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Darrel “George C. Scott is the best Scrooge” Plant
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I'm assuming Weiss comped this up herself because it was too good an idea to wait until the morning.
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Is Pinker the man and Douthat the woman? Or vice versa?
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Furious Grokking: "How can I build a nuclear-powered robotaxi?"
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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“Son, go ask your AI.”

I fear for this generation.
In Lana Del Rey's "Video Games," "Take that body downtown" means her narrator is presenting herself as a controllable object or trophy for her lover, fulfilling his desires (dressing up, being taken out) as he plays his games, reducing her to a physical vessel rather than a person with her own agency, all within a seemingly blissful but potentially controlling dynamic. It highlights her willing submission, portraying her as a beautiful accessory for his enjoyment and a reward for his actions.
December 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Wait, Michelle, is there *another* Megyn Kelly? The only one I‘m aware of is *mostly* known for her outré views.
OPINION MICHELLE GOLDBERG Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movement’s Frankenstein Monster Dec. 20, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET Owens musings are unhinged, but Erika Kirk’s trip to Nashville, brokered by the conservative star Megyn Kelly, demonstrates that they’ve become too influential for right-wing leaders to ignore. Kelly herself — a former Fox News host who’d never been known for her outré views — has refused to denounce Owens, insisting her ideas are legitimate. On her podcast on Tuesday, Kelly said that she buys the official story that Kirk was murdered by Tyler Robinson, the Utah man charged with the crime. But, she added, “many
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Photos from the Tillamook Air Museum’s Facebook post.
View of long gash in high roof through hundreds of girders. Immense Quonset hut-style metal roof with large gash near top. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Port of Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Oregon 12/17/2025 We are all saddened today by the extreme weather event in Tillamook County that took place December 16, 2025, and caused considerable damage to the southeastern end of Hangar B. After careful consideration and prioritization of life and safety, the Port of Tillamook Bay Board and management team has decided to close Hangar B and the Air Museum at this time and until further notice. This includes rented internal spaces, storage, and Port used areas. This decision has been made to ensure the safety of our tenants and the public while a thorough assessment of building damage and the potential for continued use is conducted. Our team is working on plans for further assessment and future repairs to the building, and we will be updating regularly on that progress. Getting to the location safely will be a challenge, including the upcoming atmospheric river that is expected. We will continue to assess when it is safe to do so. We know it will take time to get information together and to the public. Thank you for your patience. Contact Michele Bradley, General Manager with any questions: mbradley@potb.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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By chance, watched "Fairway, My Lovely" episode of Andy Richter's "Andy Barker, P.I." series last night and plot's about a murdered heavyset client (Peter Allen Vogt) who is involved in a love quadrangle with his wife, a golf pro, and a caddy who tells Andy upon meeting him: "I like big boobs".
December 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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"Around this point, Addie [an 18-year-old Hispanic Baptist Republican woman attending college, who considers herself 'very right wing'] left the focus group."
Moderator: Are some groups better at assimilation than others? Wilks: Well, I mean, I’m not too educated on it, but I’ve done some reading on the Somalian population in Minnesota, and it seems pretty radical to me. They don’t really have any interest in assimilating to American society, and they’re electing leaders that are, like, super pro-Somalia, which objectively has some of the worst numbers in any categories in the world. Nate: The Hispanic community. I feel like when you go to certain parts of town and things are no longer in English, that learning English is part of assimilating to a culture. Madison: I agree. Like at my work, there’s a lot of people that don’t speak any English, and I’ve actually had to speak into Google Translate to be able to talk to them. Ethan: Hispanics have done a poor job of assimilating in certain instances, like, if I go to a Cookout in my college town, and I’m having to figure out how to speak Spanish so I can order, that seems a little problematic to me. Addie: Nothing comes to mind for me. Caleb: I came from Central California, so farm-laborer work was prevalent, and when you have generations that do not ever really assimilate to the culture, and everything is either bilingual or Spanish, and then you also can’t get a job unless you’re bilingual most of the time in the United States, it’s a little bit rough. The ones that I could see were good at assimilation, tended to be middle-class Chinese and Japanese. Around this point, Addie left the focus group.
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go

Oh, that's not good.
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Man standing in front of a Mini Guppy transport plane sitting outside the enormous blimp hanger housing the Tillamook Air Museum. Distant shot of the blimp hanger housing the Tillamook Air Museum. Two men standing in front of a small blimp inside the Tillamook Air Museum.
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Oh, yeah, dirty, dirty feet…
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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He's gotta know this exists, right? Maybe drape a giant flag off the Washington Monument like it's a flagpole, with an even bigger bronze Trump wrapping his arms around it kissing the flag.
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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What movie do you have to see each year before you feel like it’s the holidays?
December 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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My chair appears to have grown a furry tail.
View from above the back of a gray recliner with the dark tail of a cat sticking out from underneath. The floor is wood. A lamp stand is visible near the top of the image. A marigold-colored wall is to the left. Baseboards are white.
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Her hair is trying to get the hell out of there
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Defrosting downstairs freezer at my Dad’s he hasn’t used since Mom died in 2014. Plus, it spent a week without power in both 2020 fires and 2021 freeze. He’s had to tie it shut because of ice buildup. Finally agreed to let me take care of it. Apparently even my folks didn’t care for cow sweetbreads.
Open full-size standing freezer stuffed with meats and fruits. Freezer bag of red cherries labeled Sour Cherry 07-02-05 Ziploc freezer bag of yellowish substance labeled 3-16-02 Sweet Meat (actually sweetbreads)
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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So many options from The Simpsons
Homer Simpson in a brown suit, blue shirt, and farmer hat leans on a wooden roadside stand with several baskets of tomato-like vegetables and a sign on top reading “ToMacco $1”. Rows of corn-like stalks with the vegetables are behind the stand. Lisa is in the foreground looking at her father.
December 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Because typography and graphic design are this administration’s passions. From:
theintercept.com/2025/12/13/h...
Banner at Department of Defense press briefing. Black background with a drawing of the Pentagon in an oval at the bottom. White text in a mixture of serif and san-serif typefaces, with random lines underlined and/or blue background. WELCOME TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT THE MOST TRANSPARENT WAR DEPARTMENT EVER
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Lots of eastern Washington and Oregon, as well. Even Vancouver, WA across from the river has a large Mormon community, and there's a temple just south of Portland.
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Is it Christmas yet?

Photo from 2001, that carpet is mercifully long gone but we still miss Jackie Chan.
A stripy cat with light face looks up expectantly in a flat, white box with his front paws on the edge. Wrapping paper, bows, and a small pair of scissors lie on a hideous green-gold carpet.
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I first met my wife at Varley's house in 1980 back when I was 18. We only knew each other from his monthly parties for several years before we started dating. Herb (and Dean Ing, Damon Knight, and Kate Wilhelm) were all guests at the con I ran in Eugene in 1983.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, Disney, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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He won’t, because he’s a racist. He believes in only the purest forms of the master race.
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM