DagwoodIII

You can’t ignore it, anymore than you can ignore chest pain or trouble breathing.

Happy Birthday.

Only one person mentioned Obama, so I’ll put it in.

2008 was only 40 years after MLK was killed, so you had a lot of people who’d seen him when he was alive. I knew people who didn’t want to watch on election night because they were so fraught. They couldn’t even believe he’d gotten as far as he had.

I was working in downtown Brooklyn, in an area with a lot of Black people. The most you saw was the occasional poster, and he was usually part of a group with MLK, Malcolm X, and other icons. I never saw any of the giant flags that Trump lovers fly.

This is another thing I noticed. In the Bush years you’d see a lot of skulls in fashion; in the Obama years there were more peace signs. That’s my personal experience in NYC, so take it with a grain of salt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/trump-greenland-america-conquest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.lJqA.RpQZISTj1S9i

Free link.

The 10th Victim

https://youtu.be/cDQ_A8Skzdg

I hadn’t heard of them before this.

Thank you, internet stranger

“Killroy Was Here” is actually inscribed on the WW2 Memorial in Washington DC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here

Most times I see progressives organizing, it’s on a single issue, like bike lanes. The Right understands that you need to get people elected.

Where did you get the ‘most people’ statistic?

Reminds me of an old joke.

Pat has owed Mike $50.00 since three World Cups ago.

They are walking by an alley when a gunman jumps out and demands their wallets.

Pat pulls out his wallet and hands it to Mike.

“Here’s that $50.00 I owe you.”

This is literally how the Christian Right took control of the GOP.

Back in the 1970s a televangelist named Jerry Falwell did an actual grassroots coup. If the local Republican club got 30 people at the average meeting, Falwell’s folks would show up with twice as many.

They started out grabbing up things like county clerks and sheriffs, and then moved on the Congress members.

I recommend this book all the time because it got me the job I love.

Other people have said I shouldn’t be pushing ‘self help books.’

I really hope everything works out for you

[off topic]

Get this book. “Discover What You Are Best At.” Linda Gail.

It’s a series of self tests to show you what talents you already have, and then a guide to jobs that need those qualities.

There might be a job you’d love that you’ve never considered.

Think Cadet Bonespurs is going to mess around with his personal protection?

The Hunger.

1970s Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve.

Here are some shows that, imho, did it right.

“Black Sails” is about pirates. There’s a lot of graphic sex, but it’s always plot driven. Similarly, “The Americans,” the Soviet agents are using whatever means they can to accomplish their mission, and if that includes a middle aged man seducing a high school girl, so be it. Another is “Penny Dreadful.” Witches, vampires, werewolves, and the reanimated dead.

There’s a scene in "Killing Eve’ where the assassinatrix is going at it so hard that she’s scaring the innocent guy she’s with.

But yeah, most of the time it feels like they are trying to spice things up, and usually failing.

TACO

https://theonion.com/deformed-freak-born-without-penis-1819575921/

Worth the wait!

But only because I am one of the three!

I don’t know if they still make them, but I remember ‘wrestling buddy’ dolls. Basically a human shaped pillow about 75 cm that the kid could hit and the parent could push against the child.

I see they have them on Ebay and Amazon. Probably cheaper ones in stores near you

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gender-2 #smbc