I miss GatorGum sometimes. I wonder why that was such a market miss that they had to pull it.
The Sour Story Behind Gatorade’s Discontinued GatorGum
Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt
The Right Hates Kids. It’s Weird.
I mean, at some level they hate everyone. Even themselves. But, yeah, going after kids should be a deal breaker. But way too many Republicans are absolutely fine with this behavior.
Here is more of a breakdown of the worst voices from that side. One has already been taken off air. Which ain’t much but at least someone is having a bad day.
Conventional Wisdom IX
In which a discussion on freedom, and joy, and taking back what it means to be an American is discussed.
Tolkkinen: Minnesota has become a state with two flags
No…
We have one flag. There’s an old flag that hasn’t been replaced or is being held on to by racists and curmudgeons.
That’s it.
I see a lot of businesses that went hard into this, buying pristine new versions of the old flag and trying to make some kind of statement by it.
Only statement they made is that they don’t want my money. And that maybe they hate Native Americans and have a kink for slavery.
Just get used to this one. It is a better look all around.
What anxious parents of neurodivergent children can learn from Tim and Gwen Walz
Holy hell, a MSM news article about the Walz family that isn’t a hit job.
The One Sin White Evangelicals Couldn’t Forgive Barack Obama For
It was an instant classic when written and relevant since the Obamas took the big stage last night.
Racism, and the embrace of hatred, endorsed by nearly all Christian denominations in this country since the 1980s is why I don’t go to church anymore. Trump just doubled down on it and is successful in getting Christians to agree to the worst possible things.
The DNC roll call featured a musical salute to each state. Here’s what your state chose
Not bad, not bad at all.
They *did* wimp out on Iowa though.
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
I mean, I am not an education specialist or a journalist, but this headline – and assumption – are just ridiculous.
Pro-tip for modern American journalism. If a Republican says something is about saving money or freedom? It is about NEITHER.
At least for you. Vouchers are for sending public money to private institutions that can’t make it on their own. It is about tax breaks for folks who don’t need them. It is about denying children a proper education on the public end, and to shield children from properly learning about the real world on the private end.
It is about taking from the poor and kicking them while they are down some more for cheap jollies. That’s it.
If I were an employer, I’d hesitate to hire someone who hid from the world in homeschooling, or private/parochial schools without at least asking why it was done. You are getting an incomplete person, even with the finest instructors. Public schools *should* be better, I agree, but life lessons are learned from being challenged, not running away and saying, “screw you and your’s, I’ve got mine (on your dime)”.
Explaining why your keyboard feels so darn good—or way too mushy
I am a bit picky about my keyboards. I have a nice, clicky Velocifire with a 10 key (DON’T EVER NOT GIVE ME A 10-KEY!) but don’t need to go too deep into the $400+ options.
Anyway, here’s a breakdown from Ars Technica about your computer’s main interface (unless you really just spend all day browsing).
Kamala Harris doesn’t owe the national press anything
The same mass media that will stop everything to air a Donald Trump fart but never fact check a thing a Republican says, demands to know why Kamala Harris won’t sit for their loaded questions.
I mean, she picked a VP choice who spent decades in the National Guard only to be attacked by some 4 year REMF Marine and they took the couch fucker’s side. Gee, wonder why they aren’t thinking they’d get fair treatment.
Hell, I even called out our local NPR affiliate and actually had a reporter question whether I really believed they were biased. I provided examples. Haven’t heard back.
Figures.
So, yeah, fuck ’em.