1/. You absolutely, positively have to read this if you want to have a clue what is really going on.
Bob Lefsetz makes sense of what is happening right now.....and it's not pretty.
Move fast and break things. Isn’t that the credo of the techies?
Meanwhile, they tell us to trust them. That they know what they’re doing. And the entire focus is on AI when in truth that’s a sideshow compared to the heinous activities of these bros. Ditto the focus on TikTok. If you think TikTok is what’s wrong with America, you’re probably a Democrat. And now you know why you’ve lost the faith of young people nationwide.
The mainstream press is doing a very good job of covering Musk’s shenanigans. https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2025/02/09/president-musk/
2/. The CFPB was a great organisation - standing up to corporations.....
3/. This may be coming true for us all - a Fourth Reich.....
According to historians, it took Adolf Hitler 53 days to transform the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, replacing that feckless democracy with the mother of all modern dictatorships.
In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Timothy W. Ryback, director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague, clocks it at “one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes.”
4/. Don't know if you're watching this, but it's amazingly good - "Landman", with Billy Bob....
Here's a clip......
5/. The last bastion of free speech - Wikipedia.....and Musk wants it....
A recent target in Elon Musk’s long and eminently tweetable list of grievances: the existence of the world’s most famous encyclopedia. Musk’s latest attack—“Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!” he posted on X last month—coincided with an update to his own Wikipedia page, one that described the Sieg heil–ish arm movement he’d made during an Inauguration Day speech. “Musk twice extended his right arm towards the crowd in an upward angle,” the entry read at one point. “The gesture was compared to a Nazi salute or fascist salute. Musk denied any meaning behind the gesture.” There was little to be upset about; the Wikipedia page didn’t accuse Musk of making a Sieg heil salute. But that didn’t seem to matter to Musk. Wikipedia is “an extension of legacy media propaganda!” he posted.
6/. Republicans are NOT Nazis!
7/. I like David Hogg.....BTW he was elected Vice Chair of the DNC.....
The conference room where David Hogg is mounting his bid for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee has exposed brick and a nice view of a specific Washington D.C. landmark, but he’s asked me not to disclose which one. Ever since his high school was shot up on Valentine’s Day seven years ago, and Hogg became one of the faces of the student-led movement for gun control, he has had to be careful about sharing details like that. He’s been doxed, his parent’s home was swatted, and he’s gotten used to heavily armed men showing up at his public appearances, demanding to speak with him. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/david-hogg-democrats-dnc-1235251469/#recipient_hashed=fbbe473f5037f7de779a9b352866aaa97ce40dede88d542358cbe645dd211019&recipient_salt=72f9aae92f438bcc1f8948b09959b8992e4c153d9d01266946bf43b0824dab99
9/. The spineless Democratic wankers in Congress have finally, finally woken up to what is going on.....
Following the time-honored ritual of giving a new president a “honeymoon,” a good number of prominent Democrats made friendly noises about their nemesis after Donald Trump’s November election victory. Some, like Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman, seemed inclined to cross the partisan barricades whenever possible, praising Trump’s dubious Cabinet nominations, calling on Joe Biden to pardon Trump to get rid of his hush-money conviction, and even joining Truth Social. Others, notably Bernie Sanders, talked of selective cooperation on issues where MAGA Republicans at least feigned anti-corporate “populism.” Still others, including some Democratic governors, hoped to cut deals on issues like immigration to mitigate the damage of Trump’s agenda. And one congressional Democrat, the normally very progressive Ro Khanna, promoted cooperation with Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, at least with respect to Defense spending.
10/. Awwww......Valentine's Day is coming soon!
11/. Still drinking orange juice? You won't be for long......
Revealing story about the decline of OJ.....
Whenever my mom comes to visit, she scolds me for not having orange juice in my fridge. “What about your health?” she asks, to which I reply: “What about my bank account?”
As in many families, orange juice was always on the breakfast table when I was growing up. It was affordable, delicious, and full of vitamin C. (The high levels of sugar were considered less of a problem at the time.) But orange juice isn’t so cheap anymore. Tropicana, for instance, has shrunk its bottles and raised prices in recent years. And since 2019, the price of concentrate has increased by about 80 percent. Chances are slim that it’ll go down anytime soon.
12/. "The Gunfighter"....a really amusing short film.....lots of great zingers in here....
13/. Good story - how to adjust your TV settings properly.....
Imagine your excitement: You just ordered a top-rated TV, and it arrived today. You set it up, log in to your streaming app of choice, and voilà—picture perfection.
Except, not quite. There’s something weird about the picture. Maybe the colors are exaggerated, or the motion seems overly smooth, or the screen keeps getting brighter and darker at random. Or all of the above. Did you get a lemon for a TV? No—sadly, that’s just the way most modern TVs look right out of the box.
Fortunately, a few quick adjustments can make a world of difference. Here are five tips to instantly improve your TV’s performance.
14/. The Times ranks the Super Bowl commercials......I thought most of them were awful......
Here is my annual critical ranking of the Super Bowl commercials. Included are the new, national ads that were shown during the game itself.
The trends? Nothing controversial, as you would expect, but also — and perhaps for associated reasons — very little creativity. It was a bad year for ads; the ones at the top of this list aren’t much better than average. More spots than usual depended entirely on the appeal of a relatable celebrity (who was almost certainly male). Concepts beat ideas — there was a lot of fussy, overly complicated silliness and not much in the way of simple, effective storytelling or mood setting.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/arts/television/super-bowl-commercials-ads-best-worst.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20250210&instance_id=147131&nl=from-the-times®i_id=53832515&segment_id=190611&user_id=757da4c757bd7d86b040a18975d30c93
15/ I think this is a new show - the art of Swedish Death Cleaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97sG2vKgmb0
16/. I watched Emilia Perez because the critics raved about it - it's well made, acting is excellent but the
premise is absurd - that the head of a cartel is a trans gender woman.
NFW, so I found this article quite interesting as the movie has created incredible blowback for its Oscar nominations.....
The implosion of the awards juggernaut Emilia Pérez is extremely watchable. Honestly, this is a five-star controversy for a three-star film. Each day brings a new piece of hilarity, as a hurt elite entertainment community – who were simply trying to do the correct and approved thing – now struggles to navigate the possibility that actually, they might all have been involved in a big old shitshow. Take Zoe Saldaña, whose Oscar campaign has been simply ruined by her marginalised-community co-star’s historic attempts to marginalise some other communities. As she heroically put it yesterday: “I’m allowing myself to still experience joy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/oscars-award-emilia-perez-progressive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
17/. Interesting article that explains why the last few series we have really enjoyed have been spy thrillers....
If television dramas are a reflection of society, then it is safe to say we are feeling extremely suspicious right now. It does not take an intelligence operative to spot the number of spy thrillers that have infiltrated TV streaming services, in what has been hailed as a golden age for the genre.
This week, season two of The Night Agent climbed to the top of Netflix’s chart, while Prime Target, an espionage thriller starring Leo Woodall, became Apple TV’s most watched show. Other series such as Black Doves, The Diplomat (both Netflix), Slow Horses (Apple TV+), The Day of the Jackal (Sky Atlantic) and The Agency (Paramount Plus) have also been huge hits.
Their popularity speaks to our times, experts say. In an age of fraying relations between nations, the rise of big tech (and disinformation), and increasing public distrust in governments and institutions, people are looking to TV shows to help make sense of an unstable world.
18/. This looks good...."Apple Cider Vinegar"....
We may have a budding Netflix microgenre on our hands. First came Inventing Anna, the story of super-scam artist Anna Sorokin (AKA Anna Delvey, brilliantly played in all her many incarnations by Julia Garner), who glided through New York high society posing as a German heiress while relieving her marks of bountiful sums of money. It was a stylishly and energetically directed tale of one woman’s fabulous chutzpah, talents and ambition put to misdirected use and eventually causing her to come a cropper. Such a tale, too, is Apple Cider Vinegar, which features an equally masterly performance from Dopesick’sKaitlyn Dever as the wellness influencer Belle Gibson, who built a lucrative empire on the back of her story about beating supposedly terminal brain cancer via healthy living. That story – and you may be ahead of me here – was false. As a different character glances at the camera to say near the start of every episode of the six-part series: “This is a true story based on a lie.” It is also stated that (unlike Sorokin) Gibson has not been paid for the re-creation of her story. “Fuckers,” adds Belle when it’s her turn to open.
Today's video - a one minute ad trying to get real Americans to visit Mississippi.....amusing....and pretty true as well.....
Today's Alzheimers joke
This takes less than 15 seconds..
If you are male and over 65 yrs old,
you SHOULD take this Alzheimer's Test
How fast can you guess these
words and fill-in the blanks?
You got all 6 wrong...didn't you?
The good news is: You do NOT have Alzheimer's.
However, you are a pervert.
Today's texting joke
Hi Fred, this is Alan next door. I have a confession to make.
I've been riddled with guilt these past few months and
have been trying to get up the
courage to tell you to your face, but I am at
least now telling you in text as I cannot live with myself a
moment longer without you knowing.
The truth is I have been sharing your wife, day and night when
you're not around. In fact, probably more than you.
I haven't been getting it
at home recently, but that's no excuse, I know. The
temptation was just too much.
I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept
my sincerest apologies and forgive me. It won't happen again.
Please suggest a fee for usage, and I'll pay you.
Regards, Alan.
THE RESPONSE
Fred, feeling insulted and
betrayed, grabbed his gun, and shot his neighbor dead. He
returned home where he poured himself a stiff drink and
sat down on the sofa.
He took out his phone where he saw he had a second
message from his neighbor.
THE SECOND MESSAGE
Hi Fred, This is Alan next door again.
Sorry about the typo on my last
text. I expect you figured it out anyway,
and that you noticed that darned Auto-Correct
changed "wi-fi" to "wife"
That's technology for you, hey?
Regards, Alan
Today's blond jokes.....
On the first day of training for parachute jumping, a blonde listened intently to the instructor. He told them to start preparing for landing when they are at 300 feet. The blonde asked, “How am I supposed to know when I’m at 300 feet?” “That’s a good question. When you get to 300 feet, you can recognize the faces of people on the ground.” After pondering his answer, she asked, “What happens if there’s no one there I know?”
The blonde walks into a drugstore and asks the pharmacist for some bottom deodorant. The pharmacist, a little bemused, explains to the woman that they don't sell anything called bottom deodorant, and never have. Unfazed, the blonde assures him that she has been buying the stuff from this store on a regular basis, and would like some more. "I'm sorry," says the pharmacist, "we don't have any." "But I always get it here," says the blonde. "Do you have the container it comes in?" "Yes!" says the blonde, "I will go and get it." She returns with the container and hands it to the pharmacist, who looks at it and says to her, "This is just a normal stick of underarm deodorant." The annoyed blonde snatches the container back and reads out loud from the container: "To apply, push up bottom."
One day a redhead, a brunette, and a blonde were on their way to heaven. God told them the stairs to heaven were 1,000 steps and on every step he was going to tell them a joke. If they laughed they would not be able to get to heaven. So the redhead made it to the 45th step and laughed. The brunette made it to the 200th step and laughed. But the blonde made it to the 999th step and laughed even before god told his joke. God asked "Why did you laugh I haven't even told the joke yet" The blonde said "I know I just now got the first one!!!"
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