Simmons was always a dumb motherfucker. And I resent having to reset my "days since I have been reminded that Bill Simmons exists" counter to zero.

When did Ezra become a liberal? He's always been a mushy conservative as far as I can tell.

Clearly a couple of guys who'd like to be HHS Secretary someday. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Palate Cleanser: Yonkers warehouse cat:

Palate cleanser: Yonkers warehouse kitty

"Reverend Dimmesdale Pushes Boundaries of Pastoral Care." -The Salem Register

Who's the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title. Tom Clancy's Moby Dick

I'm pretty sure that Trump and Miller have no idea the percentage of soldiers, sailors, and airmen who are in support roles. It's probably a good thing they didn't let Big Balls and the other Muskovites into the Pentagon personnel systems or they'd have fired everyone who wasn't in a combat MOS.

The other thing that people aren't nderstanding is that every member of the military has an MOS, job for which they are trained. Even if they are only mobilizing infantry units, they are still sending supply clerks, cooks, truck drivers and mechanics, etc. You have to give them something to do.

Well, police call is the classic busywork the First Sergeant assigns to a Company with nothing to do.

JB is spot on. Every once in a while I think about the whole Jade Helm freakout. That was a distraction. Armed troops on the streets of DC is a red alert situation. Every Dem should be screaming this to the rooftops.

Mike Dukakis is praying they dress him up in tactical gear. But I am not sure they make ballistic vests in XXXL.

@rchung.bsky.social no one could have foreseen...

LOOK WHO'S GROKKING (Heckerling, 1989)

Totally agree. Speaking only for myself, four years in the infantry followed by four years loading trucks and sorting packages at UPS did more to turn me into a socialist than anything I've done in my subsequent career in academia.

Someone should ask her whether she really believes that approximately 15% of working age adults in the US are able-bodied, completely unemployed, and just living their best lives on disability payouts instead of working in agriculture? That's completely insane.

They just want to find out who the fuck left that cake out in the rain. Then they'll pull back from their forward base.

Who the fuck shoots firefighters? Firefighters are unequivocally the good guys. My grandfather was a firefighter in the western US who was often the lead responder at something like this. He was a problematic guy in some respects, but his was a noble profession.

Protests are awesome. Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

Should have QSd in the first place. Green Berets do not march in formation. Pretty much ever. Part of the deal for being in SF is that you don't have to do stupid shit like this. These guys are fucking pissed.

This was the New Coke of parades.

They are so out of step, it's ridiculous. It's making my eye twitch.

Malicious Compliance is today's standing order. And I can't blame them. Unless you are in The Old Guard, marching in parades is truly sucktastic. 1st Ranger Bat would (maybe still does) march in the Savannah St Patrick's parade. It sucked.

The guy can't sit through his daily briefing. What did he think it was going to be like to sit through an endless, ill-attended parade. Hegseth looks like he knows he's toast tomorrow.

Very Low Energy

Or maybe this one: 1990 in San Diego, I'm sitting at a red light on my motorcycle. Convertible with the top down and music blasting pulls up next to me. It's Robbie Alomar. He looks over and nods at me. Light turns green, he peels out.

Met my sister for a drink in Rome, and for reasons no one seemed able to explain, Tim Roth was sitting at her table. Or maybe she was sitting at his. I still have no idea.

She's obviously being disingenuous. But even accounting for that, she clearly has zero idea how fucking competitive funding applications are. And not just in the sciences.

ICE delenda est.

Paging Jake Tapper. Please go to the nearest white courtesy phone. Jake Tapper to the nearest white courtesy phone, please.

This is the stuff.

Watch this and pass it on. This is state thuggery, call them the Stasi, the Gestapo, NKVD--this is what dictators do. It's horrifying to hear this story.

When California secedes, I am very much hoping that birthright citizenship will be part of the package.

you may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like

My BIL played pro rugby in France. He has four kids. By the time each of them was five he had already dismissed their chances of following in his footsteps. He said that you mostly know if they are physical freaks by then. Everything else is just a fantasy.

That's a big fucking bag of flex-cuffs. How many people do they think work in that kitchen? The funniest part of this is the non-standard footwear. Are they on profile for blisters on their little toes or something? And if on profile, shouldn't they be doing something useful, like police call.

Am I supposed to know who the fuck James Frey is? Am I supposed to care?

We are so very, very fucked.

Before the Wright brothers built airplanes, they built bicycles. The bicycle is the foundation of modern life.

Varnishing Point

Con Hair

Not sure about this, but I'm for bringing back the practice of sacking the bishop's palace everytime the pope dies.

I was very sad to hear this news. A couple of years ago I was teaching an undergrad seminar on Galileo, and had the students build and use Galilean telescopes. We were reading the first chapter of Instruments of Credit, and they wondered whether he had ever tried building one.

Because if the Texas 2A High School champ can beat your league's best team, you probably don't really count as a professional organization.

I take this very personally.

Link rot comes for us all in the end.

Meanwhile, Maria Bartiromo remains on the board of trustees. Great job, NYU.

Diana was right about Charles.

Donatists. They are Donatists. And the Latin Mass is their way of testing the faultlessness of the clergy.