ten years ago today no one clapped

There is a story here that deserves to be told in its entirety, just for its core literary depiction of what, exactly, Richard Dawkins is.

SCTV s02e03: The Kidnapping of Moe Green Catherine O'Hara: "She's gone? Oh, we were having such a wonderful time. Wasn't that fun? Oh, we are all out of time anyway..." Tonight we remember a true Queen.

I feel genuinely guilty at how often I mentally confuse Cate Blanchett (who is a treasure) with Gwyneth Paltrow (no comment). I'm sorry, Cate. You're *both* beautiful white women, but you are so much more than that.

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Advancing this argument in any courtroom, even within the laxly regulated context of opening statements, should be grounds for permanent disbarment.

Kojak s01e09: Conspiracy of Fear "You know what I did for money when I was your age, hnnn, well I'll tell ya. First, I got a rock. And then I got a shiv, and when I could afford it I got a cannon, and I was on top of the world. I couldn't do anything wrong. So what are you crying about, huh?"

After much "I am in a small apartment and in a time of personal transition, can I really justify buying a nice meaty book" hesitation, I finally got the Mountain Goats lyrics book. And as it is structured as a Book of Days, I— for now!— intend to make it through this [coming] year, if it kills me.

Impact Video Magazine (1989) Flavor Flav: "This is alright. I see this as an image that can't get kids in trouble. You know what I'm sayin', they can wear their hats to the side and wear glasses. As long as they still do the right thing in school. Know what I'm sayin'? It looks COOL."

Not to spell it out too clearly, but by accepting the DOJ's argument that the injunction harms "officers’ ability to protect themselves and the public in very dangerous circumstances," the 8th Circuit is acknowledging that ICE cannot operate within Constitutional restraints.

Kojak s03e23: Justice Deferred "You ready for the biggest laugh of all? Don't forget to read the punk his rights." ACABEC

After the failure of negotiations in Damascus, a general mobilization has begun in Rojava. Youth from northern Kurdistan appear To have crossed the border to join the defence. it feels like 2014 again, complete with horrific executions of SDF prisoners.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

I'm playing New Vegas for the first time since Matthew Perry passed, so in remembrance I banged Benny. I'd never tried it before! Honestly I'm not sure how respectful this tribute was, but I'm shaking my charlies for you now, Mr. Perry.

The Greeks viewed xenia— the reciprocality of hospitality— as sacred. Troy lasted 2000 years but it was sacked and burned when Paris abused the hospitality of his host. The suitors of Penelope were cut down like wheat when they plundered Odysseus's home. How can you do this to someone who fed you

Kojak s05e06: Caper on a Quiet Street "Fazoola tapazoola [sp?] Rizzo, talkin' about odds. Remember me? I saw your horses run!"

Kojak s05e16: The Captain's Brother's Wife "You're a grown woman. I mean, you're not a child. You don't deal with the Rumplestiltskins and the fairy tales and the money trees and like that! You're a middle-aged woman."

It's been years since I stumbled unexpectedly across a Skinny Puppy sample source in the wild but hoo-boy this one's a doozy (Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, 1943)

Kojak s03e15: How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars "Love thy neighbor, baby!" "Good night, Theo." "Jingle bells, Frank."

Commonsense guardrails for accepting candy from strangers in vans: go for it, it’s free candy

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Bari Weiss: The only newsroom that I'm qualified to run is Crickets:

When I was a kid I thought Star Wars was unrealistic. Why would anyone be the citizen of an Empire that was just comicbook-level villainy? “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen...” President Gustavo Petro

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

The Nobel Committee was like, oh, FIFA's getting a lot of press for their ironic peace prize nomination, how can we take it even further?

This is like criticizing First Blood for Brian Dennehy's performance, or Terms of Endearment for Jack Nicholson's. If you don't understand the concept of a supporting actor, that's fine, but it's also a "you" problem.

Grant Morrison's '90s run on Mary Worth remains one of the strip's highlights.

Kojak s01e09: Conspiracy of Fear "Yeah?" "Looks like you'll pick up the turkey tab again."

Kojak s04e15: The Godson [sucking licorice]: "Now, you steal apples, you steal candy, I understand all that, it's a neighborhood disease, we all did it. But when you start hassling old people, that's on the minus side, baby, that's very gross. And that's no jive, you dig?"

This is 100% going to be a grift on par with Sound of Freedom (sorry Bill Camp, you sold your soul) Get ready for conspiracy theories about cinemas self-sabotaging to turn away the hordes of rabid fans who want to see Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in the year of our lord 2026ish

Kojak s02e03: Hush Now Don't You Die Kojak: "Well, if you're with a girl, you don't let her out one door and then you go out another door yourself. You both go out together." Stavros [unnecessarily creepily]: I like that.

The world's richest man built a robot to tell the world that he's not fat. This isn't even Torment Nexus territory here; I've read a whole lot of old scifi and none of those authors imagined a future this stupid.

trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Bluesky's team will build an entire parallel system of subjective judgements that no one wants or finds credible just to avoid banning Jesse Singal, an act which 100% of the userbase would support. Waffles.

…the real Left Rogan was Teen Vogue wasn’t it. Shit.

Stewart Lee's Basic Lee: Live at the Lowry (2024) You couldn't tell this joke today. You'd have to call him Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten Windsor.

If you haven't watched "I Saw the TV Glow" or read "Black Hole" you have no idea how good this is going to be, this is like when we found out PTA was going to be adapting "Inherent Vice."

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

One great thing about non-prestige TV dramas (and sitcoms) is that once they've aged 10 years or so they live on as museum exhibits of respectable actors from before they were taken respectably. Elementary s01e05 has David Harbour AND David Costabile! And either one of them COULD be the murderer!

The Twilight Zone s02e02: The Man in the Bottle "Head of a country... Can't be voted out of office... I'm Hitler! I'm in a bunker! It's the end of the war!"

Brass Eye (1997): Paedophilia "A spokesman said: this is the one thing we didn't want to happen."

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

The two killjoy genders: Halloween is awful because those skeletons are dead and will be dead forever vs. Halloween is awful because those skeletons will rise again

look, unlike in [herrenvolk state propped up by extreme violence] where [subordinate ethnic group] is unfairly oppressed, [my subordinate ethnic group] in [my herrenvolk state propped up by extreme violence] really are subhumans who need to be kept in check by the gun.

The Zachary Hale Comstock army base is keeping its name. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If he didn't cast a stone, how can we ever truly know if he advocated for casting stones just because he said it and grinned at the camera with the white abyss of the hatred plane swirling in his eye sockets

The fake version of this that was going around earlier had so much more artistic talent, it's good to be corrected that, no, Trump has absolutely no aesthetic instinct anywhere in the roiling fetid swamp that comprises his consciousness

Learn about this very serious condition from the cast of #Peacemaker #BirdBlindness #BirdBlindnessAwareness