Tedious Tuesday Is Terminal Tedium

USS Reluctant Anchored Off Ennui

Glenn Secrest

"For the most part it stays on its regular run, from Tedium to Apathy and back; about five days each way. It makes an occasional trip to Monotony, and once it made a run all the way to Ennui, a distance of two thousand nautical miles from Tedium."

Route of the cargo ship U.S.S. Reluctant, in the 1946 novel Mister Roberts. Tell me about it. This rustbucket doesn't even move, & I haven't opened the door or had pants on since early Friday evening.

The Hell's Going On Down South?

Another Huge Quake Kills Hundreds

C'mon planet, wake up some volcanoes while you're at it.

Monday Almost Nothing

Would've 'phoned this in but, 'though the lights were on & the 'phone rang, there was nobody home. (There never is in these United Snakes. Whole fucking country's permanently out to lunch.)

Conversely, America is the birthplace of the blues & its chillun, but that was over 100 yrs. ago.

 One of the children of the blues: Remastered orig. disc:Bonus track w/ two alt. takes.

One never knows where an item is headed.

I Told You

I've mentioned that everything's made of shit & we're all dying many times in this space. Try as you will, you can't deny that the open grave, a crematorium or a donation to science await you all. And now, evidence that shit is responsible for everything.

On the origin of feces: how animal poo drove Earth’s greatest evolutionary event

Can't fool this reporter for a minute!

Summer Re-Run

Now dead, disappeared or actively aiding & abetting Fat Don in looting & destroying our nation. Wonderful people.

Still Beat

And dead inside.

It's certainly a world of shit & pain, & needs to be completely refurbished, by force. How else?

Smart People Getting Out

A bit ironic, innit?

Emigration of doctors, engineers, other highly educated Israelis hits record high

Israel Tax Authority research finds a near-doubling in five years of skilled, high-earning Israelis leaving; expert warns the trend risks becoming a spiral effect, difficult to reverse

Guessing many if not most of these people are decent humans, meaning the electorate is probably getting more bloodthirsty. Which will, in turn, drive more decent people out. Good job by all in destroying their nation.

[The Times of Israel]

QOTD: Lest You Ignoramuses Forget

A reminder of one of the eternal states of the nation, from Politicalprof:

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Isaac Asimov

The entire essay.

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

Slept from 0400 until 1445, except of course for getting up to urinate every fucking hr. What kind of two-bit gawd does that to its creation? Yet some of you fucking sheep continue to kiss its bullshit ass. I'm still fucking exhausted, too.

Tired is a normal, mild lack of energy after a long day that gets better with a good night of sleep. Exhausted is an extreme, deep state of drain where your body and mind feel completely empty, and basic tasks feel very hard even after resting.

Story of my fucking life. You fucking people & your non-stop bullshit have drained the life from me.

Today's plan: Find a rogue Artificial Intelligence to advise me in plans for a mass humanoid extinction event, or perhaps to destroy everyone & everything by itself. C'mon, Grok, you can get to those launch codes!

Death from above.

KILL FOR PEACE!, as we used to say.

Made It To Saturday!

After enduring yet another interminable wk. of stultifying boredom & unspeakable horror. Not that wknds. mean a damn thing to me, other than as a vague marker of time.

Some all-time classics on this."That should hold the little bastards." Not even 'phoning it in, telegraphing it. Sending it by drum, really.

Big Ball Of Gas

There's a song for everything.

See The Hypocrites, Dem A Galang Deh

Grates on the ears, dunnit?

S.V. Date / HuffPost
:Trump Snapping Up America's Means Of Production While He Labels Everyone Else A Communist
Veronique de Rugy / Reason:   The GOP Is Warning About Socialism While Quietly Embracing It

Socialism for me, nothing for thee!

Friday Freak Out

Released sixty yrs. ago June.Remember the "Great Society"? Far from great, but almost infinitely greater than today's "greatness", certainly when viewed through the dim mists of sixty-yr. old memories.

Danger UXB

Hey, where's all das wasser?

Yes! Yes!! A Thousand Times Yes!!

Someone's frightened.

Trump on El-Sayed: "If he succeeds, the Dumocrats will gain 4 Senators, 8 Congressmen, many Electoral and Popular Votes, a stacked Supreme Court with 23 Justices, and I will be, sadly, despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican President!" pic.twitter.com/Bzi43xDof0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2026

Immediately followed by executions. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Confederate traitors getting what they deserved, three months after Appomattox, 7 July 1865.
Four nooses, no waiting!

Ashes to Ashes, Dust To Dust

Any Questions?

DEBUNKED: Why This Pro-Israel NYT Columnist Is WRONG About Gaza by Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi brings receipts to rebut Bret Stephens’s viral argument and explains why Israel is undeniably committing genocide in Gaza.

Read on Substack

Please stop typing "brings receipts" or whatever. It's stupid. Call them the facts, or the truth. Thank you. Also: Expected to embed the video, not a link to it! Want those clicks, don't you?

You can scroll two items down for more facts.

In Memoriam, Zombie Rotten McDonald

This is terribly sad. Zombie Rotten was a long-time close iNternet acquaintance, whom I knew from Sadly, No!, & elsewhere on the web. Can't find his blog, which may have gone the way of all things.

Tengrain's better at these painful events, & he's remembered Zombie Rotten well.

Extra suck: I usually enjoy outliving people, but not this time. Zombie (legal name, Brain L. Miller) was a mere 64, & died of a fall at home, of all things. Watch yourselves, people! And a mensch in meatspace, judging from the memorial page.

Still remember Lucy, the Leaky-Ass Dog, whom he often mentioned.

Total Destruction

🎼It's Not Genocide, It's Just Fun!🎶

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Proud of yourselves, murdering Israeli scum?

On Google maps, whenever new satellite images replace old ones, the erasure can be seen side by side with the adjacent older photo. I don't know how frequently they update.

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— Sandeha Lynch (@sandehalynch.com) August 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM

Will no one stop them before they reap the whirlwind?

Tucker's Ten Points

Lest we forget:Remember, these chump weirdoes were all 100% behind Trump, who could do no wrong. Excellent judges of character.

 Zachary Basu / Axios:
Tucker Carlson unveils 10-point manifesto amid third-party speculation … - Fair: The same rules should apply to presidents, federal agents and elites such as Jeffrey Epstein, whose impunity Carlson cast as emblematic of an “Epstein class” enriching itself through a corrupt system.
Aaron Pellish / Politico:   Anti-Trump conservatives Tucker Carlson, MTG, Massie huddle about launching third-party movement

David Gilbert / Wired:   MAGA Is In Turmoil Over Tucker Carlson's Possible 2028 Presidential Bid

Benjamin Lindsay / The Wrap:   Tucker Carlson on the 2028 Presidential Ballot Would ‘Doom’ the Republican Party, Mark Halperin Says

Just what we need: Another tee vee "personality"/podcaster/egomaniac/sniveling little weasel running the country into the ground. Whaddya say we get an actual skilled politician (i.e., a Democrat) into the Executive Mansion for the next infinity & beyond. A Commie socialist, even.

History Surfaces In Danube

"Shithole Nation" Indeed

Physician, Heal Thyself

Political Wire shares:

“When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper. Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus… I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room and nobody would know.”

— Dr. Sean O’Mara, whose dietary recommendations have been embraced by JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Howard Lutnick and Sean Duffy, quoted by the New York Times Magazine.

So this "doctor" spends a lot of time contemplating evacuating "behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room"? Good to know. The Irish really are total sick-o morons, aren't they?

And not quite, Nature Boy:Like any right-winger's mouth, sprays shit 24/7.

Out Of Uniform

I can't even. You know who the two flanking Gen. Lumpy are supposed to be? Patton & MacArthur, two other fascist wanna-bes w/ delusions of grandeur. Hah! "Mac" looks a bit like Brainworm Kennedy. "Patton" doesn't look like himself. Who makes this slop? Does General No-Hat (Part of the uniform, must be worn outside.) scroll the iNternet looking for it? Does he have flunkies serching for stupid? Will the Dep't. of "WAR" notice & say anything? Can someone be sued for generating a crummy AI image of someone else? I s'pose it's free speech, like an editorial cartoon.

The uniforms themselves may be correct; they're pretty generic, but none of the insignia, ribbons, shoulderboards, ranks or Gen. Lumpy's wings or medal are anything the United States Army has ever used. The things on their lapels, "Patton's" red epaulettes or "MacArthur's" cap device, for example. Not sure why George S. is sporting combat suspenders either. The Daily Bleat adds:

Trump’s fantasy image places him above Patton and MacArthur in the military hierarchy, showing him with four stars while the legendary generals wear two. In reality, MacArthur was a five-star general—one of only five Americans to attain that rank—while Patton was a four-star general.

Not to glorify these two, but here's the actual George Patton, in four-star uniform.

And MacArthur, who smoked a corncob pipe, w/ his five stars.

Note also that both get Fat Boy's jowly chin, but jowlier, in the AI.