Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!
Lon Harris
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Honestly not sure the first R rated movie I saw in any format, but theatrically, it was for sure 1990's DIE HARD 2.
Do you remember what *your* first R-rated movie was? I finally asked my mom (I couldn't remember), and she told me it was The Lost Boys when I was roughly the same age as my daughter (about 9). The movie traumatized her more than it did me, apparently
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump ADMITTED to doing 9/11 live on the air, as he calls for war on Israel. 🚨 Hear the stunning confession now!!!
Bill Murray would be totally awesome if you felt confident that he would actually show up and try his best, but I feel like there's a strong possibility he would either not show up or do a bad job.
Okay if you had to have a celebrity officiate your wedding who would you choose? I’m going with Mel Brooks
Favorite 90s Horror: 1990: Arachnophobia 1991: Silence of the Lambs 1992: Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993: Cronos 1994: Cemetery Man 1995: The Addiction 1996: The Frighteners 1997: The Relic 1998: John Carpenter's Vampires (I don't count Blade) 1999: Ravenous
Favorite 90s Horror: 1990: Exorcist III 1991: Silence of the Lambs 1992: Candyman/Bram Stoker’s Dracula/Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 1993: Army of Darkness 1994: Interview with the Vampire/New Nightmare 1995: 🤷♂️ 1996: Scream 1997: Scream 1998: Blade (I guess it counts?) 1999: The Sixth Sense
Yeah, I really do think we should intervene and stop this. The "oh but it's a points system, like a video game!" thing is obviously a distraction. Meta wants to teach young people how to gamble, and then connect their platform with Kalshi or Polymarket, who will gladly take your money.
Meta sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling
MUPPET FRANKENSTEIN. (The monster is the only human actor.)
What should have been the third literary adaptation to finish the MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL and MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND trilogy?
It's crass, sure, but I can only get so upset about President Crimes doing dirt bikes and backyard wrestling at the White House. As his Crimes go, this one is mostly victimless. I guess I just don't have a lot of patriotic zeal around monuments or landmarks or whatever.
Watching this whole thing crash out has been a rare pleasure.
Spencer Pratt flying to NYC days before the election to declare on Fox News that he’d win the LA mayoral race outright, spiking the football on election night when a tiny fraction of the votes had been counted then faceplanting & missing the runoff is such an incredible collapse.
I'll gladly open Hormuz on Tuesday for a hamburger today
TRUMP STATES HE ANTICIPATES REACHING AN AGREEMENT WITH IRAN TO PROLONG THE TRUCE AND REOPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ "OVER THE NEXT WEEK" - ABC NEWS
Top 3 Bond songs: (1) "Goldfinger" - Shirley Bassey (2) "You Only Live Twice" - Nancy Sinatra (3) "Skyfall" - Adele
what are your three favorite Bond songs? mine are Man with the Golden Gun, Skyfall, and You Know My Name.
Easy to make fun of their total inability to book anyone even remotely relevant but... I mean, it WOULD be fun to see C+C Music Factory live. Right? Come on.
Very iconic.
They're trying to do bread and circuses but without the bread.
wake up babe the white house is a six flags
Sonny was the last living individual from this legendary 1958 photo. Now they're all ancestors 🙏🏾🎷🕊
"A Great Day in Harlem." August 12, 1958
Hey, here comes that frog. All right.
Rhys Smoker had been preparing a steak and salad dinner when he spotted the frog among the leaves inside the sealed plastic bag he'd bought from a supermarket. https://bit.ly/4dAPOsw?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_NBC4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
Assuming Trump thought this is what they call sand traps in Greece.
Xi told Trump that a major question for the two countries was whether they could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” according to an official English translation of his remarks broadcast by CCTV. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/t...
I love eating meat but this argument is extremely stupid. He explicitly compares banning meat ads to banning cigarette ads, which we do in the US, then acts morally superior, like our First Amendment somehow saves us from banned ads. Get your OWN ARGUMENT STRAIGHT, man.
Amsterdam bans hamburger ads
There’s a lady at the cruise ship bar playing piano and singing but she does like 2 minute quick versions of classics. We just heard abridged “Landslide” and now she’s doing abridged “Piano Man.” It’s kind of brilliant? Or maybe I’ve just had 3 Jack and Cokes.
She and her inner circle are wrong. Recall that when Harris was announced as The Candidate, there was a surge of positivity and momentum among Dems. It only started to drop when voters realized she had bad policy ideas and positions.