Jeff Lorenzen

Freshman typing (on a mechanical typewriter) definitely had the biggest lifetime payoff of any single class I took in high school.

YouTube video by Middle Aged Dad Jam Band 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant' (Billy Joel) | Middle Aged Dad Jam Band feat "Weird Al" Yankovic

That was lovely, and I thank you for sharing. But the YT algorithm then led me to this, which is its own kind of amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6R...

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Al poses with the cast of The Goonies: Corey Feldman, Sean Astin, Martha Plimpton, Robert Davi and Kerri Green.

After years of begging, they FINALLY let me into the Goonies!

Missing poster for the Lost Boys cast

How are these kids still missing it's been, like, 40 years now

Definitely Sneakers and maybe the first half of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid if I have time.

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

Come eat, ya Scum!

#mst3k

Found in the r/Mst3k on Reddit. I did not make it nor want to take credit for it. I just love it!

Altered screencap from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", showing Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) looking out of the window to see his alter ego, 1950s sci-fi writer Benny Russell, reflected in the window, only now Benny has the word "SISKOS" on his jersey in the style of the "SICKOS" meme and is saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"

i'm sorry

The goal of a broad anti-fascist alliance isn’t to agree on everything. It is to defeat fascism, so that liberals, neocons, progressives, and nationalists can disagree bitterly about everything else

Some Asian people posted a photo of themselves having dinner. It reads: "Went to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford)" The next day, the followed up with a tweet that reads: "Almost all of us are Americans. FWIW, More of us are Americans than Asian."

Two quote tweets. The first has a racist drawing of Asian people and it says "I rent to fancy dinnah and everybody rent 2 Havah (or Stanfah)." The other shows Yale's Skulls and Bones society in the 1940s, where a bunch of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant men in suits are composed for a group photo. An Italian man writes: "This is what Ivy Leaguers are supposed to look like."

Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Foreigners post stuff like this and then act surprised that GenZ males are so far right they'd make Rush Limbaugh blush. I hope they realize Trump is their last chance for a moderate solution." The other reads: "I’m so glad that 17 Americans didn’t get to go to Harvard or Standford because these peoples parents spent $10,000 on SAT prep"

Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Living exclusively around these people for over 15 years is what turned me into a nazi. They're like this all the time." The other reads: "Not going to lie, very depressing to see our hallowed western university system turn into a network of Striver Universities for intellectually incurious exam maxxing Kumon monsters"

Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill

NEW: Wait, so when does all that stuff in the Senate tax bill take effect?

It was the single most frequent question we received, so a team of reporters put together an overview.

In short: Tax cuts now, big and costly benefit cuts later after the election www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

My personal preferences:
-kids have enough food to eat
-everyone has proper health care
-our food is inspected
-weather monitored
-cancer & other diseases researched & treatments found
-water & air are clean
-we stop letting the planet burn
and so on....

Orange and white cat underwater like a shark headed with open mouth to a pepperoni stick on the surface. Text reads, "Jaws."

Habby 50th year of Jawz

Brutal.

The Man Who Beat IBM Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever

In 1988, IBM tried to seize the whole PC market back and make it proprietary again.

Everyone KNEW you couldn't win against IBM. Compaq, and founding CEO Rod Canion, decided to try.

Read my latest #history longform on the fight for the soul of the PC. And how Compaq won.

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John Fogerty on Trump’s ‘Confounding’ Use of a Creedence Classic About Draft Dodgers: ‘He IS the Fortunate Son’ (Watch) John Fogerty says it's "confounding" that the Donald Trump campaign is using "Fortunate Son," a song about rich people avoiding the draft.

variety.com/2020/music/n...

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

Federal law enforcement take down a sitting Senator for asking barely half of a question to Kristi Noem at a press conference.

If your alarm bells aren't screaming by now, I don't know what to tell you.

I told you we’d be back

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

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Bringing back this old comic for Flag Day 🇨🇦

It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his. The case is the latest example of efforts by the Trump administration to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government.

Trump administration lawyers are arguing that the Library of Congress doesn’t belong to Congress — the latest move to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government.

The Bigger & Weirder Tour starts next month! Yes, a lot of our shows are completely sold out, but incredibly, some still AREN’T! You won’t want to miss this one - check out all the tour dates and get ticket info at weirdal.com!

Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why Cats have attained evolutionary perfection

www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

Just gonna leave this here. www.patreon.com/spacethenation

Oh, Onion!

But do they touch you back?

(also, sympathies)