Dave Herman

Broken glass medicine bottle with the caption "Tri-openin"

And yet not one word from the DoH against this dangerous arthritis medication #SNL

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Happy #HobbitDay! Bilbo and Frodo were born this day in 1290 and 1368 in the The Third Age.

Did you remember #BobsBurgers anniversary? Why not? It's easy!

🌎 My world's on fire
🔥 How bout yours
🤷🏼‍♂️ That's the way I like it
🎶 And I never get bored

Peace for our time.

It's a weird coincidence that the novel about a dystopian authoritarian future is called 1984, and the movie about a dystopian AI future premiered in 1984.

Text: Superman and Power: Choices Make You Who You Are

Boring. Stoic. Distant. That's how I always viewed #Superman.
Until now.
What's different this time?
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This month in politics summed up in a GIF

Finally, a #Superman who's vulnerable, physically and emotionally! A Superman motivated by aspirational good instead of agonizing duty.

Mike Johnson see himself as a new Moses. But he didn't say who "my people" are he wants to "let go".

Text: Stephen Colbert Showed Me a Deeper Faith

Stephen Colbert showed me a deeper faith for years, and especially this week. davidmherman.substack.com/p/stephen-co...

This is how you use power folks.

Grateful to have been an intern at The Colbert Report back in the day. Honored to have worked for this guy.

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

Our baby after she kept me up all night. The audacity.

The entity wants you angry at this list

Relieved that Gmail has the undo option. I prematurely sent "Excrement, thanks!" to someone who definitely deserved better.

That explains why POTUS hides his copy of the Declaration of Independence behind curtains

In #Andor, the people defending their humanity lose their lives while the one executing the kill order loses their soul. Too real.

#Andor S2:E8 is probably the best #StarWars content I've ever seen.

Pretty brazen for this bag of Doritos to assume I'm family size.

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On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed, by hanging, for his resistance to the Nazis.

She killed him? I thought he went to Jael

Benedie Comerbatch?

I love that rest is more restful when we've worked well. And work is more fulfilling when we've rested well.

The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.

Calvin and Hobbes ended twenty-nine years ago today. My dad was a big fan, so I snipped this comic out of the newspaper and gave it to him framed for his birthday.