enjoying the quiet but critical work of "former entertainer"

When I think of Total Recall cab drivers, I usually think of Benny. But you can't talk about Benny these days, because that would be woke

$1000 to study if wearing the hat to the audition got the Johnny Cab from Total Recall a callback for a two-episode guest shot on Dallas.

The latest Hallmark Podcast episode is about a movie that isn't very good, but which does offer some thrilling Canadio-Italian fusion flavors, in the service of a very goofy vision of Queens. (Also the last acting role for lead Megan Park, the writer/director of 2024's delightful My Old Ass.)

For the holidays, Truthdig asked me to talk about the weird sensation of watching Hallmark gradually go woke(r) over the last five years just as one party is trying to turn the real world into it at gunpoint.

"Lake Research Partners and Project LPAC, the research arm of the only organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ women and non-binary candidates, found that 43 percent of voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for transgender people."

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

I know it’s last minute but that gum he likes has come back in style.

Nice. I ordered the Bozia add on for my Garmin

My son doesn't know what he wants for Christmas, so I'm giving him a tulpa.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

To honor the Christmas season, we have finally answered a question of the ages: What if you made Coming to America, but it wasn't funny, and the ingenue's family was cast from the most enthusiastic Olive Garden staff in America? Apple: bit.ly/4aOeQoz Amazon: bit.ly/44HHKTr Spotify: bit.ly/45d4smo

For the holidays, Truthdig asked me to talk about the weird sensation of watching Hallmark gradually go woke(r) over the last five years just as one party is trying to turn the real world into it at gunpoint.

the joe montana documentary should've been as long as the jordan one, and we should have watched and talked about that because joe montana is so much more pleasant to be around

dad trying to clown me by sending me a "ha ha millennials are old" link and forgetting i'm gen x is such a brutal force multiplier

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

soothing my jangled nerves with an unexpected copy of super bowl xxiv, which should have been elway's last

“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.” @samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.

If your teen drama was airing episodes in fall 2001, a PA had to find a Troop to stand behind your cutie headliners or everyone would think The WB hated America

it's just so rich and full, a thuddddd for even the most jaded veteran of hearing something collide with another thing

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Jack Black and Paul Rudd have insane chemistry. It's the perfect movie for the holidays.

of course none of this controversy is about defending or explaining journalism or human rights investigations—it’s about a group of powerful people who want to reserve the right to deny reality, however poorly, whenever they want to or are told to

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

I found the original deck plans and purchase order for the HMS Bounty that had been misfiled and "lost", which wasn't even the thing I was looking for.

to indict the defendant for fornication. But before figuring all this out, I spent a good ten minutes staring at the page, wondering what it meant to be charged with being a “Horny Ignoramus” in 18th-century Philadelphia.

in college, I traveled to Moscow with a box of Ferrero Rocher for the director of the state literary archive, bypassing my nemesis who ran the reading room, and getting access to Vasily Grossman’s files, including the original KGB arrest warrant for his novel Life and Fate.

Tried to find something about Jesse Owens' time at Ford at the Benson -- no luck. Asked the archivist if they had anything sports-related, and he said "we have some box with correspondence about Joe Louis, don't know if it's interesting." It was, um, interesting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Bari Weiss saying the story she spiked didn’t “advance the ball” is so Carter Burke coded

Alfonsi was very respectful when she explained that you can't hold an investigative piece because the government refuses to comment because that's giving the government a veto. It only sounded condescending because it's so fucking obvious.

A genetically engineered supercoach with the technical genius of Mike Vrabel and the raw charisma of Jon Harbaugh: Monk Harbel.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

[goldfinger theme voice] bo dietl

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

lmao

can't wait for drake maye to lose his babyfat, right now it's like they tried to stuff crabbe AND goyle into one helmet

trevor lawrence plays football like someone who's good at pool only between beers 2-6, you can't convince me this isn't his buzzed month

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the anti-vaxxer married to a sex offender is a Republican but the fact that she commands an online army is still cause for concern

The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms. It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.

as a white kid if you don't recall having someone cracking racist jokes in front of you to suss out if you're going to go along or if you have standards and can then be ostracized with the slurs they kept special for you,

Lovely www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This Bears team is DIFFERENT and on Monday Kevin Warren will announce they are exploring options for a new stadium in Bettendorf, Iowa

Genuinely heartwarming

As long as Chicago can continue lowering their heads to deliver concussive blows to opposing quarterbacks, they have what it takes to go deep into the postseason.

You should be able to eject Booker for that, this ain't 1985 any more

I need Fox Sports execs to tell Tom Brady that they can just make him louder in the mix. He doesn't have to shout. I don't think he knows. I'm not sure they know.

7 year old giggling: when goku, gets super hungry, he eats like 30 meals in a row Me sounding exactly like Jesse Gemstone: I know how much goku eats

"Nobody seems to have the cilantro gene in Mexico" yeah because they genetically selected away from it. Because it's a weakness

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003