Planet Ecaz

I adore the rabbit cover. Fills me with wonder right away. The second cover is more unsettling, but with my own tastes sometimes running to pulp and weird SF, I’d pick it up.

Markwayne is literally the dividing line of rednecks who could figure out whether the door at the Men’s Wearhouse was push or pull. He’s the dumbest possible person to acquire a suit. Any stupider and the door would have defeated him.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

The NYT style guide

Just goes to show people can be very good on some issues and just complete, immoral morons on other issues.

Let's do some math about voter fraud. According to a list on the Heritage Foundation website, there were 1,481 confirmed cases of voter fraud (very broadly defined) between 2000 and 2025.

During that same period, there were 1,482,130,692 total votes cast in national elections.

Yup. Mine was one of them.

How Nazgul the wolfdog made his run for Winter Olympic glory in Italy Nazgul isn't talking, but his owners come clean about how he got loose, got famous, and how they feel now

Nazgul isn't talking, but his owners come clean about how he got loose, got famous, and how they feel now n.pr/3ODMRyx

Going to see Dune and Dune: Part 2 back to back in theater today. Taking my wife, who hasn’t seen either or read the book. This will be quite the adventure.

They really should be harvesting kindergarten teacher blood too.

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

Virginia Madsen as Princess Irulan in David Lynch’s Dune (1984).

A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that it is the year 10191. The known universe is ruled by the Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV, my father. In this time, the Dowe is over 50,000.

Yep, can’t argue with this.

I get what you are saying, but a Super Bowl spread of eggs, bananas and coffee (as per the video thumbnail) would be truly and deeply disappointing.

Playbill for Blade Runner Live.

Almost time. Very exciting.

Harry Chapin songs are hitting way harder than they should these days. I hate this timeline. Literally crying (a bit) on the way to work listening to “Dance Band on the Titanic.”

I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.

Yup. It’s going to be a mess. Nothing was learned from 2021. Nothing was fixed — by design.

That’s smart money. Guess I need to go buy a bucket of MREs and a flamethrower before the weekend.

Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.

Adventures in teaching young kids:
Girl 1: I have black magic for real.
Me: Really?
Girl 2: Yeah. She ate an orange peel.
Girl 1: That means I have superpowers.

Text: January 8, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "FOP Stands with ICE" Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Condemns Rhetoric (Minneapolis, MN) The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with the men and women of Law Enforcement across the country. Over the past month, while Federal law enforcement has been doing their job in Minnesota, political and community leaders have condemned and vilified them. The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by Mayor Frey and other politicians have made their jobs and those of local and state law enforcement more difficult and dangerous. The job of law enforcement is difficult and dangerous enough without the agitation by leaders in our state and communities. When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning. The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police condemns these attacks on law enforcement and calls on politicians and leaders to stop the anti-law enforcement rhetoric and to ask for calm while the

Cop “unions” are a repulsive stain on the American labor movement, and it’s truly an embarrassment that so few labor leaders are willing to admit that. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

Thinking you know a thing is a sure way to blind yourself. Cultivate a sense of both, sophistication and naïveté about all things.

This is allium sensitivity erasure!

We wanted to know what will happen next in Venezuela. So we talked to three oil executives at a Fogo de Chão in Houston.

Yup. Accurate.

As a former newspaper guy, I still have this dream too. Except I’m only working summers at a paper — I’m a teacher the rest of the year. No matter what I do or try, I never manage to file a story. But no one ever notices. I end up feeling really guilty for taking up a spot in the newsroom.

A green Christmas cookie with a dark secret.

Lovely homemade cookie gift from a student. But the parent let each teacher know that the 3-year-old may have frequently and aggressively licked her fingers and the spoon during the baking process. Honestly, no notes. The thought really is the thing that counts.

The new iPhone keyboard from the last update is so bad I would wish on a monkey’s paw for a BlackBerry-quality keyboard. Sorry, loved ones.

Macaroni is like the MySpace guy. When you win that big that fast, you don’t have to do anything ever again. That’s the point. Macaroni *is* coasting. Macaroni knows it. Macaroni doesn’t care because it doesn’t have to.