Happy Pride Month to all my LGBTQ+ friends out there! The world is better because you're in it! Soon I'll be watching a movie themed to this month's topic, but that will have to wait... because an all new Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• BEES! NEWSFLASH: Millions of bees escape, start stinging after crash in Whatcom County. The first thing I did was go running to Maps to find out how far away these 250 million bees are from my house. Answer? About 3-1/2 hours, minimum. So no need to panic. Yet.

   
• Disney Be Expensive, Yo! “No we’re not going to Disneyland. We’ve got Disneyland at home!”

Absolutely classic.

   
• Sloppy! Peacock TV should just renew Poker Face for ten new seasons to be filmed twice a year. The latest episode Sloppy Joseph is phenomenal, as usual. But it leaps ahead of the pack for one reason. The child actor leads they got for this episode are amazing. AMAZING... and also, in one case, amazingly disturbing. Whomever cast them deserves a raise...

Plus it was deftly directed by ADAM ARKIN? And is that DAVID KRUMHOLTZ?!? Sweet! — I wish they could clone Natasha Lyonne so she could appear in more stuff. Then make a second clone and put her into suspended animation so we have a spare in case we lose the original two.

   
• Wes! If anybody has $400 that they're trying to get rid of... give it to The Trevor Project or Trans Lifeline. But if you have $400 more that you need to get rid of, you could always buy this for me...

Sure I already own all these movies in digital format (and more than a few on DVD and Blu-Ray), but 4K off of Blu-Ray is a considerably different experience than "4K" off of digital streaming.

   
• Linguistically Yours! I love this...

Language is ever-changing and ever-evolving. This is just the latest thing.

   
• Cursed! Sage, sage wisdom being dropped here...

I wish I could reclaim all the time I wasted trying to please people who don't care about me.

   
• Yummy! This video came up in my Facebook memories. So much more clever than Baby Shark...

CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!

   
• Drag News Hour! Yet another drag queen endangering our children! Oh... wait a second... nope! Not a drag queen... color me un-shocked! NEWSFLASH: MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges.

   
And, on that note, it's time for me to make dinner. Until next Sunday...

As what happens every year when I wish my gay friends "Happy Pride," people crawl out of the woodwork with their panties in a bunch for absolutely no reason. Or, to be more accurate this year, a person crawled out of the woodwork because there was only one of them.

And for the life of me I just don't get it. Your life isn't being affected by their existence at all. The Gays are out there living their best life at zero cost to you, so why do you give a shit? Focus on making your own miserable life better instead of harshing other people's mellow. But, whatever... comments are easy to delete.

If only everybody could be as well-adjusted as this guy is about it all...

He's not wrong. June is when gay gets sprinkled all over everything by Corporate America who's (mostly) only interested in cashing in... then their "support" evaporates like a fart in the wind. Until next June. But it does get acceptance out in the mainstream for a month, which is better than nothing, I suppose. More and more LGBTQ+ persons are being subject to escalating levels of hate, bigotry, and discrimination just for existing, and seeing even faux-acceptance might be nice for a change.

Even when you're seeing it for what it actually is.

This morning while I was waiting for my second meeting of the day, I took a minute to look at picture frames. I bought a couple prints while I was in Hawaii that arrived, and I wanted to find a frame that might match so I could hang them up.

I was surprised, but not really, to find that a lot of the frames I looked at were made to look like wood... but were actually plastic. And it's like... they've been making cheap picture frames out of wood for forever, so why aren't they still doing that? Is it really so much cheaper and easier to make plastic crap? Heck, even when you find an actual wood frame, it's usually a wood veneer over some kind of cheaper wood. Which ain't great, but at least it's real.

My first instinct was to just make some frames myself, but I honestly don't have the time to do that. It's not a particularly challenging task... but even simple jobs take time that I just don't have right now.

And something tells me that even if I had the time, the wood I'd buy to make the frames would be more expensive than tracking down ready-made wood frames... because that seems to be the way it goes. Big box stores have to add a big markup to cover their overhead and still make a profit, whereas frame manufacturers get to purchase wood direct at wholesale prices.

What I really need to do is grow and mill my own lumber!

But if I don't have time to make a frame I'm sure not going to have the time to make a forest.

I really cannot be trusted with dangerous instruments any more.

Yesterday I took a phone call while I was in the middle of cutting out some cardboard pieces. After I finished the call, I went to hang up my phone... didn't realize that I was still holding my X-Acto knife... THEN PLUNGED IT INTO MY FINGER!

It hurt for a second, but I honestly didn't think it was that bad.

Until I pulled the knife out of my finger.

Blood. Everywhere.

I wrapped it in a paper towel I had in my desk, sent a couple texts one-handed on my blood-spattered keyboard, then rushed to clean out the wound and get it bandaged up.

Then come back to clean up the mess... which looked like a murder scene. I felt like I needed to call one of those mafia cleaners or something.

Anyway... it bled through multiple banadages before it clotted. Then this morning it was in pretty good shape, all things considered, and I got to clean it up. Good as almost new!

There was a casulty amongst the carnage, however.

Some of the keys on my keyboard were sticking. Since it's Apple, you can't just unscrew it to clean it out, so I did the best I can with soaking a rag in solvent so I could un-stick the keys. As I was scrubbing to get the residue out of the keyboard, I noticed that my key caps were being wiped clean!

But no problem there. I have a fine-point Sharpie marker!

I thought I was being smart by letting the keyboard dry for a couple hours, but it made no difference. The Sharpie started smearing almost immediately. So much for Sharpies being a PERMANENT marker!

Oh well. Probably need to order a new keyboard anyway since the A, W, and Q are still sticky no matter what I do.

I could be in serious trouble if I need an A&W Root Beer, and we can't have that.

It's incredibly frustrating to have a company I once loved... nay, worshipped... fall so far from grace.

There are days that I roundly despise Apple for their fucking bullshit, which is something inconceivable to the me from a decade ago. But every time some bug rears its ugly head despite it being reported years ago... every time an Apple technology I bought into keeps failing year after year... every time I have to endure klutzy interface elements that haven't been updated in years and make for a horrible user experience... every time there's yet another broken promise... well... I'm cursing Apple more and more lately.

And then I read this article: Retreating to Safety, which mentions that Apple will not be doing a live interview at their World Wide Developer's Conference this year. After a decade of doing just that.

And it's like... is it any wonder?

Apple sold everybody new iPhones with the promise of fantastic new AI capabilities... then never released all the new AI capabilities they promised (and still haven't). Plus there's all that bullshit I mentioned at the top. Apple has gone from a golden boy doing everything right to just another shitty fucking company that doesn't give a fuck about their users because they have profit margins to meet.

So now we sit and wait for The New Apple to come along so we can chuck them in the bin just like we have so many other companies which went down this road.

If you've been here at Blogography for any length of time, you know that theme park design is a big obsession of mine. So of course when Disney Parks Blog had an entry this morning about the new expansions to Disneyland, I took note.

To start, the new bridge over S. Harbor Blvd. which goes to a new load/unload zone and 6,000 space parking lot (along with the new entrance on the east-side) is very cool...

But my attention was laser-focused on the information for the new Coco ride...

I loved Coco. The gorgeous art of the film and incredible visuals would make a fantastic idea for an attraction. All we really know about the ride is that you're in a boat...

Now, one would assume that this new ride is going to be at least as big as It's a Small World or else why do it? On the Google Map below, It's a Small World is in the upper-left in pink. Dropping the ride at the location in the press release would put it at the location of the green building I've dropped in the lower-right of the same map below...

Except, a few problems...

• There's this odd road that wraps around the south end of California Adventure (shown to the right on the above map). I have never understood why it's there. I don't think it's a Disney access road, because it's almost completely separated off from any Disney access (the exception being an entry point to the South) and there's another road for Disney inside of it. But the oddest part is that anybody needing this road would just drive on the already-existing S. Harbor Blvd., W. Katella Ave., or Disneyland Drive. Regardless, to put Coco in the above-shown location would require a chunk of this road being ripped out.
• From the artwork we've seen, the Coco ride appears to be a part of a larger Coco "land" expansion that's a part of Pixar Pier. Which means Disney is going to need a big enough area to build that... the ride isn't going to be directly off the walk between Paradise Gardens and Pixar Pier.

And so the actual "Coco Land" will more likely be somewhere within the space I've drawn in green on the map at the lower-right below. It's located behind the IncrediCoaster...

The region I've drawn in yellow is the area available for the Avenger's Campus expansion (which I've already talked about here). The area in Blue is the area available for Avatar Pandora Land West (which seems surprisingly small)...

After these additions, the only real space available for expansion (other than the Disney Forward project areas which I talked about here) is the region to the north of the original Disneyland. That's assuming Disney doesn't buy more property in the area. But in order to use this land (which is fairly substantial, dwarfing even Star Wars Land), Disney would have to level a lot of expensive construction (including the massive Team Disney admin building and the warehouse where I'm guessing the parade floats are built and housed). This seems unlikely, but maybe a portion of this space could be used for park expansion...

At this point all I can really, really, hope for is that Disney doesn't cheap out and give us some crapy boat ride that's undeserving of Coco. It should be more than a bad retread of Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros from Epcot's Mexico Pavilion. Much more. It should be a destination-worthy spectacle that draws people to the park just to see it.

The Coco ride should be every bit as big and impressive and jaw-dropping as what they did with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.

But will it be?

Only time will tell.

My cats, both of whom love the heat, are obsessed with hanging out in the catio lately. Which means that activity going on out there doesn't get ignored as it usually does. On a near daily-basis I'm hearing some kind of commotion out there.

And out of all of it, this chipmunk caused the biggest reaction. But what's bizarre is how the chipmunk barely reacted to my cats going apeshit out there...

I love the way hi tail is so fluid.

But what I love most is how he stands up to look around. He's gone full-on meerkat here.

I may be broiling in the Summer heat, but I must be good to blog... because an all new Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• Stranger, Newer! Look, let's just get this out of the way... it is highly unlikely that ANY show is going to eclipse Andor, The Residence, and Poker Face in my #1, #2, and #3 spots for the best television of 2025. They're just too phenomenal. But if any show has a shot at it, that would be Strange New Worlds. It managed to eclipse the original series as my favorite Trek, and the third season looks like more of the awesome I've come to expect...

   
• Cricket! GAH! I've been replacing some of the outlets in my home with Eve smart outlets. This morning I was replacing the outlet for all my television devices because I want to know how much electricity I'm drawing to be sure I'm not overloading the breaker. The outlet ended up having dual black & white wires, which meant the wire nuts that came with the switch were too small. I quickly ran to the electrical kit to get bigger ones while my Uninterruptible Power Supply was beeping angrily because it had no power. As I was running through the garage, I saw a clump of dirt that must have fallen off the gardening tools I was using this morning. I kicked it under the car so I could sweep it up later. BUT THE CLUMP OF DIRT CRAWLED BACK FROM UNDER THE CAR! BECAUSE IT WASN'T A CLUMP OF DIRT, IT WAS THE LARGEST CRICKET I'VE EVER SEEN! After screaming GAAAAAH! I ran into the house for a paper cup to drop over the insect while I wired the outlet so I could get power back to my UPS. Then I slid a piece of board under the cup and took the cricket out to a nice shady spot in the rock wall behind my home. Sorry, cricket, but I don't want you chirping in my home.

   
• Dip! A friend called and asked what I'm up to. After telling her the killer cricket story, I told her I was making my grandmother's chip dip recipe... except I'm using vegan cream cheese instead of regular cream cheese, vegan mayo instead of regular mayo, tamari sauce instead of Worcestershire sauce, and nutritional yeast instead of cheese. Then I add a little ground black pepper and chili powder to help make the taste of the veggie mayo more palatable. She said "If you're changing all the ingredients, you're not really making your grandmother's recipe tho..." And I was like "Well, the lemon juice in it is still lemon juice... I just substitute vegan ingredients for the non-vegan ingredients. Which is most of them, I guess. Which is to say that I'm not actually making my grandma's recipe after all. Except... I totally am, I think.

   
• Big, Bold, and Beautiful! Well this looks wonderful. A movie that's right up my alley...

Doesn't hurt that the cast is so good.

   
• a-ha! I've never understood the one-hit-wonder status for a-ha. Their debut album and lead single Take on Me are great. Love it. Definitely a hit. But they created a lot of amazing music after. Including Holyground, a beautiful song that defies description...

Lead singer Morten Harket has announced he has Parkinson’s disease.

I flew to New York to see the band on their farewell Ending on a High Note Tour (they were only playing NYC and Los Angeles in the USA). After that they slowed down, but I was so happy they actually kept going.

   
• Pick Me! Lock company sues McNally for showing how easy their locks are to pick. They claim that he "altered" their lock. McNally orders a fresh lock and films himself retrieving the lock from an Amazon locker, opening the sealed box of the lock, cutting an aluminum can to make a pick for the lock, then picks the lock... all without the filming being interrupted. The entire video is two minutes and thirteen seconds long...

I laughed and laughed and laughed. Because this lock company just made things far, far worse for their reputation. He should pick one of their locks live during the trial, assuming the lock company is stupid enough to go through with it.

   
• VARIETY NEWS: ‘Andor’ Creator Says Disney Spent ‘$650 Million for 24 Episodes’ and ‘We Fought Hard’ for Money After Being Told in Season 2: ‘Streaming Is Dead. We Don’t Have the Money We Had Before’ — And every fucking cent is on the screen. This is budget filmmaking. Disney should be thrilled that Tony Gilroy handed them 8 feature films at a budget of only $80 million each. Because every three episodes IS the equivalent. And who makes feature films for only $80 million any more that are this fully-realized and have the talent and dazzling special effects that made them this great? Andor is easily one of the best TV series ever made. It’s the best thing to come out of Star Wars period...

Disney should be begging the guy to do more Star Wars. They should be filling a dump truck with money and backing it up into Gilroy’s driveway to get him to do more Star Wars. This series was an absolute gift to Disney, Star Wars fans, and people who relish great storytelling. Fuck the Empire.

   
And now I'm off! Off the internet Because I'm trying to free up space in my garage.

Apple's World Wide Developer Conference is an event unto itself every year. Today I woke up at 4:30am so I could catch up on work and watch the event live so I could add the commentary you've all been dying for. If you want to watch it while reading this, you can find the entire thing on YouTube here.

Craig Federighi once again makes everybody fall in love with him due to his filmed-intro, screaming around the top of the Apple Park building in an F1 car to promote their new movie F1 (original title!) with Brad Pitt. And heeeeere's Tim Cook... to introduce more Craig!

To read all the gory details of Apple's keynote and my random thoughts about what they announced, you can find it in an extended entry, because it's rather long (I type fast and think a lot of things!)...

And so I installed the developer betas of Apple's latest and greatest OSs for my devices... iOS 26 on my iPhone, iPad OS on my iPad Pro, and macOS Tahoe 26. I dunno if watchOS is out yet.

I have mixed feelings about what's going on. Some of it looks great, but some of it is pretty bad. I'll write about it in full tomorrow, but what I can say right now is this: Using Apple's new "Liquid Glass" Graphic User Interface reminds me very much of that scene in Bedazzled* where Brendon Fraser gets turned into a star basketball player, ends up breaking the backboard, then spits the glass at the camera...

Which is to say I'm finding that Apple is spitting this glass effect everywhere, and it doesn't always land...

Now, at this size when displayed on a computer, it's not so bad. But keep in mind you're using it on an iPhone, which is smaller. And, if you're old like me, you have to hold it out so you can see it without reading glasses on. Apple desperately needs to refine this. Or even give you a way to turn the glass off so people with poor eyesight can read everything more easily...

What a mess.

Another quick observation before I take my leave of you... many of the icons look blurry. It gives me a headache.

Not at computer size so much... but iPhone size at a distance. Just look at the Photos app icon here...

But more tomorrow when I've had a chance to play with it all a bit more.

* If you've never seen Bedazzled (the Elizabeth Hurley version), I give it my highest recommendation. Here's that entire scene...

Before installing the iOS 26 Developer Beta, here's what I did when I rounded the corner of the street where I live (once I got a vehicle with Apple CarPlay). I'd say "Hey Siri, open the garage door." Then my garage door would open. Then I would drive into my garage. Then I would say "Hey Siri, close the garage door." Then my garage door would close. Then I would turn off the car engine and go inside my house.

I used to have my garage door automatically when I rounded the corner, but then I became paranoid when I saw my iPhone misregister my location. I thought "Huh. What if it thinks I'm going home when I'm not?" Which is when I switched to telling Siri to do it via voice control.

Then I upgraded to iOS 26 Developer Beta.

Now when I say "Hey Siri, open the garage door," Siri tells me that I have to unlock my iPhone first.

To which I can only say "What the actual fuck?!?"

I'm guessing that this is some kind of pretense by Apple telling us this is a safety precaution. They want to make sure it's really you before it opens a door to your home.

Except...

1. You still have the option to have CarPlay automatically open your garage door using your location... whether your iPhone is unlocked or not. And...
2. A widget now appears on the CarPlay screen which you can press to open your garage door... whether your iPhone is unlocked or not.

Which is all to say... this is not Apple being "concerned" over "security" at all.

But it gets better...

Do you know what happens when I pull into my garage and say "Hey Siri, CLOSE the garage door?"

Siri tells me that I have to unlock my iPhone first.

You know... out of "security concerns"... or whatever bullshit that Apple will blow up our asses when we complain how this crap makes absolutely no fucking sense whatsoever.

I know that there's probably (maybe) at least one person out there who's devastated that I promised a deeper look into the new Apple OS 26s that got released, but I'm still not... there... yet. I keep running into weirdness that I need to look into further so I know if it's not user error... or it's not a bug from a developer release that's not Apple's intent.

Something which sounds easier than it usually is for whatever reason.

So, hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on track. In the meanwhile? The latest Superman trailer is here. And probably the last pre-release trailer we're getting...

And now for my live-watch reaction...

• I honestly thought we would get a break from full-scale disaster porn after Zack Snyder's crap-fest. Boy am I sad to be wrong. This is James Gunn via Michael Bay, and how depressing is that? Not that I'm here to dig on Michael Bay... I'm just saying that I was really hoping for something different this time out.
• I like that Lex Luthor is truly menacing instead of just being some weird, dopey comic book villain (something I hated about the way Zack Snyder and Jesse Eisenberg made him be in Man of Steel).
• I am dying to see what approach that Gunn took with Ultraman. There's dozens of ways that it could go, and I'm hoping he picked the most interesting direction.
• Once again, Krypto is stealing the trailer. He will likely steal the movie as well. I'm okay with that. Because DANG is he looking like a fun take!
• And... back to disaster porn. Again. =sigh=
• Zack Snyder thought he had cracked the way to make heroes work for the big screen. He made them into gods. But not in a fun or interesting way. Which made it all the more inexplicable when they acted so damn stupid all the time. Gunn gets it. You don't make them gods by their actions. That's boring. You make them gods by the utter casualness that comes from their actions, but add elements that still make them relatable to non-comic-book-fan audiences. It's working very well in this trailer for Gunn.
• The Superman/Ultraman fight has a rough CGI look that's pretty bad. Woof.
• Blergh. I hope we get a very good reason as to why Lois Lane can fly a spaceship. Because this scene is cringe. So very cringe.
• Cannot possibly enunciate how happy I am that not only is Mr. Terrific in this movie... but Gunn very clearly wanted to be sure he comes off as cool as he does in the comic books. Nice.
• There has been more than a little bit of complaining from people as to how... weird... Superman looks with their weird angles as he's flying. I didn't see it before. I am definitely seeing it this time. There's a weird distortion effect applied for some reason. Maybe to show speed? Upsetting.
• Thank GOD the age of dour, depressing, and overly-serious comic book films are (seemingly) on the way out at DC. It has been too long since Superman was portrayed as the beacon of joy and hope that he is supposed to be.

And, as if this new trailer wasn't enough, more Spaceballs too?!?

Reports are saying that not only is Bill Pullman back as Lone Star and Mel Brooks is back as Yogurt, but Rick Moranis is back as Dark Helmet?!?? How sweet is that? The guy obviously realizes how much people love him in that role, and it convinced him to come out of retirement for another run...

Sadly, we know that Barf (John Candy) and Dot Matrix (Joan Rivers) can't make a return... but it's nice that they seem to be doing what they can to get as many actors back as possible.

And then... Bill Pullman's son, Lewis Pullman, is also on board to boot, which is very cool.

I was beginning to think this would never happen. I'm glad it is, because the original was just too dang entertaining to let the franchise lay dormant.

It's tough to put into words the love I have for the many songs of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.

So rather than using words, I'll just say that I've never Googled him. Ever. I was so terrified of him turning out to be a raging asshole or homophobe or racist or something awful, that I never risked it. I couldn't fathom his music being tainted to me, and losing it would be too much of a risk to take.

He wrote a ridiculous number of tracks, and a great many of them mean a lot to me. Including my favorite of them all, Don't Worry Baby...

It's beautifully constructed, deliciously intricate as it builds to a finale, and every word of the lyrics hit in the best way... telling the story of a guy who agrees to a drag race, but instantly regrets it and confides his fears in his girlfriend who tells him "Don't worry baby. Everything will turn out alright." And it's just so... flawless.

It's made even more interesting when you consider that the entire song was written as a response to Be My Baby by the Ronettes...

But that's not the end of it!

Originally, Brian wrote the song for the Ronettes. But Phil Spector wouldn't ever entertain the idea of them recording a song he didn't write, so it didn't happen. Except eventually it did...

Gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful.

And apparently Brian Wilson was not aware that Ronnie had recorded it, because THIS happened...

Then later on in life...

Ronnie Spector. Another legend I miss dearly. I know that Ronnie and Brian performed together at least once. Probably more. A vocal match made in heaven.

Of course the number of Brian Wilson & Beach Boys covers are legion (She & Him, AKA Zooey Deschanel's band, did an entire album tribute to him). Which you'd expect give how incredible the catalog of songs are. Who wouldn't want to cover one of his songs? Just look at this megaton of talent on God Only Knows...

And so... yeah. Brian Wilson will be truly missed. But the sheer volume of music he left to an undeserving world means he's never really gone. Rest in Peace, sir.

Jenny has night terrors from time to time. It's really tough to watch when I see it happening, and I never know the best course of action. Usually, I very carefully start petting her until she stops kicking and fighting... which works some of the time. Other times she wakes herself up during her nightmare and then is pretty upset with me.

This morning Jenny fell asleep next to me, started having night terrors about fifteen minutes later, so I petted her to calm her down... only for her to flip over and wrap around my arm. Progress? At least this time I didn't get attacked for scaring her!

Anyway...

Before it got too hot, I was outside kneeling in the dirt while working in my shrub beds. When the heat finally hit and I went back inside, Jake came up to me after. He started smelling my dirty knees and rolling around on me. Maybe I accidentally kneeled in catnip?

Makes me think that I need to plant some stuff in the catio for my cats to roll around in. I bought grass a while ago, but they didn't seem to be interested enough to make it worth the cost. Maybe I need different grass!

Holy cow is it hot out today. I didn't even stay out as long as I did yesterday morning! But enough of my heatstroke woes... because an all new Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• SAVE THE BEEEEES! I see bees around my home... sometimes honey bees, but there's been plenty of bumblebees around too (which are my favorite, because they always look so adorable being all fluffy like they are). In an effort to help them, I always let the clover overgrow my lawn where it feels like it. And now that I've got some new plants out that they seem to like, I decided to make some watering stations for them. I bought shallow trays, filled them with water and rocks so they don't drown, then placed them in some shady spaces where they will fill up when the sprinklers run. I made two different heights of rocks to see if it makes a difference...

I've heard that bees can smell water. I might set some cameras outside to see if they come visit. And, if they do, then I'll have to make some more.

   
• AI EVERYWHERE! It is darn-right scary how good AI video generators have gotten recently. I mean just look at this scary-ass nightmare of people who don't exist!

There are a lot of people who are going to be completely fooled... and it's just going to get worse.

   
• Hilarity Ensues! Oh no. Oh no no no no no... BWAH HA HA HAAA! Lying to CONGRESS?!? This is GOLD. GOLLLLLLD!!!

Unfortunately, nobody seems to give a crap when these fucking assholes lie to the American people like this.

   
• ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Will End With a Fifth and Final Season. Well fuck. How typical. Strange New Worlds is hands-down my favorite Star Trek and I've been loving every episode in a way that even The Original Series never took me. I guess I should be grateful that we're getting two new seasons after the upcoming one (even though the fifth is "truncated")... but, dammit, I'm still bitter. The writers have proven over and over that they get the franchise and know creative ways to keep it moving forward. — Next Generation got seven seasons. Deep Space Nine got seven seasons. Voyager got seven seasons. Then again, Enterprise only got four. But still... all those shows were getting around 26 episodes each season, and Strange New Worlds only gets TEN?!? Insanity. It's just insanity. Well, unless the Starfleet Academy blows me away, there's no reason for me to keep Paramount+ after the best Trek ever is over.

   
• Read Your Bible? "This will not be a newsflash for anyone with the capacity for critical thought..." This 16-minute burn is delicious, and just gets better as it goes on. Dan usually doesn't get this fired up.

How is it that the people who profess to live their life by The Bible... love to use The Bible as a tool to persecute people... and act like they know The Bible... actually don't know shit? Cherrypicking?!? Pot meet kettle.

   
• SPACE NEWS: NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Found A 30,000-50,000 Kelvin "Wall" At The Edge Of Our Solar System. Obviously God put this barrier there to contain our nonsense to our own solar system and not allow us to fuck up the entire galaxy with our bullshit. Humanity ain’t it. We never were. And, at this rate, we never will be.

   
• Money Well Spent! Look, I don't give a shit if the President wants to embarrass himself. I'm used to it. But I think it's fucking reprehensible to embarrass our military like what happened with his $45 million dollar vanity birthday parade. Our military isn't trained for pageantry. They're just not. So to force them into a situation they weren't prepared for is embarrassing to the country... and the men and women who serve this nation. They absolutely didn't deserve that. You know what they do deserve? The benefits that come from risking your life to fight and die for their country. You know, the benefits that keep getting cut so we can have a pathetic parade that barely any people attended...

I'm so sick of this shit I could vomit. Give our military the respect they've fucking earned. Give our country the respect it deserves.

   
And now... I'd go back out into the heat so I can work in the yard some more, but that ain't happening. Guess my Sunday is going to be a day of rest after all..

My parents, education-forward that they were, bought not just one set of encyclopedias... they bought us two. They were different brands, but years apart, so I'm guessing they wanted to have books with the most current information while we were in school. No idea how my parents were able to afford such an extravagance... probably a monthly payment plan or some kind... but I was very glad to have them. Not just for the sheer convenience of having such a massive resource for doing school work at home (no trip to the library for me!), but also for entertainment.

I remember pulling volumes off the shelf and just reading them. Sometimes randomly flipping pages to learn something new. But most times starting on page one then working my way through it. I had an encyclopedia on my nightstand a lot as a kid.

Then came CD-ROMs. A media just begging for an encyclopedia set.

The big one being Microsoft Encarta, which I actually owned because it came with some bundle I got. But since I was on a Mac, I never used it. I had one of the alternatives, The World Book Encyclopedia. Which was handy, sure, but it was so slow and such a hassle that I didn't use it much. It was so much easier to grab a book off the shelf.

Except you couldn't, because the minute CD-ROM versions came out, the print versions were discontinued. Which I get because printing that many full-color pages were not cheap.

Which brings us to an interesting aside... apparently The World Book Encyclopedia is the only American encyclopedia still available in print. Sure it costs $1,175.00, but dang is it beautifully-designed...

World Book's owner Berkshire Hathaway's CEO Warren Buffett has committed to keeping the encyclopedias in print so long as a demand for them exists, which is darn cool.

But anyway...

The reason I fell down this encyclopedia rabbit hole is because I was wondering what happens when kids no longer know what an encyclopedia actually is. They'll likely be all Oh... you mean Wikipedia?" or something. And THAT got me wondering what happens to my childhood literary hero, Encyclopedia Brown? Perhaps the publisher will change his name to Wikipedia Brown? Or do they revert to using his real name... Leroy Brown.

They might as well, because it's not like kids now-a-days have ever heard of the Jim Croce song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.

Yesterday afternoon I was rushing to my car because I was in a hurry for a meeting. I was so wrapped up in the crazy number of things I had to do that I very nearly stepped on a butterfly that was laying on the hot pavement. Despite being late, I ran back to get some sugar water in an effort to revive him. There was no shade, but I moved him to a place that was out of the way and dribbled the water in front of him. He moved a bit, but didn't appear to be drinking.

I had done what I could then headed out to my meeting...

   
When I got back, I saw that the poor thing was back on the street and had been crushed... assumably run over by a car. I'm pretty sure he was a goner anyway, but it was still pretty upsetting.

Remarkably, his wings were still intact and, if you didn't look too close to see that his body had been destroyed, he was still beautiful.

I went on with my life. Maybe appreciating it just a tiny bit more.

But all I could think about was this... If I would have had the ability to put the poor thing out of his misery in a way that was quick and painless (assuming that butterflies can feel pain), would I have been able to do that? Not by stepping on him, which I could not do, I mean finding a killing jar or something. Despite the fact that my beliefs do not endorse taking a life... any life, including a bug... I think that I would. — If one of my cats were suffering, I'd certainly find a way to end their pain. Absolutely. It would kill me to do it, but I would force myself to extend that kindness.

And then my mind took this leap: Would I be able to do that for a fellow human?

And that's a different thing entirely, isn't it?

First of all, it doesn't matter if you're extending them a kindness... it's still murder. You still go to jail over that. But if it's somebody you truly care about. Somebody you love. And you know that they're suffering terribly, and you can end their suffering? Well... what is jail time compared to that?

I thought about this a lot when it came to my mom, but I was grateful to have found perspective at the time that she wasn't suffering. At least not how somebody from the outside would think of it. Her mind was gone. She didn't know and didn't remember. But I sure did. Which is to say that I wouldn't be ending her suffering, I'd be ending mine.

In which case the only life that I was entitled to take would be my own.

Alas, I am totally lacking in compassion for myself, and wouldn't extend myself that kindness.

I really don't know how to feel about the idea of World War III.

On one hand, the toll on humanity would be horrific. We've got nukes and high-tech weaponry which will make merely existing on this earth an unpleasant ordeal after a major global conflict. How people can choose to not care about that is beyond my ability to conceptualize. Misery would likely be all we have for generations. Assuming we survive.

On the other hand... no more having to worry about whether I left the stove on.

Or anything else.

I've been lucky enough to travel all around this remarkable plant of ours, and the one thing that's stuck with me more than any other is how remarkably similar we are. Regardless of nationality, race, religion, sexual identity, belief, or any other classification you can name... the vast majority of people on earth just want to live in peace and have the resources they need to help the people they care about. Or, in my case, the cats I care about.

That's it.

And what's so totally wild is that all of humanity could totally have that. Sure it would involve some compromise... a little give-and-take on just about everything... but, other than that, all it would take would be for people to want it bad enough. Want to live in peace so badly that the compromise would be worth it.

And, oh yeah, you'd definitely have to remove any horrific individuals with deep resources and vast influence available who don't want peace to happen. Because those with wealth and power who are only ever interested in wealth and power aren't going to sit idly by and if it means they'll lose even one fucking nickel. History is replete with examples that back this up. They're an unavoidable obstacle, because they'll gladly watch the world burn before they will compromise on anything.

And so here we are.

Hate makes for a great distraction. You can't see what's happening right in front of you when you're too busy hating somebody somewhere else because you've been convinced they're the problem... despite the fact that all they want is to live in peace the same as you. And so long as we let ourselves continue to be manipulated like this, the only possible outcome for this planet is World War III. What else can it be? Ever-escalating hate is unsustainable. It's all got to come to a head sometime.

I'm old. Over half my life is over. If I wake up tomorrow to nukes raining down around me, then I'd go back to bed with my cats and be just fine taking my leave of this universe.

But I'd still be overwhelmingly sad for kids who never got to know the beauty awaiting them in the world. All the wonderful things that nature has to offer. All the cool stuff that humanity has brought forth. Nope. After all too brief a time, all most of them would see on earth is suffering and death. And it's so unfair.

Which is why I hope people come to their senses before it's really too late.

Because that day is nigh, and nobody can stop it but us.

Happy Juneteenth! It still blows my mind that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, but the last of the enslaved population in the USA wasn't freed until June 19, 1865... over two years later. And, from what I can tell, there were no consequences. Zero

Today I harvested some tomatoes from my garden. Well, I harvested some cherry tomatoes from my garden...

My plants started out in my Aerogarden inside. But even at maximum extension, the plants grew into the lights, burning them...

And I got tired of cleaning up after them. So I transplanted them outside...

They did not do well. Indoors it's air conditioned. Outdoors it's unrelenting heat. But eventually they kinda(?) adapted? Meaning that they didn't die and gave me tomatoes. And this weekend I'll probably have seven more. Maybe it's enough for a salad!

I hired a landscaper to change some plants around and plant more in new places to fill out my back yard.

Everything is doing well except some little purple flowering things that are just getting fried. I'm told that eventually they should snap out of it, so here's hoping...

There's quite a bit of variety in all the plants, and they're all pretty great. Though this guy is so wildly different that I think it may be my favorite...

I'm betting it looks incredible when all those flowers start popping open!

As I've mentioned more times than I can count, my most watched media source is YouTube. I watch a lot of it. So much so that I pay for the ad-free YouTube Premium, because it's easily worthwhile given the amount of time it saves me watching crap ads.

Recently I've been watching more YouTube than usual because so many of the shows I'm into are on Summer hiatus and won't return until September or so (though there are exceptions... Poker Face is running hot right now).

But anyway...

Not only do I get my entertainment from YouTube, that's also where I get the bulk of my news. There's content creators there that have very good takes on what's happening in the world, yes, but there's also major media outlets who post to YouTube as well.

Except I just had to turn off the "Breaking News" category on my home page because things are just so monumentally shitty right now that I feel as though my head might explode if I try and keep up with all the bullshit that's going on.

But anyway, again...

I've been watching a heck of a lot of old television. It's just so wild. Not because the world has changed so radically (though that's part of it) but because so many things that were said back then couldn't easily be said in today's world.

And absolutely nowhere is that more apparent than those awesome Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts. And they aired on network television! I've been watching quite a few of them and have found myself surprised more than a couple times. But the biggest surprise? Despite my love of all things Betty White, I don't think I have ever seen her roast! It's pretty epic. If you have some time, I absolutely recommend watching it...

In most ways, these roasts are quite a bit more tame than what we got on the Comedy Central Roasts (which I miss a lot, the last one having been held in 2019). But in some ways? Yikes. All I can say about it is that despite some of the charged topics, none of it seemed malicious. It was all in good fun, which really can't be said for the Comedy Central shows. They were mostly in good fun... but some had a mean streak that was very apparent.

And, on that note, I leave you with this compilation of many hilarious moments from those glorious golden years of celebrity roasting...

Have a good weekend, everybody.

When I got home yesterday, this was me: "GAH! JENNNNNYYYY! STOP BRINGING CRICKETS INTO THE HOUSE!!!"

At which point Jake looks at me like I'm insane because Jenny is not even in the room. This is the second time this year. And I know it's Jenny because Jake only plays with the bugs. Jenny either eats them or brings them inside. They're her favorite thing, apparently.

Meanwhile Jake's favorite thing seems to be hacking up hairballs.

But let me backup a second... first I should say that I dumped some blankets from the dryer onto the couch last week, then ran outside to water flowers. When I came back inside Jake was laying in them. And he's been there very often ever since, so I've just left them there. Ironically, the whole reason I washed them in the first place was because they were covered in car hair...

AND THEN... this morning while I was working, I hear that unmistakable sound of a hairball being hacked up. I look over and there he is... puking one out on the blankets. So back they go into the wash. Again.

Which just means he's going to puke on them again the minute I put them back on the couch.

Hey, the US dollar may be in the tank, the economy is fucked, our benefits are being trashed, the government is toying with legalizing cancer-causing asbestos again, and we're now at war, but everything's just going great... because an all new Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• Sick Sad Escape! Where did The Ballad of Wallis Island come from? I never knew that Tim Key had this level of talent. His performance is all at once hilarious (expected) and incredibly touching and sweet...

Highest possible recommendation if you need an escape from this sad, cruel world. A lovely little film on Peacock TV.

   
• He'll Save Every One of Us! This morning while working I watched Flash Gordon for the hundredth time because a video about the film ended up on my YouTube feed. It's incredible no matter how many times I watch it. I own this original movie poster...

And here's that video, which is darn interesting...

It's always gutting to me how we never got a sequel. So few movies deserve one as bad as Flash Gordon does.

   
• Pool Shark! I don't know how she recovered. I wouldn't have been able to!

Talk about a Pool Sharknado!

   
• HIs Name is Earl! I'm not a big fan of spiders. However...

Not saying I want to become friends with one though.

   
• ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Out of the Ashes of Comixology, a New Digital Comics Platform Rises. — So let me get this straight. You want me to buy comics from you again at "Neon Ichiban" so that you can eventually sell out to Amazon.com (again)... at which point Amazon will kill the app only to leave me with their shitty fucking Amazon Kindle app which is a steaming pile of shit that completely ruins the entire reason I bought digital comics in the first place? Nah... you can fuck right off with your bullshit. I am never buying digital comics from you again. Amazon utterly destroyed what you built... lesson learned.

   
• We All Scream! This is a converdation I'm not ashamed to have had...
"What would you do for a Klondike Bar?"
"I dunno... go to the register and pay for it? Ask me what I'd do for a HEATH Klondike Bar..."
"What would you do for a Heath Klondike Bar?"
"Straight up murder. I would murder for a Heath Klondike Bar."
"Um. Damn. That's dark."
"Have you HAD a Heath Klondike Bar tho?"

   
• Bob Reads! Jesus Christ. These people really are fucking brainwashedand clueless...

She really thought she did something with that smug attitude, but it does beg the question... why are the people guilty of assaulting children infinitely more likely to be priests, pastors, Conservatives, or Republicans than drag queens? Can she explain that?

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children." — President Jimmy Carter

   
Hope you're enjoying your Summer before World War III starts.

As a geography nerd, of course I've heard of Krubera Cave (aka Voronya Cave) and also the (relatively) nearby Veryovkina Cave... the two deepest caves in the world. Not to be confused with Sơn Đoòng Cave, the largest cave in the world (that one is in Vietnam).

But anyway... Krubera Cave is insanely deep... 14.3 miles deep.

A factoid that I never really thought about until I saw this post by Simon Shows You Maps which shows an actual map of this crazy-deep cave...

Now, alas, the map is rendered virtually unreadable thanks to Facebook reducing the size so much, so I went hunting on the internet and found that I can't blame Facebook after all. Every version of this map is a mess. So I took a look at the map that Wikipedia is using and it's a doozy. Especially when you look at the twisty nature of the passages at the very bottom...

Can you imagine being the first person down there? Not knowing where the crack you're squeezing through goes or what's going on underneath you? And even if you had a map, can you fathom wanting to climb through the Millennium Pit to reach Game Over?!? These cave explorer spelunkers have to be some of the bravest people on earth. And also the most bat-shit crazy.

If you aren't claustrophobic, there are numerous videos available where you can see people descending into the cave. This is one of the more recent, and there were too many times I felt like shitting my pants as they wedged their way into tiny crevices despite the fact I am safely at home on my couch...

I'm with Simon on this one. Hard no from me. You couldn't pay me enough to even attempt it. I'd die after 15 minutes.

Probably even sooner.

After watching the Totally Awesome Films video on Flash Gordon the other day, YouTube recommended some of their other videos, including this one about the James Bond flick Never Say Never Again, which I watched because A) I actually liked the film quite a lot despite it being near the bottom of my ranking, and B) It's a "rogue" Bond flick which was produced outside of the Eon Production umbrella due to some legal wrangling that I never fully understood...

Afterwards I watched Never Say Never Again... yet again... and found it to be even better than I remembered. Yeah, Connery was really too old to be playing Bond, but they worked that into the script (which is more than they ever did with Roger Moore's later entries). Alas, where they fucked it up was having a 53-year-old Connery playing opposite a 29-year-old Kim Basinger, which was a missed opportunity to have an older Bond Girl for once. And then they had her head-over-heels in love with him after they had only met like three times? Sure he saved her life, but it was just so bizarre.

I did love seeing Connery as Bond again. And the writing, which afforded Bond some of the most clever lines of his career, was pretty good considering this was a remake of Thunderball. But the highlight of the entire movie were the villains. Both Max Largo and Fatima Blush were brilliant, ruthless, and deranged in the best possible way. Flawlessly cast and performed, they're near the top of all the adversaries 007 ever faced. And then... Max von Sydow as Blowfeld on top of that? It's an embarrassment of riches that makes the film far more memorable than it had a right to be.

Ultimately I think that Goldfinger will likely never be toppled as my favorite of all the James Bond movies, but there's a place for each of them because they all hold some measure of entertainment value (including Octopussy, which never ends up being as terrible as I remember it). Never Say Never Again fares better than some of them in the grand scheme of things because at least all the humor lands (I still wince thinking of the idiotic fucking appearances by Sheriff J.W. Pepper... and of course that dumbass driving gondola complete with pigeon double-take that nearly ruin Moonraker every time).

I suppose I really should rewatch all the 007 films. I haven't done that in a couple of years, and it's always worth it.

With the possible exception of The Living Daylights, which isn't a terrible film, but the one which never seems to offer me anything new with repeated viewings. It was just so bland and never seems to get better with age.

It seems highly unlikely that any television show will eclipse Andor as my favorite of 2025. It phenomenal on every possible level, and the fact that it's a Star Wars show is neither here nor there. It's just incredible television in any genre.

But a big part of what makes Andor so special is its star, Diego Luna. I am a huge, huge fan. He is a remarkable actor, sure, but it's his humanity that makes him truly remarkable. And that was on full display in his opening monologue on his first night of guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live...

And he wasn't done. Here was his second night...

Diego has always been charming and funny in his interviews... but who knew he was this funny?

Yesterday it was announced that my favorite contemporary director will direct the next James Bond film and I am over the moon.

A couple years ago Denis Villeneuve was on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and spoke about how he would love to make a Bond film one day, and to know that somebody at Amazon was listening is a different level of heartwarming...

The guy is incredible. He went from Sicario to Arrival to Blade Runner 2049 to the two Dune films. Who has a run like that? I have no idea when he's going to get around to Bond when he's got Rendezvous with Rama and Dune: Messiah coming up. And wasn't he working on a Cleopatra movie too? Regardless, I will absolutely be tuning in for whatever he's up to next. Which I hope is Dune: Messiah before James Bond No. 26 (which doesn't yet have a writer, so maybe)...

And now that the director is settled, the big question is... who will they get to play James Bond?

Connery was impossible to follow, but Moore did it. Moore was impossible to follow... and... well... yeah. But eventually Craig did it. So here's hoping.

I'm a massive fan of television programs and movies. I "watch" a lot of them. And by "watch" I mean that I am doing work (or blogging!) while they run in the background. My mind is pretty good at multi-tasking, so I can fairly easily follow whatever is on my television while banging away on my laptop.

The nice thing about watching stuff this way is that I can ignore all the idiotic shit that draves me crazy when it pops up.

Take for example the Wilhelm Scream.

I fucking hate it. The sound effect is so overused and offensive that it immediately takes me out of what I'm watching...

=shudder=

And then there's the fucking "Tarzan yell" which annoys me for the same reason...

Yeah, fuck Richard Marquand and George Lucas forever for that bit of dumbassery ruining an already disastrous Return of the Jedi (the heinous followup to the amazing The Empire Strikes Back). Lord.

If I had the time, I'd edit the sound mix of every movie I enjoy to rip this dumbassery out of them so I can enjoy them without distraction.

But why stop there?

There's a lot of shows and films which need some more exstensive editing than just a sound clip.

I've been re-watching the James Bond movies and cringing at the appearances of the Sheriff J.W. Pepper character, which I loathe...

Not that this frickin' idiot is the only bad thing in a James Bond movie. Many of the films have moments that are beyond stupid and are begging to be modified or cut.

Take, for example, that incredible car jump stunt that had the misfortune of being sabotaged not just by an appearance by Seargent J.W. Pepper, but with the stupid-ass slide whistle they played over the top of this magnificent stunt, which effectively sabotages it...

Who the fuck makes a choice like that?

I feel like I'm picking on James Bond and Star Wars movies, but there's precious few movies that I wouldn't change at all. Most films have something I'd change... even if it's something very small.

Hollywood should just save themselves the trouble and consult me on the final edit.

Every time Jake comes to me crying because Jenny has been chasing him, I always say "Well, what did you do to piss her off?" because I know that's exactly why she would end up chasing him. She doesn't randomly decide to antagonize her brother.

Last night while I was finishing up watching Dept. Q, Jenny was laying on the back of the smaller sofa. Jake, for reasons known only to himself, hopped up on the arm of the couch and then immediately swatted her. I guess he had seen her up on the sofa and decided he didn't like that?

Jenny has always been a little bit tempermental and demanding.

But it's her vindictive streak you have to watch out for.

As for Jake? He's definitely learning from her example, but is still mostly easy-going and chill about most every situation. The other day while I was on a Zoom call he wanted attention. I had to put him off until I was finished which would have enraged Jenny. But Jake just plopped down in my Buddha-Cat statue's lap and waited for me...

As I'm typing this he's out in the catio, where he spends most evenings now. It's warm enough to be comfy but not so insanely hot that he's uncomfortable wearing his fur coat.

As for Jenny?

After she cried and cried and cried for pets while I was loading the dishwasher, I relented and pet her until she was content to wander off and fall asleep on the cat tree. My little princess doesn't do the outdoors very often.

The impending heatwave is cause for concern, but there's a shady spot just for you... because an all new Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• I May Die of Unshock! NEWSFLASH: Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi. All they had to do was put "Ted Cruz" in the headline and they could have saved me from reading the article. Then I'd automatically know something stupid and fucked up that's not in the best interest of the American people was being discussed.

   
• It Could Happen to You! "Please don't cut our Medicaid... those benefits are a safety net for everybody because you never know what might happen!" — FUCK YOU! NOW DRAG THEM THE HELL OUT OF HERE!

There we go. There it is. Eugenics in action. And, yes, I understand that disabilities are not necessarily genetic. But try explaining that to people who have no empathy. Try to explain to them that life can turn on a dime. Try to tell them that they could easily end up in a wheelchair because of a million reasons. I dare you to try and explain what ableism looks like by holding up a mirror. Because EVERY. TIME. I try to explain this to people who want people with disabilities to be discriminated against and lose benefits... they all feel that it could never happen to them, their family, or people they care about. Nope. Never. It's only these leeches who should be cared for by their families instead of taxpayers. My God this is the absolute worst. Well, a lot of people will find out the hard way that this actually does affect them when something awful happens that cannot be anticipated.

   
• Q! A shoe-in for my Best of 2025 Television List...

I was prepared to not care for it, because I thought for sure it was going to be one of those "damaged person makes everybody miserable" shows that we've seen a million times. This was nothing like that. It was smart, well-written, exceptionally-performed, and had a fresh take on the genre that I loved. Recommended.

   
• AKRAM! I just... Alexej Manvelov's character of "Akram" in Netflix's Dept. Q above leaves you wanting more in absolutely every scene he appears. In this short interview clip, they discuss how amazing it would be to have a prequel series which tells his store and how he came to the U.K., and I am totally on-board...

If they have the correct script, it could even eclipse the original series (which I very, very much hope gets future seasons). One episode left to go!

   
• United Parcel! Dear UPS... if you're going to charge me $104 to get a 2-lb. package half-way across the country via 2nd Day Air... YOU COULD AT LEAST MAKE IT SO THAT MACINTOSH USERS CAN PRINT YOUR SHIPPING LABLES! — Having to copy and paste the label into a second app so I can print to a PDF that I can place in a THIRD app is bullshit. — FIX YOUR WEBSITE!!! — If you leave the label instructions "on" for the label... you'll get no label at all. If you tell the system to leave instructions "off," you'll get a label you can't print... but you can drag your cursor over it and copy it. ASSUMING YOU CAN GET INSTRUCTIONS TO TURN OFF IN THE FIRST PLACE. Does nobody test you crap out on a Mac so your customers can actually use your service? Doubtful.

   
• Disgusting. Fuck this fucking piece of shit for all eternity: Kennedy says US is pulling funding from global vaccine group Gavi — From Doctors Without Borders: "When we vaccinate in the community, parents line up for hours to give their children a chance to be protected from these deadly diseases. For these children, vaccination programs such as those supported through Gavi are a matter of life and death." — I am disgusted to my very core that RFK, an ignorant asshole who peddles disinformation as fact, could even be considered for a position which makes decisions about public health. He doesn't know shit. He's a grifter who doesn't believe in science, and we're stuck with his bullshit... no matter how many times he's been caught outright lying.

   
• Paper! Fearmongering assholes spreading bullshit for clicks is a plague on society. Fuck this asshole and everybody like him who spreads misinformation they don't even fucking bother to understand...

Meanwhile, serious shit that's actually a danger is ignored because people are focusing on this stupid misinformation crap.

   
And now back to our regularly-scheduled extreme hotness.

I tell you what... we've gotten to the point where I have to seriously ask myself if the universe would be better off if a giant meteor would just fucking wipe all humanity off the damn planet.

Because, for the record, if somebody fucking answers "No comment" when you ask if they're pro or anti slavery, they gave you their answer...

When it comes to fucking owning a human being, there's room for debate? There's wiggle-room for interpretation? Jesus.