Josh

I also have a soft spot for Big Trouble, a bomb on a plane comedy that was supposed to be released on September 21 but obviously got pulled and dumped in the next spring. It's stupid but I enjoy it

I have a soft spot for the literal last one, Buffalo Soldiers (about corrupt soldiers in West Berlin), which has a limited release September 8, 2001 and those general release was pulled soon afterwards because it was too unpatriotic about the troops for the new climate.

Pretty sure MREs literally say that on some of the packaging. Thankfully I haven't had one in a long time

I can't find the anecdote's source, so grain of salt, but I remember reading about, as they sat for one of this administration's first WH briefings in January 2025, one reporter turning to another and saying "we're so back."

They hated Biden for not leaking. And yes, want Trump to rule us.

Remembering the cowards who said not to oppose this too loudly because foreign aid doesn't poll well and then packed off to elect a new DNC Chair over the long weekend at National Harbor instead

My wife just did this. She has no memory of it but it definitely woke the kids and we have to get them back to sleep. I think the neighbor's kids are crying too?

I was hootin' and hollerin' at the way they stopped selling the product at all to explain how to scan a QR code to their (I assume) septuagenarian and up target audience

Far side comic of the kid going into the gifted school but pushing a door labeled pull

It's almost like it's one of them pull polls

Blind Guardian's my favorite band but I'll admit I'm probably more impressed by what Maiden did with their twelfth:

Album art for Iron Maiden's Brave New World

I'm pretty happy with this one!

I went to WVU and yes.

Everything besides the Backyard Brawl is the same. All our season in a non conference game in September.

World's perfect brindle dog looking out over a valley in the Adirondacks just before peak fall colors

I'm convinced the only people who had their minds changed by the "Kamala is for they/them" ads were the Dem consultants and pundits whose brains they broke (or gave them a permission structure to do what they always wanted)

We believe Burns still has that bill hidden somewhere in his house. But all we've ascertained from satellite photos is that it's not on the roof.

Why must life be so hard?! Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?!

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

White people are basically the only ethnic group that doesn't overindex in enlistments. Even now. We'll see how that survives the racist shaving thing, think.

Paxton also told John Ganz, after J6, that yeah, it's fascism

I doubt he knows anything about him either, but I bet he's seen the speech that opens the film (probably not the rest of it). I doubt he could place it but I bet it's floating around up there

Their record in WW1 isn't that great either. Maybe if the Brits had decent shell fuses at Jutland...but other than that stalemate they basically stayed in harbor on both sides for 4 years.

"I put your submariners in a dangerous situation and told the world where to look for them"

Motherfucker really thinks standing in front of that flag is all that be needs to make him Patton

Playacting bullshit

I'll never know what Pablo Torre finds out because of this divide

Whelp, this feels real bad for even the tenuous hope for a new Mass Effect that's worthwhile. Not going to be a Paragon option in the script.

A brindle hound mix looking at the camera with his tongue out.

A brindle hound mix looking over his shoulder with a lake in the background, sorta at golden hour

A brindle hound mix looking at the camera, my arm extended to scratch him under the chin and he's got his paw holding my forearm in place

A brindle hound mix in a tuxedo front sitting at attention at an outdoor wedding, held by a groomsmen.

This is Dante, my almost eight year old rescue mutt. He was my Best Pup at both my COVID wedding and post-COVID wedding reception. I won't post any pictures of them, but he's so patient with my toddler and infant. When I change a diaper he'll stand between us and the door facing out to protect them

That looks too fancy to be a miner's lunch, but I bet it tasted better than the really traditional, barbones ones

From Dusk til Dawn feels like the obvious choice.

Assassin's Creed III when you finally change characters was also very dramatic to me.

Somebody tell this to the leaders of antifa:

I mean, they're hiring a small number (10k new agents) compared to how many military recruits get similar bonuses and forgiveness numbers when they enlist. Ex, the Army has already exceeded its 61k goal for new soldier contracts, and that's just one branch.

They're going to end education polarization by wrecking the supply - neutering colleges (so no one -especially their kids - learns anything challenging) and cutting off the demand - killing off good white collar jobs that require degrees and give education its monetary ROI