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I just realized I have concert shirts so old that they’ve released deluxe expanded anniversary editions of the album.

ME: (sigh) I know I'm complaining. YOU: (sarcastically) Oh, should I call the Whambulance? ME: Oh! Yes, please! YOU: (confused, calls Whambulance) WHAMBULANCE: (speeds toward us, lights flashing, blasting Wham hits) US: (sudden joyful dance party) ME: (shouting) Thank you! I feel much better!

Tell those 24 mayors to pay for it.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

Saddened to learn of the passing of Skeletor. We disagreed on his stance that he should be the Master of the Universe and enslave all sentient life, but he was always self-deprecating and knew how to make you laugh. My condolences to Evil-Lyn and his Snake Mountain family.

Great moments in U.S. History.

Should I be reading anything into the fact that the spine of my thirty year old copy of The Joy of Cooking is split precisely on the page with the recipe for pie crust?

new up at the youtube channel youtu.be/VD0sbfQq3Tk?...

Hearing reports that a billionaire who got rich off of preying on poor people through sub-prime auto loans might not have the best interest of the community in mind when it comes to the use of tax funds.

It’s always “free market economy” this, “free market economy” that until they find out it’s the regulations that make the economy predictable and sustainable. When the free market folks start losing money, they always beg for regulations and subsidies, they never believe their own rhetoric.

I’ll say it again. Culture eats technology for breakfast.

Title conventions between academia and YouTube could not be more different. Academia: “Heterogeneous impacts of protected bike lanes on bikeshare behavior across demographic groups in New York” On YouTube, this would be something like: “Why Sharrows SUCK (And We Should Never Do Them)”

Absolutely 💯 Agree… “BOOING THE PRESIDENT OF OUR COUNTRY DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS NOT APPROPRIATE.….WE SHOULD ALSO BE BOOING HIM DURING PRESS CONFERENCES AND WHEN HE'S GOLFING. DO BETTER.”

Here is my latest on @medium.com on #WorldBicycleDay and during #MensMentalHealthMonth on how #cycling can promote positive masculinity. #Winnipeg #Activetransportation medium.com/@adamjwpg/wo...

My wife discovered a half-empty jar of caramel ice cream topping in the fridge with an expiration date of 2008. To be fair, those little jars get shoved in the back of the shelf and forgotten. What’s that dear? It was in the door of the fridge?

The kayfabe goes to eleven on this one.

Wishing a joyous París-Roubaix to all who celebrate!

Portland started the ebike rebate program for people who qualify. Now's a good time to buy an ebike if your income is at or below 60% AMI, are age 18 or over, and live in the City of Portland. You can save so much money and get some exercise. portlandebikerebate.com

The commentariat will spill much ink over whether or not the No Kings marches are effective, but at least I did not experience a sense of collapsing dread when I read the news this morning. So there’s that, at least.

Even the airport therapy llama made it out to the Portland No Kings protest today!

So today I was flipped off and called a “stupid dumb idiot” for blocking the bike lane with my vehicle. On a street which does not have a bike lane. By an individual who was not riding a bike. I was stopped at a red light.

55 years old and still getting out to see live music on a Tuesday night. Not dead yet!

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Sopranos S3 E5 Tony buys a pagoda from Fountains of Wayne. Having a fanboy moment!!!

It’s national Guitar Day! While I have several, this is the one that gets posted as it has seen the most custom tweaks. Rock on.

Just saw the headline about the massive sewage leak on the Potomac. Turns out it was a thing that actually happened, not just a metaphor.

I’m no fan of Mayor Wilson, but yeah, SHAME! QUIT YOUR JOB! SHAME!!! www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

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Everyone seems eager to celebrate the departure of Greg Bovino, but I worry that it’s not so much a function of recognizing that the policy is a failure as much as he failed to successfully execute the policy.

M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” [nytimes.com]

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

We must unconstitutionally impose more taxes on Americans because the threat of illegal aggression against a heretofore American ally hasn't worked out as smoothly as we imagined.

Did ICE have a bring your child to work day?

I'd love to see a reporter ask rank-and-file ICE agents if they understand that the administration is clearly hoping one of them gets killed out there. "Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"

GO COVID! I’ve only yelled that one other time when you know who got it.

when you’re really into the band so you get to the venue early enough to get a spot down front but you’re tall and feel bad about blocking other people so you keep telling short people they should get in front of you and by the headliner’s second song you have migrated 2/3 of the way back to the bar

Today in the war ravaged hellscape of Portland I witnessed hundreds of people running through downtown, fleeing with only the clothes on their backs. Oh, wait. Nevermind, that was just the Portland Marathon.

War-ravaged Portland

Now that Antifa has been declared a major terrorist organization, will the Feds be rounded up the WWII veterans who served in Europe? They waged armed war against fascism!