It has been pointed out on social media that yesterday was an anniversary of a day when firefighters in Idaho torched a building that had been seized from Aryan Nation, as a training exercise.

Coincidence, or not.

Nothing political there! Total coincidence.

Nothing to see here. Y’all move along now. Move along.

Looks like the colony of fungus on his head became sentient.

“Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean” was almost the national anthem.

EDIT: One of its lyrics was “thy banners make tyranny tremble.” That wouldn’t work today, would it, considering we are under, well, tyranny.

Soviet military and intelligence efficiency was greatly exaggerated.

How long before they’re turning American citizens away, making them essentially stateless?

They should be subject to a citizens police review board.

Like that’s ever going to happen.

Tough luck there, Pussolini.

When they’re arrested and disappeared in the first purge, they will express concern.

While I was in the process of disentangling myself from religion, the woman I lived with for nearly 10 years went off the deep end. Prosperity gospel. She became insufferable.

I made a much-needed escape, and met my wife a year later. She, like me, believes religion to be a social construct, intended to keep the masses docile and obedient.

Office with a public college, WFH 60%

I predicted back in 2000 that the net would become a big complex system of cable channels, you pay for every site you visit. It’s sure AF going that way.

Something wonderful is gone forever. Thanks America.

And it’s one-two-three

What are we fighting for?

Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn

Next stop will be Iran!

It’s not social media per se. It’s capitalism. The Internet was this vast frontier, where you could meet anyone. Little communities formed, we all just talked, and self-regulated any bad behavior. It was a gift economy, we all freely shared knowledge, files, culture.

In the past 20 or so years, economies of scale took over. Corporations bought up the server space and aggressively shut down small communities. Community is discouraged, keep scrolling and click on the ads! Marketing killed the internet.

I’ve seen this movie before. “Iraq totally without a doubt has WMDs! Saddam Hussein is behind 9/11!”

And Americans are so mind-numbingly ignorant, they’ll buy it again.

Land of the free.

Not gonna happen. You wanted a king, you’ve got one, and World War III to go with him.

“But Honey, you know no one eats the Peanut!”

He’s king. He can do what he wants.

“Ghina makes the best phones, the most bigly! And we totally won’t harvest your data! Believe me.”