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Travis Klempan
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Author of HAVE SNAKES, NEED BIRDS (Koehler Books) and HILLS HIDE MOUNTAINS (MilSpeak Books)
Chemistry prof whose accent made “molarity” and “molality” sound identical, to the point I thought she was just repeating the same word and was shocked to learn they are different.
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Looking forward to 2020, when I can eat a steak again.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Looking forward to learning the provenance of this figurine, like it’s a horcrux for what’s left of his soul or is some racist icon from Bavaria or something.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hey dirty bird, did you see this? AI, what a cool thing it is.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We’re going to eat you, CNBC. You won’t taste good but you get eaten along with the rich.
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
War Machine is one of two movies I can recall walking out of (or in the case of WM, turning off Netflix) before they were over. And BLLHW -did- feel flat on the screen, as though it was filmed with a phone or on a television studio set.

Excellent write ups of two big swing-and-a-miss movies.
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
So what if he wrote a book? He sucked then, too.
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
He is less than a goomba in the first Super Mario Bros game. One of those blobs from the second NES Zelda game. Flop sweat looks down on Mike Johnson. A derelict soul.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Come on, everyone, we can crush his spirit some more.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Can we throw him out, too?
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“In what some call an unrelated incident, British troops set fire to the capital in 1812. This is a city well acquainted with violence.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Junk Dick
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Yeah except Junk Dog Vance has always sucked.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
As others have pointed out, we can see why his mom chose drugs.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Whatever middling McKinsey consultant told Harris and Walz to stop calling Vance “weird” sucks butt. This dude is weird, and it’s legal to say so, even to his face.

He couldn’t order donuts despite having people who work for him whose one job is to prep him to talk to normal people.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Tech bro-adjacent without any of the skills, lawyer vibes without any of the swagger or pull, HOA board president energy but somehow first in line to the stained throne.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
An actual creep.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you picked up your kid after school and this guy was talking to your kid while waiting for his kid you’d say “We have band practice” even if your kid hated music. You’d rather see a JW show up on your doorstep than this bumpkin. The in-law who gets seated at the neighbor table at a wedding.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just odious, unsavory vibes. The dude who doesn’t get invited to the block party but shows up anyway, bringing a bag of chips and mild salsa, then eats all the ribs. A man who, if he worked in the cubicle next to you, would get the “pointing at headphones” thing despite you not being on a call.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM