It’s so much better to spend other peoples’ money!

Washington Post POLITICS ALERT email, July 29, 11:31 AM EDT | Headline: "Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case" Separately, the Justice Department petitioned the high court Tuesday to allow the federal government to replace Trump as the defendant in the case.

Trump exhausted all his appeals in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit, when the “Supreme” Court shockingly upheld lower court verdicts that ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll $5 million. Of course he’s appealing the second verdict – you know, the one where after losing $5 million the first time around, he went on to defame Ms. Carroll YET AGAIN, and the judge ordered him to pay her $83 million this time?

Nothing is newsworthy about the second appeal. What is newsworthy is the separate motion filed by the government, petitioning the court to allow said government to replace Donald Trump as the defendant.

So, if it turns out he does have to pay the $83 million, wouldn’t it be so much better if U.S. taxpayers paid his bill?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Come on! I double-dog-dare you!

New York Daily News photo of Trump with face covered with clown emoji courtesy of Yoursr Truly, with headline that reads "Feds look to rename Penn Station, potentially for Trump, in transit priorities letter" and a blurb that says " In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees, Duffy lists “administration priorities” for the federal rebuilding of the nation’s busiest rail hub."

This grand plan to rename New York’s Penn Station after Donald Trump has been kicking around for a while now, yet you may be surprised to learn that I AM ALL FOR IT. In fact, I cannot wait for this to happen!

It is a well-known fact that the sheer scale of this administration’s delusions of grandeur is matched only by its epic incompetence. Look what they did to a shallow pool ferchrissakes, and just imagine how badly they can fuck up a train station! (Note that this is not the part I am excitedly looking forward to, but it seems inevitable, with or without Trump’s name slapped all over it.)

It is also a well-known fact that much of our fair city holds a visceral disgust – dare I say hatred? – for the current president, a sentiment that stretches back long before he had any political ambitions.

A third well-known fact is that New York City is home to an enormous population of extraordinarily creative people, the vast, VAST majority of whom I’d venture are far-left terrorists lefties eager to protest the current political regime.

I think you can see where I’m coming from and where I’m going with this, which seems particularly apropos for a post about a train station.  [Read more…]

Iris haz disappoint. :|

Last Friday I was informed that Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, has launched an international crusade against “far-left terrorists.”

As a committed disciple of the philosophy of nonviolence-except-in-self-defense-or-defense-of-another – or NEISDODOA, as it is commonly known 🤣 – I was particularly keen to find out what horrific, bloody mayhem these “far-left” evildoers were getting up to. Terrorism in the name of leftist causes IS NOT HELPFUL. It makes the rest of us nonviolent lefties look bad by association, and sets us all back in our quest for world domination single-payer healthcare for all.

via DropSite News:

Speaking at a conference attended by officials from more than 60 countries, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. is building an “international counterterrorism coalition” focused on transnational far-left networks, alleging links to Iranian proxies and Cuba. Rubio promised further terrorist designations …

Oh no, I thought. I’ve been a supporter and activist for leftist causes for my whole adult life, and yet I have never once encountered a single Iranian proxy! Well, not that I know of anyway. I have indeed met quite a few Cubans in Miami over the years. But these particular Cubans only seemed interested in serving up ridiculously delicious Cuban food at their South Beach restaurants after 4am when the clubs all closed. Had this whole leftist-Iranian-proxy-Cuban-terrorism-campaign been operating right under my nose for decades?!

Naaaaah. [Read more…]

Space is full of sugar!

I just thought you guys should know.

(via AP)

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what’s called the interstellar medium: thin clouds of gas and dust littered between stars.

…

Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way.

And what a prescient name for our galaxy “Milky Way” has turned out to be!

They identified the sugar in gas form by comparing telescope signals to samples in the lab. It’s the latest kind of sugar detected in space — in a region crossed by NASA’s twin Voyager, the farthest spacecraft to ever travel from Earth.

The results were published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Alas, I don’t have a subscription to Nature Astronomy (and wouldn’t understand a word of it if I did). However, I was deeply moved and inspired to create my latest masterpiece depicting what these astronomers surely saw:

A field of white stars against a black background covered with floating emojis depicting candy, cake, and ice cream.

SPACE IS FULL OF SUGAR!
(artist rendering)
Iris Vander Pluym
$1 million