime TV viewer's age is 64.6. The channel with the youngest viewers Bravo has an average age of 59. The big three network news average age is 69. 1/2
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
TV Viewers Are Aging. These Shows Bring In the Oldest Audiences
CBS has the grayest primetime audience (and the largest one), while Fox’s five animated series helped age down that broadcaster during the 2023-24 season.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Hypothesis: old people are so crabby because they are still watching commercials.
Is someone actually saying that expecting someone to not get a Nazi tattoo is holding them to impossible standards? It is remarkably easy not to get any kind of tattoo. All you have to do is nothing.
Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Is someone actually saying that expecting someone to not get a Nazi tattoo is holding them to impossible standards? It is remarkably easy not to get any kind of tattoo. All you have to do is nothing.
I wonder which liberals don't recognize this? Those familiar with the Cold War are not the least bit surprised about the idea of an international connection between movements hostile to democracy. For example, the Kremlin just switched ends of the horseshoe.
one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
October 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I wonder which liberals don't recognize this? Those familiar with the Cold War are not the least bit surprised about the idea of an international connection between movements hostile to democracy. For example, the Kremlin just switched ends of the horseshoe.
The Long Good Friday. Late 1970s British gangsters in suits. Bob Hoskins and the unimprovable Hellen Mirren. Funny, it includes The Godfather trope that protagonist mobsters don't run drugs.
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Long Good Friday. Late 1970s British gangsters in suits. Bob Hoskins and the unimprovable Hellen Mirren. Funny, it includes The Godfather trope that protagonist mobsters don't run drugs.
Circus peanuts. For god's sake, why?
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
Wood pulp, I'm definitely not eating that.
The sequel Star Wars movies, I already saw them and I don't care to see them again.
The Horst Wessel Song, I for one don't care to listen to Nazi music.
The sequel Star Wars movies, I already saw them and I don't care to see them again.
The Horst Wessel Song, I for one don't care to listen to Nazi music.
“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”
Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.
Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.
Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.
Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.
Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.
Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.
October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Circus peanuts. For god's sake, why?
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
October 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Judgespeak for, "The only reason this is taking so long is that your arguments, while transparently dumb, are legion."
BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Judgespeak for, "The only reason this is taking so long is that your arguments, while transparently dumb, are legion."
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, "How could they tell?"
Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.
September 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, "How could they tell?"
This is what we have lost.
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is what we have lost.
I'm just glad my parents identified as people who loved their children.
You have to understand all of this through the prism of identity. This is not about facts and evidence and science. This is about group membership and affective politics. Clearly the consequences are deadly.
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year
We are getting dumber as a society
We are getting dumber as a society
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I'm just glad my parents identified as people who loved their children.
Nobody in the Democratic Party would be the slightest bit surprised if Bill Clinton wound up in the Epstein business, nor would they fall all over themselves to defend him. That's a Team Red thing.
Yes, like slap bracelets, AOL CDs and whatever show that was programmed in on NBC on Thursday nights after "Friends," Bill Clinton was left in the 90s and not carried forward to the current day
the odd idea that Bill Clinton in particular is someone the modern left would have a difficulty letting go of...
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nobody in the Democratic Party would be the slightest bit surprised if Bill Clinton wound up in the Epstein business, nor would they fall all over themselves to defend him. That's a Team Red thing.
Truth.
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
September 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Truth.
The fan service in Rogue One contributes to its strengths and weaknesses. Strengths. They know that we know where this is going. Shooting Vader's boarding the rebel frigate as a horror movie or Aliens scene is awesome. Weaknesses. The CGI Tarkin and (especially) Leia drop kick you out of the movie.
August 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The fan service in Rogue One contributes to its strengths and weaknesses. Strengths. They know that we know where this is going. Shooting Vader's boarding the rebel frigate as a horror movie or Aliens scene is awesome. Weaknesses. The CGI Tarkin and (especially) Leia drop kick you out of the movie.
Rewatching the big command conference in "Rogue One." Wow, the Rebellion really needs a George Washington or General Giap. Death Star? Just another name for Yorktown or Dien Bien Phu.
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Rewatching the big command conference in "Rogue One." Wow, the Rebellion really needs a George Washington or General Giap. Death Star? Just another name for Yorktown or Dien Bien Phu.
Nothing is so bad that fraudsters cannot make it even worse.
American Bar Association issues alert regarding fraudulent immigration law practices
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2025 — The American Bar Association (ABA) today issued an alert to the public regarding a sharp increase in the number of individuals fraudulently posing as immigration attorneys,...
www.americanbar.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Nothing is so bad that fraudsters cannot make it even worse.
Pay no attention to the occupation army. Pretend they are just drunk drivers and public urinators doing their community service.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Pay no attention to the occupation army. Pretend they are just drunk drivers and public urinators doing their community service.
Reposted
What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
August 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
On the up side, smarter, more deserving countries may inherit the Earth.
Hey congrats to everyone who took the soft anti-vaccine stance of “mRNA vaccines aren’t 100% effective and aren’t useful against future variants so the mRNA vaccines aren’t good, we need to mask forever”, your stance has been noted by RFK Jr. to kill mRNA technology in America.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
On the up side, smarter, more deserving countries may inherit the Earth.
"Make this guy's life sound better, but plausibly so. I mean, not so much that people who knew him would actually laugh."
This is essentially amped-up Mad Libs for eulogizing.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
August 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Make this guy's life sound better, but plausibly so. I mean, not so much that people who knew him would actually laugh."
Not very common take: a competent oligarch would have used his White House influence to get immunity from lawsuits instead of torpedoing USAID clean water projects in South Sudan.
Tesla ordered to pay $200 million in punitive damages over fatal crash
A court found Tesla partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash that involved the electric vehicle company's Autopilot system.
www.cbsnews.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not very common take: a competent oligarch would have used his White House influence to get immunity from lawsuits instead of torpedoing USAID clean water projects in South Sudan.
The bait-and-switch subject line of an ultimately disappointing Kickstarter email.
August 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The bait-and-switch subject line of an ultimately disappointing Kickstarter email.
If the walls of my lawyer office were lined with bookshelves full of case reporters, they would only be to conceal the entrance to the Counselcave.
It's funny, but the effing 2015 Ghostbusters was one of the only movies I've ever seen whose stylized Faculty Office looked like a faculty office I've ever been familiar with.
Hello, I'm a historian in a film. My office is a massive space filled with Persian rugs, leather couches and massive wooden bookcases. There's a Tiffany lamp on my desk and an original Gutenberg Bible on a stand next to it. I am wearing a tweed suit with five layers.
July 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If the walls of my lawyer office were lined with bookshelves full of case reporters, they would only be to conceal the entrance to the Counselcave.
[narrator voice]: The Bad News Bears did not actually win their final game, but did get all the beer, which was the important part.
July 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
[narrator voice]: The Bad News Bears did not actually win their final game, but did get all the beer, which was the important part.