Dreamboat Annie

so now we know how many of us need to stand up to them: 138 million of us.

Doug Gottlieb throws chair after stunning Green Bay loss: ‘Played like idiots’ Bobby Knight would be proud.

it's unfortunate for Doug Gottlieb that this story has been out there since last night & has been around the block already. He had to wait until just now for his radio show to come on: so that he could explain that he wasn't throwing the chair, he was just putting it away a little too impatiently.

A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?"

Bill Nye said "Evidence."

Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."

I think about that a lot.

there is so much news like this lately. so much. the world begins to feel a bit unrecognizable.

Drake C. Toll Named New Morning Show Host On Westwood One Sports Beginning December 29 Drake C. Toll has been named the new morning show host on Westwood One Sports which debuts nationwide on December 29

this announcement appears to mean that the Maggie & Perloff Show is getting the axe. although their show is never mentioned here, it's their time slot that's being taken over by this guy. earthquakes are happening in the #3 network in the sports radio universe.

Bart Winkler—soon gone— is talking about this rn on his radio show. CBS Sports Radio, not long ago, became Infinity Sports Network. Now it's changing again: being swallowed up in a huge corporate merger—& becoming part of Westwood One. all of this presumably to compete with ESPN & Fox Sports Radio.

Super Bowl 60 is looking better & better. & also funnier.

Antonio Gramsci was right. "The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."

every once in a while there's something pleasant to read about on here.

when you start using the word actually a lot it means you've probably been up all night doomscrolling thru the firehose.

not hard to guess who the blacked-out names belong to.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I can't see that I've had any degradation of service & it's really not just for old people. there's another similar network I've seen ads for recently. they're all being promoted as alternatives to behemoths like AT&T & T-Mobile. & I think they legitimately are good alternatives.

I bailed on AT&T last year. went with Consumer Cellular. tons cheaper, otherwise no different. They use the same towers as both AT&T & Verizon: I think they rent usage on both networks. so you still have access to the networks but you're not giving your money to them. some, indirectly, of course.

such a life!

sorry I dropped out on the conversation. I've been binge watching In Plain Sight. that's awesome that the cat lived so long. amazing, even.

plus he's insane

We'll spend the next 3 years—or forever—in the futility of knocking down each new lunatic theory the MAGA fever swamp dreams up—with every hallucination more absurd than the last. until no one knows or cares anymore what's real. I DON'T believe that's the point—there IS no point. it's just insanity.

is the reporter by any chance the lady on the right who's looking dumbfounded at the stupidity at that remark?

that's........👁👁 quite an experience. it's a good thing somebody learned to speak cat. I have experienced the pee but not the poop. but it was a human not a lion. is that lion still around?

"questionable". jhfc these people.

IDT the cat didn't like you. you just weren't a member of the pride. that's the end of it. I don't know what the modern explanation is for why domestic cats don't mature: what gene regulation changes made "growing up" just...switch off. supposedly this also happened with dogs, but differently.

is a recipe for a confused animal. some occasionally bond with a specific adult & regard them differently. esp if they are a cat species that socializes with other cats—like in a pride. but their instincts are always at war with their situation. they're genetically set to grow up to be independent.

all these childhood behaviors are supposed to disappear at puberty. so that the sexually adult female is ready to be on her own. & to have her own kittens. In domestic cats these programmed behaviors persist through life. Essentially, they never grow up. For lion cubs in domestic situations, this—

At puberty the programmed behaviors that make it possible for a wild mother to control her kittens—like when a mother picks up her kitten by the nape of the neck to carry it somewhere, & the kitten goes limp & passively allows itself to be carried. or the kneading behavior to stimulate milk output..

Much of my information is old—but in some biology course I took, they taught the current theory on what makes domesticated cats different from all other cat species. (I suppose now the explanation finds a physical explanation in modern epigenetics.) Basically, domestics cats don't mature at puberty—

if NBC weren't click-bait searching, they'd lead with the information that the man was a diagnosed schizophrenic who was obsessed with going to Africa & taming lions; had even hidden in the wheel-well of a plane in the hope that it would take him to "Africa".
The victim here is a freaked-out lion.

yet another entry in the Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession Sweepstakes:

Trump Attacks MeidasTouch in Midnight Mental Breakdown By Ben Meiselas

From @meiselasb.bsky.social:

"In the span of about one hour around midnight on Monday, Donald Trump posted and reposted approximately 400 messages that included some of the most deranged conspiracies."

Um, this is not OK.

www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-atta...

&they all consider Jim Harbaugh as a kook so just think how nuts HE must be.