“These works were not stolen for some private underwater collection”

File under: Toxic Masculinity Strokes Again “the clitoris did not even make it into standard anatomy textbooks until the 38th edition of Gray’s Anatomy was published in 1995”

My favorite anecdote from this thread: “Roderic died in 2011, and his funeral address was given by Rabbi Lionel Blue. They’d met in a bath house sauna.”

My take on the #Oscars: #BrokebackMountain should have won

File under: The DT Lexicon The reason why DT keeps calling the war a little “excursion” is because DT has confused the term “military incursion” (which the US military has used as a euphemism to describe the war, in order to avoid using the word “war”) with the word “excursion.”

Remember, that the #Nuremberg trials couldn’t have happened without creating new case law, which alleged that the N Party was a criminal organization, and that the N leadership were engaged in a criminal conspiracy. Should be useful when The Accountability comes.

The DOGE boy responds: “What are you definitionally saying ‘wasteful spending’ is, here?” Definitionally?

Julius Caesar, beloved dictator perpetuo of Rome, has died, murdered in the Senate, on this day, the Ides of March, 44 BC. In his honor, his birth month, Quintilis, shall be renamed Julius, aka July, and the chef is working on a salad, ingredients are TBD.

Here’s just one of the video depositions of the DOGE boys, and what this says about them and their values is absolutely devastating, considering what they were tasked to do. Their process was, no thinking required! Just CHATGPT in, results out, and flag ‘em.

Happy Birthday Liza #TCMParty

You wonder when #Moonstruck took place? #TCMParty

Just two guys, thinking that love has gone out of their life… Ronny: It’s just a matter of time before a man opens his eyes and gives up his one dream of happiness. Cosmo: A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing. And that's a bad, crazy day. #TCMParty #Moonstruck

THIS ⬇️ “There are, increasingly, only two teams—a progressive liberal one, and a far-right one, with little in between and everyone else forced to pick a side.”

I’ll be in my office

Wasn’t it just yesterday they said they were spending $1 billion a day on the war that isn’t a war? And now it’s $2 billion a day? The 77M who voted for this, didn’t vote for that. Where are their voices?

So, if the war that isn’t a war is contained within a region, then it’s not really a world war, yes?

So, if DT puts boots on the ground in Operation Epstein Fury, is *that* the last straw, what’s finally going to break M💩G💩? Is *that* what will get the Rs in Congress to vote on a War Powers resolution? Or are they all beyond that, and we’re going to need Vietnam War-style protests in the street?

On the 10th anniversary of her demise, recall: her “Just Say No” campaign was a do-nothing response to drugs, addiction, and premarital sex in the 1980's, with no solutions, no policy changes, no condoms, and no treatment. It was an abstinence campaign favored by the Xtian extremists she courted.

A great read, in the Epic Fury genre

Sadism is part of the brand

Today’s rabbit hole… The Butt Music from from the musical notation in the Hieronymus Bosch painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1499); there’s a section of it that reminds me of the James Bond theme

Trumpstein didn’t have time to come up with an evacuation plan for the US citizens in Israel, but he had plenty of time to hang a banner of a white Christian nationalist (CKirk) in front of the Department of Education building in Washington, DC. Priorities, I guess.

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you? And I’m fine with this

I’m with her

What a failure. And this says it all: as part of the deal to keep their US taxpayer-funded support, the Scouts are swapping out the "citizenship in society" merit badge for a new “military service” merit badge.

“But again”? Really? Excuse me, that’s not an expression of regret. Team USA's Jake Sanderson: “If we were to do it again, I think we wouldn't do that and we made a mistake. But again, I think it kind of got blown out of proportion a little bit.”

Congratulations #TCMParty! If you’ve survived today’s epic marathon of epics, #BenHur, #LawrenceOfArabia, #Cleopatra, and made it through the exit music title card of #GWTW, stick around for your reward, and get ready for #DoctorZhivago!

Who’s ready for the epic romance of a self-centered owner of a plantation and concentration camp for the slaves forced to work it, who will literally do anything (lie, steal, cheat, kill, pretend to love men she doesn’t) to preserve it all, while pining away for an unrequited love. #TCMParty #GWTW

The end of it. Yes. It can happen. #TCMParty #Cleopatra

Guess what, #TCMParty? As a bonus for watching #Cleopatra, you get to watch #GoneWithTheWind next! I can hear you saying it…quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.

While watching #Cleopatra, don’t forget to wear your kaftan #TCMParty

Oh. And by the way.. #TCMParty #Cleopatra

Remembering Robert Duvall 1931-2026 “He was hoping I'd fall on my face with this Beale show, but I didn't. It's a big, fat, big-titted hit, and I don't have to waffle around with Ruddy any more!” #Network (1976) #TCMParty

My #Casablanca epilogue is rather dark: postwar Ferrari is fatter and happier from his expanding black market activities, and living in the French Riviera. With Ilse. There’s also a tie-in with what happens to Maria and the Captain from #TheSoundOfMusic, but that’s another story. #TCMParty

Love sucks sometimes. Happy Valentine's Day, anyway. #TCMParty

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Surprised she uses a broom to scratch her back? At night Veronika uses broom bristles to apply eyeliner while humming “The Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound of Music!

Oh. So…DT voters now want DT to focus on…the very issues that Kamala ran on? So…they’re going to vote for a Democrat next time, right?

#BadBunny with dancers on utility poles. Brilliant! #SuperBowlLX #PuertoRico

The E Files give us a peek into what we've been told is a rarefied world of wealthy, smart guys, but in reality, they’re just behaving like eighth graders or frat bros with money. Gotta be smart to be rich? No. Just convince a billionaire to sign over his power of attorney, which is what JE did.

JE collected people and traded in favors. He promoted himself as an intellectual, but he wasn't and he knew it. So, he surrounds himself with brainiacs from whom he extracts anecdotes that he drops at parties, which make people regard him as brilliant & smart, and the wealth enhanced the illusion.

Of the many “I didn’t know thats” in the documentary on #BobMackie was that he designed the Marilyn Monroe Happy Birthday Mr President dress (and he was 23). 🤩 #TCMParty

As I suspected…when Jules Bouyer’s bulge went viral in 2024, I suggested that, in the water, perhaps his bulge behaves like a fin; and so, with ski jumpers I guess it behaves like an airfoil. I’d like to see the study on whether you get extra lift depending on whether it’s firm or flaccid.

These two

After calling the criticism of that racist post on DT’s social media account “fake outrage”, the White House has now deleted it, but neither DT nor his wife have apologized for it, and the WH staffer responsible for posting it has not been fired.

I am the great and powerful Oz! #TCMParty #InvadersFromMars

The Martians look like Teletubbies #TCMParty #InvadersFromMars