Sabu-chan, a larger than average cat, promotes the annual cat festival in Yushima, Tokyo.

If we ever go to a formal dinner and shots are fired, I don't care if we have on make-up and gowns, get in the car, bitch. We're going to Popeye's

MSNOW is spending a lot of time noting how crowded the room is, how it's hard to evacuate, how full it is of Cabinet members and other high profile targets, and it's making me think I might have *undersold* how horrible an idea it was for anyone to attend this.

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

Seeing Mississippi-based greats of the living blues, Bobby Rush and Kingfish Ingram, onstage at the Oscars during a year in which the executive branch has turned to disappear Black culture was ... strong.

Not sure if I like Conan as the Fake Most Egotistical Man on Earth, or the Most Self-Mocking. But really it's his constant, full commitment to the bit. Also love most his old timey radio voices.

If you think success in war is just a matter of how many things you can blow up, #Trump's Gulf folly might look like a win. But if you understand that success really means achieving clear strategic objectives at an acceptable cost, you know that this unnecessary war is not going well at all.

Is the whole thing going to be Ronnie Introduces Regular Americans, followed by rambling?

Thirty-five million dollars were spent marketing this! It is like someone eating spoonfuls of gold-encrusted garbage and beckoning you to watch. Look at how much gold I’ve put on it! More gold than anyone! Doesn’t it look delicious?

Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

People making sure that they state opposition to open borders before decrying ICE, as a disclaimer: Why? In every case? What about mostly open, regulations light, exceptions for criminals?

Hell's Angels voted for me! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_A...

Trump sounds like he shouldn't be traveling anywhere today, much less Davos. He's warming up now, but he's sounded hoarse and weak for most of this speech (rambling, hyperbole, and bigotry are typical).

Post-Greenland invasion and colonization debacle NFL divisional playoff opening: Please rise for our Disney-Hulu-ESPN Consolidated Territories Anthem,"In the Air Tonight."

The suspect is from Mississippi’s wealthiest municipality, suburban Madison, a fast-growing area known for its strict design codes (everything is brick) and apartment and rental bans. Its apparent mayor for life is MAGA.

The way to understand the images of Venezuelans dancing in the streets is that when **it happens**, you'll be dancing too even though JD Vance will be the new president.

VP Rodriguez cut a deal. With Maduro gone she’ll deal to get sanctions relief. She’ll be publicly defiant, but that’s for show. She’s a pragmatist. Meanwhile, the awful Venezuelan regime will continue, just under new management. open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

Ole Miss is undefeated since Zohran Mamdani was sworn in.

Likely the biggest story in Missssippi sports history outside of the rise of Walter Payton, maybe. And the sort of game color commentators dream about. Hotty Toddy!!

Trinidad Chambliss has moved to the top of the Trinidad power rankings

People outside my condo! Stop shooting fireworks. The best NCAA playoff game yet is on!!!

Trinidad Chambliss:

My late take on the weird Netflix NFL halftime show with Snoop: He’s now akin to what Paul Lynde and Ruth Buzzi were in the ‘70s, in the sense of being in everything for no reason except playing it safe. Or late period Milton Burle, higher profile but …

Clarence Carter's "Back-Door Santa" is more or less about that, however, depending on how you view the reality of Santa.

Hello, doppelgänger! Hello back at you, evil twin!

I was informed by instructional design people a couple of years ago that sans fonts are best on screens, are easier for everyone to read on them. So I switched, realizing that I'm not related or in any debt to Times New Roman or Miriam Pro.

A reliably Republican-leaning demographic. Such a smart move (sarcasm).

If you can’t take Post Malone country whatever, or CBS segments with the loathsome Dana White, turn the Cowboys/Chiefs game off now and watch HBO’s”The Shuffle.”

Laney Wilson at the Macy’s parade: Introducing the next DHS Secretary.

The New Orleans Saints are almost leas competent than the Trump administration right now.

I see the Saints just took a page out of the f’d up, ball-dropping Russ Holliday playbook.

Does anyone think that Mamdani promised to give Trump fabric and paint swatch books for all that new housing, and let him help with design choices? That would explain so much.

This brought to mind, for me, a Mr. Magoo-looking--bowler hat and all--fringe candidate in a New Orleans mayoral race whose answer to every debate question involved marijuana legalization.

Yes, "1999" was released that year, but I only got deeply into it later. This one I still appreciate as much now as at any time, however. "Hello Baton Rouge. Won't you turn your radio down?"

I didn’t think that would have happened either. I do wonder if anyone made sure his book idea was killed, though. (She didn’t assassinate or murder anyone, but I thought about that line in the Nuzzi book & article and publishing ethics context yesterday.)

I'm thinking that we need an entirely new class of people at the top. Or no top until the person-as-brand era is figured out.

look as someone who can be incapacitated for weeks by the fear that I put the wrong number of exclamation points into an email this has been a fascinating glimpse into a some brains that work extremely! differently! from! mine!

If the Democrats had a hair on their ass they would start a nationwide campaign where they had commercials showing all the Republicans convicted of sex scandals plus the emails with they’re not like us playing in the background.

In the Deep South, there are so many beard trim-oriented barber shops that are into marketing ”manliness” and are the Trumpiest places imaginable.

Apple Music Essentials?

Is he going to send me the $29,000 without-insurance rate for infusion meds I need? Will it cover an MRI? What if I need rehab (for walking, not the Malibu luxury kind)? Can I just call the Oval Office when I need anything?

This is not just impossibly racist and offensive to human decency, but petty. And I grew up and live in Mississippi.

Not inaccurate

I loved reading about the less-heralded Garfield assassination in Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation," wherein she described Guiteau as the only person in a free love cult who couldn't get laid. I am part of the target demographic for this series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...

Key. Everybody go out and have a truckload of kids, like Dr. Oz and JD have gone on about. We love children!

The worst offender: Facebook. It’s put MS forum posts galore into my feed lately, and nearly all have responses filled with info about supposed miracle cures and people urging others to stop taking medication, etc.

Everything I’ve seen or read about this event is just impossibly gross. Glad there was a counter-event on campus, but …