Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

it’s that time again

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I thought this was the “Ironic” (30th Anniversary) music video

I fought in Afghanistan as a Marine. Danes were in Helmand before Marines were. 43 Danes gave the last full measure of devotion because the U.S. asked and we had been attacked. I’m ashamed this man is the commander in chief. This isn’t how you treat friends who bled with you.

NATO did not "stay a little back, off the front lines." Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces. Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.

S: My brain hurts. You answered my question but gave me a million more. And I can't keep track of them all. Me: And that's science. S: <dramatically grabbing head> owwww

Star Trek IV: The One with the Whales with Big Naturals

This gets at one of the biggest problems with American left-of-center political culture: the default to subsidies. Not only is it simply incorrect, as the thread shows, but it leads to a zero-sum worldview, that for someone to gain, someone has to lose.

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Local BBSes and FidoNet Echos.

I suspect the folks at FarmArt didn't think about how their logo would look with the van doors open.

I’ll say again, In IRQ & AFG, our own troops would render aid to & assist in medevac of enemies who had just tried to kill them in a firefight. They treated them better than ICE treats fellow citizens. That’s what being professional & supporting the rule of law looks like.

To the tune of “two turntables and a microphone.”

Just thinking about how this was framed as a “peaceful protest of justifiably concerned citizens” by the media and it was all over not being able to go to Applebee’s for a month

Yes, but—and I cannot stress this enough —Obama wore a tan suit.

underrated part of [gestures vaguely at the online episteme and then at politics in general for the last 2 decades] is the degree to which *the concept of civic virtue as a thing which a person could have* has been actively rotted out

i remember when the computer still demanded blood. my dad's Tandy took a mere pinprick from your finger, which was a revolutionary advancement from the bulky machines of the 80's that required a thimbleful to access usenet for a day. that itself was an improvement on the pint needed to join ARPANET

It’s very convenient: No matter what she did, you can claim she was disobeying police orders. Which in the minds of a depressing number of people with a taste for boot leather, merits summary execution.

Going to the AAA office to pick up a TripTik and some TourBooks.

story book forest sign, ligonier, pennsylvania, 1984

quoth the raven: couldn't score

NFL script writers really knocked the season finale out of the park

Can’t we just feed the refineries one of those miracle berries?

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We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

It’s Gamer Week on What’s My Line.

Dumping grass clippings on the winning coach at the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl makes perfect sense

Now let’s pop these tarts

WE’RE

PENN STATE WINS THE SICKOS COMMITTEE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND PINSTRIPE BOWL

If I had a dollar for every British astrophysicist named Brian who put their career on hold to join a chart-topping pop group and then successfully pivoted back to astrophysics, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it’s happened twice www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...

Power’s out. Ran the extension cords to run the furnace, fridge, and freezer from the IONIQ 5. We also had numerous flickers earlier in the day, which is how I learned the computer/NAS/Internet UPS needs new batteries.

Powerful Christmas Day winds gusting up to 114 mph severely damaged UC Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, forcing the nearly 140-year-old facility to close while officials headquartered at UC Santa Cruz assess structural damage and begin repairs expected to take months.

Idea: A heat pump water bath for sous vide cooking. The cold side of the heat pump would be in an ice bath for post-cook chilling. It efficiently keeps the hot side hot, and the cold side cold. I call it the Multichamber Dual-Level Temperature controller. Now I just need to think of a good acronym.

The dogs and cats are not complying with “paper goes in the bag.”

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Do they even have Arthur Treacher’s in Canada?

That's crazy.

Doing my part to keep endangered local foodways alive.

Pretty sure I've *never* had to apologize for being white, but then again I can't recall doing anything that drew attention to that other than occasionally clapping on the 1 and 3.

I hope they get it fixed before Christmas. There’s no present like the time.

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@siracusa.social My wife went on a Girl Scout tour of NORAD in the 80s!

As a lifelong Chicago City BC fan, this looks fine to me.