Benjamin Recchie

In To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy (playing himself in his own life story) famously fights off about 50 Germans singlehandedly from atop burning tank. In reality, it was more like 100 Germans, but the filmmakers thought the audience wouldn't believe the truth.

In The Hunt for Red October, characters aboard the USS Dallas mention milligals, a measure of anomalies in Earth's gravitational field. The fact that US Navy submarines could measure these anomalies for navigational purposes was highly classified at the time and constituted a major security breach.

Fun fact: running day-to-day operations of the Church while the pope is incapacitated is one of the duties of the reigning Miss Universe.

Make a war film rubbish Empire of the Capri Sun

"I'm going to live forever."

Oh, no. Don't fight. It would be a shame to let this get between your friendship and future political goals. Nooo.

SCHMITT: Are you aware we have credit card records indicating you dined and gambled with a notorious gangster? SMITH: I...what? What gangster? SCHMITT [brandishing game tickets]: The man they call "The Rat," one Charles Entertainment Cheese?

Fell asleep in an IMAX theater during a movie called Adrenaline Rush. Context: I got up at an ungodly early hour to fly from Chicago to DC to meet up with friends at the Udvar-Hazy Center on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight.

JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror https://theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-reflection-in-mirror/

This is the way. Not impeaching Trump, but rather his enablers.

[Hank Hill voice]: That girl ain't right.

RT with your home river Alum Creek

Helped out as a temp in a credit counseling service's office in 2000 making sure files were up-to-date. Takeaways: 1. People who have the best stuff often got it by being >$30K in debt. 2. Never carry a balance on my credit card. 3. Creditors would rather get some of their money than none of it.

You gotta be shitting me.

Back in 1951, Chicago Public Schools had a very rah-rah civics textbook where the very first lesson was the Grid.

Alaska Dems: "Send Bill Hill to the Hill to pass bills"

Bittersweet news. It's wonderful there's an new, powerful drug to treat pancreatic cancer, but it's too late for my friend who died of that same cancer this morning.

I'm doing better than I thought. whereidlive.com/s/ftnrc8p9

Walking around the South Side today. Extending the #10 bus south to the Obama Center just made it waaaay more useful to Hyde Parkers.

The NASA Press Office further clarified that the station's onboard AI diagnosed the problem; that, no, they hadn't watched 2001: A Space Odyssey lately; and OH SHIT OH SHIT GET THEM INSIDE GET THEM BACK INSIDE RIGHT NOW.

In college I dated a girl who had a fiance, Mike, in another state. (Yes, I was the other man.) When she dropped me, I told her that if she was this unsure about the engagement "you will never marry Mike." She did not marry Mike. More to the story, but you didn't ask for "biggest bullets dodged."

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

Based solely on who opposes him, Fauci is a great man.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

This car calls to me.

People may not appreciate how cheap it's becoming to launch stuff into space.

Sorry, I saw the term "smoothgroin" yesterday, and I just can't get its ridiculousness out of my head. Smoothgroin.

Cecil B. DeMille's Police Academy

Every July 4, there ought to be mass naturalization ceremonies as the centerpiece of every festivity. Before fireworks. Before baseball games. At the start of parades. Immigration built America, and naturalization keeps our country young.

I grew up (mostly) without A/C, and every time I walk into my house and hit that cool, dry air, I thank God I have it now.

"Mwaaaah, the French champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence. There is a California champagne by Paul Masson..."

Okay, so we're looking for an obese man who was 79 in April who's extremely well connected and doesn't think the normal rules apply to him. Hmm.

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it’s only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too.