Barb O'Brien

This is the future liberals want.

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

If you see an otter steal a surfboard, no you didn’t.

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

I was all "No Kings!" until I saw this and now I am ready to bend the knee and swear allegiance to this Majestic AF Floof.

I am so very screwed.

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Oh I believe him about the not being willing to read it part

I regularly have anxiety dreams where I have to speak or perform in a very high-profile, high-stakes forum but I don't have anything prepared and I end up spouting inappropriate, highly emotional nonsense.
I don't recall my subconscious ever producing anything this deranged.

I have this pic saved to my computer to look at when I need a little treat

This is like sovereign citizen level legal analysis

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I’m 41. In my life, every single professed value of the right has turned out to be a bad faith lie they said to amass power: small government? ICE raids & book bans. Free market? Kleptocracy & mercantilist tariffs. Free speech? Arresting protesters and firing professors. It was always a lie.

So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)

The lighting in the bathroom at my office is a crime against humanity.

José Armando Torres Rivera was convicted of participating in a gang rape and other crimes in 1991 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. He was #exonerated in 2020 after DNA analysis excluded him from biological evidence recovered from the survivor's clothing.

More: exonerationregistry.org/cases/14524

A national corporation changing its branding is actually a secret message to me mocking my values stop laughing I am not “crazy”

Sometimes my key jams when I'm trying to open my office door, and I immediately assume I've been fired and they changed the locks.

Smitten woman petting a Maine coon kitty

Sometimes, if you’re really lucky, you go on vacation and meet your soulmate

You guys think this is what scared Charlie Kirk so much?

Oh hello

You wear an eye patch?!?!? That changes everything. I don't associate with your kind.

Hi, I'm a professor in a film. People from my past about whom I have complicated feelings like to stroll in and take a seat in the back of my classroom just as I'm dismissing the class and shouting a reminder to "please read the Supreme Court's case on page 112 in your book."

I heard him tell this story at an ALI event and cringed so hard I pulled a muscle. If a novelist had a character tell this story to demonstrate just how out of touch he was, I'd blame the editor for letting such a two-dimensional, on-the-nose attempt at character development slip through.

Large fluffernutter trying to eat a smallish child

Though TBH, XXL Fluffernutters can get a little overly enthusiastic. Drop it, Carly!!

Anything by Patrick Radden Keefe

Large fluffernutter on a small peanut child

It's true. To wit:

This depiction of professors reminds me of those videos they make you watch in high school about teens doing peer pressure on some poor kid to smoke drugs and be cool and the dialogue sounds like it was written by a 40-year-old and the actors all look like they're 28.

All these years...I've been doing it wrong. 😔