I would say I was weirdly accurate in spirit.

Tolstoy: What mean Macbeth? Pointless.
Orwell: It's a tragedy about ambition, murder, and the collapse of the human soul.
Tolstoy: Precisely, and not one mention of crop rotation. Where is humanity in that?

(I haven't followed the link yet, but that's what I'm imagining.)

An illegal migrant may have exposed Kristi Noem’s husband’s salacious cross-dressing secret An immigrant sex worker may have wanted to expose Bryon Noem’s double life as a cross-dressing fetishist as payback for his former DHS chief wife’s enforcement of President Trump’s immigration crac…

Aww . . . 2026 needed a feel-good story.

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Kids, whatever your wildest dreams are, they are not wild enough.

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Sorry, Marines. Trump said he would send the Army, but he knew it would take them too long to march there.

Article brought to you by the people making money off this.

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Interesting note on the word “guys.” The word traces back to the Englishman Guy Fawkes, the mastermind behind the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. (A doozy of a story on its own.) So, the British began celebrating . . . maybe more like “commemorating” . . . the failed plot by burning effigies of Fawkes every November 5. Those ragged effigies were called “Guys.” Before long, the word guy started to mean a strange-looking or poorly dressed person, like the ragged effigies. (Now claiming that as my future band’s name, The Ragged Effigies.) Anyhow, slow-forward two hundred years, and Americans pick up the word and stretch the meaning to “simply a man,” and eventually “any person at all.” And today we use it to mean any mix of people you want. So when you say “Hey guys,” the distant linguistic ancestor of that phrase is a revolutionary who tried to assassinate the king and burn down Parliament. Kinda cool.

Hey guys! Slow night here.

Roasting the outside linebacker would, indeed, be pretty hilarious. "Marvin, if you’re here, who’s scaring the crows away from our crops? Hike! ”

It's like fiddy thousand or somethin'.

On the Justice Department’s quarterly earnings call, they announced a strategic pivot away from the rule of law and more toward the absolute dumbest shit you've ever seen.

Hahah . . . . this is catfishing. This is how they catfished a generation of teen boys into reading this ideological infomercial.

I'm just gonna accept my Pulitzer now.

Wife: Where'd my chocolate chip cookies go?

Me: THE DOW IS OVER 50,000!

Ray Nathan is buried under four feet of Arizona dirt. The tunnel collapsed. The air is running out. And Charlie is standing there with a shovel.

Escape from Suck City’s Season 2 finale is out now. ENJOY A FREE EPISODE!

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The Wampanoag community mourns the death of irony.

They owned that resort in the Catskills, right? The resort had a rather tragic fall from grace, if that's the same people.

Ugh. Bad news for writers.

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I loved this show as a kid, and back in the day, nearly every show was set in New York City. I assumed I would grow up, move to NYC, and become a sports writer. None of those things happened, including growing up.

November 13. It's Felix Unger Day!

Totally worth it for the free pancakes. Thanks a lot, America!

If I hear or see "free gift" one more time, I'm going to lose faith in this country.

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Yeah, this thread has me super confident about 2028, possibly the last year for the human species. Fun while it lasted!

I get it. You want the ideal candidate. Me too. And that would probably be the SAME candidate for both of us. But if history’s any guide, “striving to do better” tends to end with “how did we lose again?” Democracy doesn’t survive by repeating our mistakes.

If Newsom wins the primaries, would you vote for him or 3rd Term Trump?

How about a hypothetical that's not so stupid or insulting? If a Democrat ever ran on Jim Crow laws, I’d vote for whoever could stop them. Same logic applies now. But that’s not the ballot we’ve got.

Never said I was voting for Newsom in the primaries. Has he announced he's running? Who are you voting for? You seem like you know.

Oh, and by the way, the primaries! Yes, vote as needed! I will vote for the most progressive candidate on the ticket. But after the primaries, I'm all in for whoever the Democratic nominee is. I'm not staying home on one issue.

First of all, the president can't legislate. If Newsom were to win, the Democrats would NEVER let him govern like a king. We need Congress to protect trans rights. 6 million fewer dems voted in 2024 than in 2020. With enough lines in the sand, maybe you can get 10 million to stay home in 2028. smh

How good life be . . . not yours, not mine, but humankind's . . . with 3rd Term Trump? That's my line in the sand. Yours?