N.N. Scott
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"A chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
🎶 The Rockets’ Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting in Air 🎵
January 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM
🎶 The Rockets’ Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting in Air 🎵
We deserve it and we’re gonna get it good and hard
January 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
We deserve it and we’re gonna get it good and hard
TV Businessman Make Burger Cheap
January 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM
TV Businessman Make Burger Cheap
In support of your point and because I am insane, I still have my email dating back to 1994. Did a search for "floppy" or "diskette." Got a hit from February, 1997. I can guarantee we were not talking about 5.25 inch disks here. The word "diskette" did not get a single hit in all my old email.
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
In support of your point and because I am insane, I still have my email dating back to 1994. Did a search for "floppy" or "diskette." Got a hit from February, 1997. I can guarantee we were not talking about 5.25 inch disks here. The word "diskette" did not get a single hit in all my old email.
I hope I'm not the only one who thought "SINNER"
January 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I hope I'm not the only one who thought "SINNER"
I agree and I also think it may be because, as some leavers have told me, that's exactly the argument the rightist-trad-fashes make on X: "Don't be a coward and leave! Stay and debate us!"
January 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I agree and I also think it may be because, as some leavers have told me, that's exactly the argument the rightist-trad-fashes make on X: "Don't be a coward and leave! Stay and debate us!"
Sympathy. Had similar here. It hurts like hell but I say pay it and stay mobile.
January 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Sympathy. Had similar here. It hurts like hell but I say pay it and stay mobile.
I assumed the writer just has a lot of subs there, has pruned their feed so that they personally don’t see the abuse images, and doesn’t like being asked to take a moral stand.
January 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I assumed the writer just has a lot of subs there, has pruned their feed so that they personally don’t see the abuse images, and doesn’t like being asked to take a moral stand.
Narrator voice: “But as some viewers may have already guessed, the can was completely empty”
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Narrator voice: “But as some viewers may have already guessed, the can was completely empty”
If that had been drawn in the style of an editorial cartoon, would you have had the same objection?
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
If that had been drawn in the style of an editorial cartoon, would you have had the same objection?
She really ought to show up at the White House with a giant gold-plated loving cup from a sports trophy store, engraved with the words "Noble Prize". He likely wouldn't know the difference.
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
She really ought to show up at the White House with a giant gold-plated loving cup from a sports trophy store, engraved with the words "Noble Prize". He likely wouldn't know the difference.
Don't worry; when a Democrat becomes president the Times will suddenly jerk awake, recall its sainted mission, and begin acidulously investigating and critiquing every statement and every action as a potential Threat to Freedom, with the tenacity of a rat hound.
January 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Don't worry; when a Democrat becomes president the Times will suddenly jerk awake, recall its sainted mission, and begin acidulously investigating and critiquing every statement and every action as a potential Threat to Freedom, with the tenacity of a rat hound.
Will it be ready in time for the Grand Memorial, the Biggest Memorial ever?
January 10, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Will it be ready in time for the Grand Memorial, the Biggest Memorial ever?
Lol, you said hegemonic structures
January 10, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Lol, you said hegemonic structures
"And you will often save yourself much discouragement by remembering what I have so often asserted,--that if anything goes wrong, it is nearly sure to be refinement that is wanting, not force; and connection, not alteration."
-- John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing I:39 (1857)
-- John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing I:39 (1857)
January 10, 2026 at 5:40 AM
"And you will often save yourself much discouragement by remembering what I have so often asserted,--that if anything goes wrong, it is nearly sure to be refinement that is wanting, not force; and connection, not alteration."
-- John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing I:39 (1857)
-- John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing I:39 (1857)
Kinda wonder if Andrew Dominik didn't hit his peak with "The Assassination of Jesse James". His big recent achievement was a decade-long obsession with "I wanna make a film about Marilyn Monroe, but more slutty and dirty and abusive." 🙄
January 10, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Kinda wonder if Andrew Dominik didn't hit his peak with "The Assassination of Jesse James". His big recent achievement was a decade-long obsession with "I wanna make a film about Marilyn Monroe, but more slutty and dirty and abusive." 🙄
She still doesn't like your girlfriend
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
She still doesn't like your girlfriend
One of the few films I know I saw, but cannot remember a single scene or incident in it
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 AM
One of the few films I know I saw, but cannot remember a single scene or incident in it
Liberals are indeed furious, but not about that
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Liberals are indeed furious, but not about that
It gets worse. Soon comes "paying for two eggrolls"
January 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
It gets worse. Soon comes "paying for two eggrolls"
The refrain, which I still remember, was "Oh, Harry Truman, your Spirit Lake is gone / But ohhh, Harry Truman, your spirit will live on and on."
January 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
The refrain, which I still remember, was "Oh, Harry Truman, your Spirit Lake is gone / But ohhh, Harry Truman, your spirit will live on and on."
You been blessed by the spirit of... Bird
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
You been blessed by the spirit of... Bird
Someone made a laudatory song about Truman, which got airplay. My uncle mailed cassette tapes of it to family members across the country.
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Someone made a laudatory song about Truman, which got airplay. My uncle mailed cassette tapes of it to family members across the country.
A nation palpitates with desire
January 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM
A nation palpitates with desire