We may not be learning much about democracy, but we’re sure getting a crash course in the alternative

I don’t know a lot about the political situation in the UK but I know enough to know it would be foolish to try to map it onto US politics like this

“Hey! You got incompetence in my corruption!” “You got corruption in my incompetence!”

The pipe weed cartel has a death grip on the economy of the Shire

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It’s not just right-wingers who are motivated primarily by a desire to own the libs

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

The writers are just getting so lazy this season

FA/FO Lag Time = 2 months

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2/2 Theme running through today's big speeches, NYC to Chicago, was what it takes to engage and connect people, and give them hope Next Wed afternoon, June 24, Deb and I will be at USC-Annenberg DC campus on this theme annenberg.usc.edu/events/cclp/... Details at that link, for Zoom or in-person.

The book about this whole ugly episode has to be titled Crock of Shit, I don't make the rules

People talking about the Obama Center gala as if it's such a big success, but look at all the performers that decided to skip it: Kid Rock, Rob Schneider, Ted Nugent...I mean who are they even left with after that?

Which of Trump's losses is more humiliating: his loss to Iran, or his loss to algae?

40-odd years ago I made a flippantly cynical comment to the effect that if everyone voted we would end up electing Hitler. In 2024, extremely high turnout was a huge boost for Trump.

Fuckin magnet graft, how does that work?

The whole MAGA movement wants to smell like Trump

Robert Vaughn, who was a senator in Bullitt, is still a senator in The Towering Inferno, which makes the latter movie part of the Bullitt Cinematic Universe. (Steve McQueen clearly got fed up with the bullshit in the SFPD and left to become a firefighter.) #TCM

DOL

"Handpicked minions" is a nice euphemism for Bari Weiss

Well, that was a fucking ride.

When you think you're arguing against parking meters in Golden Gate Park but you're really arguing that cars shouldn't be allowed there at all

'How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde' might be one of my favourite ever headlines

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

10 actresses to get to know me: Emma Thompson Barbara Stanwyck Diana Rigg Kelly MacDonald Audrey Hepburn Frances McDormand Ingrid Bergman Rosalind Russell Jennifer Jason Leigh Thelma Ritter

Wonderfalls (I could name a half dozen other shows off the top, most of them on Fox—graveyard of quality television)

Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy birthday, happy birthday

My boy looks like he's playing Violet Beauregarde in a Willy Wonka musical at a dinner theater in the Villages.

these guys don’t understand that the cheat code was accepting everybody from everywhere and then genius just bubbled up. andrew carnegie was a dirt eater poor scot

Memorandum of Misunderstanding

tower motel, fort worth, texas, 1995

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

I think this guy is from the UK

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

Project 2029:

A trillion dollars is no big deal, I used to have a trillion dollars until I went to the gas station

I'm a big fan of Sen Whitehouse but his name does present a lot of potential confusion

I'm picturing an associate turning in a draft of the brief and Brett Shumate saying this is a good start, but it needs to sound a lot more like President Trump's Truth Social posts

eagle clothing store sign, 25th street, ogden, utah, 1980

Holy wow. Amazing! This is like Rodriquez and South Africa!

If I have learned anything in my decades of studying film noir, it is that, just as there are 15 years in the classic noir period, there are 15 different categories of film noir titles

All of which is just to say, it seems like beating back an existential threat to liberal democracy is going to require grudgingly supporting some unsavory people (Plattner) and actions (gerrymandering), & I hope folks don’t succumb to the temptation to retcon those things as awesome & unproblematic.

Jimmy Carter built more than you ever did, with better results