Watching a lot of the Cabinet and other lemmings testify before committees, it’s apparent to me that these folks think because the President can act with impunity that they can as well.
I’m looking forward to the finding-out phase where if there is a shred of justice in the universe, each of them will be assigned new jobs working the third shift at a 7-11 in the places they screwed the worst.
A question that is absolutely positively not related to anything that just happened.
You receive a voicemail from a family member you have no desire to talk to, be in the same room with, or deal with ever again. In that voicemail, they sound sad and would really like to talk to you, but then they say something like “Why don’t you pull the stick out of your ass and call me?”
Are you:
A) More Likely to call?
B) Less likely to call?
C) Decide that the Heat Death Of the Fucking Universe will occur before you talk to that person?
Care to guess what answer I chose?
It’s going to be very easy to identify who has lost their last shred of humanity for the next little while.
Take note of who they are.
The invention of album art can get lost in the story of technological mastery. But among all the factors that contributed to the rise of recorded music, it stands as one of the few that was wholly driven by creators themselves. Album art — first as marketing material, then as pure creative expression — turned an audio-only medium into a multi-sensory experience.
The Fujita covers are old friends; my parents and my grandparents had many albums with that kind of artwork on the cover. Maybe they were all Fujita or inspired by him. I’ve been thinking about buying a turntable and starting a new collection, and it’s only because the convenience of digital media doesn’t afford you the experience of the art and the liner notes. Even the vinyl gives you that experience now. Back in 1981, the Styx album Paradise Theater had the Styx logo cut into the vinyl and at the time, I thought that was pretty awesome. Now they’re making all sorts of color pressings that could be framed on your wall, never mind listening to it. I miss that. In other news, I’m old and my back hurts.
Watching: 1923, Paramount+
I am completely invested in Yellowstone. It doesn’t hurt that Sam Elliott was in 1883, 1923 is just loaded with actors I like, and Yellowstone was one of the best shows on TV at the time, with characters who were both horrible and compelling. Costner made a huge mistake leaving, but Kevin is going to Kevin.
Reading: A Peoples’ History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.
History is usually written by the victors, not the vanquished. As such, there are things you may not know. This book is not a definitive source for the side you aren’t taught in school, but it’s a damn good starting point. A lot of people consider this to be a heretical book, and Zinn to be too leftist and American-hating. I don’t. Your mileage may vary.
Jamming: Pink Floyd, Meddle thru The Final Cut
Deep diving into the Floyd for the period that most people will tell you is the correct era to be listening. I was on a podcast a while back that asked me to select the Rush Tracks I think people should listen to as a jumping off point. This is my return trip. There’s one more I really want to do, that I don’t think they’ve done yet.
Podding: Call Jonathan Pie, S2
If you don’t know Jonathan Pie, you need to correct this. He’s a satirical character who skewers the news, news broadcasters, and politics. More UK driven than anything else, but he lowers the boom at the EU and USA very well.
Working: I’m still having a hell of a time with that video project, I’ve started it and junked it several times over the past two months. I’m still on it, but I’m going to set a goal of having it done by the end of the Summer. So, Labor Day?
Last night, I attempted to crosspost “Election Day, Eh?” to Bluesky, and I was shocked to see the formatting of that post. This is probably my fault, so some investigation is probably required. The post on Bluesky showed as the title, followed by as much of the post as it could, followed by an embedded link with exactly the same thing. It looked extremely ugly, and if I were a casual reader I wouldn’t click it. There must be a way to do this so that I can write a sentence in a preview message, and that posts along with the embedded link. I’m sure it’s got to be there, I’m just fulfilling my PEBKAC quota.
The fact that El Naranja doesn’t want Amazon to display the additional cost of an item because of the tariffs should cause all kinds of alarm bells.
It won’t. We never do anything until it’s just past too late.
We’re the children of Reagan’s America, where the money will get down here eventually. Any time now.
I turned the comments back off on this site. I knew there was a reason I had them off. I have the Jetpack App on my phone, and when the comment spammers found my site, my phone blew the fuck up. I had everything set to be manually approved before they posted, so that is both the good and bad news. Anyway, we’re back to you getting your own site if you want to respond to any of my half-baked, meaningless babble.
We shall never speak of this again.
Today is the Canadian election, and of course El Naranja couldn’t resist going down the 51st state road again. Every time I hear him talk about Canada being the 51st state, I remember how Saddam Hussein tried to make Kuwait the 19th Province of Iraq.
On a related note, if I was Pierre Polievre, I’d be really pissed at Trump. The Conservatives were poised to win, and win big at the next election. This has done nothing but hand Canada back to the Liberals for another 5 years.
ETTD.
Watching: Bosch Legacy, Season 3
Bosch, for my money, is one of the best shows on TV. Legacy is the last season that Harry Bosch will be the main character, although he may be in the spinoffs as a side character. If you haven’t caught this, it’s on Amazon Prime. Watch this.
Reading: Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams
Memoir about life behind the scenes at Meta/Facebook. Here is your periodic reminder that Facebook was not invented for altruistic purposes, and Mark Zuckerberg has never done the right thing without being dragged to it.
Jamming: Tracy Chapman, Self titled.
There is no better time to listen to this album than RIGHT. NOW.
Podding: Amicus, with Dahlia Lithwick.
Dahlia Lithwick has been covering the Supreme Court forever. I trust what she has to say about the Court, and the law.
Working: I’m suffering from a bit of second thoughts about the video. I’ve scripted three separate versions of something ad aborted halfway through. So, taking another whack at it.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
So, you’re saying it’s settled law? That’s reassuring…
Fuck.
“Easy payments, think of it, the payments, you’ve never seen anything like them, whiter wall tires, I call them whiter wall tires, whiter than ever seen before…”
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The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data.
In response to a lawsuit, the Trump administration said that there were 178 immigrants, all from Venezuela, housed at Guantánamo Bay as of early Thursday.
A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that 177 of the 178 migrants at Guantánamo Bay were deported on Thursday. The one other person was sent to a detention facility in the U.S., the official said.
Gitmo has been a photo op for politicians since the 1960s, so that’s nothing new. I wonder what this one cost? Our tax dollars went to a dog and pony show so…what, some people can see all the brown folks in one place?
It’s ok to waste millions as long as it hurts the people we hate, right guys?
If you are just coming to the website–as opposed to clicking on a link to a post–then you are at the Homepage. The Homepage consists of all the posts with the newest one on top. Each of these posts has a date under each one. This is NOT what I want. What I would like is to have the date at the top of the page, followed by all the posts on that day. then yesterday’s date, and all the posts for that day, and so on. An example would be Daring Fireball. However, I believe he is on something other than WordPress, so it’s not apples to apples.
It boils down to whether the thing that I want is part of “the loop”, the thing that displays the posts in order, for lack of a better term. If it is, I suspect it’s at the very beginning of the code. If not, it is above the loop in the code and I have yet to figure out the hook that will get me what I want.
The learning continues apace.
THR:
Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise, while Wilson and Broccoli will remain co-owners of the 60-year-old property. In 2022, Amazon acquired MGM, including a vast catalog with more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows.
I shudder to think of what’s coming for Bond. I believe No Time to Die was a logical end to the franchise. It should have been. The bottom line is that Bond should be cared for and produced by people who believe in the character and the one thing that never changed in 60 years: Bond is British.
Watters took to the air on The Five to raise the case of his friend, a veteran of 20 years, who was months into a new role at the Pentagon and still under probation but discovered this week that his job was set to be terminated as part of DOGE’s initiatives.
“But, see, what I meant wuz…”
Nope. This is what you asked for.
Could someone inform the Fanta Menace that it takes some wind out of his argument about returning to the office when he spent almost a full year of his first term on a golf course (307 days), and has spent about 8 days of his 29 days so far on the links.
Tell this idiot to have a Coke, a smile, and a fucking seat.
You’ll notice on the two previous posts that there is no title. I was going down a WordPress rabbit hole, and I ended up on Matt Mullenweg’s blog. Matt is a co-founder of WordPress, so I think he’s caught up on what it can do. I was surprised to see posts with no title there. So I tried it here, and damn. Had no idea. So, they’re tweets, more or less. I’m sure you could cross-post them that way. It got me thinking of all the half-baked things I could have put here instead of Elmo’s hellscape.
Go figure
Virginia Beach is forecast to receive 6-10 inches of snow (fun size!), and with that we get a reminder of the dumbest fucking law ever.
