You ignored the question and tried to make me the subject of discussion. Like you’ve done for many years, since the JDS took hold.

@Mik said in Rare ‘tooth-in-eye’ surgery restores man’s vision after two decades: Wow. I wonder who dreamed that up. It’s not exactly intuitive. Apparently an Italian ophthalmologist, back in the 1960s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis

@Axtremus said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge: @LuFins-Dad ... still better than the alternative, right? Just checking. Sure, empty posturing about employers firing people for high fiving in the break room over Charlie Kirk is an acceptable trade off for the erosion of the culture that gave us DEI offices in our workplaces, along with the understood consequences of criticizing them.

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Haha

@Doctor-Phibes said in I don’t think Matt Dowd will be the only news personality fired this week…: @Horace said in I don’t think Matt Dowd will be the only news personality fired this week…: Apparently he apologized today. I'm sure Jesus would be good with that. Those guys will forgive anything if you're sorry afterwards. It's part of what makes being a Christian so great. In theory, Jesus knows if someone is being disingenuous.

I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong one!!! President DJT I’m sure.

Just finished a Taiwan series called "Light the Night". Quite good, I thought. Life, love, drama, and murder in a Taiwan hostess bar in the late 1980's Taipei city. Good acting and very atmospheric. Link to video

interesting.

@jon-nyc that is true. It just shows how strong a "hold" he has on the Republics. He can change his mind 180 degrees, and the same people who were cheering his previous choice would be just as loud cheering his 180 different choice.

Yup, the "middle" type of politician is hard to exist in today's world. Looks like it would be an interesting reading. Somewhat related, was looking through Chicago Tribune newspaper and there was an article about a former governor of Illinois named Jim Edgar who just died. He was one of the most popular governors in Illinois ever, but said in a article that he "would have trouble winning a primary in todays world" Edgar’s fiscal conservativism and moderate stance on social issues, including his support for abortion rights, for years made him the template for a successful statewide Republican candidate. But in recent years, that template has been ignored by many hopefuls who wound up going down in defeat. Edgar himself said he doubted he could win a primary in the Trump-era of far-right GOP ideology. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/14/former-two-term-illinois-gov-jim-edgar-who-led-the-state-through-much-of-the-1990s-dies-at-79/

A friend of mine who works at the board of governors posted a picture of himself with her in the building today. Apparently she’s not acting fired.

@Horace I prefer dunks on actual people who say actual things, but sure, we can dunk on imaginary people saying imaginary things too. Tell that to the current POTUS. He imagines a lot about not only people but countries and what he imagines the people in those countries say and do. I will refrain from any comments or observations the POTUS has made recently about groups of people and their real and imagined affiliations of a US domestic nature. You are most welcome to let your imagination run wild with what I wrote above.

Ha that’s actually what I did. Gotta check to make sure I’m not still playing for Disney or HBO separately now though.

MissD for the cock block.

@Doctor-Phibes I do admit though that in when I saw a picture of his face posted in the news, it was immediately familiar. No idea from when or from what source. It was just familiar. Possible that he was on an interview or member of a panel discussion I watched sometime in the past number of years.

It's hard to take anybody seriously who thinks that Tommy Robinson is part of the solution rather than part of the problem.