It's International Scurvy Awareness Day! Have Some Lemons And Limes!
Or have a gin and tonic!
Happy Weekend!
Today is National Scurvy Awareness Day, so … be aware of scurvy? I do not personally have to worry about scurvy as I drink a lot of gin and tonics, go through bags of clementines a little too regularly, and am not a pirate, but I don’t know about the rest of you. It is also Free Comic Book Day, which I remember being a big deal to people at one point, and Kentucky Derby Day, aka, an excuse to wear fascinators in public for people who aren’t me, a lady with zero qualms about wearing a fascinator in public for no reason. Or every reason.
Your first present today is something very close to my heart, and it is my dear, dear friend Pandora Boxx, as Carol Channing, talkin’ about scurvy on RuPaul’s Drag Race. You are welcome!
If you do the Instagram thing, go and give her a follow, on account of how she is goddamn hilarious and one of the best humans I know.
Your next present, because I have to listen to it now, legally, is the actual Carol Channing singing “Jam Tomorrow” from a deeply confusing star-studded version of Alice in Wonderland. Though, to be fair, not quite as confusing as 1976’s Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy, a thing that exists, in case you did not know.
I will not be posting a video of that, in case you were wondering.
Next up, because I feel like it, I am blessing you with a clip from one of the greatest films of all time, Drop Dead Gorgeous, in which a young Denise Richards does her rendition of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” with a Jesus. On wheels.
Truly a classic, even if it’s barely camp anymore. Like, seriously, I can picture way too many MAGA celebs doing this in all earnestness and it frightens me. (But just as an aside, I’m so glad that Denise Richards really seems to be doing so well since leaving her snake oil salesman husband, whom I have known was hot garbage since Season 9 of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.)
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OT: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮 '𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆.' 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻?
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268653/energy-emergency-trump-oil-evs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500123/pdf/DCPD-202500123.pdf
What this means: The AI-bros need to grow revenue really fast. The debt load companies like OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Anthropic (Claude) have undertaken is hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars over the last 12 months. But they can't grow without electricity. Hence the "national emergency." The rationale for the national emergency is "national security" ... ie. they AI-bros got their AI crap so embedded into the Pentagon that they NEED it to keep ... uh ... the mainland safe? Not sure ... but something like that.
Secondary to all this is the fact that the stock market is rising ONLY based on these "AI" driven investments. Remove those companies from the index, and the stock market is actually DOWN over the last twelve months.
Lastly ... even if you accept the "national security" bullshit story, all the equipment, parts, wire, transformers, etc., etc. needed to expand the electrical grid in the US, a minute percentage of all those parts and equipment are manufactured in the US. Most come from China ... the country were trying to "protect" the US from.
So ... how to solve the problem? STOP USING THIS MAGIC BEAN AI SHIT IN DEFENSE PLANNING. Humans with expertise still outperform the magic beans. As much as I see "AI" being useful in many contexts, this ALL IN strategy is a house of cards economically.
AP headline: "Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power."
No, fuckers, the words you wanted there were not 'executive power', they were 'open lawlessness.' Useless fucking press.