So I guess the Republicans really don't want to see the Epstein files that they talked about for years after all, huh?

Wonder why.

The word "Protection" is disposable in the MAGA EPA.

Good Lord, he's such a shallow weirdo.

I remember seeing ads many years ago for Casablancas, Elite, and maybe the others in my local newspaper, calling for models. I just assumed they were legitimate.

I happily made a large (for me) contribution to my local NPR affiliate yesterday, when they went on the air saying that they needed to raise money immediately just to continue operating after $376,000 was unceremoniously snatched back by the Trumpers.

Since I live in a sizable city with a thriving arts scene, I'm not too worried about making up for the loss of public funding for radio or television here. Part of me says good riddance to government dollars. The right has been whining about it for decades. I do worry about small towns and college-affiliated public stations, however. I'm sure some stations will have to close up shop.

All because the Trumpers' need to control the message. Funny, since the same people never shut up about "free speech."

You can go too far with the pro-Russia stuff.

#25 | POSTED BY TWINPAC AT 2025-07-19 03:11 PM | REPLY

Don't stop now, cholesterol!

The spineless poosies in Congress capitulated to the orange-mud bully and allowed him to rescind the allocations they had already made. Entirely because he doesn't want any form of media that doesn't fall in line with his propaganda.

Even if I were to accept the argument that NPR's news programs are liberal, which I do not, news is only a small fraction of the programming on NPR. Last night, for example, I was listening to the excellent show, "On Point," and there was a guest who goes around the world recording the sounds of nature. He was in an Amazon rainforest, where he had captured the different frequency lanes, as he called them, of the various insects and frogs. It was quite lovely. A man who respects the complexities of the world around us. We need more of that, not less.

Wow, sure hope the old d-bag doesn't keel over soon.

POSTED BY IDEPENDANT97

It's pretty fun, ain't it?

Colbert gutted and wore the corpse of Late Show until the smell forced its burial.

#23 | POSTED BY VISITOR_ AT 2025-07-19 04:06 AM | FLAG:

I guess the problem is that Colbert just wasn't "conservative" enough, huh? Those darn comedians, never "conservative" enough for ol' Vizzy.

Maybe Trump should choose the replacement, like he's trying to do at the Kennedy Center. He could bring in a "conservative" like Gutfeld. You probably think Gutfeld's funny.

But see, he feels personal animus toward Powell, who doesn't bow down to him like every other puss. Retribution against Powell is more important than boring things like the currency and the bond market.

So the world's top conspiracy lunatic wants us all to stop asking about the conspiracy he ginned up now that it's biting his bigly hind end. Got it.

"Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2025-07-15 09:31 PM

Trump has taught people like them to believe that it's cool to be an -----.

You know what, though? It really isn't cool.

AM Radio was already for old people when I was a kid. Now FM Radio is for old people too.

#48 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2025-07-08 06:13 PM | FLAG:

Absolutely, at least from a commercial perspective. However, public radio can still be interesting. We've got a fantastic public radio station here in Louisville that plays an amazing mix of old and new "alternative" music. There's also a radio station run by high school students across the river in New Albany, Indiana, that's pretty fun, as well as a low-wattage nonprofit station that has some cool programming.

I wonder if the Supreme Court would let the orange pig fire them.

The wacko conspiracy theorists who think this is the result of geoengineering from "chemtrails" are also claiming the fancy new radars in use all around the country are being used as weather weapons. The National Weather Service has received threats of violence from a group called "veterans on patrol." Don't know if this is connected but a vandal knocked an Oklahoma City TV radar offline on Sunday night.

I guess Ozzy ain't really Iron Man after all. He's lucky he's still among the living!

I remember as a kid hearing Sabbath on AM radio. And Led Zeppelin, and Free, and all kinds of stuff that Top 40 would never touch today. Yes, there were far fewer choices for music in the 1970s. No Spotify, YouTube, SiriusXM or bandcamp. But what radio and TV options we had tended to carry artists from all across the a musical spectrum.

Sure, you had to sit through some lousy songs about afternoon delight and convoys, but it was pretty cool being exposed to that stylistic range. example, I discovered reggae because of Desmond Dekker's The Israelites. I could hear the marvelous voice of Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield. I heard the early days of power pop from Badfinger. I got to hear the gritty sound of real country, not that phony cowboy pop you hear now. All that great soul on the Motown and Stax labels, the folk artists, the one-hit wonders ... I ate it all up. And I still listen to it all and a lot more, old and new, every day.

I know I sound like grandpa rambling, but if you weren't around in those days, you really missed the peak of music radio. Don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of great music being made by new artists today, and I love being able to track down stuff online and create my own playlists. But something about top 40, and the way it forced you to hear more of a mix, made it special, more of a unifying social and cultural force.

Cross-examination, anything further of this witness?

Yes, Your Honor, thank you.

Just one more question, Ms. Bondi. Back in February, you said you had a long list of Mr. Epstein's clients. Yet today you say there is no such thing. My question to you, ma'am, is, were you lying then or are you lying now?

(Dramatic music)

Oh, I know. Let's charge foreigners more to get into our national parks. That will show them we're the boss ...

#5 | POSTED BY CATDOG AT 2025-07-06 11:00 AM

I was just going to say this.

There's a meme going around of a bunch of folks standing on a cliff. There's a bell hanging over the open expanse, and a sign that says, "Ring bell to piss off liberals." The fools are waiting to jump off the cliff to ring it, thereby falling to their deaths.

There's no more dangerous or powerful exponent of an authoritarian technocracy than Peter Thiel. Palantir shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government data.

Like his ideological pal Curtis Yarvin, Thiel is a radical extremist, a raving madman who wants to upend democracy and put government in the hands of tech-business executives. Thiel is quite literally an enemy of the United States. Go ahead, do your own research.

I'm tired of trying to convince people that the Trump approach to governance is intentionally designed to make life more onerous for all but the privileged few. Apparently the only way to get MAGA Repubs to care about the cruelty being perpetrated every day by the party they claim to love is to experience the cruelty firsthand. So be it.

FDT

I don't have it in me to make a snarky remark about this tragedy, and I think doing so is insensitive at best. Dozens of kids were killed by an unusually violent and unpredictable flash flood, and many others were traumatized. As a father, I can only imagine what those parents are going through. Camp staff too. Horrific.

I always liked, "Mao se what?".
#7 | POSTED BY CORKY

I was wondering if he was daddy's boy Mao.

But he doesn't seem to have that angry at the world for no reason streak.

#11 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-07-01 07:37 PM | REPLY | FLAG

I was kind of thinking that too, JPW. Scotts is filled with anger and bitterness, like all MAGA dudes are, but Mao's rage was usually right there on the surface, boiling, with a threat of violence never far away. Of course he could be simply trying to contain himself these days so he doesn't have a heart attack, but it seems unlikely.