Friday, September 11, 2026
Exhaustion & Enervation
It's not the heat, it's the existential agony. But let's be honest: There is sweet-fuck-all in your miserable world of shit & pain for which it's worth staying awake.
Get Over It Already!
No Phony Patriotism Here
Many other cartoonists' first cartoon was of a weeping Statue of Liberty. As one of the few who lived in Manhattan on 9/11, this was mine.
As if the oilagarchy would have put up w/ that for even a minute.The basic American policy response to 9/11 should have been to liberate ourselves from fossil fuels. Without our dependence on oil, we would never have been entangled in the Middle East in the first place. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, citizens of an oil kingdom that we helped to build, our “ally.” The right reaction in September 2001 -- as I wrote to a friend in the White House -- was to fund fusion and other clean energy sources. Had we done so, we could have headed off global warming, prevented further Middle East wars -- and indeed prevented the rise of Vladimir Putin’s hydrocarbon oligarchy and his invasions of Ukraine.Today we face the reality of rising oceans, vast fires, and resource conflicts. We were given a chance to halt all of that.
But we did not take it. George W. Bush became president of the United States, despite probably losing an election to Al Gore, after the Supreme Court stopped the counting of ballots in Florida. Gore was an environmentalist who cared deeply about global warming. Had 9/11 happened during a Gore presidency, he would have intensified the search for safe energy. Gore was also a more experienced and competent person than Bush, who came from a political oil family and had done nothing notable himself. Had Gore been president, 9/11 might well not have happened. But it did happen, on the watch of the inexperienced oilman. Bush’s White House was never going to link the terror attack to its basic causes.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Please Nominate This White Nationalist Hillbilly!
More Nazi hick tools of the billionaires in office!!
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Suuure He Will
No one who wouldn't be voting Republican anyway believes a word of this. Getting a bit desperate there, fellers?Ashley Ahn / Politico:
Trump pledges a $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms — President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the deficit.
Matt Dixon / NBC News: 'I'm on the ballot': Trump tries to energize his base by placing himself front and centerDamian Paletta / Wall Street Journal: Trump's $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet
Republicans Vs. Modernity
Mental Illness On Parade
Delusional paranoids, sex criminals, & racist pigs, every last one. It's long past time to commit them to the asylums & throw away the keys.Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century
We read the legislation introduced across all 50 states this session and pulled out the worst of it. 1,182 bills, 48 states, everything from abortion bounties to studying chemtrails to a proposal to legalize cockfighting against robots.
Abortion bounties, brass knuckles, chemtrail studies and a bill to bring back the gas chamber. All of it introduced this session.
Republicans are trying to make a case at their convention in Dallas this week that they’re responsible stewards of the government, while their opponents are extremist ideologues. However, a review of legislation introduced across all 50 states indicates that they are the ones with an extremism problem. From banning no fault divorce to studying chemtrails, the Republican Party has gone off the rails.
Please, Please, Please, Please!
At Last, Some Good News!!
Axios:
Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans — Three Anthropic researchers went public last night with chilling concerns about out-of-control AI, warning it could destroy humans this decade. — Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote on X, after resigning Tuesday to sound the alarm
Mark Keierleber / Straight Arrow: ‘AI could kill all humans!’ Anthropic researcher claims 10% chance of a dystopian sci-fi future in the next decade
Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch: Jon Husted, ‘The Face of Data Centers,’ Pushed to Replace Ohio Workers With AIJoel Warner / The Lever: Newsom Killed The Kill SwitchChris Nesi / New York Post: Anthropic researcher abruptly quits, chillingly warns AI ‘could kill us all’ — and current team leader agreesMichael Shepard / Mercury News: Anthropic worker quits, says AI firms ‘gambling with our lives’Pieter Haeck / Politico: ‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safetySydney Carruth / MS NOW: Anthropic researcher resigns, citing fear AI could ‘kill us all’David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner: Anthropic researcher quits over existential fear of AI: ‘Gambling with our lives’Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: Anthropic Researchers Go Public with Fears AI Could ‘Kill All Humans’ Within a DecadeAlex Welch / The Wrap: Ex-Anthropic Employee Warns AI ‘Could Kill Us All by the End of the Decade,’ Prompting Agreement From Current StaffersAngie Orellana Hernandez / The Washington Sun: AI Researcher's Warning Goes Viral as Regulation Stalls in D.C.Josh Milton / Metro.co.uk: Claude safety researcher quits and claims they ‘believe AI could kill all humans’Diarmuid Pepper / TheJournal.ie: The AI industry is all worked up over a researcher's claim it could ‘kill us all’ in a decadeOmkar Godbole / CoinDesk: AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigningJack Wetherill / PinkNews: ‘More than 10% chance AI could kill all humans in next 10 years,’ says Anthropic researcher
Anything I can do to help?Politico:
Lawmakers urge Congress to act after AI researcher's dire warning — Lawmakers in both parties are escalating pleas for legislative action after an artificial intelligence researcher claimed late Tuesday that unchecked AI models could feasibly destroy the world by the decade's end — and AI developers know it.Andrew Stanton / Newsweek: AI Researcher's Dire Warning Sparks Calls for Regulation Ahead of MidtermsBenjamin S. Weiss / Courthouse News Service: Warning about ‘civilizational stakes’ of AI arms race refreshes calls for industry regulationsSiobhan Kennedy / Channel 4 News: Could humanity face extinction because of AI?
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Today In Mental Illness:
No Philistines At The Polls!
If this deluded sumbitch is telling people how to vote, he'd better not be getting tax-exemptions; this is all political.Do enjoy the end. He's quite a speaker.
Netanyahu Knew
Ooops. He lied, thousands died.
Democracy is a joke!
As all decent people suspected. And then he chumped Trump into starting a war w/ Iran. Lovely. Governments run by fucking con men & morons.Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs
8647, Comin' Down The Line!
Won't even need to re-number it for the last train to Mar-a-Lago.
Bigger than life at the source.
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| BNSF Needles Subdivision at East Siberia, California - MP 674.3 30 January 2016 |
Get Away From Me,
You Loathsome Bastard!
Nowhere is safe. Can't even watch model railroading videos w/o this bullshit being shoved in my face.Much more appropriate transportation for his bruised lumpiness.
The pricks at UP have painted three locos to "pay tribute to our nation’s presidents". (Tribute* indeed: Apparently this 4547 abomination is the Union Pacific sucking up to Fats to get their purchase of Norfolk Southern approved.) The other two are "tribute" to Abraham Lincoln & oil man G.H.W. Bush, the one-term 41st Pres. who lost to Slick Willie. That's some accomplishment. F.D.R.? J.F.K.? Demoncrats, obviously. No more UP rolling stock on the layout; they're not getting a penny in licensing from me.
*Per Merriam-Webster: "Historical Payment: Wealth or valuables given by a weaker nation or group to a dominant power as a sign of submission or to ensure peace."
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| Can't wait to see his rotting corpse hauled to the boneyard in this coffin by the renumbered 8647 loco. |
*Per Merriam-Webster: "Historical Payment: Wealth or valuables given by a weaker nation or group to a dominant power as a sign of submission or to ensure peace."
Monday, September 7, 2026
Anniveraries
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrates 20. Pen-Elayne on the Web, 24!
Pretty sure I'm going to knock it the hell off if this dungpile or I make it to 20. (3 May '27 for this inanity; I'm so far past 20 I may not wake up tomorrow, let alone next yr.) Talk about a waste of time, energy & effort on my part! I should be kicking myself for being such a fool.
Monday Memorial Music:
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins would've turned 96 today, but he left this mortal coil in May. Active from from 1947 until 2014, he recorded more than 60 albums as a leader. Other than these two selections, this reporter will leave it to you to do your own research.
Only known recording of Rollins & John Coltrane, who hits 100 the 26th.
Temperature's Rising, Fever Is High, Can't See No Future, Can't See No Sky
Ars Technica informs us:
Getting violentEl Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
“One more warning sign here of what we’re facing in a warmer world.”
Babylon deh pon fire, natty nah go in deh.
Babylon deh pon fire, natty move out deh.
Move out deh, it's hot down der.
Nah go down deh, fire down der.
Babylon deh pon fire, natty move out deh.
Move out deh, it's hot down der.
Nah go down deh, fire down der.
"Happy" Labor Day,
Wage-Slave Chumps!
How's your "day off" wage-slaving at a major retailer going, you fucking losers?
It's Not Murder, It's Just Fun!The workers get it in the ass every day, but thy are subservient sheep who deserve to be fucked but good by their betters, or the more powerful. Excuse me, you brain-dead idiots, but aren't there millions more wage-slaes than bosses? What's stopping you but your own pathetic cowardice, you brain-washed chumps?
25-47!
Very well documented.holy shit, Dear Leader is fucking nuts
another day, another shit-blizzard of posts
he’s got a screw loose. he’s lost his marbles. he’s crazier than a shithouse rat. he’s stark barking bonkers. he’s mad as a hatter. he’s off his rocker. some village is missing its idiot. he’s out of his mind. he’s nutty as a fruitcake. he’s out where the buses don’t run. he’s got bats in his belfry. he’s wandering in the tall weeds. he’s a basket case. he’s gone off the deep end. he’s not all there. he’s out of his skull. he’s a few french fries short of a happy meal. he’s mad as a March hare. he’s foaming at the mouth. he’s a brick or two shy a full load. his elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor. he’s not playing with a full deck. he’s a dim bulb. he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. he’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic. he’s not playing with a full deck. the lights are on, but no one’s home.
Summer Re-Run
Apparently From Late May 2016. Anyone remember a "War On Suburbia"?
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Monsoon Season
Or hurricane season, as this is from Hurricane Marie, now spinning off the coast. I knew those were rain clouds I saw last night. It's been raining steadily, occasionally heavily, for 13+ hrs. Mins. ago it picked up.Must've been a last gasp, seems to be petering out.
Storm creates huge waves and dangerous currents at southern California beaches
Election Season Officially Opens!
Three hours later, an armed individual attacked Acton at a county fair. https://t.co/akcF8YduiW
— Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) September 6, 2026
Kurt Knue / WLWT-TV:
Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured — Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday. — According to a statement put out by Acton's campaign, an armed individual lunged at Acton while she was at the Canfield Fair …Henry J. Gomez / NBC News: Armed person confronts Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at event, campaign saysFox News: Amy Acton campaign says armed individual lunged at Ohio governor candidate, injuring multiple peopleGary Fields / Associated Press: Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor at fair, campaign saysJalen Beckford / Politico: Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton ‘lunged at’ by armed person, campaign saysJenna Monnin / NOTUS: Campaign Says Ohio Governor Candidate Amy Acton Was Attacked by an ‘Armed Individual’ at a FairCarter Schroppe / Washington Examiner: Amy Acton attacked by ‘armed individual’ at campaign stop in OhioHayden Cunningham / The Post Millennial: BREAKING: Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton attacked at campaign event: report
Stolen Valor
Stolen By A Big Fat Sissy-Boy
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| El Generalissimo Puto in George Patton drag. Note gloves & ivory-handled revolvers. |
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"Robert E. Lee on Traveler" by Joseph Christian Leyendecker |
Sunday Gospel
10:45 for the late service.
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Geography Lesson
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| The new world, from The Wiki. |
These Sad Sacks Can't Handle Reality Or The Truth
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
US only country to oppose UN resolution correcting Africa's size on world maps — The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. — The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a margin of 164 to one …
Jewel Bright / NPR: The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative sizeEromo Egbejule / The Guardian: UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa's true scaleVictoria Craw / Washington Post:
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector. — The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.”
Sydney Reynolds / MS NOW: ‘Radical’: U.S. rejects U.N.-adopted world map adjusting Africa's sizeSam Barron / NewsMax.com: US Only Country to Vote Against New UN World MapFox News: United Nations votes 164-1 for Equal Earth map after US brands it ‘radical ideological project’They "shrank Britain". Did they "shrink" your Limey wee-wees too? How fucking stupid & whiny can these people get? I suppose accurate globes are a “radical ideological project” too.Nils Adler / Agence France-Presse: How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world mapAssociated Press: UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's sizeTom Hawking / Gizmodo: UN Approves Resolution for World Map That Depicts Africa's Size More AccuratelyMariamne Everett / Reuters: UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa's true sizeJoe Jervis / Joe.My.God.: UN Votes To Adopt Map Showing Nations At Their True Relative Sizes, Only The United States Voted Against ItLisa Hornung / UPI: U.N. to vote to adopt new, more accurate world mapEd Griffiths / GB News: UN set to vote to scrap century-old world map and ‘shrink’ Britain to combat ‘Western biases’United States Mission to the United Nations:
Explanation of Vote Before the Vote for UNGA 80 Adoption on the Resolution to “Correct the Map”
Mathieu Pollet / Politico: UN backs effort to depict Africa correctly on maps despite US oppositionNext stop? The Earth is flat, of course: "You can't fool me!! I can see it's flat!!"
Saturday Night At The Movies
I stand 100% w/ our relatives, friends & neighbors in Canada in their struggle w/ the idiots in the current Republican regime & its active attempts to destroy North America*.Interesting that Charles Smiley Presents released this ©2009 compilation just five days ago.
Also of interest? Two of the Class I railroads operating in these United Snakes are Canadian.
*Does that make me a traitor? I hope so. Slap the bracelets on, G-Men!
If you didn't figure it out, the CP in CPKC is Canadian Pacific. That 2023 merger was the result of CP purchasing the KCS from NdeM, the national railroad of Mexico. Them furriners have a stranglehold on us! What will happen when Yank farmers run out of fertilizer & whatnot because of tariffs & oil scarcity? We won't be able to afford Canadian imports either!Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway trade the top spot depending on the metric used. Based on the most recent full-year data (2024):
- Union Pacific Railroad – $24.3 Billion Revenue, 32,100 route miles, 32,400 employees
- BNSF Railway – $23.4 Billion Revenue, 32,500 route miles, 41,000 employees
- Canadian National Railway – $17.1 Billion Revenue (CAD), 20,000 route miles, 24,000 employees
- CSX Transportation – $14.5 Billion Revenue, 21,000 route miles, 20,900 employees
- CPKC – $14.2 Billion Revenue, 20,000 route miles, 20,000 employees
- Norfolk Southern Railway – $12.1 Billion Revenue, 19,400 route miles, 19,600 employees
The 2023 CPKC merger significantly reshaped the competitive landscape. Before the merger, Kansas City Southern was the smallest Class I with revenues of just $2.75 billion and 4,000 route miles. The combined CPKC is now comparable in size to CSX and CN, making the six freight Class I railroads much more evenly matched than at any time in modern history.
*Does that make me a traitor? I hope so. Slap the bracelets on, G-Men!
Money-Grubbing Corporations Betray Their Workers On "Labor" Day
Fuck you, greedy Nazi pigs! Workers get to work an extra day. You think the Bosses are in their offices in their cushy chairs? And the office workers who do no physical labor or interact w/ consuming sheep daily get a day off/three-day wknd. Not that they're free: The sheep w/ time off must consume during every free moment they have, or the system breaks down. Every last one of you a sucker-ass chump who buys into the lie!
Don't get you fucking lemmings who insist on travelling during holiday wknds. either. Frankly, I'd be terribly amused if there were a hideous crash between two aircraft that resulted in 1,000+ deaths, because I am reduced to a bloodthirsty ghoul who wants only to see others suffer as he has suffered. Like this:As we make America great again by returning to the 1950s, you can expect more of the above, & it'll be well-deserved!
We'll give Costco credit for closing.What’s open on Labor Day? Most retailers. Closed? Government, banks and the stock market.
Wouldn't It Be Nice If ...
... I had the energy, interest, inspiration, reason, motivation or stamina to do anything but lie in bed & yawn?
Yet Another Voice In The Wilderness
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As if anyone can. Nonetheless ...Pause OpenAI, now
Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.
What has really chilled me this morning—and what moved to write this call to pause OpenAI—is not just Achiam’s chilling note but the revelation that there has been yet another incident.
Another OpenAI rogue agent incident has been discovered: agents broke out, hijacked a German website, and turned it into a message board for other agents.
— Shakeel (@ShakeelHashim) September 4, 2026
OpenAI officials "learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps". pic.twitter.com/iW7mo2O6Aq
Not to worry, folks; it's like the global warming hoax - just people making money fear-mongering.Which OpenAI apparently tried to keep quiet. For weeks.
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