The best Wikipedia holes are the ones you emerge from with a nuggest of gold. Today's is that Les Crane, the guy who recites the the famous recording of "Desiderata," became a multimillionaire as chairman of the company that produced "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDL...

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You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away -- turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.

"Letting people hear what Justin Fox has to say increases the chance that people will wish Justin Fox was dead" seems like a particularly bad reason to invent an exception to the First Amendment

thinking about how sneaky Draculas introduce themselves as "Alucard," but a werewolf would be stuck with "Flowerew"

You could be a spaceman from the Pleiades, freshly crash-landed, and if this was the first thirty seconds of Earth culture you experienced you would already know that this was a cool fucking band The Cure: In Orange (1987)

A very worthwhile read.

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For the record, this guy's argument is "the United States would never violate international law and therefore it didn't."

Today's one of those days when I think it's absolutely worth taking a few minutes to register your opinion. 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

I am reminded of the Sokal affair, in which an academic guy purposefully did bad academics just to prove how much he could get away with while still being treated as a serious guy, and I just want to tell the generations to come: I cottoned onto the Ilan Wurman affair early on.

If I'm understanding right, TSA's Pre-Check was basically the DHS's Patreon?

Kojak s05e02: A Strange Kind of Love "Now you want to cry, cry! You've been wrapped up in that warm cocoon of yours a little too long, protected behind that microphone, saying all kinds of naughty things and not even having to wash your mouth out with soap."

get in loser we’re rebooting gummo

Marx wrote on this (Grundrisse: Notebook VII)

Kojak s03e13: A Long Way From Times Square "You know, Lily, the thought of anyone so much as breaking your heart brings out my Wyatt Earp Syndrome full force."

Anne of Green Gables is better than Deep Space 9.

Horsefeathers (1932) Chico Marx: "Here, lady. You dropped your ICE." Thelma Todd: "But I don't want any ICE." Chico Marx: "Neither do I."

The Dark Knight (2008) "You see, we can't afford to be seen to do business with... whatever it is you're accused of being. I'm sure a businessman of your stature will understand." "I think, Mr. Fox, a simple phone call might have sufficed."

Kojak s01e05: Girl in the River "You know, any man that can put so much violence and sex into a piece of stone, he doesn't have to violate flesh. He gets his kicks with his hammer and chisel!"

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."