Michael E. Cohen

Kirk thinks well of himself…

Services, Mac, and iPhone Drive Apple’s Q4 2025 Quarterly Revenue Record - TidBITS For its fiscal fourth quarter of 2025, Apple set numerous records, with revenue of $102.5 billion, led by an all-time Services revenue record of $28.8 billion, and profits of $27.5 billion—so many bil...

Once again I don my financial journalist garb to help Adam Engst report on Apple’s quarterly fiscal results.

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Weather app for Santa Monica showing an 88°F high temperature.

Over a month into Autumn, and the weather is slightly unseasonal.

That game lasted longer than some Hollywood marriages!

I didn’t realize that ‘ballroom’ described the shape!

My plan is to dress as Santa Claus for Halloween, thus killing two birds with one stone.

I’m glad my Apple Watch doesn’t have a fart detector; I prefer to rely on my friends and family.

Sitting? Most are kneeling.

Definitely worse than incompetence.

The Aristocrats!

Mine stopped working for a couple of hours yesterday. The outage did not improve my quality of life.

NATIONAL GROUCH DAY | October 15 NATIONAL GROUCH DAY Attention, all you grumblers, moaners, and professional complainers! October 15th is National Grouch Day, the one day of the year you can be

Today is National Grouch Day (www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...).

Just what I needed: another fake holiday to waste my time!

I’m sorry. Did you say something?😉

Decades ago I wrote an SF story that mentioned by the way that Las Vegas (where I spent much of my childhood) was destroyed by nuclear terrorists. Seems that dream wormed its way into the zeitgeist! Cool!!

Unlike a car or a vacuum cleaner, when the government shuts down it still makes a lot of noise.

YouTube video by Bruce Dumes The Siege of Portland. A hopefully humorous satire.

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Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

For me, “Looking for love in all the wrong places” includes taking a look at what’s in the refrigerator several times an hour…

BTW: the classic 1956 Jewish cookbook by Sara Kasdan, “Love and Knishes”, has an entry in its TOC for Yom Kippur recipes. When you go to it, you see an almost blank page containing the words “You peeked! Shame on you!”

The delivery charge is FREE!!!

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

And he never returned.

Possibly not, but a visit to Tahoe itself can heal a frayed spirit!

Americans have learned a somber lesson from recent events—that it's tragic and reprehensible to shoot a lone politician from long range in front of cameras at a public rally, but that it's totally meh to shoot a politician, their spouse, and their dog at close range in the privacy of their own home.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

But, but, didn’t he captain the U.S.S. Enterprise?!

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

The 46th shooting at a school this year happens to be Charlie Kirk. The shooter is an old, bald white male.
**This shooting is no more important than the 45 before it.**
Charlie Kirk would be the first to agree. Just two years ago he said gun deaths are “worth it.”

Earlier this year, Utah Republicans passed a "Campus Carry" law (HB 128), which allows individuals aged 18+ to carry a firearm, either openly or concealed, on college campuses, provided they hold a valid Utah Concealed Weapon Permit (CWP).