The commonly-repeated assertion that George Lucas wrote the Rebel Alliance to represent the Vietnamese/Koreans invaded by the US is something that he made up for Return of the Jedi to make the Ewoks seem less dumb.

The Enigma of William Tell by Salvador Dahli. It apparently depicts Lenin as William Tell (I think?) kneeling, with one extremely long buttock propped up by a sort of slingshot shaped branch stuck into the ground. There are other details that you pick up probably if you look at it some more, but that really long butt cheek is the main thing.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

You don't want full size because you're supposed to be eight years old when your dad buys it for you.

Today a person can work two jobs for fifty hours a week and struggle to make ends meet, while in the stone age, a weird bird could be a hairdryer for a caveman for like five minutes every morning and it was a living.

Damn, and a McDaniels fan to boot.

If I were to witness something like that in the playoffs, I'd be forced to conclude that I was watching the best rivalry in the sport.

The very first time I saw Tom Goes to the Mayor, I thought that Eric Warheim would one day take over hosting duties for a far-right conspiracy show which had been acquired by a satirical newspaper. Could still happen.

Maybe sooner

Hopefully Tim Heidecker will be able to step into his shoes despite being a mere absurdist comedian.

Very good idea, I think that Tim Heidecker should definitely do that on behalf of The Onion.

It was really cool how the cover had four pictures on it.

I'm not going to get NBC Peacock just to watch a game that starts at 9:30pm, but I just checked the score and went "uh..."

Punk rock, my friend

Very well, you get a special dispensation to be punk rock when you listen to other genres of music, since you still have punk rock physically in your system.

There are only a few actions that are considered punk rock that are not listening to punk rock. Performing punk rock, that's one. Composing punk rock. Producing punk rock. Purchasing tickets to a punk show... These behaviors are all very punk rock.

Cutting taxes for corporations while listening to The Ramones: punk rock. Cutting taxes for corporations while listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: Not punk rock. Something else entirely.

When Rosanne Barr or Joe Rogan or whoever says that it's punk rock to be conservative, they're technically correct, but only if they listen to punk rock while doing conservative things. The true measure of punk rock is whether or not you are listening to punk rock music.

Imagining being a guy who is familiar with and can visualize various levels of candle power.

Hell, I don't think I even own a flashlight right now. And if I do, there's no way it has batteries.

But also I don't trust any of the parental control settings where the angle is like "we believe in giving you the options you need to teach your child to be a responsible and safe Verizon consumer." Time to get redundant, single-purpose devices.

I'm starting to sympathize with people who give their little kids tablets or phones. Having one device that does everything locks basic things like music, taking pictures, using a simple calculator, in the adult world.

Like I definitely remember being her age and knowing how to put the cassette tape I wanted to listen to in the tape player. Right now with the tech I currently own she can't really have that experience without asking to borrow my phone.

One thing I hate about todays tech is that accessing music on your phone or computer means that you can't really give your four year old free access to just listen to music when they want without giving them unfettered access to online. Gotta buy her an MP3 player or something.

She now knows that she can bookmark songs for later by telling me/mom to turn songs up that she hears in the car. Today she went seventies and expressed appreciation for Rockaway Beach by The Ramones, and Bang a Gong, Get it On.

I disagree with most of the definitions in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but it's still useful for the spelling

You're right about that, the arguments are just usually audacious enough that I feel like I'm insane for noticing it, going at least as far back as MAGA claiming Trump apologized for "grab 'em by the pussy" when he obviously just made excuses for it.

I think about it that often, at least.

The Matrix is a story about skepticism, about breaking free of false narratives, about speaking truth to power. It's also about how religious fanatics are right.

No thanks (ethical concerns)