Norm(ie) DePlume

The DOJ's buffoonery today is giving real Monty Python vibes.

Ammunition the likes of which you've never seen.

Yep. Unless they prove that they have properly reversed course on the "wokeness" front, no amount of rebranding will lure me or my cohort back.

MadLibs are way more fun when they're about farts and boobs.

Target Sales Just Fell Again. Now Its New CEO Plans for Turnaround. Michael Fiddelke will present his proposal to fix things at Tuesday’s investor meeting

The new CEO is probably being paid a lot of money to miss the very simple answer: get woke again.

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

Permanent Standard Time or bust.

Somewhere there's a mint condition portrait of Trump.

Those pesky posts you think people forgot

It's a catchphrase from the Lonely Island podcast, inspired by an snl sketch inspired by the movie Total Recall. 😏

#QuaidArmy

Green usually breaks my heart. Now I know how Cub fans feel.

Oof, yes.

It’s okay to not weigh in deeply right away on complex topics where you’re lacking more info.

Trump, on election night 2024: "I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars."

YouTube video by Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation | Gryzzl Goes Too Far (Episode Highlight)

Any port in a storm, right?

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers Trump Shocks World with Plan to "Take Over" and "Own" Gaza, Undercuts "America First": A Closer Look

Last year Seth Meyers made a supercut of Trump promising that he wouldn't start neverending wars in the name of "nation building." Can we make republicans watch it, Clockwork Orange style, until they realize they've been conned?

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress. The deceased had a history of severe medical complications, was detained for over a year, and didn’t receive necessary care.

When I was a teen my mom taught me to make rice in the microwave and then when I moved out I set my rice on fire because my lone microwave safe dish was too small (the water boiled over, and then the little bit that was left boiled away, and then the rice burned into a charred smoking lump)

I made my wife a birthday cake and learned my dog loves frosting. .

Vanilla soup?

Of course! There is rarely a proper disaster when cooking for yourself.

Oooof.

Burned rice is a special kind of stink. 😳

The meringue's sweetness actually enhanced the tartness, and not in a fun Sourpatch Warheads way.

I left sugar out of a lemon pie once. It was not great. 😂

a man wearing a chef 's hat is standing over a pile of dough . Alt: Muppet Swedish Chef is throwing a lot of flour on top of the a huge pile of dough.

I want to care about the world, but I am too exhausted for real news.
Please soothe my melting brain with tales of your worst cooking or baking disasters. Bonus points for photos of the wreckage.

Also, there's a significant "let's punish Minnesota because Tim Walz called us weird in 2024" energy in all this, too.

I don't think people have really grappled with what the mass decline of violent crime in the US has meant for the economic ecosystem of superheroes, which is rapidly approaching a demographic cliff, as street-level crimefighting becomes a thing of the past, and avenues for promotion dry up.