THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUE DOES NOT DEPEND ON FANS FOR FUNDS:  The WNBA Continues to Be a Trainwreck. Did You See These Two New Mascots?

THEATER KIDS ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Desperate Climate Crisis Cultists Turn to OnlyFans for ‘Sexy’ Messaging.

UNLESS OUR TEACHING INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY AN ENEMY FORCE, LIKE, SAY, MARXISM:  The Humanities and Social Sciences Should Teach Civilization, Not Contempt.

WHAT HE SAID:  Wishing I stayed under the rock.

WE’LL NEVER NEED TO REPLACE EVERYTHING…  BUT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’LL NEED TO:  American Heirloom Project: How would you rebuild it all?

OVERALL, WHATEVER PUSHES PEOPLE AWAY FROM DEPENDENCY ON THE STATE IS GOOD:  Trump’s bill prompts steep SNAP enrollment decline — including over 50% in one state.

FROM THE OUTSIDE, THIS LOOKS RIGHT:  I AI Code All Day. I Hate Talking About It. Five conversation failure modes, none of which involve a shipped feature.

THE WHOLE ANTI-DATA CENTER THING IS A PSY OPS BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T MEAN US WELL:  I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices.

THE ATTACKS ON OUR MONUMENTS ARE ATTACKS OF PEOPLE WHO HATE THEMSELVES AND ARE TOO COWARDLY TO ADMIT IT:  Asking WHY…

NOT ANYWAY TIRED OF WINNING:  Another Brick in the Wall.

SORRY JUST SAT AT THE KEYBOARD FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY, TO SHARE THIS:  Meme with Me, I want to be your meme supplier, can’t you see?

SPEAKING TO HER HUSBAND IS AN HAZARDOUS OCCUPATION*:  The Charon 2.0. Technology comes to the River Styx, and not everyone’s happy about it (*Grumbles in “Made the mistake ended up writing Deep Pink.”-SAH)

IF YOU’RE CONTEMPLATING A CROSSCULTURAL MARRIAGE, READ THIS:  Cross Culture.

And for the record, my husband waited till the kids were adults, and then got them to join him in the revolution of “No more bacalhau for Christmas eve.” Sigh.

HEED THE SPEAKER TO ODDS:  Many people think social rituals are pointless and seem proud that they’ve discovered that small talk and other courtesies are inane. This feels particularly strange to me because many of the same people understand concepts like control channels for data, metadata, and headers. How can you not see that human communication also needs similar framing? Small talk is a negotiation protocol. If it bores you, imagine a modem noise. You can’t send the packets until you’ve established a channel that decodes them properly.

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ARE CNN HOSTS ALLOWED TO SAY THAT?  CNN Legal Analyst: Anyone Who Cheered Trump’s Hush Money Prosecution Has Nothing Left to Stand On.

VOTER FRAUD? SHE’S NOT INTERESTED IN BLOCKING VOTER FRAUD!  Lisa Murkowski Was Not Amused by James O’Keefe’s Latest Video.

GOOD:  Trump Cyber Strategy Taps Private Firms to Fight Foreign Hackers.

CALIFORNIA NO LONGER CARES ABOUT CALIFORNIANS:  A Suspected Arsonist, a Wildfire, and California’s Failure to Protect the Public.

SURE, BUT ONE STILL MUST ASK “STUPIDITY OR MALICE?”:  More evidence that Washington State is encouraging forest fires, rather than preventing them.

And “Yes” might be a sufficient answer.

JUST DON’T:  Don’t go to John Oliver for news.

IT’S NOT GENOCIDE:  There Is No Genocide in Honduras. And more importantly, no one is arguing about it.

ANOTHER GRANDSTANDING DEMOCRAT PRIORITIZING INVADERS OVER AMERICANS AND BREAKING HER WORD:  Prior to the visit, the Congresswoman signed ICE’s Facility Visitation Agreement form, indicating she would abide by all processes and policies governing personal conduct at ICE facilities. One of these policies is that meetings with detainees must be scheduled in advance, both for the privacy of detainees and the safety of visitors.

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OKAY, BUT IF THEY MAKE PEANUT BUTTER TASTE FUNNY, MY HUSBAND WILL HAVE WORDS:  New hypoallergenic peanuts could bring the salty snacks back to airplanes and school cafeterias.

TENSIONS ESCALATE:  Russia Conducts Missile Test Off Japan-claimed Islands.

1984 WAS NOT A HOW TO BOOK, YOU ABSOLUTE RADISHES:  UK introduces ‘Catch and Release’ for wrongthink. The UK plod are still acting as thought police, but leaving no paper trail.