Hugh C. McBride

✊⚖️ "I Am Somebody!" 🌟 🕊️
Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1972 Sesame Street

Album cover for Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town. Young Bruce is wearing a white v-neck t-shirt under a leather jacket. He is leaning againts a wall in front of a window with the blinds drawn. His name & the album title are in the top left in a typwriter font.

More likely scenario: He was taking his daily cognitive test, he was asked to pick an even number between 1-10, and he chose 15.

She states it as a fact, and anyone with a brain would object to her statement. So I guess she's right?

If only I could just avoid using the thing that drives people to suicide, but it’s the future and I can’t be left behind.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

If ever a success merited a bit ol' celebratory sandwich, it's this one.

What if people picked up a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh instead of misusing “mindful“

😭

"I've always felt that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan, 1986

"Lol, we're not gonna help." - Marco Rubio, 2026

Yeah, foresight is not one of this administration's strong points. I truly don't think they thought any further than "send in the bombers."

Bellissimo!

[Guy tapping head meme] Can't botch an evacuation when you don't have any intention of evacuating people.

I mean, it has been for him so far.

Girl with umbrella

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck

Marie Bashkirtseff - The Umbrella, 1883. (Ukrainian artist).

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

It's unusual for the Secretary of Defense to spend this much time obsessing about children's genitalia, but I guess that's sort of the main theme of the second Trump administration.

Drone Shooter: Great news, boss! We made sure it wasn't a balloon this time before we shot it down!

Pete Hegseth: Stellar work, soldier! How long did it take to confirm who owned the drone before you blew it out of the sky?

DS: What?

PH: What?

Musk miss moon.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Auston Matthews had the test answers tattooed on him. I hope this gives everyone better media literacy now and a perspective about what it is to be performative in public, and a monster behind closed doors.
#NHL #LeafsForever

Nexstar: We may despise the communities we supposedly "serve," but in our defense we also absolutely detest the people who work for us.

Inexcusable actions by Nexstar. Sad day for journalism in LA & NYC.

Everyone's out here waiting for Amazon to get their shit together re: James Bond, and with like two posts you just casually set up a whole new superspy series.

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

xkcd.com/3209/

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

This LA Coliseum Technical Guide says the dimensions for soccer are 70 yds x 110 yds (that info is on page 6). Not saying that's what it'll be tonight, but it appears that that's what they're telling the IOC it'll be for matches in 2028.

www.lacoliseum.com/wp-content/u...

The GenX urge to rock and roll all nite (and party every day).

A lot of people are going to see this illustration & start criticizing it without even bothering to read the article.

And that is 100% the correct response, because this right here is garbage. Get fucked, @wired.

Thank you for this! I tried CONCOMITANT at least four times this morning, convinced I must've made some typo that I couldn't recognize.

I do not understand how anyone who has been conscious for the past 10 years can still believe that you have to be intelligent to be rich and/or powerful.