Saturday, November 29

Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88

Thursday, November 27

Cousineau, Barry: “I was doing Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Pasadena Playhouse with a bunch of cokeheads - it’s usually a 3-hour play, we could bring it in just under 37 minutes."

U.S. Cancels World AIDS Day

The evolution of Scouting as an inclusive organization

Tuesday, November 25

davenewworld: There has never been a time in US history when SNAP was withheld nationwide, but the 2025 government shutdown will break that streak. So to summarize: The public has proof of genocide, pedo rings, foreign collusion, gaslighting, surveillance, urban occupation, police brutality, human trafficking, family separation, etc… and now mass starvation.

Dean Withers' Response to "Why Don't You Like Donald Trump?"

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The Department of State’s Website Is Now Threatening To Revoke Trans People’s Passports

What to Donate to Your Local Food Bank

(Transcription of a TikTok user.) (continued)

“Guys, a crossover between the tales of King Midas and King Oedipus would be motherf*ckin’ gold.”

(facepalm) -- just when you think you've heard it all ...

Host: The Syrian president came in, and Trump sprayed perfume all over him. Did he smell?

“Honestly once you realize you’re not in trouble all the time and really no one has power over you, the second half of life begins.”

WarPaintJournal: “One day my mother casually said, ‘we never worried about you, you always knew how to take care of yourself.’ And it broke something quietly inside me. Because what sounds like pride also feels like loneliness. It means no one ever really looked too closely, no one wondered if the strong one was tired. It means I learned to carry the weight so well that no one thought to help me set it down. And maybe that’s the silent cost of being ‘capable’, you stop being seen as someone who also needs softness. You become the safe place for everyone but never quite have one of your own. And in that moment, I realized strength had been my survival, but it had also been my isolation.” (continued)

Okay, what kind of hideous, awful evil thing are we going to learn that these turkeys have done?

Efforts underway in Sacramento to repeal decades-old comic book ban - DECADES-OLD ban against kids having comics? WTF?

Honestly, Hegseth, it’s a good call for the Scouts, too. A Scout tries to help other people at all times (Scout Oath); they’re asked to be trustworthy, helpful, friendly, and kind (Scout Law). Really not on brand for you nowdays.

Lessons on Adult Friendship (chibird)

Jay LeSoleil: “You feel depressed and crazy because in every historical human culture known to anthropology, people sang together, danced together, and ate food together, and you don’t sing and you don’t dance and you eat alone in the dark….

Monday, November 24

How George, Larry and Rich Yanked ... Tens ... of Things Back and Forth on the Original Trilogy

And for fun … I asked ChatGPT to try to make the same complaints about the original trilogy! (After all: Lucas, Kasdan, Marquand.) (continued)