2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants “national divorce,” but dummy doesn’t see who a secession would hurt most (Carla Sinclair / Boing Boing)
Because Brexit worked out so well for the UK, we should totally do it here.
“ … 7 out of the top 10 states most dependent on federal funds are red…. “
Florida woman who waved gun at McDonald’s was still angry after they gave her the free cookie she wanted | Boing Boing (Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing)
“Even after being given the free cookie, she remained irate…. ”
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Black people to be “proud” of statues of their treasonous enslavers (Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing)
Tearing down statues is not erasing history. The history is still available, in schools, books, TV, on the Internet–everywhere.
Erasing history is putting up statutes to people who fought a war against America to protect their right to own slaves, and pretending those men were heroes.
Woman records her dinner date with a creepy “nice guy” (Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing)
“I’ll bet this guy paid a lot of money to take an incel influencer course on how to dominate women, and was surprised that it didn’t work out like promised.”
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”(Simon Willison) Bing gaslights a user, goes through an existential crisis, and threatens someone else.
Congressional Republican leader Marjorie Taylor Greene backs “national divorce.” (MSNBC / Steve Benen)
In a President’s Day tweet, Greene endorses breaking up the United States. Then she walks it back and says she’ll settle for impeaching Joe Biden—but if that doesn’t happen, the US has to go, she says.
Elected political leaders should support the United States continuing to exist. That’s a pretty low bar. But the Republican Party can’t clear it.
Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic turns three. Congratulations, Cory!
Interesting behind-the-scenes look at Cory’s production process, and the reasoning behind some of his idiosyncratic design decisions.
Very good overview of Belzer’s life and career, by Chris Koseluk at the Hollywood Reporter.
Belzer played Det. Munch as a regular character on two different series and as a guest on several others, including an animated appearance on The Simpsons and as a Muppet on Sesame Street.
Belzer’s last words were “Fuck you, motherfuckers,” which is very much in character.
Tejada later became famous as “Raquel Welch.”
The author of this article makes it pretty obvious he doesn’t think highly of beauty pageant winners, but is impressed with young Raquel’s brains and charm, as well as her beauty.
Note the sidebar explaining how to pronounce the beauty pageant winner’s name. Did people really need to be told how to pronounce “Raquel?” That surprised me at first—but I guess the name is well known now because this Raquel made it famous.
I am also surprised that the Tribune in 1958 thought its readers needed to be told how to pronounce “Tejada.” San Diego was just as close to Mexico then as it is now; neither San Diego nor Mexico has moved.
And it’s sweet that her friends called her “Rocky.” I wonder if that continued in later life.
PS. Rereading the article, I see I was pronouncing “Tejada” wrong. I had the “J” sound right, because I’m not a bumpkin, but I was pronouncing the first syllable “tay,” rather than the correct “tuh.”
My Favorite Times to Use Incognito Mode (The New Yorker / Jade Orlando) A fun one-minute read.