Like they say in the Altered State of Druggachusetts, “Only take what you can handle, and always know your dealer!”

There was another questionably real Trump tattoo and I had the same thought: is it more disturbing to think that a person would earnestly get such a tattoo, or that a person would pretend to get such a tattoo? Why in the world would they pretend that? To convince people that they are in fact gigantic morons? To manipulate someone even dumber into getting a real Trump face tattoo? It’s all very mysterious.

I think SMBC nailed it with All-Despising Baby Skull back in 2012. Make advertising as horrible as possible, then jack up the costs on making it go away.

If pictures of wet or featherless owls have taught me anything, that ample-looking sweater is almost entirely filled with stuffing.

I hear foxes screaming in my neighborhood sometimes. It sounds like a combination of shock and pain, like someone came up behind you and stabbed you with a fondue fork at a nice party.

I’m out here advocating for physical media in 2024, so it’s safe to assume that my tech has not advanced much beyond smashing rocks together and yelling at the moon.

Lest we forget

Things that lasted longer than the Confederacy:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

The Nickelodeon run of You Can’t Do That On Television (1981-1990)

Tom Baker’s portrayal of The Doctor on Doctor Who (1974-1981)

The AMC Gremlin (1970-1978)

The Ford Pinto (1971-1980)

The reign of the Petronas Towers as the tallest buildings in the world (1998-2004)

The partnership of the Cookie Crisp Crook and his dog, Chip (1990-1997)

He wrote another one where an alien got drunk and wanted to have a conversation with a guy, but since the alien was out of “speaks alien language” pills instead he gave him a “messiah” pill, which happens to include the ability to speak all languages.

I made myself a mnemonic: WICK.

It stands for Wallet, Information device (phone), Cup (I have a habit of leaving my cup of coffee places), Keys.

It’s very helpful to stand at my front door think “WICK” and know, not just think, I’ve got all of my essentials.

Why would the first three make sense, but not Mighty Mouse?

/r/vexillology is one of the only things I miss from the other site.

Don’t forget:

Think about being a child with Professor X’s abilities. He can get anything he wants, make anyone believe anything he wants, he can know everyone’s deepest most shameful secrets. How could a person like that even form a moral framework? From his childhood, he’d have every reason to believe that he was immune to all discipline and that rules simply don’t apply to him if he decides they don’t, because for him those are true facts! By all rights Professor X ought to be a an exceptionally dangerous egoist and megalomaniac.

Oh, also, if there is any Marvel character who ought to be canonically omnisexual, it ought to be Charles. He doesn’t see bodies, he just sees minds. That undersea prawn monster that Namor was making out with ought to be just table stakes for Professor Xavier.

Depending on who you ask, it looks like chickens currently outnumber humans by about three or four to one.

They’re already here!

“Go kill that Joan Wick.”

Hell, I’d watch it.

Of course politics will always disappoint you. Politics is the means by which large groups of people aggregate their desires sufficiently to achieve collective goals. It’s a massive process of millions of compromises. The goal is explicitly not to make everyone happy. The goal is to have enough people of good will and with enough information avaliable involved that the series of compromises move enough of us in the right direction.

I’m going to be honest, buying a war hammer and smashing some gourds from the grocery store made my serotonin levels skyrocket!