During the last election, I said that the bisesquicentennial would be a major moment to be controlled by whoever held the White House that year. 2026 means that whoever stands for that 250th anniversary will set the future for our nation. In 1976, we were still healing. Now? We're just bullies.

"Why doesn't anyone realize that..." "Nobody is talking about this amazing new item that the 'x' industry doesn't want you to know about" "I was shocked when I saw how this product changed my life." (said in an artificial voice) No. I will not buy it. Whatever it is. Even if it WOULD save my life.

Yeah, one kicked your traitorous asses back in '65

"[W]e have the strongest, most powerful, most lethal, and most prepared military on the planet. That is true full stop. Nobody can touch us. It’s not even close." - Sec. of Chickenhawking. So...then. (scratches head) Why the fuck are you so desperate to change it?

I really thought that if a sitting Secretary of State drew all the big brass into one room to tell them to obey the PRESIDENT over the CONSTITUTION, he'd be locked out of his office before he left the stage. Imagine Fox's entire week if Obama tried this shit.

Trump will not show up one morning in a Nazi uniform. He is not a Nazi. He is MAGA. People around him will begin to take on his look and style. Long, red ties and expensive suits that are a little too big here and a little too small there. They will adopt their own image and brand.

I would rather watch two men holding hands with each other than two men holding guns on one another.

Nothing reminds me of Facebook's relevance more than a weather warning that shows up in my feed days after the event has passed. It can pretend to find hate speech but can't fucking deliver storm warnings in a timely manner.

Nextel and Sinclair stations are sustained by local businesses. If they block Kimmel in your area and you don’t like it, let those businesses know you’re happy to patronize their competitors.

Oh FUCK YOU #AlienEarth. I am sick of shows that half-ass a story so they can drag it out into a second season. I hate season finales that just end up being Act 1 of some unwritten, unguaranteed next season.

Hey, #lunchables? Your "Stop Hitting Yourself" spot is the most annoying advertisement I've seen in a long time. Watching "Alien: Earth" I have to sit through your unskippable shit every break and I am NOT your target demo. I want the xenomorph to eat both of those kids.

Fun Fact: The Rapture DID happen today, but the standards were much higher than anyone thought. Oops.

No, I'm not interested in seeing all your Word Game shares. However, they are preferable to seeing just one picture of our demented and evil President.

We grew up afraid that artificial intelligence would grow to outthink humans and destroy the infection of us from the planet. In reality, that decision might be made when ChatGPT is asked to order a hot lunch for the President, but orders a nuclear launch instead.

I am just cynical enough at this point that I think boycotts are pranks led by one giant corporation to get people so pissed off they make the competition lose customers or stock value for a short time. You know, little tweaks between obscenely rich people.

This is the world you voted for your children to inherit. Congratulations. You played yourselves.

We are entering an age where all news reports are going to identify the politics of any violent criminal suspects like they do politicians. It'll be bad when they just add a parenthetical shorthand for brevity (LW) (RW) (Anrcst)

Based on the coverage, I don't know if Kimmel was fired or suspended, or if his show was canceled or put on hiatus. I don't know if this is a direct deal between ABC/Disney and the FCC for some fed approval or if there was some real line crossed by the show about Charlie Kirk.

Yes. If you undergo any procedure to enhance your appearance, it is gender-affirming care. You want to look better than what your God chose to make you and subscribe to a common standard of a pleasing human aesthetic; you are undertaking gender-affirming care. Boob job. Viagra. Rogaine. Braces.

On a parallel Earth, Rachel Maddow was the one killed in a public appearance and the right is still blaming the extreme left for inciting violence. And every night, Jesse Watters is on the air condemning the liberal left's disgusting attempts to silence conservative patriots for their criticism.

“CHRISTIAN MARTYR” they have started calling him.

Jesse Watters wishes he had Kirk’s audience. Instead he possesses the same angry, pedantic, self-righteous skill of a freshman poli-sci student writing a college newspaper op-ed piece.

Bill Maher's scripts for "Real Time" should delete every instance of "(Hold for Applause)" because more often than not, he pauses and waits for the audience to get the hint that this is what they're supposed to do. Either that or the Applause sign needs to be fixed.

If there's a Hell, there's someone new in charge of deciding which children, specifically, will have to die every day to protect America's Second Amendment. They will be tied to a chair and made to watch their lives begin and end.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the 3000+ victims of 9/11 would have survived this day if they just thought to take a handgun to work with them.

Based on what Charlie Kirk has said about the price of freedom, I guess he'd be okay if we just 'got over it' and tossed his body on the pyre celebrating our 2A rights with the rest of the forgotten dead who paid that price alongside him over these past 250 years.

One rich, successful pundit killed is worth more airtime, prayers, and anxiety than a few anonymous schoolchildren. If only Fox and Friends shed as many tears and felt so deeply about the tiny bullet-catchers they consider "the price we pay" for the freedom to fetishize firearms.

We also had another school shooting today. No deaths, yet. But if they met one another in line? Awkward.

I did not like anything about Charlie Kirk. But I would prop the door back for him. I would have been polite. I would have told him that he was full of shit. Know what I wouldn't do? Shoot him in the neck in front of an audience of innocent people looking to engage him in open discourse.

Murder makes martyrs. Fucking remember this. Well, too late.

Damn fine first episode.

"If that piglet disfigures my work, I'm gonna turn her uterus into a sock puppet." -The kind of voice we need in this America, right the fuck now.

The new Audio Drama Project is at 458 pages and 114K* words across 12 episodes in the story. I am on my third or maybe fourth pass of this version of a script that began as a draft almost 10 years ago and bears no resemblance to its original concept except blackmail, action, and pop culture.

Hey. Here's a nutty idea. You know who could release the Epstein Files to the public? Journalists.

What's insidious about the vaccination debate is that the side warning against it was alive when diseases were slaughtering children and witnessed the miracle those vaccinations performed on the world! They are preaching to generations who never lived in that horrible time before and just don't know

#alienearth is creepy as fuck. If you love bugs and body horror - this is the "Alien" you've been waiting for with Kubrickian glee.

It is fitting that the party that wants to convince you that the evidence of Trump's crimes is 'fake' is also the party that doesn't believe in the concept of gaslighting.

I blame the voters. Trumpers and those who sat out the vote. I blame the DNC and its weak, pathetic fight. THEY are to blame for every child who goes without, every person who lost their medical coverage or social assistance, who has to fight harder to stay alive and function in our country.

It's not Trump. He is the Ronald McDonald of a larger, more insidious entity. If he dies, he becomes a martyr. When he dies, someone will rise promising to carry on his now-immortal crusade to MAGA. But it's just the mission of autocracy to make us WANT to surrender our identity.

#dragoncon You know you're attending not just an EVENT but an institution when people start cosplaying parts of you - the hotel carpet, the badges, the signage...

I can’t believe this country still believes that if it gets too cocky, other countries won’t just make better deals with China and other markets. America can price itself right out of business.

How much do you think America's Mayor can sell his Medal of Freedom for to pay on his court-ordered awards?

I'm beginning to wonder if the Democratic Party is not really incompetent and weak, but perhaps now complicit in the demolition of our Republic. If the stakes are as high as they claim (and they are), a hero would have risen by now. Silence and impotent rage prevail.

It gives me no joy to say it, but "Four and A Half Vulcans" was one of the most pointless and dumb episodes in the almost 60 years of the entire franchise. The actors did their best, but it's the kind of product that would require mandatory drug testing of all involved if it were not entertainment.

Other countries around the world are looking at us whine and complain about corruption and fascism thinking, "They do not have the stomach for what needs to be done. They wouldn't put down their Starbucks to help a neighbor in need much less cover the real cost required to take back their country."

Just as I posted my Balticon schedule, here is my revised schedule of appearances at #dragoncon this year! . . . . & .