GenX bears a lot of responsibility for the choices we've made and the people we've become, but being marinated in cynical wised-up boomer energy from birth surely did not help. Anyhow, the Artimis II launch was rad as hell.

Shocking news from the No Kings Protest in Seven Fields, PA, old guy in shiny new Bentley coup did not approve of the event.

Fun to watch the Venezuelan gold discourse springing from the assumption that the Trump administration has imposed a new looting system as opposed to simply taking an exisiting one over.

The Party Posse "Eic Eht Nioj"

It's always fun to be remined that to some people, you're just a utility.

On your guard western NC, this chud thinks he'd going home.

What little filter he ever had is puddling off like an ice cube on a red hot skillet.

Did they get the TCM Remembers editor to cut that In Memoriam? It had the same beautiful flow and feel. Seeing Wil Wheaton there slayed me.

Are we negging Iran? We're negging Iran, aren't we.

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

It's far down on the list of his various pathologies but what is his obsession with giant-ass patios?

Between this and his "we're great because we kill stuff real good" remark, this dork is so pantingly thirsty for jock approval. It would be hillarious if it wasn't terrifying.

Starting to think I'm the only person who remembered this one.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

And there's the furry on "The Pitt."

My dad has butt-dialed Christina Aguilera more than once.

Helluva night to watch "The Best Years of Our Lives." Hits different.

One was a union pressman and contract negotiator (also mowed lawns and made wooden toys in retirement), the other grew up on a tobacco and hog farm, later sold feed and seed, had a Purina feed store for a while, and then after he was run out of business by the klan, clerked a convenience store.

Dammit, I'm going to have to go stock up on tinned fish, aren't I?

This one hits.

Just an excellent day to have a Christmas tree in need of sawing up and only the saw blade of a multi-tool with which to do it. Let's turn all those feelings into sawdust and fir boughs.

Guess we know now why Hedgeseth's tone was so goofy and apocalyptic yesterday.

Well, one out of two. Everything is so sad and stupid.

So, who thinks things might kick off in Iran during the SOTU? Seems like something Trump would love to announce in a venue like that. Also suspect he's going to do some big performative something with one of the people on the Venezuela attack.

I wish, just once, when one of these chuzzlewits says "Rule of Law," they'd next be asked what those words actually mean.

🎶 Out by the West Texas town of El Paso We reenacted an old Nena tune Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’ That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶

This was a scene from a Sicario wasn't it?

Age verification? Putting a carbon strip into a special machine to copy a credit card and enjoying the satisfying *ker-CHUNK* sound of the process.

Mumford and Guns

The Bering strait. British privateers. A couple-three different flavors of religious separatism. Poverty. The hope of land to call their own. The greed of other people. The desire to avoid Prussian military service. The fact that the Swedes couldn't handle them. Not wanting to be slaughtered.

1. Themes and resonances in the films of John Ford 2. EKG interpretation 3. The organization and practice of genocide and genocide refusal 4. Agricultural Health and Safety 5. The Wild Weasel Mission in Vietnam

She plays this so beautifully. Dangit. What a loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4xC...

-20 is Nature's Adderall.

Godspeed, Challenger.

Western NC, do NOT let this fascist fashion plate think he can come back to the mountains when he's done.

Let's put on the ol' waders and check out what my senators are saying over on TWFKAT. McCormick: Nothing. Fetterman: Ok, it starts with "Heartbreaking." Have we finally hit the breaking point? Will he vote against funding ICE now? No. No of course not. It's a post about a diner fire.

If the Democrats has a competent coms team, they would already be lining up legislators and talking heads in front of every available camera asking why Vance thinks the United States, the Greatest County in the History of the World is a doomed vessel. Why do you hate America, JD?

Cue the Access Hollywood line.

Iowa. make program changes now, or the Hawkeyes are going to be the NCAA wrestling equivalent of Nebraska football.

Shorter NYT: Jante Law is cool and good, actually. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Today's positive thing: Juncos in the snow.

This sounds crazy, but I think they should be looking as a model to the handful of Scots who told him to fuck off when he tried to buffalo them into selling their land cheap for his golf courses.

Trying to find something positive to post each day. Today's submission: Maytag Blue Cheese is fantastic with the Harry & David pears gifted to us by a kind neighbor

Yes. Make the scandihoovians angry. Do it. Please, do it.

He's building a throne room for his coronation.

Remember when it was commonly understood that Roscoe P. Coltrane, and Burford T. Justice and their ilk were the bad guys?

Yesterday, local midday news closed with an editorial comment. I paused, thinking it would concern recent news events. I was hopeful but braced to be disappointed/angry. The vital comment of public interest was: "Go Steelers" & a Terrible Towel (tm) twirl *SIGH* Pittsburgh.

Looks like "The Pitt" find-a-Yinzer-accent challenge is still very much open.

*sigh* I see I'm going to be packing my Aggie stuff away for a long time.