As of today, I have outlived my father. He died young, but it is a surreal feeling knowing the man I viewed as so much older than me was never as old as I am now. I also have an odd feeling of survivor’s guilt.
Anybody know what Michigan senate candidate Abdul El Sayed and Spanish knight/warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar “El Cid” have in common?
In a general election, if one candidate supports killing one million people and and the other candidare supports killing that same million plus another million, does boycotting that election do anyone any good?
Should we say homophobic things about Graham? No. But we can say fuck him for oppressing his likely fellow queer people along with pretty much everyone else around the world with his wars.
I see the hasbara bots have started reposting my posts with criticism of the leftist-Palestinian movements. Do not take these as an endorsement of Zionism. Israel is the worse of the two sides in this conflict, and it will remain as such until every settlement in the West Bank is dismantled.
(1) 200 years ago today, the second and third presidents of the United States, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. It was the 50th anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of Independence and they were both signers. But this coincidence goes deeper…
ok, so I don’t “remember“ this show and it’s not as good as the old Dick Van Dyke Show, but it is still another Carl Reiner gem and it deserves more attention. It’s on Tubi!
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo agoName a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.
I don’t trust Newsome at all, but he’s clearly getting under trump’s skin. Newsome’s primary opponents would be wise to study what he‘s doing right.
I should have noticed this three months ago, but Neil Sedaka died 40 years almost to the day after his long time songwriting partner Howard Greenfield died. And they both died less than two weeks away from their next birthday!
The Republican Party is a white supremacist fascist party and should only be referred to as such.
I can’t decide whether RFK jr. is a eugenicist who thinks he‘s bettering the human race by killing off the weak or if he’s just a sadistic psychopath who just likes killing people for the hell of it. There’s evidence for both.
The most likely explanation for Fetterman’s behavior is that he’s mad at the left for opposing Israel and is taking it out on their other prioritie, but I am starting to wonder if Israel, Trump, or both have kompromat on him.
I don’t trust Graham Platner at all, but at this point, the best course of action is supporting him. I know we’re rolling the dice, but better to roll the dice than to write off the seat as a loss.
My name for the republicans on the supreme court is John Roberts and Four Klansmen, featuring Uncle Clarence and Aunt Amy.
86 75309 Jenny wrote that. I think we know why Tommy Tutone never had another hit!
Is it illegal to deface a US passport? Not asking for any particular reason.
Is going on with the American elite, especially in the post me too era. It may even be subconscious for some of them. (5) (fin)
mass murder of many young girls who were the daughters of the nobility. The countess was sentenced to imprisonment in her castle because the Hungarian nobility was immune to the death penalty and they didn’t want to set the precedent of executing a noblewoman. I think something similar (4)
Would make them look bad if they convicted him of a heinous crime. I just heard a podcast about Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian blood countess. While historians debate how much of her story is true, she was convicted of the (3)
Even though Trump is dangerous man who threatens them personally, they think letting Trump face consequences threatens their protections from bad things they have done, even if it’s far less than Trump. The fact that many of them were friendly with Trump for years (2)
This gets at a possible reason why so many elites (including Dem party leaders) fight trump with one hand tied behind their backs. They know their elite status protects them from most consequences. They know Trump is a madman, but they also know he’s an elite. (1)
Dang, another surprising celebrity death with James Van Der Beek! Better detection and treatments have lowered the colon cancer death rate, but the disease is becoming more common in younger people for some reason.
I don’t know why Catherine O’Hara‘s death shocked me so much, but it really did. I forgot about her having Situs Inversus, though, so maybe that was a factor. It is associated with a lot of complications.
The first democrat to say that Trump created a police state in Minnesota and is planning to take it nationwide has my vote in the 2028 democratic primary* *Some provisos apply
One thing I’ve learned in a decade of teaching: when someone is ignorant, no matter how angry you get at them, it won’t make them not ignorant.
Just finishing up my annual viewing of Happy New Year Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown is supposed to be in 2nd or 3rd grade, so how is he taking Russian literature? And why is he the only one in his class who has to read War and Peace?
J.D. Vance is a white supremacist. Like most idiot racists, he makes arbitrary exceptions for people he likes.