LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN

ICE just murdered another U.S. citizen in Minnesota. Masked, trigger-happy agents are acting with impunity, and the Trump Admin yet again rushed to defend ICE before getting the facts. We need accountability. ICE out of our cities. No more money for DHS. Stop the killings.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

I've never been prouder to have won a writing award named for this man.

Airplane!

I swear, every time I look for sewing supplies...

My Life As A Dog With Big Naturals

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things With Big Naturals

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover With Big Naturals

I just love this quote.

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner sends police officers to intimidate and harass local resident for criticizing him in a Facebook post.

And don't come at me with the first two seasons being better unless you like meandering single-camera boomer nostalgia bait punctuated by regular bursts of canned laughter. The studio audience elevated the show immensely.

Then the rest of the world isn't paying attention to what's happening in the streets of Minneapolis.

Happy Days had far more interesting and memorable episodes after Fonzie jumped the shark than before he did so, and yet now it's used as a metaphor for a show having peaked and beginning a sharp dropoff in quality. Fight me on this if it makes you feel better, but you know I'm right.

I'm reminded of hearing about a DI who could keep up a stream of obscene invective for thirty minutes straight without repeating himself once.

How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.

"The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun." -Bo Burnham

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is underrated. Yes, it's a sketchfest, but sketch comedy was how they made their name, and it's one of the few opportunities to see them in front of a live (non-studio) audience while they were all still alive and in their prime. youtu.be/bg5Vo49Gj4U?...

"Where are they now? With ICE, taking people." A minor tweak in punctuation, and the question answers itself. How efficient.

I don't think that enough people get this. I was raised by two PhDs who taught at the university level, my mother eventually becoming Dean of the department and my father a Professor Emeritus. Growing up, I knew literally dozens of highly educated idiots, many of whom babysat me.

May you all get exactly what you wanted this Christmas youtu.be/bpYTkavEt20?...

This may be the ultimate "I'd have a dime, but still it's weird that it happened twice."

There's a Double Caliente Burger from Tommy's on its way to my house right now, and I'm finally in the Christmas spirit.

Because General Sherman was an underachiever.

Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦

Spouse is making matzo ball soup, which is always cause for celebration.

They've put so much money into AI in order to make a product that nobody wants that now they think their best shot at getting a return on the investment is to put even more money into convincing us that we really like it and just don't know it yet. Classic sunken cost fallacy.

You will be visited by three spirits

I like to think that I accept most signs of middle age with equanimity and something approaching grace, but I do suffer from occasional feelings of horror at how out of control my eyebrow situation has become.

Heinlein drops that to a 75% chance, which is admittedly still pretty high.

The average Joe Rogan fan

"Yes, we took their land, burned their villages, slaughtered their children, assaulted the women, nearly eliminated the entire population through murder, disease, and starvation and herded the rest onto desolate reservations, but they had it coming since they were bloodthirsty."

Every time cate blanchette’s on screen, you gotta say loudly in the movie theater: “dats one classy broad”

The rule of law only works when those involved with enforcing said laws also agree to abide by them. If not, then all bets are off.

He is risen

I love this for her. Unlike the GOP, we don't band together to defend the worst in the party from paying the consequences for their actions.

It's adorable that he believes that anyone would find him relevant enough to take a shot at.

It's so strange that Quaker Instant Oats is comfort food for me, since I associate the flavors with the despised Boy Scout camping trips of my youth. Probably has to do with it being one of their few pleasurable aspects.

"Wyatt Earp is my friend." "Well hell, I got lots of friends."

The only limit in sexuality is informed consent (including appropriate age limitations). Everything else is on the table. This also goes for relationships of any sort. I'm vanilla, straight, and monogamous. The entire world does not have to share that with me.

Pizzagate makes more sense now that it was clearly an attempt to make talking about child sex trafficking by powerful elites into a punchline. I mean, it felt like they was a bit obvious at the time, but it is super clear now.

Okay, but like genuinely

My lamentation. And also one of the reasons I use the initial.

After several months, I find myself approving of the renaming of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War not because it presents a more assertive and manly image, but rather because it's significantly more honest about what we've been using the department for.

One thing that does not get discussed nearly often enough about the process of growing older is how you feel obligated to keep up with fewer and fewer trends as time passes, and what a liberating experience that can be.

The Circus Liquor Clown is an LA legend. I want to run him for mayor.

"Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people." is the Plan 9 From Outer Space of leftist political slogans, so awful yet so earnest that I can't help feeling some affection for it. I suppose that makes the SLA the Ed Wood of 70s revolutionary groups, which also tracks.

Classic #ADHD day: - Sit down to write next book chapter. - Get distracted by something entirely unconnected: - Namely, researching an ancestor in the 1500s. - Stumble across a mystery of potentially international importance. - Realise there may be a book in it. Result: 2 unfinished books.

To my fellow Californians who haven't yet cast a ballot: Yes on 50. Send an unmistakable message that we will not sit idly by while the fascists bend and break every rule in their pursuit of absolute power.