Intellectual Homer Simpson

A man and his son pose in front of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

I hope, in spite of everything, some joy finds you both this season and in the New Year. Sending a bit of my own limited supply in the form of a picture of my son and I having the time of our lives this February at the Museum of Natural History with a big friend.

But FCS doesn’t have all the TV money and legacy programs, etc. etc.

My brain says Bama has no business in the playoffs with three losses (esp. Florida State).

My cynicism says it’s a coin flip.

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I covered 1-AA (now FCS) for years when it was a 16-team playoff field. Aside from conference champions (no championship games in FCS), three loss teams were almost automatically bounced.

Georgia Southern won the title 4 times (85, 86, 89, 90) and got bounced with three losses in 1991.

1/2

This would be like Georgia losing to Duke (in football, to be clear) in the FBS playoffs.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Y’all might not follow FCS football, but North Dakota State losing in the second round of the playoff is WORLD SHATTERING.

Illinois State—who beat them—threw FIVE interceptions.

Just absolute galaxy-level insanity in college football.

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

“So… uhh… Gabba Gabba Hey?”

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

zombie hands clawing at a zombie world.

Every Heathcliff comic tries to break its own record for most brain-suplexing unhinged comic, a record almost always held by a Heathcliff comic from the previous week, possibly the previous day.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

*No* spoilers.

I will literally talk about it at any time with any other willing human, so know that I am here.

I spoilers. Enjoy.

Don’t ask generative AI questions or use it for a search.

These are the stupidest people imaginable.

You tied that up with a perfect bow.

[Does the Wayne’s World “we’re not worthy.”]

I worked for a small rural daily in a college town.

If I fucked up, somebody was gonna point at me and laugh in the grocery store.

(I did sometimes. This really happened.)

Please give Luna a home

We’ve all been saddled with some “meh” feature art.

This designer doubled down.

We live in an age of dubious choices.

Worst case scenario in a city like Seattle is the hockey story stripped across the top, the column relegated to below the fold and, my journalist in Christ, that HS hoops picture is not even close to good enough for that many columns.

This was shabby work from decision-making to design.

Three deck headline over two columns!?!?

These fucking kids are on drugs.

Also, speaking as a former newspaper sports editor and page designer, the multiple bumping headlines and other egregious presentation confirm this newsroom is not being guided by the best and brightest.

It was y’all’s turn! How did more of my honkey brethren not see that?!?

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of...

This, of course, is a satirical headline which has transformed into a generational touchstone. While not explicitly “funny,” it is, hands down, the greatest headline the Onion (or any news organization) has ever written about gun violence.

Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Rules WASHINGTON, DC—In a landmark decision Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that it rules.

Just sayin.

There’s a thread going around of best Onion headlines, but this one (among others) reminded me we might start a thread of the Onion making Simpsons-level predictions of the future.

I fucking snorted.

The correct shade would have been a black to match a rich cup of coffee or a Somali goddess’s perfect skin.

alvin's good time face

If "I bet you can't whoop him" was a person