Dale (aka Lichtenbergian)

My wife brought these home from Aldi, and all I could think of was, "Is their slogan 'So good they'll make you want to open wide!"?

Zero Republicans call for Benghazi-style hearings. No rightwing media outrage. Republicans dined off of 4 dead Americans in Benghazi for a decade, and yet 3 dead Americans at the hands of a GOP president who promised no new wars gets no pushback. Fuck these fake outrage ghouls.

In white letters on a black background, a phrase is repeated with a different word emphasized each time: “Create for your AUDIENCE. Create for YOUR audience. Create FOR your audience. CREATE for your audience.”

And remember, your first audience is YOU.

We are not talking smart people here, you know. I mean... ::waves hands at all this:: (And yes, I meant Mace, not AOC.)

When all you've got is reality TV goombahs...

Time to re-air "The Americanization of Emily."

wAsTe AnD fRaUd KENNETH

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

I have scratch pads in the island drawer for calculating all that stuff. As I say in this blog post, you probably have a similar system, but in case you don't: www.dalelyles.com/2020/06/08/m...

Well, I'm waiting!

Were there no good guys with guns nearby to stop this?

Get offa me! Lineup for the homecoming parade was thrown into disarray when it developed that the mascots had not been fed that day.

with my apologies, another #BadEtching... badetchings.blogspot.com/2014/10/get-...

Yeah, that does happen "often" in war.

Once again, my take on saying the Pledge: www.dalelyles.com/2019/02/21/s...

Keyword: "entitled"

Is it just me, or are we through the looking-glass here?

A graphic representation of the Lichtenbergian Precept of AUDIENCE: in the foreground, a silhouetted AUDIENCE looking at a squiggly blue circle, their interpretation of the work, represented by a pale gray, perfect circle overlaying the imperfect blue one.

That was also my message in Monday's blogpost, 'Some Advice from an Elder': "Your music is beautiful and you perform it beautifully. That should be the bedrock of how you think about your work. Audience? You have one already. It’s you. Keep going." (And yes, that was a callback to Kleon's work.) 2/2

@austinkleon.bsky.social says in today's newsletter: “In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.” If you’re playing the game you want to play the way you want to play it, you’ve already won." 1/2

A light blue grid with two diagonal lines across it; one of the angles is labeled 30°. Two tiny black triangles hug the 45° line. Above, hand lettering states “That can’t be right.”

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

Fun Friday Resources — Lichtenbergianism In which I offer a handful of fun websites with which to practice your TASK AVOIDANCE…

www.lichtenbergianism.com/blog/2026/2/...

It's the mind-boggling competence of it all that boggles the mind, you know?

It's the mind-boggling competence of it all that boggles the mind, you know?

Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones.

I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below.

www.404media.co/the-governme...

The really funny thing is that she doesn't look "unhappy," she looks she's about to devour someone whole.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Remember, it's not hypocrisy if you never had a moral compass to begin with.

Textes from Sisyphus:

UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE

An older gentleman wears a t-shirt, the front of which is a circular engraving of Prometheus having his liver eaten by the vulture. Across the top of the circle, the legend: "EVERY DAY IS A FRESH START."

In Jan 2025, I stocked up on coffee, since *I* knew that Trump's tarriffs would wreak havoc on the economy. I paid $10.99 per 1-lb. bag of Peet's Major Dickason's Blend.

Today I paid $15.99 for the same coffee.

So, no, MAGAts, prices have not come down. #affordability #TrumpEconomy