Allyn Gibson

"Every president has his needs and his drives, his levers of compensation to pull when things go south. But there’s never been a presidency this deeply personalized."

Every negative review of THE BRIDE! that I've read only intrigues me more

Big Beautiful Bill 2.0 May Cut Health Care to Fund Iran War Republicans want a second reconciliation bill before the midterms. But another vote cutting popular programs could be disastrous.

Nothing illustrates more how morally depraved the United States is than the idea of cutting Medicaid funding to pay for an illegal and unwanted war against Iran, depriving the poor and elderly of health care to relentlessly murder Iranians. Utterly ghoulish.

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That's amazing. The ad and marketing guys are the unsung heroes of Hollywood.

I loved the anecdote about The Omen in there.

He probably came up with "You will believe a man can fly" on Superman, come to think of it.

Amazing. He brought joy to millions.

I am so sorry for your loss.

Gonzo would be the Muppet Roger Moore Bond, but less suave with the ladies.

"WASTED"

There's a moral vacuum at the heart of this administration.

I'm not talking about the girls' school. The White House posting "WASTED" over a photo of the killing of combatants reflects an utter lack of humanity.

This is who we are, because we voted for these ghoulish, cruel bullies.

Nah, I think Fozzie could turn in a Dalton-esque against-type performance as James Bond. It would be a bravura acting challenge for the bear.

Elmo, however, would be completely out of his depth.

President Trump demands unconditional surrender in respect of something his government insists is not a war.

My wife has a lot of family in Poland, and one of her cousins was asking how the US can possibly afford this. The answer is, our public infrastructure and services suck colossally

I will get it eventually. The penultimate book is still unread on my TBR pile, which is a literal pile on a dresser. :lol:

I happened to be in a B&N yesterday, looked to see if it were there, then went to the website to see if any store had it.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

My ICQ number was 4342396. It dates to 1997.

That sounds like a Charlie Brown plot.

First thunderstorm of 2026

The Proclaimers are from Scotland. I'm not sure you can walk 500 miles from anywhere in Scotland without drowning in an ocean or a sea first.

No Barnes & Noble within a hundred miles has the final Enola Holmes novel in stock. (It's been out for a month.)

It implies exactly what you think it implies

Hegseth is a soulless monster, a man whose only qualification for his position was his willingness -- no, his eagerness -- to bring death and destruction to anyone he and the president deem an enemy.

"Cruel men believe in a cruel god." -- Bertrand Russell

This is the first ship sank by an American submarine since WW2. Unrestricted submarine warfare is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.

Hal Jordan has never felt more like a test pilot than he does here. I feel like he stepped out of Tom Wolfe's THE RIGHT STUFF, and I half-expected him to call John Stewart a "puddknocker."

Thinking about you.

Linux Mint Debian Edition for me!

Maybe this should be a panel at sci-fi conventions: "Getting Started with Linux." People can bring their laptops, and we spend an hour installing Linux Mint.

This is exactly how I lost an epic game of RISK. I overstretched my forces in Asia, my offensive ground to a halt as my empire had one army per territory, and in a matter of turns I was wiped off the map, territories plucked off one by one. I got too greedy, I went too fast, and it cost me dearly.

A amazing photo of the Blood Moon -Etheral Earth -facebook @capitalweather.bsky.social @nws.noaa.gov @davenussbaum.bsky.social @wbrc.com @spann.bsky.social

Netlfix, 100%.

There was a story I read during the last Writer's Strike about how Netflix basically headfaked the studios into doing streaming on their own, making them burn money with no return, so they could pick up the pieces after. The studios thought Netflix was like them, but it isn't.

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Question for Pam Bondi: With the Dow down to 47,000, are we allowed to take the Epstein files seriously now?

They think they've found a cheat code — like the red heifer — that will unlock the final boss of their end times mythology.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

If this is true, it is genuinely insane.
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