The world might be doing poorly, but I’ve got no debt, a nice house, a big brain, the smartest and hottest girlfriend in the known universe, and muscles galore.
Yeah, yeah, things are pretty damn good.
Day: October 20, 2025, 6:55 PM
Missing the Point
Whoa, this is moronic. Why people don’t use mass transit isn’t about crime, most of which isn’t reported anyway 1.
What causes people to avoid hopping on the bus or train is that they’ll nearly always have bug-eyed crazy demented people on there harassing and hassling anyone in sight. It’s worse for women, but nearly every time I’ve been on public transit in the US one of these sleazeballs is present too. It makes it extremely unpleasant. I don’t have any of that in my car, so my car it’ll be.
How you can just, like a fucking idiot clown, pretend this is not a factor, I have not a clue. But it tells me you’re being intellectually dishonest and disingenuous.
Mass Movement
Why do all my favorites have to get canceled? Midnight Mass was better than nearly all the other Mike Flanagan works. It was so textured and it had a frame story and was just so much fun.
And with The Peripheral being renewed and then canceled, I am truly verklempt. In that show I dearly love the scene where the protag Flynne gets annoyed that when she is not occupying it they keep her robot body in some ugly wooden crate. I don’t know what she was expecting with that.
Flynne was such a great character and one that I wish I’d gotten to see more of. However, I wouldn’t want some creepy empty body staring at me either, so I would’ve also stored her peripheral out of sight when not in use. But perhaps not in a wooden box.
To be more serious, Flynne feels it’s dehumanizing that her peripheral be stored in an ugly crate as the body she occupies is her for all intents and purposes. And that’s what makes it a great scene and setup: We can understand both her point of view and that of those who toss her empty vessel in a crate when she’s not “there.”
Two of my favorite shows, both nuked before their times.
Rangement
Back in my day, what Gen Z calls intolerable “emotional labor” was just normal people taking care of each other, as people in love should be doing.
That generation is so very deranged and mentally not ok. And it’s not their fault; we did that to them. Still sad to see, though.
The traffickers are winning the war on drugs.
Trump is looking the wrong way in the Arctic. Forget Greenland; worry about Alaska.
The Rise and Fall of the Powdered Wig.
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles.
I miss the great philosophers.
Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization. Mostly true.
Army “Absolutely Needs” Drones Like Russia’s Shahed-136: 25th Infantry Division Commander. Correct.
Thieves steal priceless jewels from the Louvre in daring Paris heist.
Women Experience More Incivility at Work — Especially from Other Women.