Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! You get to see me get started on drawing it, then throw everything out so I can rewrite it and start over. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon…
As #Trump suspends US aid to Ukraine, Stop Trump Coalition is supporting this emergency Ukraine Solidarity demonstration outside the US Embassy tomorrow (Wed)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
Now let's go to Graceland. Never knew this was a thing, but apparently it's a product of Farm Aid from 1992, and I only heard it for the first time a few days ago on my new thrifted copy of The Essential Willie Nelson.
"I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted romantically and/or sexually to people of more than one gender, not necessarily at the same time, not…
“In Jewish thought, a sin is not an offense against God, an act of disobedience. A sin is a missed opportunity to act humanly. The verb to sin in Hebrew is also used in the sense of ‘missing the targ…
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were tra…
By Bud Koenemund (Written: February 2023) A 100 Word Story Her mouth moved along his collarbone; planting gentle kisses as she went. Sliding over his shoulder, she spied a tattoo. Even in the di…
I'd argue this might be better than the original, unlike most covers which are just really interesting takes on an existing song and rarely match the original.
Trump wants to send American troops to Gaza, Panama, Canada, and Greenland.
On March fourth, 2025, President Trump asked a joint session of Congress for a formal declaration of war against those who were withholding territory from the US unjustly. "America has every right to rule Gaza, Panama, Canada, and Greenland," he said, "and they have no right to resist American rule. I'm pretty sure that in the Bible, God gave that land to the US."
Trump also suggested that, if Ukraine does not surrender to Vladimir Putin (whom he described as a "clever and pragmatic man"), the US will take control of it, and exploit its resources. "If you want peace, you have to pay the price," said Trump.
Before the election, I thought that the Republicans didn't look that much worse than the Democrats (and what a god-awful mess they are!). Trump surprised me. No. That's not right. Trump stunned me and the rest of the world. The man is completely insane. I have no idea what he might do next. Will Trump really declare war against the rest of the world? Four months ago I would have chuckled at the idea. Now I have no idea what he might do next. There seems to be nothing so insane that Trump won't do it. I just think of the craziest thing he could possibly do, and that's what he actually does.
So #today I made the rather bizarre decision to jettison my scheduled package route that would've paid up to $150 for an on demand $50 order. This was a gamble, I mean I could wind up with $50 and nothing for the return trip, but I got lucky. It started with this one, fifteen gallons of paint down to Crystal City, somewhere me and @Vik-Thor / Lirleni Hankeshe had been to tour the caves down there, but that's about all we did down there, so I figured this'd be a more fun to do than my usual package route. After that, we did start heading home, only to score a decent gig in Arnold at WalMart. Cool, but we still have a long drive home, right? Best Buy stepped up with a route ending about two miles past my home. Yeah, that worked well, a wandering route home that in the end paid $115 for 116 miles. Usually you have enough wasted miles that you don't get anything near $1/mi, but there we go, almost spot on.
Yep, fun work, good money, and there's still plenty of time to do more. Today was a good day.
Every day a man stops at a newsstand, buys the state-run paper. Looks at only the front page, curses, and throws it away. This continues daily until the seller asks: "Why do you keep doing that?!" Man replies: “I'm looking for an obituary!" Seller says: “Those aren't on the front page!" Man says: “The one I’m looking for will be!"
one that I heard today for the first time. We were trying out a new restaurant for breakfast, Mario's Gyros in St Peters, and they were playing Elvis, nothing but Elvis, and this came on. He's got a good voice for this song.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” - Philip K. Dick (died: 2 Ma…
The continued use of X/Twitter by political leaders across #Europe inadvertently lends credibility to a platform increasingly used to amplify divisive rhetoric and individual interests. In doing so, they leave marginalized groups—whom they represent—with little choice but to engage in a #hostile environment to have their voices heard, failing in their duty to protect and empower all #constituents and ultimately undermining #democratic integrity.
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
A job of interest to many of you Change.org is searching for a Product Marketing Lead to drive go-to-market strategy and help shape the offering for a new elections product we’ll be building iteratively throughout the 2025 local election schedule. job-boards.greenhouse.io/chang…
I was blown away by the annotated version of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. The book is great, of course, but the annotations were as enlightening as a museum tour from a knowledgeable docent.
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