This poster was in the window of the gas station convenience store. It immediately brought some thoughts to mind, but other people may think differently. Where does your mind go when you look at it?
Category: Culture (Page 1 of 23)
Maryland Renaissance Festival Has Banned Furries This Year
Wenches, beggars and barbarians are welcome at this year’s Maryland Renaissance Festival. Furries are not.
And the furries — that is, the subculture defined by people who wear anthropomorphic animal costumes — have their dander up about it.
Jousting is the official state sport of Maryland. Their renaissance festivals should be pretty good, so apparently they don’t need furries.
Push to rename Nashville airport for Dolly Parton gets a boost from Tennessee’s governor
Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is uninspired, but this is a great idea.
I am qualified to judge because I usually come up with good names. Sparky is a great name for my little piglet, and my one-handed sledgehammer is ‘pocket Hercules’. I have names that made it into corporate literature, but let’s stay focused on Nashville International Airport.
Commentators haven’t yet explored why this is such a good idea.
Too funny.
Enes Kanter Freedom declares himself 2027 WNBA prospect, cites eligibility rules
First it was Sophie Cunningham. She seems fun and good. Now a retired NBA player declares himself to be a woman and announced his eligibility for the 2027 WNBA draft.
“I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices,” he said, adding that he wants the WNBA’s rules “applied equally, consistently, and without exception.”
Sophie has been clear on what a woman is, and been getting a lot of shit about it. WNBA management and the players union haven’t been so clear. It’s time to pick a side.
This ‘Charlie-Foxtrot’ has been allowed to exist in Madison for a couple of weeks. Police aren’t allowed in and the fire department has to waste time going around it. This chaos is a pain in the ass for everyone who lives or works in the area.
The mayor has finally decided to tear it down.
A better response is to never let it get established, and to make it clear to the insurrectionists and garbage people that seizing territory is not a legitimate way to protest.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
The feds conduct an annual survey to find out how many people use drugs and how many people are mentally disturbed. The link goes to the highlights of the survey. The results are interesting, but because it’s a survey, I wonder how accurate it is.
This data has been collected for almost 50 years, and we learn that this year, more people use marijuana, than use cigarettes or alcohol. From context, marijuana = THC marijuana and not CBD oil. Cigarettes = tobacco products, but not tobacco-free nicotine products.
l am no expert.
Fitness influencer banned from flight for attempting to board ‘naked’ amid record-breaking heatwave
Edda Elisa, a fetching fitness influencer from Germany, was denied entry on a Lufthansa flight after a gate agent allegedly accused her of being “naked” as a “catastrophic” heatwave plagues Europe.
Elisa is fetching, but time and place do matter.
The gate agent is maintaining standards for public behavior, and Lufthansa should back her up.
Let’s be honest.
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
That’s my advice for people, and for countries. This is America’s 250th anniversary. Everybody else is saying something about it, so I thought I should. I’ve got nothing profound, just a bunch of little thoughts.
If you haven’t seen this, then you live like a normal person in the real world.
I have no interest in women’s basketball, but this incident is fascinating to watch. I didn’t do a deep dive, but nobody is providing a convincing explanation.