Worshiping
dumb animals is hilarious.
It's
a clear message.
The Beatles could out-snark any modern pop star.
Children have
their own logic.
Hildegard von Blingin' and Whitney Avalon are
Holding out for a Hero.
Don't be a
scab adventurer.
Please be
more sensitive.
The
labor shortage just keeps getting worse.
Enjoy your meal.
Type carefully.
You have been warned.
What am I looking at here?
Upgrade your animals.
Different people celebrate Halloween
in different ways.
Gender ideology is, at least, sometimes hilarious (do read the replies!).
Alien art takes surprising forms.
Always read the fine print.
Make a wish.
The classic
romance novel cover was largely the creation of just one artist.
It's a simple matter of
Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung.
Get the point across using
animals.
Ken Ham says
aliens are going to Hell.
Libertarian
crypto/NFT morons are re-discovering why real financial systems
need all those regulations they hate. Here's a good
explanation of what cryptocurrencies and NFTs are, and (addendum at end) why it's so important to ridicule them.
If you're feeling lousy, ask yourself
these questions.
Some interesting
lightning photos here.
Check out the weird
pop-culture-in-ruins art of Filip Hodas.
This McDonald's
has a street inside it, but there's a good reason.
A
baroque scam/scandal involving an ostentatious necklace engulfed Paris high society just before the French revolution.
If you are a criminal, please move to New Mexico, as
there seems to be a shortage of criminals there.
Three idiots walk into a bar.....
Speaking as a Satanist, I find
Christian occultism too weird and creepy to stomach.
"
Forgive me for failing / Forgive me for trying....."
I'm in the wrong business. You can make three million bucks free and clear
just by asking morons to give it to you.
The Shape of Water was about
humanizing marginalized people, not humanizing monsters.
Rawknrobyn remembers the Camp Fire that
destroyed Paradise CA.
Big Bird has been
promoting public health for decades.
A fourteenth-century tower, a drone, and photography skills
produce an arresting photo.
Some practical tips here on
torrenting (I don't have the technical knowledge to evaluate this).
We're
going back to Venus in 2029.
Reminder:
Obama shares my view of cynicism.
This man is
the king of work.
The
gray rock strategy for dealing with narcissists and bullies has both positives and negatives.
Here's what
some wingnut codes mean.
This is not sex. This is not "play". This is shit.
If he
uses violence against people whose opinions you dislike -- what happens when
you have an opinion
he dislikes?
Chesterton's fence reminds us that drastic change should be approached cautiously.
This is
the best take I've seen yet on the internet-fic "antis".
Wingnut "prophets" flounder in frustration as their predictions of Trump's reinstatement stubbornly fail to come true.
Artist Waldemar Kazak has
a distinctive vision of Thanksgiving.
"Language evolves"
doesn't work as a justification for woketards' forced, Orwellian twisting of words.
If you want advice from a sports star, better
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar than Aaron Rogers.
Tips here on
spotting hidden cameras. It can be difficult.
Conspiratardia
comes easily to some people.
Here's
the actual Paul Gosar anime video that everybody's talking about.
Seasonal reminder:
the Salvation Army is evil. There are better places to donate to charity.
Racism exists.
This is not socialism.
If the left-wing media won't listen to you,
there can be some practical advantages in reaching out to the right.
A North Carolina student reported a sexual assault, and
the school suspended her, even though the assailant had confessed to the police. Students
have held a walk-out in protest.
Some anti-vaxers are now taking the covid-19 vaccine to keep their jobs, and then
engaging in meaningless (but somewhat toxic) rituals to "undo" it.
Wingnuts increasingly
support banning books and even burning them.
The John Deere strike apparently won't be ending any time soon.
My recent anti-politics post
was re-posted at Angry Bear, and got more positive feedback than I expected.
Soviet cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov tragically lost his life to the corruption and bad engineering endemic to totalitarian states (found via
Miss Cellania).
Whine whine whine,
I'll be down to my last quarter trillion.....
Workaholics
make the workplace even worse for normal people.
"
Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities."
The media are lying about Loudoun county. To avoid future election defeats, Democrats need an
accurate picture of what happened in Virginia.
Job applicants now have enough leverage
to be as shitty to employers as employers have long been to employees.
Giving up freedom for safety.....
is dangerous.
The wealthy create
a far disproportionate share of excess greenhouse gases.
More than half the workers who quit their jobs in recent months
aren't coming back, ever.
Jurors in the Rittenhouse trial
are being threatened.
Good
discussion of the Rittenhouse case here, for those few people whose minds aren't already made up one way or the other. More
here (in comments), though more one-sided.
Check your
secular privilege.
The covid-19 death rate in deep-red counties
is now almost three times higher than in deep-blue counties.
The US "supply chain" as it used to be
was based on stolen labor.
Denialism about the health effects of obesity is like doing the same with smoking or alcoholism; it does nobody any favors.
Anti-science propaganda rots even an educated brain.
Dead Wild Roses blog
comprehensively addresses trans ideology talking points.
The clean-up of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch begins.
Opposing an
ideology is not racist, and
religions are ideologies.
Religio-wingnuts fume as the mainstream right wing grows more accepting of homosexuality.
When the trans ideology mass delusion finally implodes,
what becomes of the crazies who kept it going?
The two US political parties are cobbled together from
nine distinct categories of people. Here's the
background data.
He left Portland State University because
it isn't really a university any more.
Fox "News"
deceptively edited a video to make Biden appear racist (found via
Fair and Unbalanced).
These
insurrectionists really are morons.
The New York Times
is trash.
A vast number of jobs are
not just dreary, but useless.
If "queer" means almost everything, then it means almost nothing.
The key to defeating Republicans is to
tie them to what their party really supports.
SickoRicko remembers
Kristallnacht.
The US now
lags behind almost all other major countries in covid-19 vaccinations (found via
Hackwhackers), far behind even countries like Brazil whose leadership has been as bad as Trump was, even though the US has now had a competent government for almost a year. As I said
here, it's not primarily a leadership problem, it's primarily a huge-sub-population-of-idiots problem.
There's no longer any doubt that
gender ideology is enabling sexual predators.
Forty countries have agreed to
phase out coal.
A British university is
offering safety training for sex workers, and the usual prigs are bitching about it (apparently they'd prefer that it
not be safer).
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, an anti-Semitic mob in London
swarms a speech by the Israeli ambassador and
tries to rush her as she leaves.
Teachers in Wales are targeted by
false accusations of pedophilia.
Yet another sexual-assault victim is
punished and denounced for speaking out.
An anti-Semitic murderer in Paris
is sentenced to life in prison, but could be eligible for parole in just 22 years.
Americans are
terminally clueless about healthcare.
A recent pro-choice march in Warsaw (after a woman died due to being denied an abortion)
was well attended.
A video going viral in Brazil shows
a high-school girl being viciously beaten by a boy after she had challenged his presence in the girls' bathroom.
Discussion here.
Another little step toward real peace in the Middle East.
The Saudi regime seems to be trying to
sabotage the climate summit.
The largest city in the world is also
one of the most livable.
The Chinese regime's bullying of Taiwan draws Europe to
strengthen support and deepen ties with the island nation.
LinkedIn is
getting out of China.
China's
demographic implosion shows no sign of stopping despite the regime's increasingly frantic efforts to raise the birth rate.
The regime isn't talking about
the mysterious explosions happening all over China. I suspect either terrorism or the usual civil-engineering incompetence -- when the regime wants to kill or intimidate dissidents, it has much better methods available.
Chinese persecution of Uyghurs extends even
beyond China's borders.
In the Congo,
the work of a gynecologist involves dangers and horrors barely imaginable in the West.
More links at
Fair and Unbalanced.
