Maybe I shouldn’t have paid for that Rapture insurance.

When it comes to picking colors for the walls, who wears the paints in your household?

Now I want a vaccine to ward off the evil effects of Tylenol.

Had to happen — that goddamn spatula’s always been an asshole.

Anti-science creeps northward. 😳 Dr. Boileau's comments suggest ignorance of asymptomatic spread, the exponential harm of each infection (including long COVID risk), and the effectiveness of layered protections (vaccines, masking in public, cleaning the air): www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Robert Redford? This one really hurts. 😢

Blood donation number 66! #JustDoIt

This week’s flash review: Sail reportsfromthefrontlines.blogspot.com/2025/09/flas...

From that distance? CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

Turns out Mazda didn’t fix their paint problem after all: My CX-5 (9 months old, 15,000 km) has pockmarks pretty much all over but especially on the hood, as if I’d been following a gravel truck for 10 years. The slightest contact leaves a mark. So I guess it’s warranty time. :(

He’s gross

Je veux ouvrir une shop de beignes à St-Donat et appeler ça St-Donut.

Now that Trump and Musk hate each other, is it ok again to thrash a Tesla dealership?

Not a dictatorship at all.

Jon Stewart called Mitch McConnell the Kentucky Fried Reaper and I can’t stop laughing. (Finger Licking Ghoul would also work nicely.)

I don’t even want to know what the hell happened here.

Can we just fucking take a break??

Pas sûr que je vais mémoriser tout ça.

Latest entry in my Lucasfilm chronicles: reportsfromthefrontlines.blogspot.com/2025/07/luca...

Full Windsor all the way, and no dimple please.

New toy.

RFK is getting Measles on Wheels up and running.

So the agency the Trump administration defunded—and which could have provided advance warning about the giant Texas flood—is called NOAA? You can’t make that up.

Blood donation number 65! #justdoit

Why do I find it so satisfying to clean my favorite fountain pen?

New wargame review up on my blog! @gmtgames.bsky.social reportsfromthefrontlines.blogspot.com/2025/07/warg...

So, US senators, how does it feel to doom your country to misery and mediocrity? I hope the payout was worth it. You can regale your family from your deathbed with that sordid tale, when you're telling them how much blood money they're about to inherit.

Let’s look ahead. Would the US Supreme Court want a Democratic president to ever wield the unchecked power they are currently concentrating under Trump? Of course not. Then you can’t have free and fair elections anymore. How does this not lead straight into a second civil war?

Must be nice to own a Supreme Court.

Spotted in a downtown eatery in Montreal. I wonder why it made me think of something by @nonbreakingspace.bsky.social and @gmtgames.bsky.social …

Anyone who still expects there to be midterm elections in the US next year is completely delusional.

Pulse (Pink Floyd) was released in June of 1995, with a flashing light that, well, pulsed out of the case. (Electronic red waves washing over an entire record store wall was a thing to behold.) I’ve been replacing the batteries ever since to keep it going, about once every two years. For 30 years.

I re-watched the West Wing pilot yesterday, and it's still outstanding. But I'd completely forgotten it was a high-concept, parallel universe, sci-fi show.

So how long — and after stirring how much more shit — until Trump declares martial law so his cronies can do whatever they want to whomever the want?

Fountain of Youth • A masterclass in bad and lazy writing, and astonishingly boring as an action-adventure movie. Makes any popcorn taste stale.

This is dictator-level shit. I hope Harvard keeps fighting!

John Dickson Carr’s The Hollow Man (1935) is reputedly the best locked-room mystery of all time. But it’s also an expert treatise on locked-room mysteries, a constant wink at the reader without quite breaking through the fourth wall, and one of the most mind-blowing puzzles you'll ever come across.

Après le conclave, est-ce qu’il y a un convlexe ?

You gotta love it when Trump asks Canadians to vote for him. Literally. You can’t make that shit up.

I hate those people so much. This is the White House posting on X, after 1) admitting the man was deported by mistake, and 2) being ordered by the Supreme Court to bring him back:

Dans son cas à elle, c’est très exactement ça.

Snipers: the original remote workers.

One more box checked in the Perfect Little Dictator’s handbook. (And if you still think this is hyperbole, grab on to something.)

This is poetry.

When the Toddler in Chief says "if you do X, then I will do Y," what he really means is, "I'll do Y no matter what, and claim I did it because you did X." So we might as well do X. Fuck him.

Attack the Capitol (which includes ancilliary benefits such as assaulting police officers and journalists, and possibly getting to hang the VP!) and get a pardon. Just go home. Burn a Tesla charging station—well NOW you’ve done it. Twenty years in jail.

This is going well.