Phoebe Juel

Says everything about real leadership.

It's far down on the list of his various pathologies but what is his obsession with giant-ass patios?

I'd turn his speeches and pressers into a drinking game, but I don't want to die of alcohol poisoning.

Imagine being the family of the air crew hearing that barely polished "shit happens."

Between this and his "we're great because we kill stuff real good" remark, this dork is so pantingly thirsty for jock approval. It would be hillarious if it wasn't terrifying.

Starting to think I'm the only person who remembered this one.

What is it with Iowa guys and those things? I have to hide them from my dad to keep him from goring himself on them.

This offers some insight into the senior military folks who were taken in by Elizabeth Holmes.

We could be working on climate solutions, cancer treatments, all sorts of wonderful things and instead we're doing this.

Oh dang, I want to read this!

Eyup, you can be JD, or a Heather, or Veronica.
Way too many of us chose JD or Heather.

Singing in the Rain sure hits different when you realize that it's also a huge fond parody of the pre-code Busby Berkeley musicals.

It's even funnier than that. Senator Claghorn wasn't a real person; he was a character from the old Fred Allen show. Claghorn was a parody of the sort of performance that Sen. Kennedy is trying to perpetrate on the rest of us.

Dispatches from the Oswald Spengler Memorial Book Club.

This kind of crud reminds me of an article I read a while back about the pre-legalization weed culture in DC - white suburban moms making brownies & lollypops & whatnot making bank doing deliveries to BigLaw & consultants knowing they'd never have consequences.
It's the worst kind of privilege.

Reminds me of the management at the Tyson Pork pack in Waterloo, IA taking bets on how many workers would get COVID.

Nope. Comic book culture has gone too far. Find the person who did this and wedgie them unconscious in front of the entire Pentagon staff.

Tried to warn us all w/ the screenplay for Seven Days in May.

Nope.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

I miss my Con Law text.
(My rabbit made a meal of the binding)

This is what going to a small liberal arts college in the middle of a cornfield does to people.

"Roughly" is going Atlas lifting there.

Why couldn't people have gotten this obsessed with actual Brisco County Jr. (newsgroup sig files notwithstanding)?

Or heck, Legend! Legend was super fun.

I've said it before, but you can really tell he did his residency at U of Iowa.

They really just do not give a good goddamn do they?

You know, the Totenkopf is a particularly interesting choice for a former Abu Ghraib guard when you consider that the Totenkopf Division was originally made up of concentration camp guards. It's first commander was one of the key developers of the camp system.

Don't get between a lady and her greens.

They're a treat ever year, but for some reason this year's crop is especially good. There's a floral thing going on there that's amazing.

All the good thoughts.