Yeah, but at least Trump says he makes the trains run on time.

Getting old isn't as much fun as you think it is.

Fire employees, realize it was a terrible mistake, beg them to come back.... And treat them like shit when you need them more than they need you.

Allow me to be one of the first to say: fuck skiing. Watch it if you want, I don't call for boycotts. Just remember that every time you watch, you're supporting transphobes. If you're good with that, nothing I say will make you human.

I'm going to occasionally start putting my initials at the end of random posts so it'll look like the rest are made by my social media team. - JM

Looks like The Almighty ghosted the Fondlementalists. No Rapture after all. I had my eye on a neighbor's car I could just take afterward, but I guess that's not happening.

2:41 PM here in unraptured Western Massachusetts. Why are my fundies still here?

NYT headline so much better than WaPo and AP.

The Rapture took out the right front tire on my wife's car and I had to go pick her up and get her to work, then come back for the tow guy to get the car. Stupid Rapture and its stupid rapturing.

Fun to see our movie lit up in Times Square. Adulthood is out on digital in the US and Canada today :) WatchAdulthood.com

I keep seeing calls for Dems to "moderate [our] views on cultural issues," and I wonder who is it we're expected to throw under the bus, whose rights we're going to be okay with stomping, and who we're willing to join the GOP in dehumanizing? Where's the line? Confession is good for the soul.

Even the Mob would always stand up for the performers. The Mob apparently had more moral courage than Disney, who folded like a broken card table, and with the First Amendment at stake.

America is the guy with the sporting goods store. Trump is Tony Soprano and his friends.

I reckon it's time to brush up on the Hays Code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

Calling on Stephen, Seth, Fallon, and Michaels to put Kimmel on air as constantly as possible.

Something needs to be done regarding corporate governance and fiduciary responsibility. They believe that when a show loses 39% of its viewers overnight that they are required to fix the financial matter. That needs to change, with important public policy considerations becoming a matter of law

This part.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

We need Star Trek and Doctor Who, now more than ever. If you don't like what they're making now, fine, don't complain, just go watch the ones you love. But we need hope, to feel hope, to make our real-world hope. To quote West Wing, there is no false hope; there is only hope and absence of hope.

Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert could raise the money to start a new network. They know some people.

This insanity is disorienting. Apparently, President Obama was wrong. Among Conservative Christians, it's apparently just fine to use the N-word in polite company and one of the country's most powerful communications companies is going to spend an hour celebrating one such racist in Friday night.

We have turkeys. We don't keep turkeys; we have wild turkeys who come through the yard daily, stopping to eat some berries that people don't really care for. Their silhouette and movement make them look like giant pigeons. Yeah, I'm a city boy in the country, and I have enormous visiting pigeons.

Same again today.

This is absolutely dead-ass insane. Donny Hathaway was a brilliant writer but was also a peerless interpretive artist. Don't skip this one. youtu.be/bzGJQezTS5w?...

Trump wants to end 10-Q's, the quarterly reporting public companies are required to provide. This is how investors know what the hell is going on. What an absolutely idiotic proposal and I'm thinking of moving my modest little IRA into a cash fund.

Western MA is acting like Southern California for the last month. Perfect days, 70-80, 50s at night, clear usually. The weather is lovely. And it worries me for the climate.

Kirk advocated for public executions and said (among many things) that Biden should be shot. That's not a chuckle and a dog-whistle. Some of you have serious internet brain poisoning.

h/t to the FB Philosophy Matters account

I'm old, which means I both don't know what "dril" means and I'm too lazy to look it up but I'm amazed at the poetry of this: www.splinter.com/flying-the-g...

I get misty-eyed over the damndest things. This came up on a commercial feed I follow, and I sighed, lovingly and nostalgically:

Kara Swisher referred to Megyn Kelly as an "exhausting termagant," and I have no notes.

Nothing ever ends.

This is the second episode with Crockett and Foley and I just may start a completely unsubstantiated rumor or two. It's not impossible if they're very, very good friends and he's helping write. That's something comedians and politicians do allll the time.

All y'all are missing out if you're not watching "Have I Got News For You" on @hbomax / @cnn. It's a game show-style program, hosted by Roy Wood, Jr., featuring team leaders Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black. This week Cong. Jasmine Crockett and Dave Foley played. You know, people you want to see.

"Just as Jan van Eyck’s great painting The Arnolfini Portrait is widely believed to have served as a marriage contract, so the artwork examined here may well have served to seal a union."

I find myself shocked at this but I kind of wish Kissinger were alive at this moment.

Brett Goldstein is a mensch among mensches. And he's right.

I'll be honest; I don't really have a big problem with people having dodged the draft during the Vietnam War era. Carter's blanket amnesty made sense to me then, and does now. I have a problem with people using family wealth and connections to avoid the war. That's the coward's way.

Cocaine destroyed the promise of the 60s.

Badgered his estranged wife into suicide. Was a very successful drug dealer in college.

Is Massie gonna release one bad one a day until they all get released. Huh. <<Sad MAGAbone noise>>

Doesn't Trump consider rats to be bad, even if the person they're ratting out is terrible? Isn't that a big Trump thing? Didn't Alex Acosta get a cabinet level payoff for the sweetheart deal he scored for Epstein? Huh. Seems contradictory.

Remember, kids, when your PCP gives you a depression screening questionnaire, it's not for you! It's for their medical malpractice insurance company, allowing your doctor to say they checked while not actually doing anything to help. This isn't about patients at all.

The Erica Ortegas Show is pretty amazing this week. Starfleet's best pilot has the A story and Melissa Navia is phenomenal.

So, I'm now at the point where my experience with *all* medical personnel is such that I'm done. No more. My prescriptions will eventually run out and that's that. Convincing my wife that quitting is a good choice isn't going to be easy and if anyone has any suggestions, that'd be helpful.

Okay, so I sent in an appointment request to my doctor's office on Thursday. I had a fall a couple of weeks ago and still have something going on with my hip. I got a call today from their office, where the caller said he'd "come across" my appointment request, and they ....

Staring me down at our frog pond.