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Jonathan is me. I don't know Kevin. Sometimes I think about making a last comment "What kind of person did you want to become?"

I just did a quick check to see if Trump has done anything on the promise to cut taxes on overtime. Because you know what? It isn't really good for the country, but it would be good for me and I'd like to find a silver lining in here somewhere. Apparently he hasn't said anything about it...

I bought a lot of DVDs between 2000 and 2010 and have sometimes felt a sort of pride about the shelf kind of people a depiction of me. Long time agreed with those who say it is just much more secure to have physical media. I settled it for myself a long time ago and didn't readdress. In...

The headline isn't news, but it is the subject here. I just stirred around this morning to the question, why DID Biden keep those in place. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/politics/china-tariffs-biden-policy/index.html The article isn't new either, but it answers the question and gives some...

I interacted with a meme about the Panama Canal and I just cannot believe how many people suddenly CANNOT BELIEVE that Jimmy Carter left that thing on the table and walked away. I would love to hop back 6 months and find out how much any of these people cared about the Panama Canal. To the...

https://apnews.com/article/milley-trump-security-detail-clearance-9bc8ebb7cd7cd2c334d00c97d4c142d0 How many times would you have to remove the security clearance of your former military aids because they are just horrible and disloyal before you would start to wonder if you are any good at...

Someone interacting on a Facebook meme alluded to something that I'm not sure I really pinned all together before. The meme was about free public transportation and they were replying to someone who has trolled that "Well, actually isn't free..." The reply was that this is the way civilization...

https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-israel-bomb-gaza-hamas-war-023b36984c6116c128b5e47f117bba2a Do I remember right that influential Arab-American groups said to vote for Trump because Kamala was too soft on Israel?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/politics/north-carolina-trump-disaster-relief/index.html Trump is so weird on FEMA. Did he intentionally leverage North Carolina stuff to help win the election? And now he is telling North Carolina that maybe we should get rid of FEMA? And the problems in...

For some years my goto news site has been cnn.com. I have no idea how much ad revenue they got from me stopping in twice a day and clicking maybe a dozen articles. Probably not a whole bunch. For a year or so I've been occasionally hitting a daily limit on how many articles I can read for...

In the Non-Primus cartoon universe where we first saw Unicron, where he was built by an alien monkey with no good ideas, how did Unicron learn of the Matrix and fixate on it as the one thing, the only thing that could stand in his way? Followup question: Whoever told him what it was, did they...

My daughter asked me the other day what a pen pal was. We DID have a thing in my second grade class where we were assigned a second grader in a school somewhere far away and we wrote letters back and for a bit. I don't know if that gets done again. But then I started wondering if you and I...

Please do NOT turn this into a religion thread. I can see the grist for it, but please say with me. So the Redhats would have you believe that what the Democrats want is an open border. Just who cares who comes in. Whoever wants to live in America can come. People who pay attention know...

Ok, for starters I am listening on my Echo Show right now and the lyrics go on the screen and in "Dare to be Stupid" I have never understood the reference to buying some Lane before it's tame. There is a giant furniture store that advertised heavily on my TV as a kid and I knew Lane was a...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/business/former-boeing-whistleblower-dies/index.html This headline caught my eye. A "former" whistleblower is, I guess, someone who once blew the whistle but is not currently blowing the whistle.

I enjoyed Episode 7 and was very hopeful for how things would go. I am not intending to make a flamewar, so I'll just touch on how I didn't like how it went. But I'm sure everyone has things that they DO like about it. I certainly do. The trinity design was nice. Rey is the Jedi and comes...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/28/pelosi-reax-trump-haley-mixup-intv-sotu-vpx.cnn Her defense is in what she said, I get that. Anyone can say the wrong thing once. Seven times is a lot. But it cracks me up that at 1:10, she says that the Jan 6 riot caused "defecation". I'm sure...

When I originally watched Episode 2, it did not appear to me that Kenobi or Yoda had heard of Sifo Dyas and it made such a cludgly Nick Soapdish for Sidious that I assumed that was what it was. It never sat well with me that the Kaminoans created an army of thousands upon thousands of clones and...

I have an outside building that is dedicated space for my toy collection. It is generally uninhabited space and ought to be more dust free that my house, but the trouble is that I have allowed bugs to inhabit the space and they have affected things. I'm pretty afraid of setting off a bug bomb...

The Tick and Arthur could be examples, but they are played for laughs. Black Widow perhaps? I'd be really interested in a story about a meta who just disappears or fakes their death and, with the help of Batman or SHIELD or the like, just doesn't have a secret identity. They just fight bad...