Tom McCudden

Greybearded white man stands on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, and may be giving the tree in the background some side-eye.

My lazy eye often makes me look like I’m apprehensive about objects in the background but it’s an illusion. I think. Is that the same tree that was two rows ahead of me on Southwest???

When I lived in Arlington, VA in the '90s there were a ton of Vietnamese and Afghan restaurants, and I always told people "once they were exfiltrated, and their CIA paychecks dried up, they had to find something to do...." (I was speculating. I had no knowledge of any such cryptoculinary schemes...)

Not all heroes eat grapes

He's the cartoon version of Ryan Styles -- an animated lizard who does short-form improv. I think.

This Epstein/Larry Summers Cinematic Universe stuff is like the Sandy Hook shooting. If we can't take action in light of this blatantly evil dysfunction we never will. Name, shame, and blame them all. Now.

White on democracy:
It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles … It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, … of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere…

Did I work my way through college getting paid to weather and wear books for wannabe book displayers, giving their tomes that well-studied, oft-consulted look? No. Another genius idea 40 years too late.

Serving size: One cookie. Servings per container: 1.

As a Chicago native who grew up in Evanston, I am against seeing those places turned into flaming balls of wreckage. Does NukeMap track blast damage to above-ground El tracks?

Video: What to know about nuclear weapons In this video, Jeffrey Lewis explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear weapons.

The film #AHouseOfDynamite ends before the bomb hits Chicago, where @bulletinatomic.bsky.social is based. They asked me to describe what it would happen to the Windy City, so I dropped 20 KT and 4 MT bombs using @wellerstein.bsky.social's Nuke Map. (Hint: it's bad.)
thebulletin.org/2025/11/vide...

Two woman are stranded in Florida before Thanksgiving (ATC issues). They both need to get to Atlanta. Kate McKinnon is a denim-clad gator-wrangler. Generic costar is a corporate executive with a temper. "Planes, Trains and automobiles"? No! "Air Boats, Drug Submarines, and Stolen Police Cars."

Nutriadamus left us hundreds of specific, 100% accurate predictions from around 1300, but they’re all about where aquatic rodents can find good plants to chew on.

Look those machines are killers. From 2-12 people a year die from vending machines, so I say we take a stand every chance we get, or at least shake Grok until a candy bar drops.

It’s open seasonings on the slaw!

These are not the carbs you’re looking for …..

If the entire crowd outside that ICE Gulag in Chicago isn’t wielding foot longs tomorrow I don’t even know what to say.

“Beyond a Reasonable Meal”

I invented the number four.

'The Assassins' Gate': Occupational Hazards (Published 2005)

The 2003 Iraq war remains the worst and most costly US foreign policy decision ever. Let us never forget that Dick Cheney was the driving strategist, bureaucratic enforcer and chief anchor behind it.

www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/b...

They finally found the last Horcrux, huh?

It’s a typo for “pan blanc” range— the very close range you need to be at to hit anything with soft, floppy white bread, as opposed to, say, pumpernickel, which can stun a target at 20 yards.

! I walked through that intersection about 500 times from 1975-77. My middle school was right next to the intersection. It was always a safe, nice place. What jerks they are.

Aren't slippery marble floors a bad idea for fat old men who are unsteady on their feet? Just saying, did Melania's people design this?

Hey -- his formal title is "The Sex Pest for Formerly Known as Prince" Andrew

“When the time came to make a stand, I arched my eyebrows.”

Musk thinks Gondor won the War of the Ring? What a chucklehead. That’s like saying Mr. Pibb won the cola wars.

Why is the cat not wearing CatPods. listening to "Cats"?

I am constantly late to my Poor Planners Anonymous meetings.

If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a successful business.