Rich people have their hands out 24/7.
Look at all the government money Musk took.
Ronald Reagan got rich by making sure he was always the poorest guy in the room. He sucked up to his bosses at General Electric [then one of the biggest companies in the USA] and got to invest in sweetheart deals.
George W. Bush was given a US major league baseball team.
Take every penny your qualify for.
A man finds himself alternating between the past and the present.
He lives a Monday in 2026, then wakes up at some random time in the past. He is in that day for 24 hours, then comes back to Tuesday, 2026.
As George Carlin put it, there are two kinds of men; useless punks who are younger than me, and worthless coots who are older than me.
Deep frying is a way of life in the American South.
An area populated by large numbers of indentured servants from Scotland.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
In his first term, Trump screamed about The Wall constantly. This time around, he’s silent on it. You’d think his people would notice and ask a few questions…
The ice dancing has beautiful music that the participant spent hours agonizing over.
The netowrks have some idiot babbling over the music.
I am a huge fan of these books.
A Berlin police detective resigns after his Jewish boss is fired. He sets up as a private eye and is eventually forced to join the Army.
Bill Cosby - You spend your whole life making yourself the old person you’re going to become.
Actually, he said a lot of really good things…
Also Reagan.
Boris and Ivan are chatting and Ivan says that one day he wants to go to America.
Boris sneers. “Anything they have in America we have in Russia. They have cities and we have cities. Both got mountains and beaches and farms. No difference.”
“In America you have freedom! I can stand in front of the White House and scream that Ronald Reagan is a big dummy and no one will arrest me.”
“You can do that here. Go stand in front of the Kremlin and scream Ronald Reagan is a big dummy. No one will lift a finger.”
In “The Stars My Destination” Alfred Bester wrote that conspicuous consumption was the basis of all civilization
Variation on the joke.
Parents of a high school age boy and girl have a photo on the living room wall.
It’s a picture of a fat, bald old man in a Speedo standing on a yacht with a pretty girl hugging him.
“It’s to inspire our kids to stay in school and get good grades. We want our son to try and be like the man, and our daughter not to be like the woman who is with him.”
I don’t follow Trek as much as I used to.
I’d guess that the problem is that it’s hard to come up with stories in a happy world where everyone gets to choose their own path.
Nope, totally different.
Look at the price of Super Bowl tickets.
First Bowl tickets were $10.00. This year they were going for $6,000.00
Top luxury car in 1960 was $7,500.00 for a sports car and $35,000.00 for a Rolls or Bentley. Most expensive car today is $30 million.
The rich have gotten much, much richer and ‘need’ to spend more so people will notice.
It’s like any other luxury.
Back in 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour. You could get a meal at a diner for under $1.00 or go to a really swanky place and spend $4.00 or $5.00.
Today, minimum wage is $7.50, a diner meal is $20.00, and a luxury meal is $100.00
You can go out a find a really well build product that will last, but it will cost ten times as much as the one you can afford.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_241
It’s canon that Batman wears a rainbow outfit.
Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act. He was a Southern Democrat and he knew that his party would lose a lot of votes.
One of the instances where a politician was actually affected by a policy.
Read books by Tanith Lee.
Gaiman stole the idea of Death, Evil, and Madness being related from her books.
This cereal was popular in the 1960s. They even had a kids’ cartoon with the little ‘Chinese’ boy ‘So-Hi.’
Rice Crinkles cereal
If you check the high end stores you can buy deodorants from Calvin Klein, Paco Rabanne etc.
But most of the time I use unscented
The mistake people keep making about the Right is that they care about logic.
Trump spent 2016 to 2020 talking about the Wall. From 2024 on he was silent. None of his people bring it up.
They will hate on you anyway. Take the damn money