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Jonathan Aul
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It was between this one and "laughable". Nothing else I found seemed a good fit.
Screenshout of Merriam-Webster "Your 2026 Word" generator -- the chosen word is "slapdash".
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
cover for 1999 album "Fundamental" by Puya
December 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I will always remember the cartoon which referenced that particular interview appearance.
2018 Lalo Alcaraz cartoon showing Stephen Miller holding up a spray-can to apply a swastika to the top of his head -- a reference to Miller's TV-interview appearance that year with very conspicuous spray-on hair.
December 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Or on the wall of their corporate boardroom, perhaps.
Plaque from the boardroom of Engulf & Devour (Our Fingers Are in Everything) -- the evil adversary company plotting to ruin the heroes in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie"
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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It seems to be more due to inertia than anything else.
The Curse of the Diaeresis newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis Mary Norris April 26, 2012 The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “Laocoön” will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the President. Those two dots, often mistaken for an umlaut, are actually a diaeresis (pronounced “die heiresses”; it’s from the Greek for “divide”). The difference is that an umlaut is a German thing that alters the pronunciation of a vowel (Brünnhilde), and often changes the meaning of a word: schon (adv.), already; schön (adj.), beautiful. In the case of a diphthong, the umlaut goes over the first vowel. And it is crucial. A diaeresis goes over the second vowel and indicates that it forms a separate syllable. Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential. Even Fowler, of Fowler’s “Modern English Usage,” says that the diaeresis “is in English an obsolescent symbol.” It’s actually a lot of trouble, these days, to get the diaeresis to stick over the vowels. The autocorrect on my word-processing program (I was just kidding about the hole punch) automatically whisks it off, and I have to go back, highlight the letter, hold down the option key while pressing the “u,” and then retype the appropriate letter. The question is: Why bother? I am not getting paid by the hour. The fact is that, absent the two dots, most people would not trip over the “coop” in “cooperate” or the “reel” in “reelect” (though they might pronounce the “zoo” in “zoological,” a potential application of the diaeresis that we get no credit for resisting). And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep the cow out of co-workers. Basically, we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application. The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most. We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died. This was in 1978. No one has had t…
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Goin' back home
To the Village of the Sun
Out in back of Palmdale
Where the turkey farmers run, I done
Made up my mind
And I know I'm gonna go to Sun
Village, good God I hope the
Wind don't blow
Image showing the Pope singing into a microphone, with eyes closed
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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This makes CBP agent Donahue sound like a Certified Public Asshole (CPA).
Screencap / excerpt taken from Unraveled Press article https://unraveledpress.com/identified-federal-agents-who-pointed-gun-punched-detainee-in-evanston/ describing multiple offences by CBP agent Timothy Donahue and including a photo of him pointing a weapon at unarmed bystanders while another CBP agent beats a handcuffed man lying on the ground. "Unraveled has verified a social media account on X (formerly known as Twitter) belonging to Donahue. While not a prolific user, he has used the account to make disparaging remarks about women and trans people, share racist imagery, and cheer on hate crimes. His tour across Chicagoland this autumn—during which he was easily spotted due to a distinctive red beard and lack of a face covering—included several known instances of reckless driving, menacing people with chemical weapons, and questioning them about their citizenship status."
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Just one thing: If the parents aren't having children, then where are the teenagers and the girls hitting puberty coming from?"
Captain Kirk, in "Star Trek: The Final Frontier", trying to interrupt God: "Just one thing... "
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Oh, I'm sure he knows nothing about it.
Image taken from "Dave Taylor for Congress" website, showing Taylor standing in a warehouse and holding a semiautomatic rifle. https://davetaylorforcongress.com/meet-dave/
October 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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And you can see on Trump's face exactly how well his Alaska meeting went:
Trump's Alaska meeting with Putin: chumped again
October 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Marc Andriessen head superimposed on body of Egghead from 1960s Batman TV series
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I guess Trump doesn't believe in wearing sunglasses.
Donald Trump points to eclipse while conspicuously not wearing protective eyewear.
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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2018 cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz, depicting Stephen Miller spray-on applying a swastika to the top of his shiny head (in reference to Miller having used spray-on hair for his December 2018 appearance on "Face the Nation" -- see: https://youtu.be/lN6ZvcqnaNg?si=zRBid7F1WPoq_ZLO&t=51 )
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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How it started... | How it's going...
Putin and hangdog Trump at Helsinki conference, 2018 Putin and hangdog Trump at Alaska meeting, 2025
August 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Already the 6th IRS Commissioner this year -- that's less than 8 months. Yikes.
49 Charles Rettig 10/1/18-11/12/22 A Doug O'Donnell 11/13/22-3/13/23 50 Daniel Werfel 3/13/23-1/20/25 A Doug O'Donnell 1/20/25-2/28/25 A Melanie Krause 2/28/25-4/16/25 A Gary Shapley 4/16/25-4/18/25 A Michael Faulkender 4/18/25-6/16/25 51 Billy Long 6/16/25-8/8/25 A Scott Bessent 8/8/25- (number) = confirmed appointee A = acting screencap taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioner_of_Internal_Revenue#List_of_commissioners
August 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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No cheating: post your lock screen!
Communications towers on Amboy Road at sunrise
July 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Social Security (and now Medicare) emails have generally been informative and useful, but now -- getting shit like this?

It's a little too on-the-nose.
header from Medicare email: Medicare.gov A message from Dr. Oz on the latest scam
July 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Should be renamed to Department of Noemland Insecurity?
Photo of DHS Director Kristi Noem, standing in front of a row of flags, with DHS seal partially visible on wall behind Detail from same photo, zoomed in to better show dismayed, totally-out-of-her-depth expression on Noem's face
July 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Image of bottomless chasm, from which a speech bubble emerges, reading "Pardon me... do you have any Grey Poupon?"
June 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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If you see this, post a monster.
Steel sculpture of giant ground sloth, Galleta Meadows Sky Art sculptures, Borrego Springs, CA
May 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Hey, @rosemarymosco.com -- this just arrived!
Photo of just-delivered copy of "The Birding Dictionary" by Rosemary Mosco. It's yellow and sits on my desk next to the laptop.
May 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Is that the reason his signature looks the way it does -- because he's asleep when he's signing stuff?
President Trump, seated at his desk with Sharpie in hand, apparently in the act of applying his signature to a document. His eyes are completely closed.
April 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I just realized what else that photo reminds me of:
Crop of the "JD Vance praying" photo, with image pasted in from Star Trek episode "Amok Time" of Spock, deep in 'plak tow' (blood fever).
April 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I saw, at least, that he was good enough to post and acknowledge he'd been wrong on that issue.
Geiger: "I won't delete this tweet because I am a man of honor but, yes... I was wrong on the tariffs in November. He has indeed put blanket tariffs on every country. Trump 2.0 is very different."
April 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Just saw this over at the other place. Seemed relevant.
Screencap of post reading "Wake up babe new geopoliticsVenn diagram has dropped" Graphic shows 3-circle Venn diagram: China's overlap with (S) Korea reads "Fuck Japan"; Japan's overlap with China reads "Fuck Korea"; Korea's overlap with Japan reads "Fuck China"; overlap common to all three reads "Fuck USA".
April 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM