BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID is available for free at the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/butc...

There's plenty one can criticize about Walt Disney, but one of his virtues was that he wasn't a wimp who'd run away if the FCC chairman said something mean to him.

There's plenty one can criticize about Walt Disney, but one of his virtues was that he wasn't a wimp who'd run away if the FCC chairman said something mean to him.

Given the magnitude of MCU fandom, I'm likely not in the top 1 percent of MCU fans. Top 20 percent, maybe. But I'll end my subscription to Disney+ today. I'll also forgo future Disney content if Kimmel is not quickly reinstated. I do look forward to his appearances on Colbert.

It's not as if those Venezuelan boats can shoot back. So, win-win, right?

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Sotomayor’s question is entirely a fair one.

I figure one of the most salutary things I can do for our sick culture is set an example by making a habit of publicly admitting my public mistakes, especially though not exclusively mistakes of fact.

(Trump Administration has cheerfully embraced the prospect of being villains in the eyes of half the nation, but why do they aim so hard at being *comic-book* villains?) Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children wapo.st/46m3Af7

Wait until they propose replacing the Washington Monument with L'Arc de Trump.

Installed a newly purchased copy of Office Home and Professional and ... it doesn't work. And there's no way to make it work. Bought directly from the Microsoft Store, too. So, that's great! Thanks for ... whatever you call this experience, @microsoft.com.

Charlie Kirk in his own words, at Wikiquote. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlie...

...working with Shari, alongside @mnemonic.bsky.social, and (current E.D., at the time an outside counsel) Cindy Cohn on the Bernstein case www.eff.org/cases/bernst...

Trump demanded proof of the efficacy of COVID vaccines, and Pfizer responded by thanking President Trump for Operation Warp Speed. The press release is a work of art. www.pfizer.com/news/announc...

I know the president has ordered the elimination of pennies, but we should save up the ones we've got so that we can pound that malleable metal into arrowheads after civilization falls.

Cerritos and the Three Titans is the name of my new band.

I'm writing a self-help book about how the proper use of semaglutide and tirzepatide can lead to overwhelming happinesses, not just due to physical wellbeing but also in one's emotional and artistic lives. I'm calling it THE AGONISTS AND THE ECSTASIES.

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

(So this happened.) Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... via @seattletimes

Judge Sol Wachtler neglected to mention that even though you can indict a ham sandwich, that doesn't mean you'll succeed in indicting the man who threw it. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Arrested and Will Be Re-Deported, Noem Says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Wait until he renames Labor Day as Capital Day.

People see the post-credits sequences in THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, and they're 100-percent certain that Doctor Doom is pursuing some nefarious plot related to Franklin Richards, even though Doom *hasn't done anything bad in the MCU at all so far*. I'm calling this Doom Derangement Syndrome.

Better late than never: you have to give Subway(tm) credit for finally figuring out how to turn the page on Jared.

A key insight: concentration camps tend not to get shut down until a government actively closes them and, most important, does not repurpose them for an ostensibly better use. Concentration camps are fundamentally illegal, even when given the window dressing of statutory appropriations.

I think the Turning Point conventions deserve a rebrand. How about something like "Kirker Youth"?

I 💨 Huckabees.

Show a little empathy, for God's sake! A sudden emergency that requires you take control of a city's law-enforcement agencies in order to divert attention from one's connections with a mysterious, dead millionaire sex trafficker is one of those things that could happen to anybody!

I wrote a lot of diary entries during the year of the pandemic when the only outside person I saw was my dentist. I'm going to publish my diary under the title JOURNAL OF THE PLAQUE YEAR.

The "vibe."

Loved the GRiD, but if I had been building a laptop for space, I wouldn't have colored it black.

FREAKIER FRIDAY is THE GODFATHER, PART II of Freaky Friday movies.

The reason you don’t ever see him driving a car is that there’s no ditch you can imagine that he’d ever avoid.

Let's see--what else links Volkswagen and forced-labor camps? wapo.st/40v10l0 (GIFT LINK)

The White House has announced that Trump has been diagnosed with chronic veinous insufficiency, which occurs when veins have trouble moving blood back to a heart that's three sizes too small.

I don't know. It looks more like a bad drawing of the Woolworth Building than like a bad drawing of the Empire State Building.

(Obviously this is just an unfortunate coincidence.) Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert’s Show for Political Reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

So unexpected to come in here just to wash my hands, only to find that the person ahead of me neglected to flush you down.

Going to space is much too ’60s. The whole theme of the Trump administration is undoing things we did in the 1960s, like “end polio” and “enforce the Fourteenth Amendment.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Seconding this:

You have to give STAR TREK: PICARD credit for being the first Trek franchise to recognize that ICE is an exemplar of 21st-century villainy. (Series 2, Eps 3 & 4.)

It’s probably just me, but it seems like the new season of SANDMAN has some real subtext going on, in which Dream is taken down a few notches.

No, really, this guy wrote a series of skeets to explain to me how social media work. (Well, he says "social media works.") Just preserving this for the refs.

They'll use AI and the voting databases to put anti-Trump voters in a chain of new prison camps--thank of it as the Google Archipelago.

I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast, which taught me that near-tropical heat and humidity, plus limitless mosquitoes, is really bad for my concentration. Which is why I have to question the wisdom of choosing the Florida Everglades for your concentration camp.

From Sen Van Hollen this AM:

Meant to share this.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called the Republican-appointed majority’s “decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued … an existential threat to the rule of law.” buff.ly/sKyTXdx

After decades I still type "typos" as "tyops."

I once was interviewed by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum about Godwin's Law. I was proud that they had reached out to me for their Voices on Antisemitism series. Recently I discovered that USHMM disappeared the text and audio of my interview. (I'm still there, but my content is gone.) 1/2