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Cake day: January 1st, 2024

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  • American voters do seem to have very short memories.

    Even faced with actual data that indicates that the economy has consistently performed better under Democrats over the past 75 years, they still pretend that the party of the oligarchs is somehow going to solve the problems of the working class.

    Donald Trump is very open about his own anti-labor policies as an employer, yet the very people who hate being screwed over by their bosses worship him.

    I don’t understand how anyone can function with this level of cognitive dissonance.



  • I don’t see any recommendations for The Lost Boys yet. It’s super '80s in the “both Coreys” way. It’s dated, but still a lot of fun.

    Prince of Darkness is a guilty pleasure for me. I love religious horror, so it’s my favorite John Carpenter movie. There are some fairly violent bits, but it’s not overly gory like a slasher flick. If you’re okay with The Thing, this one should be fine.

    The Endless is also religious horror, but it’s more psychological. There’s not much violence, but it’s very tense.

    Little Monsters (the 2019 one) is a heartwarming comedy about a teacher who has to protect her class from a zombie apocalypse during a field trip. It’s got a moderate amount of zombie-movie gore, but it’s treated in a humorous way. If you’re okay with Shaun of the Dead, it should be fine.









  • It has taken the better part of 50 years to get from there to here. I wouldn’t say it was easy.

    The evangelical bloc was the hardest to convince. They had to get some capitalist representation in the churches to counteract all of that business about “helping the poor” and “blessed be the meek” that Jesus was always going on about.

    Once they got Joel Osteen to convince millions of viewers that Jesus wanted them to be rich, that really clinched it for them.




  • Teacher here. I consider all of the teachers I’ve worked with, and I consider how few of them I would trust with a loaded firearm under the best possible circumstances (maybe 10 percent).

    Then I consider the number of those who would actually consider using a firearm (down to about 3 percent).

    And then I consider how many of those I would trust with a firearm in a room full of students… and it’s zero.

    I finally just avoided the problem by moving to a country where civilians are not generally allowed to own guns and school shootings are not a problem.