mike luckovich @mluckovichajc
(4:14 PM ET · Nov 20, 2024):

Kaye Ballard (1925-2019) would have been 99 today.

If you'd like to celebrate, Tubi has a great documentary packed w/ vintage clips and familiar faces.

It's a delightful tribute to a singular talent who deserves to be remembered.

https://tubitv.com/movies/694624/kaye-ballard-the-show-goes-on

#ClassicTV #KayeBallard

https://youtu.be/-g4UWvcZn5U

John Cleese @JohnCleese
(3:59 PM ET · Nov 19, 2024):

"I read that many of the people who voted for Trump have explained that their decision was a 'no-brainer'

I admit I had been wondering...."

#Resist #Resistance

🤔

The fire -
Rene Magritte
#art Wikiart

Grand Turk Island, known as "The Wall", where the ocean floor drops directly to more than 2 thousand meters, just a few steps from the beach shore.

In college, there was an idiotic thing that "intellectuals" would do, where they'd take outrageous positions, and then, like modern-day Sophists, they'd "defend" them.
Typically, it'd be something like "Slavery had good points" or "Hitler wasn't truly evil", or "Letting the poor die is good for Society
Those are today's Tech-Bro Oligarchs (e.g. Thiel, Musk) and they are using their $$$ to manipulate our government, to accomplish ends which are antithetical to our Founders.
#TechBroOligarchs

Don’t invite me to the party
Though we look, speak,
Live, die seemingly the same,
I am not one of you.

I will not fly the flag you fly,
Will not recite false pledges,
Will not be complicit
In the American lie.

Don’t invite me to the party;
I have always had a different plan:
To meet my friends & Thoreau
In our souls' beautiful woodlands.

#poetry

In the meantime, phrases I use instead of “R…..Ukraine war,” which is incorrect.

• Ukraine’s defense of the free world.
• Ukraine defense to save Europe from a hegemonic, genocidal attacker.
• Ukraine ‘s defense against a 21st-century hyper-genocide.
• Ukraine’s defense of its culture, language, sovereignty, and legal borders.
• Ukraine ‘s defense for its survival and that of every free nation, against brutal hybrid war by its lawless neighbor.
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