As a wimp who is hating that tonight will dip a few degrees below zero, watching Minneapolitans out protesting in the ice and snow is really something. It’s horrible this is happening when it’s the government terrorizing its citizens just to be bullies. I hope it ends soon.

That second episode of Starfleet Academy was not as good. Some weird choices and Hunters playing she’s so quirky isn’t as fun here. Also, because you have a budget to put robots everywhere doesn’t mean you have to. It’s not Star Wars.

I liked the first episode of Starfleet Academy. Setting a lot of things up…maybe too many? We will see. One thing I didn’t like was the use of the ST movie font in the title sequence because it looked like this: ___STARFLEET ACADEMY— The tail on the Y doesn’t work!

Laughing at someone’s post hoping to be able to see the finished White House ballroom during the July 4th celebrations. That monstrosity is not getting finished for YEARS, if ever!

We have a administration that feels they must be the center of any event. Now there’s talk of interfering with Iran protests because they think it’s about them, and they must “do something” rather than just letting it play out. There’s a narcissistic belief that if they interfere, they get a win.

The troubling thing is that so many of the voices telling you “obey law enforcement and you won’t get killed” are also the ones that build an arsenal for when they expect law enforcement will turn on them.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

If anyone is liable for identifying the killer, it’s Noem. She made the mistake of mentioning another incident with a vehicle he was in, and it was easy to look back for the reports that named Ross.

I really don’t understand the appeal of “foldable” phones.

Happy first Monday of the year. Are you ready to create value for shareholders this year?

You thought this was about drugs? Yeah, the drug is oil, the US is hooked on it, and the administration is making sure we can’t get sober.

Another war for oil. Great.

Whining California Billionaires making more publicity for a proposition that hasn’t started gathering signatures than the proposition team has.

Santa has had it, and he’s on his way out on his T-Rex

Raining at the Rose Parade? 2026 starting out rather odd.

New Year’s Eve excitement, spending remaining FSA funds at CVS.

Thered are two forms of revenue for cable channels. Contracts with cable companies based on subscribers, and ad revenue. I’m guessing no one was advertising on these channels.

Today appears to be the last day for shorts in DFW for 2025. Our 80 degree (in freedom measures) Christmas week is coming to a close. So with that… youtu.be/nhia-Inqg2E?...

With the College Bowl nullified by the actual championships, the only remaining bowl that gets national attention is the Pop Tarts Bowl because they just go for it.

This portion of the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade is for DVC members only. If not a DVC member, please watch this episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch until the all access portion of the parade returns. Have a Magical Holiday!

Whomever at SiriusXM who really loves that awful N*Synch Christmas album really needs to find a new position.

Besides the nostalgia of getting Dynamite magazine at the book fair, can we talk about Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers? A very campy show with post Star Wars dreams, but man, did they make Buck look good week after week. Gex X Bears will remember Gil for sure.

I just saw one of those Facebook cannot have my private data, tomorrow is the deadline, you must copy and paste this posts. Today. In the year of our lord, 2025.

I want a president that will shut the fuck up when a tragedy happens to someone he didn’t like and won’t make it about his stupid self. Archie Bunker was supposed to be someone NOT to be.

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

University shootings, shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at the beach, Rob Reiner and his wife killed in their home, damn what an awful weekend.

I feel I’ve failed when watching Pokémon Go YouTubers travel all over the world to different Pokémon Go events. I apparently should have given up my boring career and played the game “professionally” for YouTube clicks!

Are we sure an Ivy League education isn’t worth it?

For a company like Disney that has fought to extend copyright for decades, and has seen characters that moved to the public domain, put into horror and sexual situations that the company didn’t want associated with these characters, that they would realize exactly what’s going to come out of this.

So Trump says that tiny cars can be produced again. When did it stop? They sold the Smart here, but when you’re up against a jacked up F-350, are you really wanting to be on a roller skate?

People are glad that Warner Brothers has an agreement with Netflix for purchase, leaving the Paramount out. 2 problems. 1. The current administration may stop this as the Ellisons have cozied up to Trump. 2. This doesn’t include the cable channels, so Zazlov can still sell CNN to the Ellisons

I use Oofos slides at home because I need some arch support, you know? (Bones creak) But when it gets cold, they don’t work with socks. I need some slippers with support. Any recs?

It’s World AIDS day. One that our US government has decided to forget, but it’s not just a day to look back on the tragic epidemic, but also to continue fighting for treatment, prevention, and dignity in the face of stigma. The community must act when our leaders fail us. Again.

We were a better country when Texas and Texas A&M didn’t play each other.

Good job psychic friend. Free that money!

So my Peacock subscription lapsed last week, and there’s no specials today (the reason I signed up in the first place) so no NBC for the Thanksgiving Parade for me. YouTube does have some people live streaming on the street, so that’s OK.

Positive trends

Restaurant has the local radio station that’s already given up for the year and is constant Christmas music. Sorry, it’s 85 degrees and I’m not in the mood.

When Steve Jobs came back to Apple and started doing the product announcements there was a thing called the Reality Distortion Field where Jobs could sell changes like No Floppy Disk with ease Trump seems to think he has a similar power, that prices are down and things are great, but it doesn’t work

This latest batch of Epstein emails and the upcoming vote on the files is really rattling the right. You can tell by how much they are ramping up the rhetoric on the trans community and furries today. It’s a coordinated move.

Trump doesn’t want to look like he lost a vote in the House, so he’s now on the side of having the House vote for the release. This is knowing he can influence the Senate to block it, or, if it passes there, veto it. It’s still going to be a long road.

Lots of talk about Paramount, Bari Weiss’s Paramount, making a new Star Trek movie. They say it won’t be connected to anything previous, which likely means a separate, but similar idea to the Kelvin timeline movies (Chris Pine, etc). Now will they try to make it conservative?

Bill Clinton is 79. We all know he was a horndog. That reputation is burnt in. Whether true or not, he should release a short statement saying “yes, that happened”. Don’t even say what. Then watch the cult try to deal with that.

Do not want to know what glands have to be expressed to go into a bottle of Trump Fragrance.

The ACA was designed to get more people covered by insurance and because they had insurance, they would get regular checkups and more preventative care. It was a way to slow the growing problem of growing catestrophic care flooding emergency rooms. Spending some on insurance subsidies was cheaper!

Too many democrat senators more worried about their personal holiday plans than the loss of healthcare economic support.

Mamdani is going to implement Shania Law. It won’t impress you much but man, you’ll feel like a woman.

I beg the Democrats to run someone in every district. Make all Republican have to answer questions and work for it. No easy wins, no hiding behind incumbency. But I also beg them to not run this guy. Go to Florida like you said you would, Andrew.