This is an old joke told by Billy Conolly.
This is an old joke told by Billy Conolly.
The US Navy could not tolerate having the British get ahead in the “flinging F-35s overboard” TikTok fad that appears to be emerging, so they did one too. It’s a dangerous fad and people get hurt.
For the record: I don’t care particularly much about the underlying topic, but I am interested why someone would lie so obviously and incompetently.
I’m going to rant/ramble and not try to make a neat argument this morning. I need sleep and coffee and it looks like I may be snowed in again and I want to get to the shop and make some wood chips before the roads are impassible.
Content Warning: Blood, Despair
I found this years ago; I don’t know who did the original or where it’s from, but it captures something.
He was exactly what he was and he was larger and louder and glampunk theatrical.
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How’s the defunding going?
The right of a woman to an abortion did not depend on the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It was won before that decision, all over the country, by grassroots agitation that forced states to recognize the right. If the American people, who by a great majority favor that right, insist on it, act on it, no Supreme Court decision can take it away.
I learned about this because it was mentioned on the Unintended Consequences podcast.
Looks like the Europe edition of “Syria, the overthrow.”