You could laugh all the way through this book at the sheer Keystone Kops ignorance and idiocy of the DOGE punks Elon Musk and Donald Trump unleashed on the federal government in 2025. The typical Project 2025 person was a middle-aged lawyer who’d spent his career in and around the federal bureaucracy and defined himself…
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Lagniappe Sunday
Love Bertha’s videos. Wanna be her mija. Headline: People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All.Remember that scene where Rocky shows Grace how he eats? “Is beautiful!” Not. (h/t Next Draft) But what the heck, continuing to promote journalism that encourages nausea, click…
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Random Saturday
I don’t think any of us voted for this. From the article: Earlier this month, Denali’s newest litter of sled dog puppies stepped into the harness — not for a sled, but for a special weigh-in. It was streamed online for “Chunky Puppy Day,” the park’s playful spin on Katmai’s popular Fat Bear Week. As…
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Let’s get this Friday started!
Clipped from John Fogarty’s All Stars, a one-hour musical TV special that aired in 1985. That it exists only on DVD is a crime against humanity.
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Election 2026
Last night Bill Hill debated The Latest Begich. Hilarious that The Latest Begich touted his “resource development record.” What development? When’s the last time any resource development company entered a viable bid in any recent state or federal lease sale? I’ll wait. Let’s give Bill a shot at this job. Read more about him here…
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Election 2026
Sarah Longwell is founder and publisher of the “No Nonsense News” site, the Bulwark (I reviewed her recent book here). For a decade she has been listening to focus groups talk about why they vote the way they vote. It provides a window out of our own silos to see viewpoints we won’t otherwise. I…
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