My understanding is that Page is probably worse in terms of beliefs but Berger is the Mitch McConnell of North Carolina and hard to immediately replace as an orchestrator of bad things.
Jack Kirby, with Chic Stone, tells a tale about Jack Ruby’s murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, from May 1967’s Esquire magazine.
I had no idea at all “46 Hours & 36 Minutes In The Life Of Jack Ruby” existed. It’s amazing what you can turn up while trawling through old archives.
If they weren’t pervert glasses, I would love a HUD of real-time captioning of conversations as I get older and my hearing gets worse. Also face recognition so I can remember my wife’s colleague’s partner’s name at a cocktail party. That’s about it?
"Whoever wins… we lose."
Ron Johnson tho
A color photo of Eiser
A front page of the Spirit newspaper supplement, a cover to the Spirit comic book, a cover to PS: The Preventative Maintenance Monthly, and the cover to his graphic novel Contract to God.
Today is the birthday of Will Eisner (March 6, 1917-Jan. 3, 2005), one of the most influential American comic creators of all time.
Wait, is that *Ed Wood* Ed Wood? (Gotta be, with the interest in drag, right?) Amazing!
It's Bandcamp Friday, folks! Here's a rarity from the Fugazi vaults: rejected In on the Killtaker demos recorded by Steve Albini, with proceeds being donated to Letters Charity, a charity supported by Steve and Heather). fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so
(To be fair to Whedon I don't think he gave the aesthetic considerations of Westerns' love for the Lost Cause any thought and was purely chasing the surface vibe, untroubled by any consideration of "hey is this really racist?")
Outlaw Josey Wales-ass TV show
Win-win situation for a bunch of schnucks, where if he wins you can shove it in the face of “the groups” and if he loses you can blame “the groups”.
Claude logo critique.
Combined with the ethics and transparency of Louisiana municipal politics.
Sorry, Dan McKee’s, not Reed’s. But they will never stop nominating charismaless machine hacks no one likes.
Everyone (correctly) talks shit about the NY Democratic Party, but Rhode Island's is breathtakingly bad; I saw a UNH poll (I know, I know) with him clocking a 21% approval rate.
I guess—and this would never, ever happen—in theory a Democratic Senate could impeach Noem once she's out of office and a Democratic House could convict her, but I *think* the only outcome would be that she could be barred from holding future federal office.
Yeah, I don't think her made up Agent of SHIELD title is going to protect her from anything.
...I believe the Federal Vacancies Act means that Lewandowski is legally obligated to be Mullins' side piece/bottom bitch until the midterms.
Other questions: Mullins' term (the remains of Jim Inhofe's term, after Inhofe resigned due to long COVID complications) expires this year, so I believe Stitt will get to appoint a senator until January 2027; can't impeach Noem, so she skates unless someone indicts her at the state level; and...
No more triumphant sentences in the English language than, "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
There are rules around Mullins' tenure as Acting Secretary (I believe it's limited to 280 days?) before Senate approval would be required; he can't serve as Acting Secretary once he's been formally nominated, however. (But Schumer won't filibuster and Mullins will get all GOP votes + Fetterman.)
Maybe CCM.
The answer in this case is that Miller was laughably corrupt; his campaign consultant Todd Smith got indicted for accepting bribes (for arranging hemp licenses) and *after* he pled out Miller put him on the department payroll as his chief of staff.
Should have gone with “oh bother”.
Holiday is so great. (I've never seen the 1930 one, but I love the Grant/Hepburn version so much.)
Ms. Ritz if you're nasty.
Both stone classics! I just watched his (silly, if played perfectly straight) Japanese Western "The Man with a Shotgun" and am now rewatching "Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!".
I know @vtobin.bsky.social has described Hayao Miyazaki's Edward Eager's Half-Magic,
I am watching a bunch of Suzuki movies (early ones, not his late work) and don't feel the The Conversions vibe. Can you elucidate?
