Donald Trump, 2020, on the risk of fireworks starting wildfires at Mt. Rushmore: "I said, what can burn? It's stone. You know, it's stone."

Not the Reflecting Pool.

Trump recently claimed that "They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade" of the reflecting pool. As the WSJ commented, "It wasn't immediately clear what the president meant by this." (What is the "façade" of pool?) But I had a feeling of déjà vu.

Donald Trump said an agreement would be signed today. I didn't believe him. I was wrong about that. That's all.

"Iran’s promise is in the first paragraph of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.... Asked for clarification about the matter, including what commitment Iran might have made to Mr. Trump, a White House spokesperson had nothing to add to the president’s remarks." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/u...

Every darn time Blue Bell changes its flavor lineup, Yahoo! treats it as "news" and Google News picks it up. That seems very wrong.

Data centers should be required to generate their own electricity on site, and to discharge all their waste energy by radiation from the site. This would not solve all the environmental problems long-term, but it would at least solve the social inequity problems.

Funny, when a news story wants a quick visual identification of "the White House," they only use file photos, never actual pictures of the White House today. I guess there's no angle from which the UFC arena arches don't show.

Reflections in the windows of an elementary school in Massachusetts.

Donald Trump is proposing to cancel the America250 concert series after six of the nine acts books have withdrawn. He calls the entertainers selected by the Donald Trump Organization "overpriced" and "boring". The three that still want to perform are learning how Trump rewards loyalty.

Apart from the stupidity of bragging that the length of a pool is more than the height of a building, apart from bragging about the size of a pool he had nothing to do with building...it is not "bigger" than any but smaller skyscrapers.

This is so unspeakably stupid it's hard to know where to begin. But let's begin here. The length of the reflecting pool is nothing special, and is less than the height of the Burj Khalifa.

Donald Trump, May 24th: "The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will be ... destroyed ... with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness..." The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)? Abolished so long ago most Americans have probably never heard of it. Does he think it still exists,

Cue Bob Newhart voice: "US strikes cloud peace deal? Well, I guess they might at that."

Byron Allen is described as a "former standup comedian," but his last standup performance seems to have been at age 18 in 1979, over forty years ago. Here it is, and I've set the link to start at a particularly risible knee-slapper: youtu.be/FGnui6uUpI4?...

Donald Trump on the Strait of Hormuz, 5/21/2026: “We want it free. We don’t want tolls. It’s international. It’s an international waterway." Also Donald Trump: 4/6/2026 “What about us charging tolls? I’d rather do that than let [Iran] have them. Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner. We won.”

OMG Matt Levine, in his Bloomberg column, nailed it: "Lots of very smart people have had high-minded ideas about intergalactic travel for centuries, but perhaps it will turn out that a critical step in getting there is building an app to generate short-form pornographic video on demand."

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I don't want to single out any particular post or photos, but daily BlueSky convinces me of one great fundamental truth: It is very hard to take a good picture of food.

I would like to see ONE comment made by ANYBODY before 2016 who said that they found the Reflecting Pool disappointing because it wasn't blue enough.

Welcome to Massachusetts! (Actually, to spoil the joke, Lynde Street is one way, and only allows you to leave the intersection, so it has no stop sign. Only the other four do).

Donald Trump called the press "the enemy of the American People." (If built) will he make the White House ballroom available to the White House Correspondents' Association for their dinner? Will he make all his big public appearances in the ballroom instead of places like the Butler Show Grounds?

I'm perfectly fine with beefing up the security of the underground bunker in the White House. But that was never mentioned in the original arguments for a ballroom, the rhetoric was that "for 150 years" every President has wanted a better event space etc. etc. But I don't understand the security

"If you go and buy a steak, it's still pretty expensive. But if you buy the cheaper cuts, it's great meat, and it is very, very affordable or liver, or all these alternatives. Chuck Roast."--RFK Jr. "Great meat," says the man who LITERALLY eats roadkill. Is $12.99 a pound "very, very" affordable?

Finally read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," by Agatha Christie. Spoilers ahead. I just can't believe the whole dictaphone subplot because a) I don't believe a 1926 dictaphone would have been loud enough or realistic enough to fool people into thinking it was a live voice,

Spotted in a local hospital. Not unrelated. John G. Trump was Donald's uncle, the MIT prof from whom Donald believes he inherited his genius IQ.

I am getting so tired of Trump saying Iran has "agreed to everything" and the Iranians saying "no we haven't." And Trump saying Iran has agreed to transfer all their enriched uranium and Iran say "it will not be transferred anywhere under any circumstances."

Trump's remarks on the Jesus picture only make sense if you assume TWO things. First, that he heard and misunderstood a remark, possibly by Karoline Leavitt, that it was "a doctored picture." Second, and this is my point, that he DID NOT REMEMBER THE IMAGE. If you simply could not remember anything

This is a "hidden objects" picture puzzle. It shows a Red Cross doctor. How quickly can you find all of the following? 1) Ten American Red Cross symbols 2) A stethoscope 3) An ambulance 4) A gurney 5) A rubber mallet 6) A splint 7) A bandage 8) The doctor's name embroidered on the crisp white scrub

He's well past King. Well past Emperor. He said in April 2025, before the conclave, who was his first choice for pope, and he said “I’d like to be Pope. That would be my number one choice.” And published in image of himself as Pope. Well, he's gone past that, now. He sees himself as Jesus.

Sunday morning, 4/12/2026, Trump posts "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz." Sunday evening, CENTCOM says no, they won't.

"It is such an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I Endorse WINS, and wins by a lot..." Donald J. Trump, March 4th, 2026.

Karoline Leavitt, 3/8: Reporter: "Iranian state media is saying that Iran has now closed off the Strait of Hormuz..." Leavitt: "...what they're saying publicly is different privately... these reports publicly are false.." Trump, 3/9: “Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some

If Trump wants to "take the oil," why destroy the island with all the pipelines and pumps he needs in order to do that?

"The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it. We haven’t needed it, and we don’t need it…." Trump is going to commit an act of unspeakable cruelty on the ordinary people of Iran because of a strait we don't even need.

Donald Trump: "we are the number one producer of oil," "The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it," "So to those countries that can’t get fuel...I have a suggestion. No. 1, buy oil from the United States of America.

I don't have any information on where Donald Trump is. But a number of lazy news story are saying the White House "denied" that he's a Walter Reed. No, the White House's response is a classic example of a "non-denial denial:"

The bunker being built under the wreckage of the East Wing reminds me of the irresistible force and the immovable object. In 2025 the US used "bunker buster bombs" to "obliterate" nuclear facilities buried 260 feet deep in Iran. Either bunker buster bombs don't work, or bunkers doesn't work.

Aw, JEEZ... it was MARCH 1st that Trump said, of Iran, “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them." The NYT continued "A senior White House official confirmed Mr. Trump’s willingness to talk to the Iranians [and that] Iran ... was willing to talk with Mr. Trump."

Mystery: every article about the McDonald's new Big Arch burger (which I haven't tried yet) mentions, as if it is something amazing, that it has two quarter-pound patties in it. How is that terribly different from a Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese?

@yahoo.bsky.social Why did you remove all the "Smart TV" features from my Vizio TV?

At the end of a customer service call, I hate being asked to rate the representative. What I value is whether they solved the problem. Not whether they seemed to understand the problem. Not whether they buttered me up. And at the end of the call, I usually don't know yet if they have.

Not Google Translate's most shining moment. "rentes" means "rntes" in English? However, to be fair, it did OK with more context, which is often the case.

Forget the show itself, I'm dying to know how on earth a spectacle of that kind was prepared AND REHEARSED. Were they able to rehearse in Levi's Stadium? How much time did it take, now many rehearsals, how many hundred people were needed just to be sugar cane bushes and how long did it take just to

Just waiting for the first MAGA to say that more people watched the TPUSA halftime show than the Super Bowl halftime show.

The Atlantic: "Gregory Bovino...will return to his former job in El Centro, California, WHERE HE IS EXPECTED TO RETIRE SOON." I hadn't seen that least detail. Good. He's apparently only 55 years old, according to Wikipedia. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I guess it wasn't "effective February 20th" after all.

Today is the day our credit card interest rates get reduced to 10%. Trump said.

Countdown time. Don't let this be forgotten. Trump's 10% credit card rate cap becomes effective in two days, January 20th, 2026. When I wake up on Wednesday the 21st, my Capital One credit card will either be showing an APR of 18.40% or a reduction to 10%. Yes or no. True or false. No ambiguity.

María Corina Machado has either given or offered to give her Nobel MEDAL to Trump. However, does Trump know that the prize also comes with money equivalent to $1.17 million? Is she going to give him the money? And finally, of course, if Katie Ladecky gave me her Olympic medal, does anyone think