There are times that I need to brake on some topics The chemo has me feeling almost sea sick. I still have some humor, life experience and every day stuff.
So unless I fall into the well of yo momma memes, this is the last post on this subject.. Steal them as I need to clear cloud storage space. They are high on my list to remove for the space in my cloud storage
I lose more readers on this category than any other I post about. Try to get that it’s a joke and doesn’t represent who I am, other than I thought some were perfect.
It used to be getting a fast car or a bigger house. The signs are always there. When you make money, you spend it just as easily.
Some want to be a Rocket Builder as a side job and is pulling off stuff NASA would only now be in planning meetings for.
Other, with a Musk type mood and wanting to have a dick measuring contest to see who makes that better rocket.
In this case, it’s one to Musk just for not doing this now. I know some or his blew up in the past, but this race to the moon is a new (actual) line of news and gets going before I’m gone.
Bezos can just blow up many millions of rocket pieces for nothing and build another one. That is called F/U Money, when there ain’t nothing left to spend it on.
Anywho: Here’s and Excerpt:
OAN Staff Lillian Mann 2:10 PM – Friday, May 29, 2026
Jeff Bezos’s “Blue Origin” rocket erupted in a massive explosion during a launchpad test after a hot-fire test went wrong, sending smoke flames and debris soaring miles into the sky.
Nearby homes shook as a bright orange plume erupted above the launch pad, billowing into the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.
Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, was conducting a routine prelaunch static fire test when the vehicle exploded.
The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket was reportedly being prepared for its fourth overall flight in early June, which was scheduled to deploy a batch of 48 Amazon Project Kuiper low Earth orbit (LEO) internet satellites.
An un-crewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a Florida launchpad during a test, erupting into a massive fireball.
“All personnel are accounted for and safe,” Bezos said on X. “It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.”
The satellites are designed to compete with billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink network — by providing high-speed, space-based internet service to users around the world, according to Reuters.
The 322-foot-tall New Glenn rocket has launched three times previously and is classified as a heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of carrying massive payloads typically ranging between 20 and 50 metric tons, as Blue Origin aims to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it. — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 29, 2026
-How do you ruin a layup. Everyone waited in lines for a good Marvel movie and you just put whipped cream on a pile of dog poop. I give you Mandalorian and Grogu
I spent most of my life prior to the Internet. I worked in the tech industry so I was able to get on it earlier than most, but that didn’t change my regular life.
I never had to worry about social media either. You could just not Answer the phone, or call someone back. When you broke up, it was over.
I could get to anywhere I wanted with a piece of paper with instructions on it, and a (dime)/quarter to call a home phone since we didn’t have cell phones. All my friends could get there too, and we all got there on time, and at the same time. 
That means I also write in cursive, and can drive stick. The first car I had was so old I had to learn how to double clutch to downshift.
We learned to read the weather by observing the wind, the sun, the title patterns, and observe nature.
I had to look up stuff in an encyclopedia, or find a book using the card catalogue system to write term papers.
So if they drop EMP, I’ll be just fine. As for Gen X, why, Z, millennials, and the rest of the people after boomers, they’re effed.
New poll shows that just 16% of men support the Democratic Party… They are a bunch of pansies who don’t know which bathroom or which end of a gun to use. I bet they throw like girls. I know one and I’m not sure he’s not mentally disturbed. I guess my homosexual neighbors are democrats, but they don’t count as men.
A Collapsing Europe Shows Where Democrat Policies Will Take America – we already broke free of them once, and then saved them from themselves twice. That’s enough. It turns out that the flyover country “hicks” are better off than the UK and many other countries there. Why do we want to go back to that?
Europe’s Freeloading Days Are Over: America Demands Reciprocity – Their education, medical and pensions were free, because they weren’t paying a dime in defense. America paid for it in drug costs and everything else. Well, WWII is over, so is NATO and the USA being an ATM for Europe
The post-conversation spiral happens when you leave a social interaction and can’t stop overthinking whether you totally screwed it up.
My brain was doing it again.
I’d had a lovely time getting to know a potential new friend. We had a lot in common. We were both single moms, both about the same age, and both working in mental health careers. She got my references. She seemed to understand my life. And the dinner meetup was, well, fun.
So why was my brain picking apart every little thing I had said and done?
You idiot. I can’t believe you said that.
Why did I share that story? Did I trauma dump?
She said she wanted to hang out again… but she was probably just being polite.
Even though I make my living writing about introversion, social anxiety, and socializing, I had fallen headlong into a common pitfall: the dreaded post-conversation spiral.
What Is the Post-Conversation Spiral?
You might think the social anxiety problem ends when the conversation ends. But for a lot of people, that’s when the second half begins: the mental replay, the shame, the “evidence gathering,” and the imagined judgment.
Psychologists call this post-event rumination or post-event processing. It’s when you replay a social situation in your mind, focusing on what you think you did wrong. Instead of remembering the interaction as a whole, your mind zooms in on a sentence you wish you had phrased differently, a pause that felt too long, or a facial expression you couldn’t quite interpret.
Research has found that the more socially anxious someone is, the more likely they are to ruminate after a social event. In other words, the post-conversation spiral is not just a bad habit or a personal weakness. It’s a real part of the social anxiety cycle.
And unfortunately, it makes anxiety worse.
Why Your Brain Does This
Social anxiety makes you focus on yourself. Instead of simply being present and enjoying another person’s company, part of your attention turns inward.
Then, when you replay the conversation through the lens of fear, you’re not reviewing it neutrally. You’re acting like a detective searching for clues that confirm your anxiety while overlooking the evidence that everything went fine. A small awkward moment starts to feel like proof that the whole interaction went terribly.
This is one reason the spiral feels so convincing. It seems like you’re gathering facts, but really, you’re gathering anxious interpretations.
And even if you would never be diagnosed with an official social anxiety disorder, you may still know the feeling of coming home from an otherwise pleasant interaction and suddenly wondering whether you totally screwed it all up.
Why ‘Just Stop Thinking About It’ Doesn’t Work
If you’ve ever tried to force yourself to stop replaying a conversation, you already know that doesn’t work. Sometimes the harder you try not to think about something, the louder it becomes. You tell yourself, “Stop thinking about that weird thing you said,” and now the weird thing you said is the only thing available for your brain to think about.
A better approach is not to fight the anxious thoughts, but to change how you respond to them.
The goal is not to convince yourself that every conversation went perfectly. That would be unrealistic, and your brain probably wouldn’t believe it anyway. The goal is to become a little more balanced and a little less self-punishing.
How to Stop the Post-Conversation Spiral
Here are six science-backed things that can help:
1. Name what’s happening.
The first step is to recognize the spiral for what it is. You might say to yourself, “This is post-event rumination,” or, “My brain is replaying the conversation because I feel socially anxious right now.”
That creates some distance. Instead of treating every thought as a proven fact, you take a step back and begin to see it as part of an anxiety pattern.
There’s a difference between “She thought I was weird” and “I’m having the thought that she thought I was weird.” The second version does not make the worry completely disappear, but it does give you more room to question it.
2. Pinpoint the specific moment you’re stuck on.
Ask yourself: What moment keeps coming back to me? Once you identify the specific worry, it becomes easier to examine.
“The whole night was terrible” is hard to work with. “I’m worried I talked too much about my divorce” is something you can actually think through.
3. Ask what evidence you actually have.
This is where cognitive restructuring can help. Cognitive restructuring is a technique often used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that helps you examine whether your thoughts are accurate, exaggerated, or incomplete.
Ask yourself:
What evidence do I have that my worry is true?
What evidence do I have that it might not be true?
Is there another possible explanation?
What would I think if a friend told me they had done the same thing?
For example, maybe your new friend got quiet after you told a personal story about your divorce. Your anxious brain decides, “She was uncomfortable and now she regrets meeting me.”
But there are other possibilities. Maybe she was thinking about what you said. Maybe she related to it. Maybe she was tired. Maybe she didn’t know how to respond in the moment. Maybe the pause felt much longer to you than it did to her.
The point is not to force a positive interpretation. The point is to stop treating the most painful interpretation as the only one.
4. Check your expectations.
If you’re socially anxious, you probably hold yourself to a standard you would never apply to anyone else. You expect yourself to be warm, interesting, funny, appropriate, relaxed, responsive, emotionally available, and perfectly articulate all at once. No awkward pauses, no clumsy wording, and no signs of nervousness.
People say odd things. They interrupt without meaning to. They tell stories that don’t land exactly the way they hoped.
A more realistic standard might sound like:
Did I show up?
Was I kind?
Did I listen?
Did I make an effort to connect?
Did the other person seem comfortable overall?
If the answer is mostly yes, the conversation does not need to be put on trial.
5. Make a plan only if a plan is needed.
Sometimes rumination is trying to point you toward something useful. Maybe you want to send a simple text saying, “I had a nice time tonight.” Maybe you genuinely said something that came out wrong and you want to clarify it. In those cases, take one concrete action.
But notice the difference between action and rumination. Action sounds like, “I’ll text her and say I enjoyed dinner.” Rumination sounds like, “What if she thought I was desperate when I said we should hang out again, and maybe I should wait three days, but what if waiting three days seems cold, and what if she only said yes because she felt sorry for me?”
When there is something to do, do it. When there is nothing to do, the task is learning to sit with the uncertainty without feeding it.
6. Use mindfulness as a way to return to your life.
Mindfulness does not mean you have to become perfectly calm. It can be as simple as noticing the replay and gently returning to what is happening right now.
Imagine the rumination as background noise. It can be there without getting all of your attention. You can be washing dishes and notice, “There’s that thought again.” You can be reading in bed and notice, “My brain is replaying dinner again.”
Then bring your attention back to the dish, the book, the room you’re in, or the next small thing you need to do.
Let the Conversation Be Good Enough
I’m trying to remind myself that maybe I did say something imperfectly at dinner. Maybe there was a moment or two that felt awkward. Maybe I could have asked a better question or not overexplained so much.
But maybe that’s also just what happens when two humans are getting to know each other.
The post-conversation spiral wants us to believe we have to perform perfectly in order for someone to like us. We must never be awkward, never overshare, never be too quiet, and never say the wrong thing.
But real relationships don’t work that way. People usually don’t decide whether they like you based on one sentence or one clumsy moment.
So the next time your brain starts obsessively replaying a conversation, you don’t have to fight it. You also don’t have to believe everything it says. Pause and ask, “Am I reflecting, or am I ruminating?”
7 Wilson started progressives and socialism in the US. He was also a huge racist. Anything with either Rothschild or Rockefeller attached to it is bad for the country
Reparations: Who Pays Whom? – Those who made it to the US have it so much better, they should be thankful. Plus, a surprisingly low number of Americans were slave owners.
Why Are White Liberal Women Obsessed With an Ideology That Oppresses Women? – The last 2 words in that description tells you everything. That they could be liberal and are women, meaning they think with their feelings and emotions rather than deal with the facts and the hard choices. If they thought through the situation, they’d still be women, but for sure wouldn’t be liberals, cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
Marriage
No Wonder Men Are Opting Out – men have simple needs, food, sex, respect and most of all peace. If you read the list of what girls are putting men through, What rational man reads this list and thinks: yes, that’s exactly what’s been missing from my life? Do they stay up at night and think of how to make things worse for men?
I’ll put a portion of the article right below this with a full link if you care to read.
Marvel was great because it was good guys beating the bad guys. It wasn’t a dissertation on how to be woke, queer, tranny or any other thing but a hero.
They got into a situation that seemed unwinnable and create a solution to overcome the evil of the world or universe and win.
It started out with defeating the Nazi’s. Who doesn’t like that story? The real heroes were men who overcame. That is what life is about, not seeing how woke you can be.
The audience were a bunch of geeky white guys in their parents basements believing they could be Ironman or Captain America, not BLM, flaming fags, and for sure they know there is no girl who is going to kick ass on a bad guy. It is fantasy where you imagine you are saving the world, not trying to make it gay. This is just a different them on the Bud Light story
Now, the story:
(ZeroHedge)—The saga of woke comics is the saga of woke America. Much like video games, comics and superhero movies were ignored by conservative movements as “meaningless kids stuff” until recently, which is part of the reason why those industries were so easily invaded by leftists and used to indoctrinate millions of children and teens a decade ago.
Culture is more important than politics. This is obvious. It’s a fact that leftists have understood for generations and one that conservatives have foolishly dismissed. Only in the past few years has there been a shift; at least, the progressive rampage through America’s various media institutions has been stalled and slightly reversed.
But, the most captured platforms are not going to change anytime soon, even in the face of financial decline and mass layoffs.
Disney and Marvel have recently announced a shake-up of the comics division, with over a thousand layoffs this year (after moderate layoffs over the past few years), and new executive leadership. Far-left DEI advocate Dan Buckley is on the way out. This change is being presented as a retirement, though some skeptics argue he is being forced out as part of the company’s restructuring.
Buckley replacement is not much better, however. TV Chief Brad Winderbaum is taking over as Marvel President and his track record on Marvel TV series includes some of the biggest woke failures in streaming history – Ms. Marvel (Muslim Pakistani representation), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (feminist/meta take, which he defends as a strong performer despite critical failure), Ironheart (feminism and BLM propaganda), Echo, Agatha All Along, Wonder Man (prominent LGBT elements).
Marvel Comics, a subsidiary of Disney, has been at the forefront of far-left propaganda in content for many years, and their woke concepts are usually ported directly into Disney’s movies and streaming series. Everything from gay and trans X-Men to black Spider-Man, to female gender swaps of popular male characters have become the norm. And, books sales have flatlined in response.
I could be very serious here and write a dissertation about the relationship between God, man and the history between the 3. Instead, the child inside of me will do this:
I’m going to have a hard time taking this one seriously, as it is my favorite Mensa joke.
It continues like this: and give 3 examples. Most people take it seriously and try to think their way through it, not realizing that it is a joke on them. I’ve heard some of the lamest responses by people of all levels.
Were I in college, it would be a couple of pairs of extra underwear, a few cases of beer and a few blunts.
Now that my life is half a century later, I’m willing to go to my mountain house. I have my stuff there, I know the place and I don’t have to fly or stay in a germ ridden hotel room that was barely cleaned. I’m getting sicker, so big travel plans are now not in my life
I stayed in an airbnb last year that was a dump. It was completely different from the pictures and description.
So for me, I go to one of my houses and that’s it.
Don’t get me started on Darwin vs Creationism. These guys don’t even know who is alive or extinct. It’s why I have problems with The Origin of the Species being believable
Two marsupial species scientists believed had vanished more than 6,000 years ago have been discovered alive in the remote rainforests of Western New Guinea.
The discovery was detailed in studies published in Records of the Australian Museum, according to a March 6 press release from the museum obtained by PEOPLE. Researchers identified living pygmy long-fingered possums (Dactylonax kambuayai) and the ring-tailed glider (Tous ayamaruensis) in the rainforests on the Vogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea. The animals are now considered Lazarus species, or part of the Lazarus taxon, a group of animals that have been found living after they were thought extinct and previously known only from fossils.
“The discovery of one Lazarus taxon, even if thought to have become extinct recently, is an exceptional discovery,” said lead researcher Professor Tim Flannery, an Australian Museum Distinguished Visiting Fellow. “The discovery of two species, thought to have been extinct for thousands of years, is remarkable.”
The newly released novel, Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke, features a tradwife who gets transported back to the 19th century to live a truly trad life. Deeply humbled by her experience, the tradwife desires to return to the present day, replete with the luxuries afforded to her by the feminists she disdains. Already a New York Times bestseller, the novel is set to be adapted for film by Anne Hathaway.
It takes little imagination to anticipate how the film adaptation will go: Much like the dystopian vision of The Handmaid’s Tale, it will amount to a scolding for those lacking gratitude for feminism. The implicit message is exactly what feminists have always insisted: conservative women who embrace domesticity are either frauds, victims, or too dim to know the difference.
I’ve been writing about feminism for more than a decade. The main opposition is almost always the same: tedious clichés and skimpy narratives. I’m told that I want women to be subjected to vile men with no way to escape or that I don’t think women should work or vote. And then, there is some effort to remind me how I have personally benefited from feminism — usually because of my doctorate, or public voice. These tired arguments, gracing comment boxes, social media, and a wide array of publications, are repetitive, unthinking, self-righteous.
Few realize that these exhausted sound bites were established decades ago to protect feminism from criticism. Media, academia, and vocal influencers pushed these talking points deeply into the culture. They’ve become so entrenched that they’ve scarcely needed adjusting from outside pressure and remain so dominant that Hollywood can bank on them. This novel and soon-to-be-movie will follow the same playbook.
What is not generally grasped is that, despite its self-assured bravado, feminism is actually a fragile ideology. Because it is not based on a solid foundation of truth, it can only survive through power, so it relies on perception, PR, and political force. In the face of decades of its corrosive effects, it can’t draw from scientific studies or even principled arguments to defend itself. All it has is a broad defensive perimeter of clichés and a tidy narrative of protection. Western women and men have been unwittingly supplying it for decades, allowing feminism to expand unchecked.
The effect has been that most people genuinely believe they are protecting something good, buying into the largely fictional narrative that feminism “is just about helping women.” Few realize its connection to the havoc now on display in the culture.
What Is Feminism?
In its simplest form, feminism is the belief in two things: Men are contemptible, and women should be just like them.
This definition isn’t a one-off found in some obscure, unknown feminist. Rather, it can be seen in the work of every major feminist leader for the last 200 years: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, and Gloria Steinem. What is their biggest enemy? The patriarchy. And what do they want? To have the power they believe the patriarchy has.
These two ideas — men are contemptible, and women should be just like them — have been cemented together to form the bedrock of western women’s views on sex and marriage, resulting in highly destructive consequences: an ever-widening gap between men and women and steep decline in marriages, women’s battle with their fertility and bodies, increased abortions, the birth dearth, the push for same-sex marriage, surrogacy, gender fluidity and the trans movement, and the rise of anxiety and depression.
Between 5 different doctors appointments, 2 procedures under anesthesia and so many blood draws that they used all my veins on both arms, I gathered these for those who care.
Profiles of Valor: Armed Forces Day – I always thank anyone in uniform or that has a hat from a previous war (especially Viet Nam) for their services. I include the Police, firemen, EMS, ICE, and anyone who thanklessly helps the public, especially liberals who hate them (and don’t know why, other than they were told to)
Honda reported its first annual loss since becoming a publicly listed company in 1957. The $2.7B drop comes months after the Japanese carmaker scaled back its electric vehicle plans in the US. (See the scrapped models.) – no free government handout, no one buys them. Gas price goes up, people buy Hemi’s
(Note: this is an update. Will B. Done pointed out that the links didn’t work, so I fixed them so you can click and enjoy)
I’ve written this blog since August of 2005. It was originally meant for my job in analyst relations, but took a turn when I retired in 2011. It’s morphed into any number of things from humor, sarcasm, anti-Covid Jab and my ramblings on life.
I start Chemotherapy next week, so it’s going to slow down considerably, although I’ll post from time to time. I’ve scheduled some posts so it will look like I’m continuing as I suffer through the poison they will be putting in me. You’ll read something every day this week, but I’m not collecting headlines. I hope to be back, I just know I won’t have any energy
I want to say that I’ve enjoyed the 10’s of thousands of comments, and different groups of readers.
I mostly wrote it as it is my favorite form of communication. If you read anything about me, you know I’m introverted so small talk isn’t my greatest strength.
I pulled the list of top posts. It’s funny to me that my most successful post is Euphemisms for Stupid, which was number one on Google for over 10 years in that category.
As I look at the list, I see various stages of my life and different careers. I see family, pets and co-workers. I’m especially proud of My Dad. It’s the post, On Behalf of the President of the United States.
I wish you all the best and a longer life than me.
It’s not over, but for sure will not be as consistent.
If anyone wants to guest post, send it to me simonize@protonmail.com and I’ll try to put it up and give you credit.
It wouldn’t be my first choice to promote cancer awareness, but it’s quite a feat nevertheless.
ALERT: Man gets lit on fire as he pulls a police car with his pen-s in an attempt to raise awareness for prostate cancer.
John Stephenson, 50, is a strong man who, using a rope attached to his genitals, became the first person to pull a car, a 2-ton French police vehicle, with… pic.twitter.com/XgWEHFNopg
Are there more important stories we could be covering? Sure, I guess. Iran is still a thing. Trump is going to China. Democrats are being all a noun and a verb and a “raaaaaacism” over redistricting. Plus, generally speaking, when we here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website write about testicles, it involves a dude whipping them out in the girls’ bathroom and Democrats supporting them doing so. It’s nice to have someone put their balls to good use for a change.
John Stephenson, a 50-year-old kickboxer, shattered a glass ceiling, becoming the first bloke to pull a two-ton car with nothing but his dong WHILE set on fire. Technically, he didn’t use his entire one-eyed trouser snake, piece of pork, wife’s best friend, his Percy or his cock (he’s British, so I’m biting off of the Monty Python song). He just used his nuts. He also set himself on fire too. Why? Good question.
I’ve pulled a car with my testicles before and I’ve pulled a car on fire – so I thought why not combine the both, but this time do it with my penis.
Rest assured, everything is still intact! Stephen says that while “it did hurt quite a bit,” but he likes to set challenges and this was something no one has done before. He did the research.
Look, I played Handel’s Messiah over 200 times. I know classical music, I’ve played everything from Rhapsody in Blue, Fugue in G minor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and you name it. I’ve played them all
I also heard Charlie Daniels trying out The Devil Went Down To Georgia 6 months before He released it to see if the crowd would like it
Still, I enjoyed Robert Plant playing old Zeppelin tunes and Brad Paisley playing his greatest hits as much as anything. Rock N Roll, Trampled Under Foot, So Much Cooler Online, I’m Gonna Miss her were as much fun to listen to as anything.
Everyone likes their own style of music. I’m interested in what you guys like also.
“Moderate” Democrat Abigail Spanberger Considers Tax On Gym Memberships And Streaming Services, Among Other Ideas
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is facing backlash after refusing to rule out new taxes on everyday services like gym memberships and streaming subscriptions, according to the Daily Mail.
During an interview with 8News, the Virginia governor was asked whether she would sign legislation expanding the state’s sales tax to cover a long list of services. Rather than rejecting the idea outright, Spanberger said any proposal that seems “reasonable” should at least be part of the conversation as lawmakers search for new sources of revenue.
Tax everything that moves and restrict people from having a life.
And then there is Zohan Mamadini. Let’s not overlook that he has a huge spread in Uganda. There is a muslim governor at the place the planes were flown into the towers 2 decades ago. Ironic, isn’t it?
Her priority is maintaining a safe space for illegal aliens and refugees. And if that interferes with the safety of vulnerable legal residents, including seniors, so be it.
None of this is a surprise. Often referred to as the Mamdani of the West during her campaign, Wilson never tried to hide her far-left world view. She once told supporters, “Yes, I am a socialist. … I’m fine with being called a socialist.”
Wilson’s indifference to the well-being of an elderly city resident reveals something about her character. Last week, she laughed at the prospect of wealthy taxpayers fleeing the city. “Bye” she said with a big grin on her face.
Seattle was already a city in decline before Wilson took office. Something tells me it’s about to get a lot worse.
I think emojis are childish and for girls. Just say what you have to say, and you don’t need to add pictures to it.
Call me a curmudgeon, but I feel like a child using them. I cringe when my male friends use them, mostly because they get it wrong or it’s a desperate try to look hip.
Despite my penchant for dick humor and even the turd emoji, I won’t use them either.
First, I need to let my readers know that I’m facing a significant health challenge. I could be out for stretches of time, so I’m going to have to make decisions on posting. I’ll be crossing the finish line of life in a bit. I’m just waiting to find out where that is on the timeline.
Therefore, this will be the last AOTW. I tried to honor Denny of Grouchy Old Cripple with this, but it’s soon going to be too much for me to do.
That being said, let’s name this week’s winner.
Since I’m a pattern person, this came at me from a lot of directions. It’s the Hate group Southern Poverty Law Center.
Here’s a smattering of their work that earned them the final AOTW. Any group that hates straight, white, Christian, and especially men, deserves it
Sometimes a hate hoax is not just a single incident but an entire institution — as in the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Racism against anyone other than whites is virtually nonexistent in this country. What little there is, the SPLC has been financing to fundraise off of and to shore up its Cultural Marxist ideology.
A federal grand jury in Alabama has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with multiple counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the charges stem from allegations that the organization paid individuals tied to extremist groups.
SPLC heavily funded neo-Nazi and KKK groups so they would become more violent and more powerful. The SPLC claims they were informants. However, instead of just putting staff in there to spy, they funded leaders, provided transportation, and grew the violent, racist groups on the far-right, according to the FBI.
I suppose it is packing up from Florida, where I’d lived my whole life, and moving the entire family to North Carolina without ever having been there. It was a new job, a new house, a new career, and a complete change of life. I was in my late 30’s so it was not one of those teenage roadtrips.
As it turned out, it set me on the course of a great place to live, out of the Florida heat and tourist trap living, and gave me financial security for the rest of my life.
While the job was still in the Tech industry, it was in an area that I’d never been a part of. In the interview, I got asked what I knew about Networking Hardware, and I (honestly) said that I was not well-versed.
My answer was that since this was a job dealing with the press, I knew what they wanted and my strengths were there. I nailed the interview, and we just up and left in a couple of weeks.
Study Shows Some Humans Are Evolving To Be ‘Foxier’ – one thing is for sure, they are better than American girls in attitude alone. Feminism ruins females, and no amount of good looks makes you want to listen to them and their entitled, striving for likes online attitude.
Europeans Pay The Most For Public Transport – My wife’s family in Denmark constantly trash the USA about their free everything. They constantly go on about how much better their public transportation is. They just leave out the part that it costs a lot more. I’ll enjoy the freedom of my truck when I want to go somewhere. Everthing comes with a price. Theirs is 70% taxes.
I was one of the first Facebook accounts. When I figured out it was people putting on a false face to show you how good their life is was a lie, I had my doubts. When people whom I thought I’d gotten out of my life wanted to reconnect, I eliminated it. Now, I don’t have to be reminded of birthdays, wasted time online, and have re-disconnected with those I don’t want to talk to. There are people in my family I don’t want to see anymore, either in person or online.
I had Twitter (X) until it became a time suck, and I also retired and didn’t need it. I quit before Musk bought it when it was a cesspool of hate and censorship.
So mostly, I stay away from it to make my life better, free up my time, and keep my past in the past.
I worked in the tech industry for 3.5 decades, and I know how bad Meta, Google, Microsoft, and the rest of them are. My life is immensely better without that distraction. I knew those people, and I knew they were bad actors. I know how much they sell your personal life if you are on these platforms, so my spam is way down.
I use my blog as my social media outreach. Some read it, most don’t. I put a lot of stuff about my life on these pages about who I am, and that is enough.
For me, being an introvert, it has been a blessing. Unwanted people are out of my life digitally, and I don’t have to think about those who I thought I’d parted ways with once already.
America’s reading habits by the numbers. (Explore) – It’s pitiful that that many people don’t read. No wonder many are falling behind. Books are some of my best friends
Brits poorer than Mississippians – yes, they would be the 51st state in poverty if they were part of the US. It’s stuff like this that makes my stomach turn when Europe trashes the USA. They have no idea who they really are other than the likes of the formerly Great Britain. I know this won’t stop the America bashing, but at least there are facts out there
NFL Reporter Crissy Froyd Fired From USA Today After Criticizing Dianna Russini for Mike Vrabel Photos – It’s not like we believe the sideline reporters are there for their football knowledge. Which one of them ever played the sport. They are decorations and submission to the whold equality experiment failure. Give me a guy who had to play the game and can do a better job of explaining why a team is performing or failing. If they just want to show cute girls, pan to the cheerleaders. We’ll be happy to look at them. Get rid of the catty girls and give them a different job.
New Major Study Finds Europeans Got Smarter – This explains Rome 2000 years ago vs Africa today. You have to count the USA as Europeans becuase that is where most of them came from (except the 13% from Africa)
I was working in the finance division of Burdines Department Stores when the IBM-PC was announced. I had been working with a System 34 and immediately saw my future. This was around 1981.
The head of our DP department said there would be no need for PC’s because you couldn’t do anything with them. So I left
Within months, I was working for the largest Independent PC store in the country and balls-deep into the world of PCs.
It was the biggest open door to opportunity that I’ve seen in my whole life. I knew there was a huge future, and I was about to get in on the ground floor at the very beginning. I started with CPM on Apple II and DOS 1.0 on the PC.
They weren’t ubiquitous back then. I learned more by fixing them and figuring out why they crashed than almost everyone I knew.
The other decision I view as one of my best is to not take the COVID-19 jab. While everyone pressured me to get it, I held my ground. To this day, I don’t regret it and never have to worry about what they put into it. You can never get un-jabbed.
Across the world, scientists have identified over 1.5 million living animal species. One of the perks of being a field biologist to first document a species is they get to name it and that has led to some of the funniest animal names imaginable.
As I was engaged in a highly-competitive game of ‘Bird Bingo’ with my family the other day and appreciating how hilarious some bird names are the idea struck me to bring you all a collection of the funniest animal names on earth. Now here we are!
Ranking 25 Of The Funniest Animal Names In Existence
Many of these are birds but birds don’t have a complete monopoly on the funniest animal names. The list also includes frogs, turtles, sharks, and more. So let’s dive in!
1. American Woodcock
American woodcock bird
The American woodcock (Scolopax minor) doesn’t have just one hilarious name it also has a list of incredible nicknames that include the ‘timberdoodle,’ the ‘mudbat,’ the ‘bogsucker,’ and more. They also have an adorable dance where they rock back and forth.
This is the only species of woodcock native to North America and there is currently one in NYC that is the city’s latest bird celebrity. People are traveling from all over to see the NYC American Woodcock.
2. Blue-Footed Booby
blue footed booby bird
This fella right here needs no introduction, the feet speak for themselves. The Blue-Footed Booby is probably the most famous ‘funny animal name’ on earth for obvious reasons.
They are a marine bird native to the subtropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and have a wingspan up to 5ft but it is their bright blue feet that steal the show.
3. Andean Cock of the Rock
Andean Cock of the Rock bird
I love this bird. The Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) is absolutely stunning. This is actually the bird that was the entire impetus for this list as I had the Andean cock-of-the-rock on my Bird BINGO board when I was playing the other night.
The Andean cock-of-the-rock is the national bird of Peru and found high up in the cloud forests of the Andean mountains in Peru. It would be HARD to miss with the striking colors. Perfect all around, 10 out of 10 looks and name.
4. Tasselled Wobbegong
wobbegong shark
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a carpet shark species native to Australia and New Guinea. They grow up to nearly 6ft in length.
Pronounced ‘wobby-gong’ the Tasselled Wobbegong sounds like a name that an American would come up with while trying to make a joke about Australian accents. The name doesn’t even sound real, but I assure you they are.
5. Pigbutt Worm
The Pigbutt Worm, Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, is also known as the ‘flying buttocks.’ That folks is what I like to call a two-fer because it has two spectacular names.
This deep sea marine worm was first documented by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) way back in 2007 and it is a tiny one, 10-20 millimeters in length.
6. Sarcastic Fringehead
Sarcastic fringehead
My favorite part about the name Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is that you can immediately look at this fish and think ‘yeah, that checks out.’ This fish definitely looks like a sarcastic fringehead.
7. Spiny Lumpsucker
Atlantic Spiny Lumpsucker
What did the Spiny Lumpsucker do to someone to earn this name? They’re adorable. Dare I say perfect.
They only grow up to a max of 5-7″ long and are horrible swimmers so they are commonly found attached to something, aka ‘lumpsucker.’ Instead of scales the fish is covered in cone-shaped plates. They also come in an array of colors.
8. Great Tit
three great tit birds flying together
The great tit (Parus major) is found throughout Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. While the name ‘great’ might imply they’re large, as it typically would in nature, these are tiny birds.
They don’t migrate, instead great tits just stick it out wherever they’re born. Living the dream. Spreading laughs worldwide with their incredible name.
9. Dickcissel
dickcissel bird singing on a tree
Found throughout the Midwest states here in the good ol’ U.S. of A, the Dickcissel is a perfect name for this tiny fella. These birds are also found in Central America, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela during the winters.
Just say that name. Let it roll off your tongue. It’s perfect.
10. Screaming Hairy Armadillo
screaming hairy armadillo on the ground
Someone looked at this thing, heard it make the iconic squealing sound it produces when it is threatened or handled, and nailed it with the name: Screaming Hairy Armadillo. Is it hairy? Sure is. Does it scream? You betcha.
They are found throughout the central/southern portions of South America and dine primarily on insects, invertebrates, and plants.
11. Tufted Titmouse
tufted titmouse birds
The thing about the Tufted Titmouse is if someone asked you what it was, and you were not already aware that it was a species of bird, there is no way you would guess that it was a bird. Everything about the name screams ‘mouse’ of some sort. Alas, it’s a bird.
They are stunners, to be sure. Members of the chickadee family, they’re tiny and beautiful. They can be found throughout the eastern portion of our country and can be spotted by the iconic black forehead.
12. Strange-tailed Tyrant
strange tailed tyrant bird
Someone saw the Alectrurus risora and did them dirty when they named it the strange-tailed tyrant. It was first documented by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1824 so we at least know who to blame for this.
The strange-tailed tyrant shares a genus with the cock-tailed tyrant, because of course it does. And they are found throughout parts of Argentina and Paraguay where they are excellent fly catchers.
13. Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko
rare satanic leaf tailed gecko
George Albert Boulenger must have hated geckos. That is the only explanation for why he would name such a majestic creature ‘satanic’ when he became the first person to document it back in 1888.
The satanic leaf-tailed gecko is also known as the eyelash leaf-tailed gecko or the phantastic leaf-tailed gecko, and they have some of the best camouflage around. They are native to the tropical forests of Madagascar.
14. Boops boops
boops boops fish
I’ve seen this fish a thousand times over the year in the James Bond meme where the text goes something like ‘My name is Bond, James Bond. And you are?… Boops, Boops Boops.’ Or something like that.
The Boops boops is a subspecies of seabream found in the eastern Atlantic with characteristically large eyeballs. Found throughout European waters, they are often pan-fried, broiled, or baked but only when caught fresh because if they are caught and stored the taste turns foul quickly.
15. Dik-Dik
dik dik deer in the wild
What a name! The dik-dik is a small species of antelope found in southern Africa that is absolutely adorable.
They are famous for making a shrill whistling sound because of course they are. It is used to alert other dik-diks and animals when there are predators around.
16. Sparklemuffin
The Sparklemuffin (Maratus jactatus) feels like it got its name from a 1st grader. They are an Australian jumping spider with stunning coloration and the ability to jump more than 50x the length of their bodies.
They are tiny, only measuring around 4-6mm in length, but a leap of 50x that distance is still concerning. Of course they’re in Australia too where every animal is wild in its own way.
17. Chicken Turtle
eastern chicken turtle
Someone in the Southeastern United States got real lazy when they named the Chicken Turtle. They were probably eating chicken roasted over a spit and saw a turtle, pointed at it, and said ‘chicken turtle.’
In actuality, the chicken turtle was first named by two French zoologists back in 1801, Pierre André Latreille and François Marie Daudin, who each published their findings in separate journals after having first observed it near Charleston, South Carolina. If you’ve ever been to the Southeast then chances are you have seen one of these turtles.
18. Pleasing Fungus Beetle
pleasing fungus beetle
This is one of those ‘make your mind up’ names. The pleasing fungus beetle actually encompasses a whole family of beetles. I’m no entomologist but I fail to find anything pleasing about the fungus beetle.
19. Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
hummingbird hawk moth flying
My theory with the Hummingbird Hawk-Moth is three people spotted it at the same time. One swore they saw a hummingbird, another swore it was a mini hawk, and the third was confident it was a moth. When the Hummingbird Hawk-Moth turned out to be a moth that looked like all three they just squished the name together.
They are found from Portugal to Japan and were first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. As caterpillars, they are rather unremarkable but as fully grown Hummingbird Hawk-Moths they are stunning.
20. Ice Cream Cone Worm
Ice Cream Cone Worms or trumpet worms measure around 2″ long. Do they look like ice cream cones? In my opinion, absolutely not. But maybe ice cream cones looked like dirty scabs back in the day. They were first documented in the early 1800s so maybe they primarily went by ‘trumpet worms’ early on until ice cream cones hit the market in 1896.
21. Hellbender
eastern Hellbender in the water
The Eastern Hellbender is an iconic species of giant salamander. I have wanted to see one in the wild my whole life but have yet to spot one.
As for having one of the funniest names among animals, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources says “The name ‘hellbender’ probably comes from the animal’s odd look. One theory claims the hellbender was named by settlers who thought “it was a creature from hell where it’s bent on returning.” Another rendition says the undulating skin of a hellbender reminded observers of “horrible tortu”res of the infernal regions.” In reality, it’s a harmless aquatic salamander.”
22. Jackass Penguin
The African Penguin is also known as the ‘Jackass Penguin’ and are endemic to the Old World. Also known as the Cape penguin or the South African penguin, the Jackass Penguin was not, in fact, named for Johnny Knoxville.
23. Hotwheels sisyphus
This name feels like an elaborate prank. Hotwheels sisyphus is a species of Chinese ground spider and the genus is Hotwheels. They were first documented in 2024 which makes the ‘Hotwheels’ designation all the stranger. Didn’t those toys fall off decades ago?
24. E.T. sponge
It is wild how some creature that has existed for untold millennia gets spotted by humans one day and they are like ‘you kind of reminded me of an overrated 80s movie and I’m going to name you after that forever.’ That is basically how the E.T. Sponge, Advhena magnifica, got its name back in 2016 when it was first observed in the Mariana Trench at a depth of 2,028 meters.
25. Mountain Chicken Frog
The Mountain Chicken Frog, Leptodactylus fallax, is critically endangered and found throughout the Caribbean islands of Montserrat and Dominica. Population numbers plummeted by 80% between 1995 and 2004.
The name, Mountain Chicken, comes from the locals hunting them down as a delicacy and the chicken-like flavor.
A Fraudulent Impeachment – It’s amazing the depths the left will stoop to to smear someone who is in their way. They act like the mafia when they want to take someone out. I’m amazed that Trump was as tough as was, holding his ground and not putting up with their shit. They did everything possible to destroy him, but failed. (note: this link got taken down. Some funny business is going on, so you know it’s true)
Golf
Do White People Even Play Golf? – It’s the same shit as regular advertising. You’d think there were no white husbands anymore either. Fortunately, this one is a get woke, go broke FAFO that’s not going well for Nike.
Well, right now, the Middle East is off my list. I think the reason why is obvious.
After reading the stories of Chris Kyle (An American Sniper) and Lone Survivor, I’m not too hip on Afghanistan. The amenities there seem a bit lacking, as is the hospitality of the tribesmen.
On a more serious note, I don’t really want to go back to Europe. I traveled there on business and vacation for decades. I’m married to a Scandinavian, so I’ve been there more times than I wanted to go.
Travel used to be a lot more fun and good until about 9/11. After that, going through airports sucks.
When I used to go to an office in Paris, London, Milan, or Cannes (and many other cities, depending on the job), the people were a lot nicer. Now, the American bashing has taken its toll on me.
Even my wife is tired of her relatives talking so much shit about the US and the American people. She doesn’t go as much as she’s fed up also, just not as much as me.
Delusions of Adequacy 