Father Pfleger nails what triggered me the most: the BRAGGING about killing people. Imagine if this was the President who destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He’d be doing his stupid little fist pump dance. My hope is: live to see the inevitable downfall that history pretty much tells us will occur.

#Survivor50 Three tribal councils in a row threatened to be tres tedious. At least the 3rd was the most emotional, teary-eyed one ever perhaps. If that had been the 1st or 2nd of the night, the next would’ve been quite anticlimactic. Now, is it just me or do they seem to be not suffering THAT much?

Is this part of the “blood moon” twist that #Survivor50 has been hyping?

Rick’s Random Thought Since we have a letter in the alphabet which is ostensibly “double-u,” why don’t we spell the word vacuum as vacwm?

When people criticize you, remember that even the pyramids have bad reviews on Google Maps.

I am convinced it would generate a lot of revenue for the city if only I could hand out tickets as a deputized spelling and grammar police official.

I have a Jesus Christ Superstar lyric stuck in my head…Annas/Caiaphas: "Think of the things you could do with that money / Choose any charity - give to the poor."

The New York Times analysis of our new ballroom seems to think it is quite a monstrosity. But you love it, right, America? (Just checking.) <insert Mort Sahl-style chuckle here, please>

I like to keep my eyes peeled for a photo that captures the Zeitgeist of the year. It’s only March but this may be a contender for 2026.

When the most powerful man in the world talks about a conversation he had with the head of Sharpie & that guy reveals that this conversation never occurred, what should be the level of concern do you think? Is there a psychiatrist in the house? I won’t just assume that every delusion is dangerous.

I am rather enjoying the UK version of Saturday Night Live. Have you seen it? It becomes available on Sunday afternoon on Peacock.

I would like someone to write a history of the evolution of comedic excellence in protest signs which I feel has become a unique art form.

As what’s-his-name said in Inglourious Basterds, that’s a bingo!

If you are Colin Jost, you are thinking: How can I possibly satirize this?

File under History Repeats Itself.

A genuine “smart TV” would have a button on the remote that means “This commercial is of no interest or relevance to me & I’ll never use the product or service so don’t ever bother showing me this again because it is pointless.”

Rick’s Life Hacks Following your bliss can have remarkable effects. That’s why I just added a generous scoop of Baskin Robbins lemon custard to my coffee.

I had to read it a few times to even make sense of it. At first I thought “with” meant “with the help of” Obama’s buddies and wondered who he was referring to. Finally I realized with meant against. At least he’s man enough to go ON RECORD that he DOESN’T CARE about your squawking about prices.

Evangelical + Catholic is a more formidable bloc than I realized.

Trump Lovers! Your beloved leader just said that Talarico “has six genders.” What does that even mean? I need you to translate from cuckoo bird to normal…if you even can. Tank you veddy much. (A little Andy Kaufman lingo for you.)

I crafted this to celebrate 20 of my favorite TikTok friends. You can find me on TikTok as An Okay Boomer.

So I was watching #Survivor50 & an afternoon with Zac Brown was hyped as the greatest possible reward. Now, maybe it’s cuz I’m a lifelong city dweller but I have never heard of this guy so if I was out there it would mean nothing to me & so to score points with Dee I’d have let her have my spot.

Rick’s History Club In segregated Tennessee of the 1950s, the Memphis Zoo allowed only 'cọlọred peọple' to enter on Thursday of each week.

I predict that the upcoming episode of this TV show where Charles visits the White House will prove to be a classic, memorable and hilarious one! It will be wackier than the season two episode of Upstairs Downstairs where the King comes to dinner at Eaton Place and madness ensues.

Wait! What? If it is easy for them to send a drone, drop a bomb, or deliver a message, then we HAVEN’T destroyed 100% of their military capability, am I right? I am more confused than Lou Costello!

Is this a first? (A former Republican congressman calling a Republican president “an absolute psycho.”) There is a first time for everything.

When you pronounce egg, does it rhyme with vague or with peg? And why can’t we even agree on something like this?

Okay, fine, but just don’t let him rename it.

Stop yapping! Get the files. GET them!! Have 100 members of Congress walk to her office! “You are going NOWHERE until you release the files as REQUIRED BY LAW!” What do you need, 10,000 marines? BRING THEM ALONG! How many more months do we have to all scream until we are blue in the face?

Is this a good time or a bad time to re-read Terrorist by John Updike? I basically felt it was the novel of the decade when released (2006). I recall being on the edge of my seat for the last 50 pages. I felt that the brilliance of Updike was succeeding putting me into the mind of the perpetrator.

After watching some of the Hillary Clinton deposition on C-Span, my main thought was that a deposition with Melania Trump would be far more entertaining because they’d be able to ask questions like “Now in this photo where you’re doing a pole dance for Epstein, what were you thinking?”

You know how the government always says that “we’re all in the same boat”?

I just watched a video clip of this. It’s ridiculous. I have been filling my tank since the late sixties and not once have I been asked for an ID! So I am guessing he has never purchased gas himself in his life and is only imagining what you have to do to buy gas. ROTFLMAOWTIME as they say.

And after he says something like that, I expect a follow-up from the reporter like “That’s ridiculous! This is madness.” But it never happens.

For me, the credible voice in this conversation is George Takei.

1,000+ Women: “As girls, we were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.” 1,000+ Men mentioned in the Epstein files: “We had NO IDEA our acquaintance Jeffrey was a sex trafficker.” Is this what is known as She Said, He Said?

I’m trying to remember: Did FDR doze off all the time during WW2?

So how Epstein can I help getting something to trend? If I just Epstein sprinkle several references to it in a post, will that Epstein help it to rise up in the ranking? I am just trying to get a Epstein better sense of how Epstein all this works. If you share it or comment, does that Epstein help?

May I please question the Attorney General? I’ll start with “The thing that Congress passed said to release all of the files within 30 days, not when you feel like it, not when you are good and ready, not never. So what gives?”

For SO LONG, I had been staring at Gavin Newsom thinking: he just sort of…*reminds” me of someone, but who? (Don’t you love when you finally “figure out” something like that?)