Grumpy D. Kelson

When we went through The Lord of the Rings for the bedtime reading, it really hit how it was meant to be read aloud. There are moments in Return of the King that had never really gobsmacked me previously. Often with books read aloud, the reader has the lesser experience—but not that one, that time.

It’s like people don’t even know what this country was like in the 1970s.

Burbank Airport is operating without air traffic controllers tonight.

I understand what this order - & JB allowing ISP to intercede in Broadview - are trying to do. They are making a show for the courts that federal interference in IL is illegal because IL officials are managing the situation.

But at some point, it becomes collaboration. And that line is...close.

Congenital Rubella Rubella, also known as German measles, is a viral illness characterized by maculopapular rash, lymphadenopathy, and fever. It is a highly contagious but generally mild disease, without consequences in...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507...

TAPS SIGN:

"Some books are meant to be read aloud!"

If it works for the White House...

(Narrator: it doesn't work for the White House)

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

"Looks like mini secession is back on the menu boys!"

a man with a mustache is saying `` i don 't know how to put this '' ALT: a man with a mustache is saying `` i don 't know how to put this ''

So it's a bajillion pages of this:

homer simpson is standing in a grassy field ALT: homer simpson is standing in a grassy field

Sounds like I missed something today...

Libertarian pilots rejoice!

bsky.app/profile/ronp...

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

My mother-in-law texted me asking what I think of someone named Hasan Piker.

I don’t know who he is—but it is never a good sign when she asks me what I think of someone.

I guess now I know who his uncle is.

One shouldn’t penalize people for their relations but… maybe it’s OK from time to time?

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

”Contrarian“

“Still means what it has my whole life: in agreement with the elite consensus, debating opponents who don't even have their own platform.“

(H/T @eschatonblog.com www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/cont...)

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

This is complete and utter pompous bullshit. It's telling that of the people proposing it wants to anoint themselves director general when every one of his claims of having discovered technosignature interstellar objects has been debunked by the planetary community. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01405

As with all things on the right, there is no bottom to the dumbassery.

Are they at least doing it correctly?

I guess the second edition of the book is going to be retitled
"One Day Everyone* Will Have Been Against This
*Except Van Jones"

all four of my grandparents were in concentration camps, my father was born in a d.p. camp, and my entire life i was told what all the warning signs of fascism were by my forebears, but this wasp asshole who has never known a day of oppression is ready to tell the rest of us it's fine because he is.

“Become a courts reporter,” they said.

“You’ll get weekends off,” they said.

“Because there won’t be any hearings on the weekend,” they said.

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

As per my previous email…

<biting finger nails>

Can’t wait to see Stephen Miller’s absolute meltdown.