Steve Casburn

YouTube video by thevinyls78 Chauncey Olcott - I Love The Name Of Mary

In 1999, John Peel made a list of 400 recorded musical tracks from the 20th century, four from each year.

Here is track #53 (1913).

jeanine pirro is here to send the criminals of washington dc a message, loud and clear, that if you commit a series of murders, she will respond decades later, and also write a book about it

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

“Dating” an AI chatbot is a romance scam. These people are catfishing themselves.

Scene from a short story read long ago: A Romanian refugee sits in the front room of her Chicago apt in the 1960s, sad because she has no friends who will appreciate the ornate furnishings she has painstakingly collected for her front room.

All for show…but who will ever see?

1204 is the real historical analogy to what happend to the USA. the way the American elites welcomed Trump in will look to history like the way Byzantine elites welcomed the Venetians

the reality of the situation - that US foreign policy is now driven largely by a combination of senility, corruption, and racism - invalidates analysts' mental picture of the world they study and are part of. human beings cannot bear too much reality.

I'm thinking about how many Palestinians and reporters and health care workers and others in Gaza have "If you see this..." messages. Imagining people even writing and recording them is just devastating. 😭 🇵🇸

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

David Justice saying stupid and misogynistic things about Halle Berry

You kinda have to give it up to the photo editor

“you’re cosplaying a personality disorder and calling it leadership” sums up pretty well why that place is so toxic

rather than actually run their companies, a lot of people are focused on the performative aspect of presenting themselves as Thought Leaders and their employees are just props

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

“The eternal human desire to create a home challenges the world, which renders such an attempt hopeless from the outset.”—László Földényi

Mexican restaurants, two locations, Pittsburgh area. /1

Elon Musk's America.

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

israel slaughtered 237 journalists and you barely heard a peep from the western media establishment

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

Two men in a room full of funeral requirements, moving very small coffins.

This image was published in the NYT in 2019.

It depicts people unpacking coffins for children donated to Samoa by New Zealand.

These coffins were required due to a measles outbreak caused by anti vax criminals, led by RFK jr.

Samoa ran out of coffins for children.

RFK jr is scum.

I should have been clearer: Both sides (implicitly) agree not to write down any deal. They understand Trump will fill the silence with outlandish claims, delivering him a political win. And our trading partners are obliged to deliver nothing, giving them the economic win.

“No one sees the limitations of human existence as well as those who wish to step over these limits.”—László Földényi

Darkly hilarious that the American white supremacy movement is often led by people who wouldn't have been considered white in America even one hundred years ago. Sort of gives the whole game away, doesn't it?

The number of people endangered by the selfish stupidity of refusing vaccinations is absurd. Babies aren't eligible for measles vaccination until they're 6-12 months old and spreading measles presents a mortal danger to them

Saturday, August 9 1:00 NBC NEWS ICE's recruiting tactics now ICE is dangling $50,000 signing bonuses and touting a celebrity endorsement from a former Superman to get prospective agents to sign up

OK, I’m not even kidding. If they’re doing this, someone find out how much they paid Dean Cain.

If you know, reach out to me. I’m on Signal: crg.32

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

“[B]eing alone as they were, [melancholics] had to make the world habitable and bearable by their own effort—but the world so created differed from everyone else’s world.”—László Földényi

YouTube video by TheLovinSpoonfulVEVO The Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have to Be so Nice (Audio)

A beautiful song for an ugly year.

YouTube video by francis pelletier Top Pop Songs USA 1992

In 1988-91, I lived part of each year in CA and part in OH. My first full year in Ohio was 1992.

Listening to the Top 60 songs from that year...every song by a white artist is etched into my memory. Half of the songs by black artists I don't remember ever hearing.

Ohio: Segregated.

Popeye's sandwich does indeed surpass CFA's, though the latter is still an excellent meal. KFC's sandwich is both a clear step down from either AND better than most fast food.