This is not a blog.
It’s a website populated by fictional characters, whose writing should not be taken as expressing the opinion of any real person, company or organization.
It’s a work of entertainment. If you’re not entertained, read something else.
Even when the author of a post is a real person, fact and fiction are intermingled, and are not always clearly labeled, so don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure it out.
She’s right. She’s from Turkey. I guess it takes an external perspective.
People graduate from college with immense amounts of student debt. There are subjects you can study that won’t leave you in debt but many people won’t do that They want a four-year degree in music theory.
Then they buy designer shoes and other things they don’t need and can’t afford on credit cards and pay 100 times the cost of the merchandise. in interest, and then the only fix is to tear down the whole government. It’s the fault of billionaires and capitalism that some jackass let them sign a lease for a Range Rover.
People should have to pass an IQ test to get access to credit.
Also, I see in the comments that a lot of people have internalized an essential component of staying broke: Blame everything but yourself.
A seascape, Le Bateau, by Henri Matisse, was once hung upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and left that way for a month and a half.
116,000 viewers strolled past the upside-down Matisse before it was rehung correctly.
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. It probably does . . . it just passes unremarked if the artist isn’t as famous as Matisse. I’ve seen paintings in some of our country’s finest museums consisting of nothing but a square canvas painted a single color. Who’s to say how many times they’ve been accidentally hung upside-down or sideways?
Try this next time you’re at an art museum. Check out the “modern” or “abstract” art and ask yourself for each piece, “Could this be hung upside down without anyone noticing the difference?” I don’t mean that the painting would look exactly the same upside down, I mean it would make as much sense upside down.
You couldn’t hang a still life, for example, upside down. It would be filled with objects defying the law of gravity. But why couldn’t you hang a Jackson Pollock upside down?
The creator, as you can see in the photo below, is not only transgender, but has no arms and no legs.
My question, because I’m not a biologist, is can the creator have two arms and two legs if he/she/ze/they identifies as having two arms and two legs?
ADHD diagnoses often come after teacher complaints about sitting still, finishing work, or disrupting class, not after a careful differential that rules out sleep debt, anxiety, trauma, language problems, or a classroom that expects six-year-olds to do seatwork for long stretches. Once the label is on the chart, a stimulant is the default next step. Methylphenidate and amphetamines work quickly, so the classroom gets quieter and the parent gets relief. That feedback loop does not require the drug to be fixing a discrete brain disease.
DSM criteria were written around childhood impairment, then expanded; adult diagnosis grew even faster once “executive dysfunction” became a popular self-description. Someone who was called smart-but-lazy built coping habits, and later maps the old friction onto a medical term they first heard at 34.
There is a diagnostic and prescribing system, especially for boys who annoy adults, and a cultural script that now invites adults to reinterpret old difficulties as undiagnosed disability.
I was in the Singapore Airlines lounge at the Bangkok airport . . . there was a small placard at the bar advertising two Specialty Drinks: a white wine cocktail and a red wine cocktail.
I asked one of the two women behind the bar, “Which one of these do you recommend?”
“The red one,” she said.
The other woman then weighed in to say, “The red is more (some word I didn’t catch) and the white is more refreshing.”
“I recommend the red,” the first woman said.
There’s some kind of persuasion lesson here. Don’t give people too much to think about? I just wanted a drink that at least one person in a position to know thinks is better.
Granted, I didn’t fully understand what the second woman said but what if she’d said “fruity” or “stimulating” and I wanted something both fruity and refreshing, or I wanted to be refreshed and stimulated at the same time? Now I’m right back where I started.
So I went with the red.
It seems like a weird award to even have.
Minnesota's "Outstanding Refugee" is also implicated in a sex trafficking ring. Imagine what the not-so-outstanding refugees are up to. https://t.co/qWNopeu41P
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) August 18, 2026
Despite a huge lead in polling (18-29 points), Francesca Hong lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin. 🙁
I haven’t seen socialists this upset since the Berlin Wall came down.
Other possibilities:
I haven’t seen socialists this upset…
…since their favorite coffee shop ran out of oat milk.
…since the USSR ran out of countries to invade.
…since Bernie Sanders had to pay full price for something.
…since the revolution was postponed until after brunch.
The incentives are all wrong. If you pay a group to find hate groups, they will find them . . . even if they have to fund the groups themselves.
“Look at all these hate groups we’re finding/funding. Keep those donations coming.”
On another note, if you’re in a white supremacist group, you better get used to fishing in the shallow end of the mating pool.
Below is a photo I just saw from a DSA meeting in Denver.
Pros (from a DSA perspective):
Cons:
I’m teaching a summer school class at a local high school and saw this sign in one of the teacher bathrooms.
There was no toilet paper anywhere in the bathroom but on this trip, I didn’t need any.
Picture if you will a person who does need toilet paper, notices there isn’t any, then sees the sign. Now you have to sit there and wait until Leo checks his email . . . if you’re lucky enough to already know Leo’s email.
And if we take the sign literally, BEFORE leaving the bathroom, I should have emailed Leo about the toilet paper.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Carl Jung
Until we are able to look at people who have come to radically different conclusions about the world and know that we are each other’s people, we are sunk. — Allie n Steve, The Chicago Reader
STOP THE PRESSES!
There are people surviving war, poverty, hunger, unimaginable loss, while others are sitting in comfort, breaking over things that are not even real problems.
Here's Joy Reid collapsing under the weight of normal life. https://t.co/tLWk6XkeJU via…
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) June 3, 2026
My mom looked me in the eyes and said:
“If you disappeared tomorrow, no one would even notice.”
Everyone laughed.
I raised my hot dog and said:
“Challenge accepted.”
That night, I packed two suitcases, left my key on the counter, and moved three hours away.
No note.
No goodbye.…— Hazel (@Hazel_qs) May 20, 2026
She did it AGAIN!! @Jennifersey just put together another video that has me in tears.
Wait for it.
Sound on.
They block these videos on other platforms bc they don’t want you seeing them. But you can see them here!! pic.twitter.com/0dwMxP9eCV
— Jennifer ?????????? ? (@babybeginner) April 13, 2026
I’m stretching “boyhood” a little here, but Bobby Cox had a long career. And my son was an Atlanta Braves fan growing up so now his boyhood sports icons are dying.
Cox managed the Atlanta Braves from 1978 to 1981, and then the Toronto Blue Jays from 1982 to 1985. He rejoined the Braves in 1986 as a general manager.
He moved back to the manager’s role during the 1990 season and stayed there until his retirement following the 2010 season. Cox led the Braves to 14 consecutive division championships from 1991 to 2005 (interrupted in 1994 when a strike ended the season early), which included a World Series title in 1995.
That 14 straight division title record is the most amazing thing to me. No other manager has won more than 6 division titles in their entire career.
Cox had 2,504 wins, fourth all-time among managers.
RIP Bobby Cox
Big gorilla at the LA zoo
Snatched the glasses right off my face
Took the keys to my BMW
Left me here to take his placeI wish the ape a lot of success
I’m sorry my apartment’s a mess
Most of all I’m sorry if I made you blue
I’m betting the gorilla will too
