Oh, for heaven's sake! Elon Musk's post makes him look like a fucking looney-tunes right-wing moron. Adolf Hitler rose to power because non-Nazi conservatives such as Ludwig Kaas foolishly thought the Nazi Party to be the more rational alternative to the Socialists. It was the mother of bad calls.

From a young age, I had everybody wondering what I was thinking. And back then, I was thinking what our country might be like 60 years hence under the oppressive rule of corrupt white oligarchs who treated the public domain as their own private reserve and made the rest of us pay to simply exist. 😲

To be honest, Israel lost its moral compass in Nov. 1995 when Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin was shot and killed in Tel Aviv by one of then-opposition leader Bibi Netanyahu's far-right acolytes. Rabin's peace initiative with the Palestinians' Yasser Arafat collapsed, just as Netanyahu intended.

And tonight, Republican primary voters in Tennessee's 5th House District have determined that MAGA Rep. Andy Ogles really has no business being in Congress. 😎

Thought for the Day: "If it's true that mankind is alone in the universe, then the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." - George Carlin (1937-2008), comedian and social critic

By most any rational measure, Rod Liddle was a racist, xenophobe and misogynist. He certainly never tried to hide it. Expecting a show of feigned sorrow or decorum from people who opposed what he was and stood for is a fool's errand. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

Maybe FCC Chair Brendan Carr should investigate the Murdochs for directing / allowing Fox News to pollute our nation's airwaves with this baseless horseshit.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), on why he waited so long to call for the resignation of his former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who allegedly abused his daughter and granddaughter physically: "It's all Dr. Anthony Fauci's fault, that motherfucking old wop." 😲

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th president of the United States

I was rather surprised to learn that Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, an ardent nationalist who's kept a fairly low profile since her estranged husband Peter Murrell's conviction and imprisonment for embezzlement and fraud, now lives in London. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

What I said yesterday still stands.

What Bonny Lee Bakley did is a matter of public record. Eager to marry Robert Blake and against the advice of her attorney, she signed a temporary custody agreement as a condition of their marriage, which stipulated if either spouse opted to end the marriage, the other would retain custody of Rose.

Heh. "Experts" - at what, exactly? 🙄

HERO: Ryder Williams, a 16-year-old rookie lifeguard with the California State Parks system, plunged into violent shore break at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz on Saturday to rescue a young boy who had been swept off his feet by a large rogue wave. (Photo by Scott Vander Dussen | Santa Cruz Now)

A petition calling for Mamdani – who is Muslim – to stay away from the 25th remembrance ceremony of the attacks had gathered more than 24,000 signatures as of this morning. However, organizers admitted that they have no idea how many 9/11 survivors signed. The NY Post should retract this story. /F

Curses! The Deep State again! This is all Haile Salaisee's fault. If only our grandparents and great-grandparents had listened to Benito Mussolini, Somalia could've been pacified and "Black Hawk Down" would've been a work of fiction.

Elon Musk: "Whites are a rapidly dying minority." 🙄 (Some inconvenient) FACTS: U.S. White population in 1950: 134.9 million (out of 150.6 million) U.S. White population in 2020: 204.3 million (out of 331.4 million) It's a mistake to equate wealth with knowledge, intelligence and common sense.

Alaska Air Group, Inc. announced today that Hawaiian Airlines' aging fleet of B717 aircraft, which have flown Hawaii skies for well over 20 years, will be retired and replaced with rebranded Alaska Airlines B737-800 aircraft that will also greatly increase interisland passenger and cargo capacity.

Just as so many people feared he would, President Donald Trump tried yesterday to make Spain's triumphal World Cup moment — the traditional raising of the trophy — all about him. It's too bad FIFA President Gianni Infantino didn't use a giant hook to corral and hustle him off the stage.

FINAL, FIFA Men's World Cup Championship - East Rutherford, NJ Spain 1, Argentina 0 (ET) As Spain's suffocating defense put a hammerlock on Argentina, La Roja's Ferran Torres finally broke a scoreless deadlock at 105:37 in extra time.

42 years ago on July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale shattered a glass ceiling for women by nominating Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY) as his vice-presidential running mate at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.

Trump's White House has an eerie Graceland vibe to it. 😲

If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, you can't afford to own and operate a restaurant.

"Halcyonity is relative." LOL.

Aerial Zen: The old plantation town of Hilo, Hawaii as seen from Hawaiian Airlines Flt. 362, on an early evening short final approach into Hilo Airport. (Photos taken on May 4, 2015.)

I've been enjoying Hilo, Hawaii.

ISW: "Ukraine’s long- and intermediate-range strike campaigns against Russian energy and logistics infrastructure in Russia and occupied Ukraine are causing significant effects on the Russian economy and impacting Russia’s ability to sustain its frontline military efforts."

Perhaps the most vexing of Russia's recent difficulties in its war with Ukraine has been the loss of control over its own airspace. Yesterday, Ukrainian drones struck the country's largest oil refinery complex in Omsk, which is about 1,700 miles to the east of Ukraine.

I admit that I've never been a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor as an actress. But her scorching Oscar-winning turn as the boozy, foul-mouthed and vulnerable Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (Mike Nichols, dir., 1966) is a reason why people go to the movies. www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/0...