Barry Diller

Better yet: Next time I see a car festooned with MAGA stickers, I'll quietly add a couple of Mexican flag stickers.

These are songs from Kid Rock albums. Really! And you'll be able to watch him perform them on TBN, the Trinity Broadcast Network. Really!

One of the greatest joys in my retired life has been being able to ignore LinkedIn.

It's an old meme, but it checks out.

Three Texas schools made the Top 20 list, and two of them are Christian schools.

C'mon, Baylor! Maybe next year!

So it took ICE killing two people to get Schumer to decide to not go along with the Republicans on this one funding bill right now. Dammit, this day has been coming for months... where has he been?

A junk email folder showing multiple scam attempts.

Thirty years ago, if you had told me that in 2026 someone would be trying to rob me 12 or more times a day, I would have been astonished. But here we are. Just one moment of inattention, one accidental click, and someone in another country will steal all of my money.

Why do we live like this?

YouTube video by Free_Thinking_American - Topic Cold Blooded

"There was space! There was time! There were alternatives!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXKF...

2025 was The Year Without Joy

2026 is shaping up to be The Year of Terror

Charlie Kirk calls for cuts to Social Security: “I'm not a fan of retirement. I don't think retirement is biblical."

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Ben Shapiro: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old"

First, Charlie Kirk said that retirement is not Biblical. Now Ben Shapiro is saying this. These statements are not being made in a vacuum. Backed by billionaires, these guys want to normalize the idea of your working until you die. They want to eliminate SSA.
www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/...

I want to see Stanford play Samford in a football game.

And then I want to see the winner of Stanford/Samford play UConn-Stamford.

I don't know why.

What we don't have are engineers and programmers with advanced degrees and years of experience who will work for $30,000 a year. That is why Microsoft needs H1B people.

Churches are setting up their 'safe' Halloween alternatives. They see evil in every witch's hat and vampire's cowl. They say Halloween grooms our kids to regard evil characters and deeds as normal and acceptable.

But these folks see no problem with Donald Trump.

The irony is breathtaking.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Ladies and gentlemen: The future of the Republican Party.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

So, companies have four business days to paint some shovels gold and start ground-breaking on some new multi-billion dollar manufacturing plants.

Gold has quietly gone from just over $2,700 an ounce on Trump's inauguration day to just over $3,700 an ounce now. A third of that increase has happened in the last month.

People are worried.

The H-1B fee will critically impact the medical field. And that's not even the worst thing in this list.

It's like watching a demented old guy rant and rave and wave around a loaded shotgun. You have no idea what's going to happen next, you just know that it'll be bad.

Sinclair-owned ABC stations to run Charlie Kirk tribute in Jimmy Kimmel's timeslot Sinclair-owned ABC stations to run Charlie Kirk tribute in Jimmy Kimmel's timeslot

FYI. Horst Wessel was a member of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany. Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
www.avclub.com/sinclair-abc...

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech The legislation would allow the Secretary of State to strip anyone’s US passport with no legal due process.

In some places, you need your passport to prove citizenship so that you can vote. Revoke passports for people who speak against the Empire and voila, they're disenfranchised.
truthout.org/articles/new...

Just finished Dan McClellan's excellent book "The Bible Says So" and ready to start on John Fugelsang's new book "Separation of Church and Hate".

The books have a common theme: Many people who call themselves Christians are running around saying the Bible says this and that when it just ain't so.

At least 4 students, including shooter, injured in shooting at Colorado high school: Officials At least four people were transported to the hospital after a shooting unfolded at a high school in Colorado, officials said.

Four students were shot today in a Colorado high school.

In a separate incident, Charlie Kirk was shot, too.

abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...

Man, I wish I had some Lee Leens! So I could be cool like the high school and college guys. Golly.

(November 1970)

He's a walking STD prevention ad, and she is what every parent dreads their daughter becoming. A sellout with no morals whatsoever

Nauseating.

YouTube video by YouTube Movies Inherit the Wind

The Scopes Monkey Trial began 100 years ago today. So I guess I'll re-watch this classic film, which is itself 65 years old.

I've come to appreciate actor Fredric March. He humanizes Matthew Harrison Brady. Brady's still a jackass, but he's not a cartoon villain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGt7...

Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”

Ted Cruz says there is a time to have political fights, but now is not that time. It's never that time. How are we doing on guns? Since there hasn't been a mass shooting today, maybe now is a good time to talk about it. Because when there is a mass shooting, that's a bad time to discuss.