The Hall of Fire

Got a coworker who dabbles in stocks with mixed results. A week or two ago I asked him how to short Trump's social media company and he told me it was too expensive. But I guess those who were able to afford the stock are making bank right now.

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:56 am Christina Amira Khalil, who is the Green Party's candidate for Senate in New Jersey, blames today's earthquake on climate change.

That makes as much sense as MTG's pseudo-religious blather.

1. Since the Last Supper was actually a Passover Seder, why does Easter not coincide with Passover? Eastern Orthodox churches tend to keep their Easter in lock step with Passover. Something I pay attention to because my in-laws celebrate on that calendar. Kinda wish the western churches did that sa...

They think he'll still be alive in 2028? With that waistline? Though given that the national GOP is directing all resources to Trump's legal bills and current campaign, I doubt they have anything left to nurture up fresh blood.

WEF = World Economic Forum. The Davos crowd. Not that that helps make any sense of Moreno's campaign pitch.

Four years ago today I was basically sheltering in place because of a rampant virus. Today I am basically sheltering in place because there's over a foot of snow on the ground. The latter will get plowed within the next 24 hours and either melt or sublimate off in the coming days. The former is stil...

Has anyone checked to see if Bradley's got some sort of vendetta with either Willis or Wade? Or if he was expecting some sort of pay off for all this? I saw something in a reddit thread about Bradley leaving Wade's firm after a sexual assault accusation. I spotted something confirmatory in the local...

I think she needs to step back from national politics and spend some time with her family. Don't mean that to be snarky either. The Boebert household needs tending to.

Interesting that I Fleishman is now less bullish about Willis being disqualified than I am. My feeling is that Bradley's testimony and his text messages to Merchant are not by themselves sufficient to prove that Willis and Wade lied about when the affair began (and whether Wade spent the night at W...

How precise and accurate is the cell data? Like, does it really put him in her home or just in her neighborhood and the rest is people making assumptions? Asking because there was a murder case around here recently in which the suspects were identified using cell phone tower data. However, because t...

I was a little surprised about the cash and then I thought "Of course." Regarding when the romantic relationship started, I am suspecting that they were acting real friendly towards each other before they decided they were officially an item. In other words, people around them suspected th...

I read last night that the Speaker doesn't want to vote on it because there are no border security measures. Except he didn't want to vote on those either. His dishonesty is tiresome.

Although it drifts even further off topic, I just can't resist noting a new report that Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia. That is in fact something I caught that J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia contributor doing (although most of that long encyclopedia entry lifted instead from Humphrey Carpenter). Jus...

Iran has been increasing security on its borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan as a result. This could get interesting.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, the handsy Republican of Colorado, has announced that she instead of running for reelection in her state's 3rd Congressional district, which she won by only 546 votes in 2022, she's running to represent the 4th Congressional district. ("Boebert doesn’t have to live in the ...

Was it organic, raised outdoors, and sung to as it died or something? Or is he including some fancy single-malt he bought with the turkey? Kinda like the guy who complained about the price of his airport lunch...that included a glass of single-malt whiskey.

I guess the difference between owning a mistake and trying to lie your way out of a problem of your own making is too subtle for some to appreciate. I wonder how many of the people buying into Trump's schtick on this one also make a habit of trying to shift/evade responsibility for their own decisio...

I am not a fan of Netanyahu and what he's turned Israel into in his desperate quest to cling to power and avoid jail. That said, the more I look at Hamas, the less I understand how anyone with a firing synapse could possibly sympathize with this particular organization. With Palestinian people, yes,...

So when you first mentioned it I was intimidated but then, watching the video, I've decided it looks like tons of fun and a great exercise in spatial reasoning. Which I happen to be good at (even by the standards of my peers). As for the quiz itself, eh. I can force myself into pretty much any type ...

The Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip includes sea access. Israel maintains the current naval blockade that has been in place since Hamas took power over Gaza and the blockade is supported by the Palestinian Authority ( source , the bit about the PA was news to me). The ICRC considers ...