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During Trump's first term, Navarro was a notorious dumb cluck. He now has the brains of gravel.

It's a shame Bing didn't live long enough to star in The Road to Tekoa with Craig T. Nelson and Patty Duke.

While not exactly a personality cult, the Bing worship here is similar to Santa Rosa and Charles Schultz (Peanuts) or Copenhagen and Hans Christian Andersen (Little Mermaid). Crosby is mostly a fictional character from the movie parts he played, except for the one w/Grace Kelly.

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality

America is turning into Beserkistan, as Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau dubbed countries that once comprised the USSR.

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It's always struck me as creepy how Crosby is venerated in Spokane. Wasn't born here. Didn't live here that long but made some movies that Catholic kids were forced to watch on ancient Bell + Howell projectors in the school gym. I bet St. Bing hated coming back in his later yrs.

Oh, I know about Bob Crane. The secret didn't stay hidden for long. Sick pervert. In another time he wld be an Epstein pal.

Bob Crane was such a stand-up guy. No wonder he was one of Bing's pals.

He had a hand in developing Del Mar race track as well.

How much more time has to go by until this is over?

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Naturally

Newton's Laws of Motion. Force, mass, velocity and all that jazz. Not worth explaining that to this individual.

Well, you have to pay taxes on the capital gain, so that's something to consider.

What happened to Quinn Cummings? Did she vanish, too? Here one day, gone the next? Genuinely worried.

I feel blurry all the time now, not just on days that are sequels to Towering Inferno in IMAX.

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

What a story:

“Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship.

“The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country”

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Over the holidays, he and Cheryl gather the family that still speaks to them and watch their favorite Christmas movie -- Trainspotting.

Some of the most vile people who ever existed on our planet have lived remarkably long lives.

Merv, not Meth. Oops.

I will never forget her singing "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden" on the Meth Griffin show. I was a strange little kid and just adored British satire and anecdotes. Bea was one of the greats.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

At first I took it for satire.

Another scam is paying to insure built-in appliances in yr house after the warranty has expired. Aimed at ppl with cash flow problems, I suppose. Then there's insurance in case you miss a credit card payment. That's dire straits.

MS Now tonight aired the worst slip-and-fall lead generation ad imaginable. It has to be a hoax. It's racist, it's a minstrel-show depiction of Black personal injury lawyers and how in hell did on the air?

Mitchell went to prison. Pam would be good at knifing her cell mate with a rusty soup spoon.

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people.

A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow.

May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

Michelangelo would take up your entire leg but inking it in sans serif might save a few bucks. Doesn't seem right, though.