Muskrat sure must admire Harry S, but in a twisted way. Because it sure does appear that all DOGE is doing is redirecting government contracts to Muskman companies.

People regretting their vote last November forget what it was they were voting for. None of it was kept secret. It was all out there, in the open, when I first posted this last October.

I don't think the one and only doge approves.

More apropos today than it was five years ago when this was first posted.

The original photo:

My ride is here.

AI-generated image-to-video of a Seibu Tamagawa train traveling along track in western Tokyo, ca. 1979. The original photo was in black-and-white; the AI-generated colorization (not my choice) winds up pretty close to what the private train line's livery colors were forty year ago.

Oh, snap! I swear, we're now living in a comic book parallel universe. Except Mango Mussolini calls Lex Luthor instead of that other immigrant, Superman.

You should know the name of the winner on the left by now: Ryan Seacrest. You probably don't remember the name of his Season 1 co-host there on the right. History remembers. Brian Dunkleman.

Tokyo Industrial Exhibition commemorative postcard, Ueno Park, Tokyo, 1907.