Over on the new Megyn Kelly channel (111) on SiriusXM, her gossip columnist is talking about the RFK Jr./Nuzzi digital affair, which required her to describe and define "felching," since somehow that came up in their love talk.

I wonder if most of the people pushing this idea are childless and have an experience of diapering that is limited to deviant adults.

I really don't think that the point of the film is to discuss or attempt to provide an explanation to current day politics at all? It's simply a portrayal of what can go wrong whenever radical ideas and concepts are introduced to the wider population? She had an idea, she wrote a book about it and first she agreed with what was happening as a result of her having written the book but then it begins to morph into something else completely and evolves into something entirely different? The idea that what you write and out out into the world always has the very dangerous potential to be completely misunderstood/manipulated/misrepresented? That's my opinion anyway!!

Netflix keeps pitching (me or everyone?) Emirates Airlines for our holiday travel. I don't know what the profile of Netflix viewers is that we are getting this.

That's correct. Neandertal DNA has been found (esp in Europeans and descendants) and Denisovan (Asians, Indigenous Americans). Some people may have both. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/the-first-americans-had-denisovan-dna-and-it-may-have-helped-them-survive

I don't think they have found any Homo floresiensis DNA in humans. AI seems to agree with that, but it gets a lot of things wrong.

"DOGE days are over. I need a pardon."

Knock, knock. "Who's there?" "DOGE." "DOGE who?" https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/doge-days-are-over-as-trump-disbands-elon-musks-team-of-federal-cost-cutters/

Stanley Kramer's "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961) is hard to beat.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-massacre-october-revenue-falls-to-27-year-low-1236410517/

As the editor of Splice today has pointed out to me, this is really a 4th version, not a 3rd, since the 1978 Heaven Can Wait was a remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan. I was in kindergarten in 1941 and have still never seen that film.

Are all the scams right wing these days? Would love to hear your thoughts on the huge, ongoing welfare scam in Minnesota, the investigation into which started years ago during Joe Biden's tenure. It's not a new story. It's just that the media won't cover it until they have to. Surely you can put things into perspective for us.

Recruitment update: >> 'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail. 'We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.' << https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345295/ICE-campaign-hire-deportation-officers-unfit-violent-illiterate.html

I was unaware that Rock ’n Roll was killed in the 1960s and that the Beatles and Bob Dylan were the primary accomplices in its murder. As a big fan of both the Beatles and Bob Dylan I guess you can call me a lover of “pretentious twaddle” and “absurdly inadequate” music and one of the many dupes who were caught up in the “mass delusion” of the times. Did the Beatles “Mutate through the 1960s” or did they musically evolve through the decade. There is much subjectivity in assessing art and music. This article suggests that both the Beatles and Bob Dylan essentially sucked. That is one persons subjective opinion which I personally find to be absurd although he is certainly entitled to it.... I have my own subjective opinions about musicians who some may also find to be absurd.. For instance I think that Barry Manilow and Slim Whitman both sucked but perhaps there is someone out there who might say “your full of it Crestrider! Don’t you know that Barry Manilow was the man who wrote the songs that made the whole world sing and no one before or since could slip into a country falsetto quite like Slim Whitman.”

Did I say 10 years later? Or did that get edited in? Oops it got edited in, man. I said twenty!

www.catherineproject.org They look for volunteers, who tend to be humanities academics.

Well now that you are all married and retired and moved CS, you should run a seminar class for the Catherine Project. Not sure they have many anarchist seminar leaders.

"That is, if the aliens aren’t real, many billions of dollars seem to have been spent making it appear that they are..." But as the WSJ reported a few month ago, there has been a government effort along those lines. "The photos were doctored, the now-retired officer confessed to the Pentagon investigators in 2023. The whole exercise was a ruse to protect what was really going on at Area 51: The Air Force was using the site to develop top-secret stealth fighters, viewed as a critical edge against the Soviet Union. Military leaders were worried that the programs might get exposed if locals somehow glimpsed a test flight of, say, the F-117 stealth fighter, an aircraft that truly did look out of this world. Better that they believe it came from Andromeda." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-pentagon-disinformation-that-fueled-america-s-ufo-mythology/ar-AA1GfrNv

That's not *really* a smile. You barely see his teeth.

Congratulations on leaving relatively? unscathed. I often wonder how you were able to survive at all. I have a good friend who was at Princeton for his entire career (hiring undoubtedly facilitated by his Hispanic origins) and I read the signed denunciations of the last decade with disgust. Everyone participated, no one spoke up, even the tenured were complicit. But I saw it coming as far back as graduate school with the excited embrace of the post-structuralists, the scrutiny of the "text," the eradication of any faith in "truth." Truth was nothing but a naive faith in reality, which as any intelligent person knows is entirely subjective. And thus it was Narrative that rose to supremacy.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is too insane to have convictions. Googling "Marjorie Taylor Greene insane statements" provides a list, such as Jewish space lasers and mass shootings not occurring and people controlling the weather. Even if some of her statements sound sane, we can't know whether she knows what she's saying.

An incredible story, thank you !

You must agree with Noah, the most morally elevated person on Earth, or you are a fascist.

On "Coffee with Scott Adams" today (11/11) Scott Adams says, in discussing how to persuade people, you should watch Cheryl Hines on podcasts, and in particular this episode, if you want to know how to be on a podcast.

That and GQ?

I think seeing The Sting as a young teen or pre-teen helped turn me gay. THAT was a hot couple!

Trump has won twice, but neither of these guys have the slightest idea of why that happened. Try harder, Splice Today.

Hard to imagine thinking that Marc Maron has any real insights into the future of American politics. He's a good comedian and decent interviewer, but his talent stops there. And in this clip, he's talking to a fellow insufferably smug progressive, Sam Seder, who hasn't had an original thought in decades. Posting such material is a total waste of time. Thanks for nothing.

Actually the second littlest one was not her son because he was younger than my dad, i unfortunately don’t remember which cousin he was but the tallest boy was my great aunt’s son.

They are not going to school, my grandfather filmed this. It was a leisurely trip to the end of the line by lake Roland. The little blondie in white was my dad and the dark haired second tallest boy in stripes was my uncle. The lady that was on camera before they boarded was my aunt Bea and the two other boys I think were her sons

Such a great song. So sad youngin's don't know our music in the 60's and 70's was SO much better than their music is.

"If you only know a cup this way, you don't know the cup." David Thomas threw off sparks every time he opened his mouth.

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.