NPR's Top Editor Resigns After Propaganda Network Loses $500 Million in Federal Funding, Claims Her Resignation Has Nothing to Do With the Cuts

NPR's top editor has tendered her resignation days after the radio station lost $500million in federal funding for an alleged bias against conservatives.
Edith Chapin, who serves as editor-in-chief and acting chief content officer at National Public Radio, announced her departure on Tuesday.
Chapin told an NPR reporter she quit rather than being fired and that she was not leaving due to the funding cuts.

I mean...

She also said she handed in her notice two weeks ago ahead of the cuts, which Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail.
...
Supporters of the cuts to federal funding - which also affected PBS - said it was unfair to expect all Americans to subsidize a network with such an isolated worldview.
...
'I have had two big executive jobs for two years and I want to take a break. I want to make sure my performance is always top-notch for the company,' she said, after joining NPR from CNN in 2012 as chief international editor.
'It's not a good time to do it, but it's never a good time.'
'I needed to pick a date and share my decision.'
'The best thing we can do is do the best work possible every day,' she said as debate continues over whether the company really engaged in systemic bias as the administration claims.
'We need to hear from all kinds of people - and that is our job.
'And we need to be as clear and transparent as we possibly can, and our audiences can decide how useful we are for them.'
'One of the things that was attractive when I came here was this philosophy of all things considered,' she continued.
...
Maher also addressed statistics that showed the broadcaster having 87 registered Democrats on-staff this time last year and not a single Republican.

The disparity, Maher conceded, was 'concerning - if true.' She insisted NPR does not track such affiliations.

Apparently this editor was hired to review stories for "fairness and balance."

Crackerjack job.

I don't know what's going on here, but here's my speculation: This woman was hired as a fig-leaf concession. NPR had been exposed as hopelessly leftwing by Uri Berliner, who they then suspended and forced out, and they needed to placate Congress by pretending they cared about balance.

But the moment Congress cancelled their funding, they decided they were all done with this very weak effort at pretending, so they had no further use of their "fairness and balance" fig-leaf editor.

NPR's batty wine-aunt CEO says that Republicans cancelled funding for her perverse propaganda network just because they don't want people of marginalized communities to have voices.

"This argument about public media being 'biased' is a stalking horse. We report on soybean farmers and LGBTQ activism. We report on coal miners and eco-warriors," she continued. "Having non-White voices and perspectives on air does not make us woke. Covering the existence of disagreement and difference in our country does not make us biased. It makes us reflective of the complex, diverse nation we serve."
Maher said NPR would "take a moment to mourn" and ultimately move forward.
Ex-NPR editor Uri Berliner roasted the outlet last year over its biased coverage on such issues as COVID-19, Hunter Biden's laptop and the Russiagate saga. He soon after resigned and joined The Free Press.

Woke white CEOs are very eager to deny job opportunities to white men to give the jobs to "diverse, marginalized people." Strangely, they never give up their own jobs, despite being whiter than Bjork's thighs in winter.

And now: a former NPR CEO says that maybe we don't need state media at all.

What a concept!

Former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller acknowledges that "mixing journalism and federal funding is just a recipe for disaster" after Congress votes to cut funding for NPS and other outlets.

"Let's just find a better way forward." pic.twitter.com/Vbp2MStObU
— Hotep Jeffiziah Charles🏴 (@jeffcharlesjr) July 21, 2025

She looks like she's about to put that last thing you said on your Permanent Record. https://t.co/RrHn67DFTj
— 𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓡𝓪𝔂 (@2CynicAl65) July 24, 2025

Related: Brian Stelter continues his Colbert Denialism, refusing to concede that Paramount may have cancelled Colbert for the reasons that they've stated: Financial ones. Colbert was losing $40-50 million per year with no hopes whatsoever of a ratings recovery.

CNN "Media Reporter" Brian Stelter
Chef's Conception

Waste of the Day: "Make Art Great Again"
By Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigations
July 25, 2025
Topline: Erin Elmore, director of the State Department's "Art in Embassies" program, has vowed to "Make Art Great Again," and taxpayers will be footing the bill.
The Art in Embassies program has spent at least $6.4 million on grants and contracts since 2008, according to OpenTheBooks' review of federal spending data.

Key facts: Art in Embassies was created in 1964 with guidance from first lady Jackie Kennedy to display U.S. artwork in diplomatic buildings around the world.
Since then, its spending has arguably gotten out of hand. There is artwork displayed in 189 countries including Suriname, Malta and Tajikistan. Since 2008, taxpayers have spent $361,805 to display artwork in Beijing and $8,000 on artwork in Moscow.
Insurance for the artwork has cost at least $416,000 since 2008, including $111,382 in the past year. Shipping has cost $202,370.
During the government shutdown in 2019, the State Department spent $84,375 to install a sculpture of Bob Dylan in Mozambique.
In 2021, the program bought a "brass Art in Embassies medal with 4.25 rosewood presentation box" for $799. The program also spent $24,909 for a "catering event" in May 2023.
This year the State Department planned to spend $2 million on seven sculptures, including a $650,000 "triple-height suspended sculpture" in Brazil and a $105,000 "textile work" in Malawi, but the purchases were cancelled, according to PBS.
According to its X account, Art in Embassies has been "cultivating diplomacy thru art in U.S. embassies since 1963" as the "Department of State's heart of art." The program has stuck around despite a planned 15% reduction to the Department of State's staff headcount.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 First holy shit

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:22 PM (fV+MH)

2 ""Hello," they lied."

Hah.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:23 PM (fV+MH)

3 Read the content.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 25, 2025 04:24 PM (GYt5+)

4 didn't nood

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:24 PM (fV+MH)

5 Make Art Great Again

This ain't your grandpa's WPA.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 04:25 PM (gRvjD)

6 I did

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 25, 2025 04:25 PM (GYt5+)

7 Alleged bias against conservatives.

Fucking lol.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:25 PM (fV+MH)

8 "Read the content.
Posted by: Thanatopsis "

You did not read the content!

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:26 PM (fV+MH)

9 254 Well, been out for hours power-washing the patio.

Looks like I got here just in time for the Nth Battle of Manassas!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

No one notified me, either!!! I'll wrestle every man ass you've got! And tame them with my throbbing manhood.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 25, 2025 04:27 PM (hTOOP)

10 The local NPR station was running a fundraiser last week. They run a fundraiser just about every week. They need a lot of funds, but they cover a big area in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. I've never heard a local newscast one time.

Posted by: huerfano at July 25, 2025 04:27 PM (n2swS)

11 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

12 And yeah, always take the buyout, based on my experience.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

13 That Brian Stelter spud looks like a South Park Canadian.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2025 04:27 PM (kgE5c)

14 I use to like Rick Steves and his Travel show, but Fuck him. He was showing sites in Germany talk about the NAZI's then he would go on and on about how it's so similar to what Trump and his Supporters. Put out a video of himself Living in France and telling people to vote against Fascist Trump
Then this M'Fer had the balls to plead not to cut funding.

At Least Samantha Brown was smart enough not to Talk Politics

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 25, 2025 04:28 PM (FCrpy)

15 I didn't know Stelter was Canadian, but that picture is undeniable proof.

Posted by: Texas99 at July 25, 2025 04:28 PM (25tnG)

16 She made $300K in salary in 2023.... yeah... she was about to get a pay cut...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 04:28 PM (mP0Kj)

17 >>No one notified me, either!!! I'll wrestle every man ass you've got! And tame them with my throbbing manhood.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 25, 2025 04:27 PM

Shouldn't you be home with your discount children?

Posted by: huerfano at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM (n2swS)

18 "NPR Top Editor" - announce to the world you're a DEI hire without admitting you're a DEI hire.

Posted by: Charcoal Gray Goose at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM (4U+8N)

19 I have seen Bjork's thighs in winter.

Very cute.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM (fV+MH)

20 14 I use to like Rick Steves and his Travel show, but Fuck him. He was showing sites in Germany talk about the NAZI's then he would go on and on about how it's so similar to what Trump and his Supporters. Put out a video of himself Living in France and telling people to vote against Fascist Trump
Then this M'Fer had the balls to plead not to cut funding.

At Least Samantha Brown was smart enough not to Talk Politics
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
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Steves went to Iran years ago and gave the mullahs a tongue bath in return for getting to film his show there.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM (ctrM5)

21 Have Brian Stelter or Bill Kristol weighed in on this important subject yet?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

22 The local radio affiliate, which is all classical and which I listen to all the time, just had its first post-funding-cut pledge drive. I seriously wish them well.

And if they get rid of their top of the drivetime hour NPR "news" updates? I'll even start ponying up again myself.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 25, 2025 04:30 PM (LxER7)

23 Brian Stetler is a Late Night Firing DENIER!!!

which is the worstest thing you can be!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 04:30 PM (mP0Kj)

24 I have seen Bjork's thighs in winter.

Very cute.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM

Were your ears warm?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

25 That said, that art expenditure is really low.
I honestly don't hate the idea, either. Better than letting the world think that all art comes from Italy or France.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 04:30 PM (xcxpd)

26 That's not looking like they don't actually need the federal money, anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

27 I guess the job became an actual job when the bank closed and said, "You're on your own, kid." Actual responsibility and profit get real when Daddy isn't there to bail you out of your incompetence.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (gLikB)

28 I've noticed how much of our destruction is being shepherded by AWFLs....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (aPBRN)

29 24 I have seen Bjork's thighs in winter.

Very cute.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM

Were your ears warm?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:30 PM (0sNs1)

I mean, she is from Iceland. Hope of the Reykjavik Handshake.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

30 Edith Chapin is the Edith Chapin of Edith Chapin.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (fV+MH)

31 Have you seen Bjork's latest album cover? Please don't mention her thighs again....

Posted by: Charcoal Gray Goose at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (4U+8N)

32 Ace: "Strangely, they never give up their own jobs, despite being whiter than Bjork's thighs in winter."

A lovely image, Ace, esp. in the middle of a vicious summer!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)

33 Brian Stelter is a flaming retard

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 04:32 PM (OW907)

34 33 Brian Stelter is a flaming retard
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 04:32 PM (OW907)

Stewed, even

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

35 * hangs head in shame *

Ace did, in fact, weigh in with Tater's weigh in.

* kicks rock *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:33 PM (0sNs1)

36 "She looks like she's about to put that last thing you said on your Permanent Record."

Quoted for truth

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:33 PM (omVj0)

37 *Hope = Home

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 25, 2025 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

38 That tater picture....

I can't. I simply can't. I'm dying here

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2025 04:34 PM (RlmPm)

39 >>I have seen Bjork's thighs in winter.

Very cute.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 25, 2025 04:34 PM (NcvvS)

40 But are childrens can't read if they done watch Seasame Street!!

Unrelated:
The US just set a new record high of percentage of elementary students unable to read at grade level.

More Head Start!
More teacher funding!
More funding for schools!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2025 04:34 PM (M5STE)

41 Make Art Great Again!

An Ottoman in every pot!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 25, 2025 04:34 PM (MDua2)

42 9 254 Well, been out for hours power-washing the patio.

Looks like I got here just in time for the Nth Battle of Manassas!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo
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I think the whole Civil War could be called like Churchill did the Second World War--the Unnecessary War. The fireeaters in the South wanted expansion to new states, the North didn't. So the South stupidly decided to secede when obviously ended their 'right' under Dred Scott to spread slavery while Lincoln's actions probably forced the uneasy outer southern states into seceding.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (ctrM5)

43 @4/eleven: "4 didn't nood"

The barrel is that way. Don't try to escape or the moose will throw you back in.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (O7YUW)

44 Edith definitely has the face for radio

Posted by: Blanco at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (q83gU)

45 Who has creamier thighs--Bjork or Tater?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (kTd/k)

46 The disparity, Maher conceded, was 'concerning - if true.' She insisted NPR does not track such affiliations.

--

Maher had no comment on how "concerning" her own rabid leftist tweets were.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (qBdHI)

47 Edith Chapin or Sydney Sweeney. Discuss

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (hIY2p)

48 "Strangely, they never give up their own jobs, despite being whiter than Bjork's thighs in winter."

I would like to THANK YOU ACE for the best laugh I have had in ages.

Posted by: Pamazon at July 25, 2025 04:36 PM (b5MGU)

49 Steves went to Iran years ago and gave the mullahs a tongue bath in return for getting to film his show there.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:29 PM (ctrM5)

I don't know why but I started watching Real Travel videos of going to India, guy rode general class on a train and I had to take a shower after watching the Video. Everything was filthy Dirty

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 25, 2025 04:36 PM (FCrpy)

50 NPR's batty wine-aunt CEO says that Republicans cancelled funding for her perverse propaganda network just because they don't want people of marginalized communities to have voices.

"This argument about public media being 'biased' is a stalking horse. We report on soybean farmers and LGBTQ activism. We report on coal miners and eco-warriors," she continued. "Having non-White voices and perspectives on air does not make us woke.

RTV reports on soybeans and coal. Farmers don't give two shits about LGBTQ activism and eco-warriors.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2025 04:36 PM (JBVNW)

51 The leftists and various other Commies should really get out of the country for their own good. Try Canada or some of those European countries. Go somewhere they could feel at home. For their on peace of mind. Also, don't ever come back.

Posted by: Case at July 25, 2025 04:37 PM (ilX37)

52 Wow did Edie always have that alluring snear?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 04:37 PM (wBaIH)

53 "That Brian Stelter spud looks like a South Park Canadian.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

The asshole on the One Road?

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 04:37 PM (fV+MH)

54 Duncanthrax: "Have Brian Stelter or Bill Kristol weighed in on this important subject yet?"

I think Kristol said this is the perfect opportunity to wage war in one of the seven continents while Stelter wants to assault a Mongolian buffet.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 25, 2025 04:38 PM (gLikB)

55 Is this Bjork person a fake transgender ? because they are some weird looking person. Is the music any good?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:38 PM (2GCMq)

56 She made $300K in salary in 2023.... yeah... she was about to get a pay cut...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025

***
Ten per cent cut would have left her with $270K. I could bear up under that. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:38 PM (omVj0)

57 47 Edith Chapin or Sydney Sweeney. Discuss
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (hIY2p)

That’s like me against Michael Jordan (in his prime) one on one

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 04:38 PM (ZtAny)

58 She is getting ahead of the massive cuts that are coming now that the taxpayer $$$$ has dried up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 04:39 PM (e5NfL)

59 didn't PBS/NPR declare that only 1% of their budget came from federal dollars?

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 04:39 PM (8uzBS)

60
I want to make sure my performance is always top-notch for the company

'It's not a good time to do it, but it's never a good time.'

'I needed to pick a date and share my decision.'

'The best thing we can do is do the best work possible every day,

'We need to hear from all kinds of people - and that is our job.

'And we need to be as clear and transparent as we possibly can, and our audiences can decide how useful we are for them.'

=============

Is that NPR Lady quitting or Joe Biden withdrawing from the race? AI remembers!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 04:39 PM (lCaJd)

61 "The disparity, Maher conceded, was 'concerning - if true.'"

Whoa there, Bill! Let's not get crazy with hostile and obscene rhetoric.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 25, 2025 04:40 PM (gLikB)

62 @55 Fenelon, Bjork is a definite weirdo but a few of her songs are good ( Big Time Sensuality). Her prior band the Sugarcubes was ok

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:40 PM (hIY2p)

63 Forgot to mention in the last thread, Australia is granting "climate visas" now. That's what was in store for us.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (19Jrv)

64
I don't know why but I started watching Real Travel videos of going to India, guy rode general class on a train and I had to take a shower after watching the Video. Everything was filthy Dirty
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 25, 2025

***
I tried to read a memoir of a guy who took the overland journey a lot of hippies did from Istanbul to the west coast of India, by bus and walking and trains, in the mid-'70s. Couldn't finish it and had to wash my hands repeatedly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

65 I don't know why but I started watching Real Travel videos of going to India, guy rode general class on a train and I had to take a shower after watching the Video. Everything was filthy Dirty
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
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I understand that traveling the rails during the old days often covered passengers in soot etc. from the steam trains plus whatever road grit from dust they picked up along the way.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (ctrM5)

66 Art in Embassies used to be borrowing American pieces from libraries or private collectors and displaying them in embassies and ambassador's residences, with a budget (salaries AND insurance for the pieces) of around 800,000 per year. Yes, there is inflation, but it looks like they are buying pieces, and that is not what the program was designed for: to showcase American artists overseas. Now, it looks like it's been turned into a grift, just like any other government program.

Also, the gals in that (tiny) bureau were all "interns" who were related in some way to congressmen. So, maybe it was a boondoggle in the first place to find a resume builder for useless art degrees.

Posted by: moki at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (wLjpr)

67 Stelter is the king of the ratio (in X speak).

Posted by: Justice Merrick Garland at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (iEO+F)

68 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OVER 25 YEARS AGO MY COLLEAGUE REFERRED TO NPR AS "NATIONAL COMMIE RADIO."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (ZmEVT)

69 Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:40 PM (hIY2p)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:42 PM (2GCMq)

70
The old "spending more time with my family" excuse.

As if they'd want them around without bring home an income.

Posted by: Auspex at July 25, 2025 04:42 PM (Y8DZL)

71 She looks nice. Not sure which is better, those eyes or the snarl.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 25, 2025 04:43 PM (19Jrv)

72 50 NPR's batty wine-aunt CEO says that Republicans cancelled funding for her perverse propaganda network just because they don't want people of marginalized communities to have voices.

"This argument about public media being 'biased' is a stalking horse. We report on soybean farmers and LGBTQ activism. We report on coal miners and eco-warriors," she continued. "Having non-White voices and perspectives on air does not make us woke.

RTV reports on soybeans and coal. Farmers don't give two shits about LGBTQ activism and eco-warriors.
Posted by: rickb223
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Elites want shit they like to be subsidized by the state--EVs, NPR, PBS, their household labor, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:43 PM (ctrM5)

73 Edith Chapin looks like the person you beat with the ugly stick when you need to recharge the stick.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 25, 2025 04:43 PM (BGygK)

74 Who has creamier thighs--Bjork or Tater?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM

Which ones have been mashed most recently?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:43 PM (0sNs1)

75 Edith Chapin looks like the person you beat with the ugly stick when you need to recharge the stick.

+++
Damn! Glad I wasn't sipping a beverage

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 25, 2025 04:44 PM (19Jrv)

76 So Tater Stelter played Ike from South Park?

"don't kid the baby"

Posted by: Mike, Good for a few things, at least at July 25, 2025 04:44 PM (0aYVJ)

77 I just had a horrible vision of Stelter wearing that swan dress thing that Bjork wore. Shudder

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:45 PM (hIY2p)

78 Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 25, 2025 04:43 PM (BGygK)

I think she looks like a woman in her sixties who doesn't color her hair and was in an unflattering photo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:46 PM (2GCMq)

79 Who has creamier thighs--Bjork or Tater?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM

Which ones have been mashed most recently?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:43 PM (0sNs1)
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Don't know if I want to know the answer to that....

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 04:46 PM (krQz2)

80 Edith Chapin got crazy eyes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:46 PM (LWopF)

81 I bet those NPR ex-execs have great pension plans.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 04:46 PM (ZmEVT)

82 Edith Chapin looks like someone who would hide children in an attic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 04:47 PM (qBdHI)

83 I suspect that much of the Stelter ~~mashing~~ bashing that goes on here is because of the jealousy that he's a sex machine, and we're not.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 04:47 PM (0sNs1)

84
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Don't know if I want to know the answer to that....
Posted by: Axeman
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Pretty sure I didn't want to read it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:48 PM (LWopF)

85 ‘I have had two big executive jobs for two years and I want to take a break’

Oh suck a fat dick. You were professional Karen whining and moaning like a professional Karen. ‘Big executive jobs’ my ass.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 04:48 PM (aeiyZ)

86
I think she looks like a woman in her sixties who doesn't color her hair and was in an unflattering photo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:46 PM (2GCMq)

Fenelon, sometimes the ugly heart leaks out onto the face

Posted by: moki at July 25, 2025 04:48 PM (wLjpr)

87 Edith Chapin looks like someone who would hide children in an attic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 04:47 PM (qBdHI)
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In a Gingerbread house.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 04:48 PM (krQz2)

88
I think she looks like a woman in her sixties who doesn't color her hair and was in an unflattering photo.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025

***
Agreed, Fen, but that narrow-eyed look seems pretty feral to me, and would even on, say, Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:48 PM (omVj0)

89 Edith Chapman looks like a tranny

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 04:49 PM (aeiyZ)

90 My guess is NPR does not have those "marginalized" people who are not leftists commenting .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:50 PM (2GCMq)

91 I didn't know Brian Stelter played a Canadian on "South Park."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2025 04:50 PM (CHHv1)

92 Wiki says she got her bachelor's degree in '86. That would have her probably graduating high school in '82. She's probably around 60/61. That is...if she went to college right after high school.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 04:50 PM (qBdHI)

93 Those eyes says that she would have bitten the head off a bat to keep NPR's funding.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:51 PM (LWopF)

94 Actually that Tater picture above looks like Stan's little brother on South Park

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:51 PM (hIY2p)

95 say

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:51 PM (LWopF)

96 I didn't know Brian Stelter played a Canadian on "South Park."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2025

***
Wasn't he the one who got "killed" in every episode?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)

97 I am going to engage in a moment of poetry.

Fuck NPR.
Fuck PBS.
And I don't give a fuck how many tears Ken Burns weeps.

All done.

That whole cabal, CPB, PBS, and NPR, now have unlimited opportunities to chart their future. More like rack up failures.

I will consider them on the road to reform when they start running Smith & Wesson ads, take an editorial stance that Obama is an anti American Communist, and start referring the Left as pariahs. Till then, nah bruh, your homo puppets just ain't for me.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 04:52 PM (NXz8h)

98 What does NPR supply to "marginalized people" that they can't get anywhere else? If they have electricity, they are no more marginalized than anybody else.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 04:52 PM (qBdHI)

99 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 04:48 PM (omVj0

I looked up some other pictures. The granny glasses are not flattering but she looks better when she's smiling as most of us do in pictures. And no, I no fan of NPR.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:52 PM (2GCMq)

100 Related: Brian Stelter continues his Colbert Denialism, refusing to concede that Paramount may have cancelled Colbert for the reasons that they've stated: Financial ones. Colbert was losing $40-50 million per year with no hopes whatsoever of a ratings recovery.
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Remember, on this side, if we think something "looks like" something, we HAVE to go with the official record and discard what we think it looks like--because that's just crazy. The fracturing of opinion is just dangerous.

On their side, they don't. It's simple.

Conspiracy theories on our side are dangerous and alarming. Conspiracy theories on their side is just "speaking the truth to power", or some such nonsense.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2)

101 You'll be sorry! Who's going to give you your flood warnings now?!?!?!

Posted by: Edith Chapin at July 25, 2025 04:52 PM (ULPxl)

102 No kenny could never be tater

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 25, 2025 04:53 PM (bXbFr)

103 At first glance I thought Stelter had referred to "late night vegans", which would make sense.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 25, 2025 04:53 PM (od0dV)

104 You'll be sorry! Who's going to give you your flood warnings now?!?!?!

--

NPR is to flood warnings as Planned Parenthood is to mammograms.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2025 04:54 PM (qBdHI)

105 Edith Chapin is all-in for abortion. Yet she has never been impregnated, and never will be.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 04:54 PM (wBaIH)

106 Maher also addressed statistics that showed the broadcaster having 87 registered Democrats on-staff this time last year and not a single Republican.

The disparity, Maher conceded, was 'concerning - if true.' She insisted NPR does not track such affiliations.
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'concerning - if true'.

I haven't heard such dissembling since the days of Daniel Schor.

Posted by: mrp at July 25, 2025 04:54 PM (rj6Yv)

107 I am going to engage in a moment of poetry.

Fuck NPR.
Fuck PBS.
And I don't give a fuck how many tears Ken Burns weeps.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 04:52 PM (NXz8h)
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There is no justification that non-commie taxpayers have to pay for all that commie propaganda.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 04:54 PM (krQz2)

108 Supporters of the cuts to federal funding - which also affected PBS - said it was unfair to expect all Americans to subsidize a network with such an isolated worldview.

...

We are $37T in debt, we need to cut valuable programs to the bone and END all other funding.

So which is more important $500M to PBS or $500M to SS recipients?

The GOP should be making this argument endlessly...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

109 Schiller sounded reasonable so I looked her up . Majored in Russian studies , Masters in Russian, was a tour guide on Russia. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hmmm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (hIY2p)

110 93 This.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (wBaIH)

111 >>>RTV reports on soybeans and coal. Farmers don't give two shits about LGBTQ activism and eco-warriors.
Posted by: rickb223
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Right. NPR not once, have I seen a farm report on my area, state or the nation relating information useful to the farmer or rancher.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (LWopF)

112 Its funny every week or two I read about some lefty/internet org cancelling media outlets because they are state propaganda.

Well what the hell is PBS? Or the BBC for that matter?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

113 108
...

We are $37T in debt, we need to cut valuable programs to the bone and END all other funding.

So which is more important $500M to PBS or $500M to SS recipients?

The GOP should be making this argument endlessly...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

That sounds dangerously close to 'work'!

Posted by: GOPe at July 25, 2025 04:56 PM (ULPxl)

114 Edith has a face fit for the radio for certain.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 04:56 PM (HjfbW)

115 Fenelon, sometimes the ugly heart leaks out onto the face
Posted by: moki
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By 40, maybe earlier, you are responsible for your face. A sourpuss Karen can be picked out subconsciously based on the lines alone.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 04:56 PM (XvL8K)

116 I dunno... if the shipping for the art costs twice as much as the insurance, it might be a good deal. The real question is "What does the art look like?" Is it good art, so-so art, or the kind that everyone except artistes thinks is crap?

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 04:57 PM (yDIvu)

117 she looks like a "super Karen". I bet she's fun at Thanksgiving with her cats and no family.

Posted by: Brahma Bull looking for rider at July 25, 2025 04:57 PM (W+TLY)

118 Edith Chapin is all-in for abortion. Yet she has never been impregnated, and never will be.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Opted out of the gene pool? What a shame.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 25, 2025 04:57 PM (36bTp)

119 One of the two local feed stores I buy from has a teewee inside, which is always showing some farm report channel. It is *not* a peeBS affiliate.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ULPxl)

120 Comey, Hillary, and Brennen are screwed and Obama will slide.

They are the sacrificial lambs to save the Democrat Socialist Hero...

Posted by: Harcourt Fenton Mudd at July 25, 2025 04:59 PM (BltCC)

121 despite being whiter than Bjork's thighs in winter.

I'd prefer Zooey Deschanel's thighs. But I'll take Bjork's.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

122 Bjork has sold over 7 million albums. I'm not sure what to make of that.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 04:59 PM (TN0g+)

123 >>>I looked up some other pictures. The granny glasses are not flattering but she looks better when she's smiling as most of us do in pictures. And no, I no fan of NPR.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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You picked the wrong woman to defend.
You may defend that it's juvenile to demean a person because of their looks but you can't defend that woman, Edith Chapin.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:59 PM (LWopF)

124 >>> 117 she looks like a "super Karen". I bet she's fun at Thanksgiving with her cats and no family.

Posted by: Brahma Bull looking for rider at July 25, 2025 04:57 PM (W+TLY)

HALP

Posted by: Edith Chapin's cats at July 25, 2025 05:00 PM (ULPxl)

125 Wow, we so busy arguing about the Civil War that no one even worried that there was no nood.

That was a fun last thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:00 PM (77rzZ)

126 >>> 125 Wow, we so busy arguing about the Civil War that no one even worried that there was no nood.

That was a fun last thread.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:00 PM (77rzZ)

*tosses pie*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:00 PM (ULPxl)

127 The people who work for NPR find mayonnaise too spicy.

It's banned from all catered events.

Including Minority Appreciation Days.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2025 05:00 PM (b7uxG)

128 NPR was a full-employment act for otherwise unemployable white retards. Look at the masthead and board of directors, and employees and supporters. They’re whiter than Whitey W. McWhite drinking milk in a snowstorm filmed in white & white.

I despise these fucking people. I’d rather hang out with Mutumbo Shakazulu and his African gang from the ghetto projects than these white cracker cocksuckers.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (aeiyZ)

129 One of the two local feed stores I buy from has a teewee inside, which is always showing some farm report channel. It is *not* a peeBS affiliate.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025

***
Farm reports on radio were, and maybe still are, the province of local stations. Usually ones that play country music.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (omVj0)

130 Here's a question: what was her salary?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

131 I dunno... if the shipping for the art costs twice as much as the insurance, it might be a good deal. The real question is "What does the art look like?" Is it good art, so-so art, or the kind that everyone except artistes thinks is crap?

What is wrong with using prints? Why originals that need insuring?

But if the premise that this is Diplomacy Through Art, I would expect Elvis on black velvet and Dogs Playing Poker. Maybe a copy of Farah Faucet's famous swimsuit poster or a Lambo Testarossa with guns.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (/TiS1)

132 Fun fact: The Civil War is more properly yclept The War of Northern Aggression.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (0sNs1)

133 'concerning - if true'.

Using concerning in that context concerns me. American English gets more and more yucky.

Have great rest-of-your-day.

Posted by: Mike, Old Timey Grammar Pedant at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (0aYVJ)

134 All that’s missing from that Sydney Seeeney ad in the sidebar is the “America, Fuck Yeah!” Song from Team America- World Police!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (hlNLQ)

135 Romeo answered me up thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

136 Heya, Canada. Look what we did.

The CBC should be low hanging fruit.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 05:02 PM (dIske)

137 Using concerning in that context concerns me. American English gets more and more yucky.

Have great rest-of-your-day.
Posted by: Mike, Old Timey Grammar Pedant at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (0aYVJ)

She could have used 'problematic.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:02 PM (zZu0s)

138 I looked up some other pictures. The granny glasses are not flattering but she looks better when she's smiling as most of us do in pictures. And no, I no fan of NPR.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You know, Mary Todd Lincoln was way better looking than Varina Davis...

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)

139 Wow, we so busy arguing about the Civil War that no one even worried that there was no nood.

That was a fun last thread.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:00 PM (77rzZ)
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*sigh* I tend to miss all the fun threads.

Stupid job...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:03 PM (4S2yc)

140 We are $37T in debt, we need to cut valuable programs to the bone and END all other funding.
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Yeah, I don't think the embassies need expensive art. The next time one of them requests money for "art", send them the link for Hobby Lobby's website and let them know anything more than $100 requires prior-approval.

Paint the walls white and do your job.

Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 05:03 PM (TN0g+)

141 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:59 PM (LWopF)

I am not defending her political views or NPR. As I said, I do not like NPR. I'm saying she looks like a woman who doesn't color her hair and was in. A unflattering photo. That is all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:03 PM (2GCMq)

142 Fun fact: The Civil War is more properly yclept The War of Northern Aggression.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Props for "yclept." But it's the War of Southern Butthurt.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

143 Why do most of the Karen McAWFLs look like this woman?

It doesn't matter what they looked like young, by late middle age they all look like this

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 05:03 PM (t0Rmr)

144 NPR defunded? How will hicks in flyover land ever get by without 3 hour in-depth looks at lesbian love poetry from prisons?

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 05:03 PM (sFNX2)

145 " Bjork has sold over 7 million albums. I'm not sure what to make of that.
Posted by: Crusader "

Cause she's pretty good at music.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:04 PM (fV+MH)

146 Fun fact: The Civil War is more properly yclept The War of Northern Aggression.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (0sNs1)
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People don't use "yclept" nearly as often as they should.

Make Yclept Great Again!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:04 PM (4S2yc)

147 Yeah, I don't think the embassies need expensive art. The next time one of them requests money for "art", send them the link for Hobby Lobby's website and let them know anything more than $100 requires prior-approval.

Send them wall canvases from the online printing company of that painting of Trump riding a tank holding a minigun

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 05:04 PM (t0Rmr)

148 So which is more important $500M to PBS or $500M to SS recipients?

The GOP should be making this argument endlessly...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

That sounds dangerously close to 'work'!

Posted by: GOPe a
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Remember: Paul "Budget Hawk" Ryan put on his green eye visor, put a fresh roll of tape in his adding machine, brewed 3 pots of coffee, worked all night and ... couldn't find a single penny to cut from the budget.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2025 05:04 PM (b7uxG)

149 >> Edith Chapin, who serves as editor-in-chief and acting chief content officer at National Public Radio, announced her departure on Tuesday. Upon her departure she said, “I’ve been sipping penis for as long as I can remember, but the taste just isn’t there anymore. Years ago, it had a much more pungent taint, but now it’s sadly lost its luster. I will therefore be retiring to pursue much more interesting and flavorful adventures, like anilingus”.

Posted by: Edith Chapins PR Department at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (vB6UG)

150 yeah, farm/grain info is available online in multiple formats, any time of day. No one is sitting by their radio waiting for NPR to give them info.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (vbXSk)

151 Ace: Apparently this editor was hired to review stories for "fairness and balance."

Crackerjack job.

I don't know what's going on here, but here's my speculation: This woman was hired as a fig-leaf concession. NPR had been exposed as hopelessly leftwing by Uri Berliner, who they then suspended and forced out, and they needed to placate Congress by pretending they cared about balance.

*******

I don't know about that. Reading those links that go to back in the day, it looks like that lady was working for NPR BEFORE Uri Berliner was fired. She commented that she disagreed with his assessment about their bias, and in that story, he hadn't been fired yet.

Posted by: EFG at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (6Y7N9)

152 And, after that resounding medley of Shostakovitch's best, here is an update report on feeders and cutter calves...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (LWopF)

153 >>whiter than Bjork's thighs in winter."

--

Whiter than a Hee-Haw lighting engineer's knuckles when Charlie Pride is in the cornfield with Barbi Benton.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (wzAuc)

154 *sigh* I tend to miss all the fun threads.

Stupid job...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

You can always start a "Ginger or Maryanne?" thread, y'know.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (77rzZ)

155 NPR defunded? How will hicks in flyover land ever get by without 3 hour in-depth looks at lesbian love poetry from prisons?

The GOPe: Donald Trump is no conservative

Also the GOPe: Sorry we haven't been able to defund NPR for the last 30 years even though we had congressional majorities and the presidency for a bunch of those years

Also, also the GOPe: Cutting NPR is mean and racist!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (t0Rmr)

156 Edith Chapin is the AWFL.

The very core of it.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (fV+MH)

157 Fun fact : “yclept” is pronounced”skizziks”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:06 PM (hlNLQ)

158 Edith is that person shows up at the party, and everyone ducks.

Who invited her?
Dunno. just don't make eye-contact.
Crap. she spotted us.

Posted by: Mike, Shameslessly Stolen From Bedazzled at July 25, 2025 05:06 PM (0aYVJ)

159 Right. NPR not once, have I seen a farm report on my area, state or the nation relating information useful to the farmer or rancher.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (LWopF)
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Who are these farming "experts" doling out wisdom to the local farmers, who no doubt understand their business far better than any yahoo on the radio?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:06 PM (4S2yc)

160 Fun fact: The Civil War is more properly yclept The War of Northern Aggression.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025
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People don't use "yclept" nearly as often as they should.

Make Yclept Great Again!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025

***
So someone who has stolen a title that does not belong to him, and does it over and over again, is an ycleptomaniac?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:06 PM (omVj0)

161 yclept >>>> verklempt

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)

162 I missed the comments on The Northern War of Aggression

Posted by: Edith Chapins PR Department at July 25, 2025 05:07 PM (vB6UG)

163 Nothing wrong with white thighs.

Presuming we are talking a caucasian woman, anything whiter then the AoS background likely means she uses a tanning bed

Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:07 PM (t0Rmr)

164 NPR/PBS is now free to run the content they want. They should be applauding themselves.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:07 PM (HFcKg)

165 *sigh* I tend to miss all the fun threads.

Stupid job...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

You can always start a "Ginger or Maryanne?" thread, y'know.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (77rzZ)
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Be careful what you wish for. I still have to compose the Sunday Morning Book Thread for this weekend...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:07 PM (4S2yc)

166 I’m not much smarter than a bag of socks, a bag of dirt or a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Edith Chapins PR Department at July 25, 2025 05:08 PM (vB6UG)

167 Fun fact : “yclept” is pronounced”skizziks”
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:06 PM (hlNLQ)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Mike Krzewski or however you spell it at July 25, 2025 05:08 PM (0aYVJ)

168 Propaganda Network Loses $500 Million in Federal Funding

and "viewers like you.", but mostly $500 million in Federal funding.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 05:08 PM (1I7ss)

169 I missed the comments on The Northern War of Aggression
Posted by: Edith Chapins PR Department

Apparently, there are some butthurt Confed sympathizers here who would prefer Lenin to Lincoln.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:08 PM (77rzZ)

170 I think the whole Civil War could be called like Churchill did the Second World War--the Unnecessary War. The fireeaters in the South wanted expansion to new states, the North didn't. So the South stupidly decided to secede when obviously ended their 'right' under Dred Scott to spread slavery while Lincoln's actions probably forced the uneasy outer southern states into seceding.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (ctrM5)

You left out 2 mini Civil Wars in Kansas Territories to try and force a slave state above the 1820 compromise line. Wild stuff and all unforced errors. Why Buchannan might still top my list of worst Presidents even now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:09 PM (8avO+)

171 Winter is ycummin in
Sing, damn, goddamn

Posted by: Warai-otoko has free associations with gratuitous y's at July 25, 2025 05:09 PM (RlmPm)

172 Bjork has sold over 7 million albums. I'm not sure what to make of that.
Posted by: Crusader "

Cause she's pretty good at music.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:04 PM (fV+MH)
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7 million? She’s sold way more than that. She was a juggernaut in the 1990s. She’s probably had individual albums that sold 7 million.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:09 PM (aeiyZ)

173 I think NPR did several segments on how ranchers and farmers were contributing to “climate change” with bovine farts. That was taxpayer money well spent

Posted by: Edith Chapins PR Department at July 25, 2025 05:09 PM (vB6UG)

174 You can always start a "Ginger or Maryanne?" thread, y'know.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:05 PM (77rzZ)
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Be careful what you wish for. I still have to compose the Sunday Morning Book Thread for this weekend...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I wonder if anybody's ever written a book about the Ginger v. Maryanne controversy...

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)

175 Be careful what you wish for. I still have to compose the Sunday Morning Book Thread for this weekend...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:07 PM (4S2yc)

Ken Stampp's "America in 1857" is a great book.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

176 NPR rural ho report:
$20 same as in town.

Posted by: torabora at July 25, 2025 05:10 PM (OdY0v)

177 Woke white CEOs are very eager to deny job opportunities to white men to give the jobs to "diverse, marginalized people."

I'd call these people "faggots". Or "those that ride Vespas". I'm shitty like that.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:11 PM (hk7Ln)

178 Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:08 PM (77rzZ

I'm always glad to skip the Civil War redo discussions.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:11 PM (2GCMq)

179 Nobody in rural areas tune into NPR or PBS. To all the city folk out there, us rubes are way more connected than you think

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 25, 2025 05:11 PM (8P/xB)

180 Why Buchannan might still top my list of worst Presidents even now.
Posted by: Oldcat

But he was the first gay President! He was so dreamy!
-- Historically illiterate gays everywhere

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

181 154 *sigh* I tend to miss all the fun threads.

Stupid job...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

You can always start a "Ginger or Maryanne?" thread, y'know.
Posted by: Bulg

But the constant threadjacking does get old.

Posted by: You think? at July 25, 2025 05:11 PM (o9iNw)

182 Send them wall canvases from the online printing company of that painting of Trump riding a tank holding a minigun
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2025

***
I just looked that up and found myself grinning, at that and the one of Trump in space riding a flaming lion.

For the first time in my adult life, I actually admire a president.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (omVj0)

183 If the rebels were allowed to waltz off with half the country, they'd all be speaking French or Spanish right now, and we'd all be speaking Canadian or English.... like... "English" English....

And the metric.... my God.... the metric....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (RlmPm)

184 Bjork‘s white thighs … The Blade dated an Icelandic girl once. She was closer to Asian-y Inuit-y than lilly white.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (aeiyZ)

185 Shipping has cost $202,370.

The nice thing about Hunter's artwork, though, is that there's no shipping- you just download it!

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (IhVqi)

186 >> Apparently, there are some butthurt Confed sympathizers here who would prefer Lenin to Lincoln.

Ah, yes the Lincoln was a tyrant or something crowd. Are we litigating that again?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (WiETh)

187 I'm always glad to skip the Civil War redo discussions.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You're no fun.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

188 >>> 173 I think NPR did several segments on how ranchers and farmers were contributing to “climate change” with bovine farts. That was taxpayer money well spent
Posted by: Edith Chapins PR Department at July 25, 2025 05:09 PM (vB6UG)

My *two* head of cattle, for which Piper had an Assist at the first MoMee Cattle Roundup, fart in NPR's general direction.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (ULPxl)

189 Right. NPR not once, have I seen a farm report on my area, state or the nation relating information useful to the farmer or rancher.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 04:55 PM (LWopF)

I remember farm information reports on Chicago radio channels ... not public radio. They might have had one too, but their FM stations don't carry far.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)

190 Nobody in rural areas tune into NPR or PBS. To all the city folk out there, us rubes are way more connected than you think

I live in a blue area...but if I get 20m or more out of the cities its Trump signs everywhere.

If these people listen to NPR it isn't having much of an effect on them

Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (t0Rmr)

191 Nashville PBS cut broadcast classical music completely a few years ago in favor of 24/7 talk on one of their stations and "diverse" music on their other station (yes, they have two PBS frequencies in Nashville). Even in blue Nashville, listeners were outraged but for some reason the "public" station did not give a rat's ass. So they are dead to me, and I will never give them another dime.

I still listen to the college station out of Murfreesboro. They have good Americana programming. I thought I would throw a few shekles their way after Congress finally acted, but their fundraising appeals are just leftwing screeds about fascist Republicans. So my purse will stay tightly shut. I guess these geniuses don't realize that their broadcast footprint voted for Trump by over 65%.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 05:13 PM (sFNX2)

192 >>>Republicans cancelled funding for her perverse propaganda network just because they don't want people of marginalized communities to have voices.

Another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 05:13 PM (i24o9)

193 Apparently, there are some butthurt Confed sympathizers here who would prefer Lenin to Lincoln.

Ah, yes the Lincoln was a tyrant or something crowd. Are we litigating that again?
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (WiETh)

During the actual fracas, Southerners seemed to call Jeff Davis that just as much if not more than Old Abe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)

194 The State Dept 's Art program sounds like a fuzzy money thing

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2025 05:13 PM (n+Gtf)

195 Bjork‘s white thighs … The Blade dated an Icelandic girl once. She was closer to Asian-y Inuit-y than lilly white.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (aeiyZ)

*****

The EFG likes the cut of the Blade's jib.

Posted by: EFG at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (6Y7N9)

196 170 I think the whole Civil War could be called like Churchill did the Second World War--the Unnecessary War. The fireeaters in the South wanted expansion to new states, the North didn't. So the South stupidly decided to secede when obviously ended their 'right' under Dred Scott to spread slavery while Lincoln's actions probably forced the uneasy outer southern states into seceding.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2025 04:35 PM (ctrM5)

You left out 2 mini Civil Wars in Kansas Territories to try and force a slave state above the 1820 compromise line. Wild stuff and all unforced errors. Why Buchannan might still top my list of worst Presidents even now.
Posted by: Oldcat
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And the North taxing the South, plantation owner and especially sharecroppers and small farmers into poverty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (LWopF)

197 You're no fun.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ

That's ok. You seem to enjoy them 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (2GCMq)

198 Fun fact: The Civil War is more properly yclept The War of Northern Aggression.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 05:01 PM (0sNs1)
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People don't use "yclept" nearly as often as they should.

Make Yclept Great Again!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:04 PM (4S2yc)
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I clept

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2)

199 You know the most enjoyable part of the NPR story? If they had spent the months since Trump's election hiring rural/midwestern/southern people and given them free rein to make shows they wanted Trump would not have been able to cut their budget.

But because it was all globohomo all the time...

Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (t0Rmr)

200 I listened to NPR this morning for a bit.

They were begging for money. Not much for “news.” Lots of handwringing and guilt trips though

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (mT+6a)

201 Verklemept.

Sounds German

Posted by: Case at July 25, 2025 05:14 PM (ilX37)

202 I have had two big executive jobs for two years and I want to take a break.

Just do a podcast and I'm sure you'll make up the $300,000 annual salary that's now missing.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 05:15 PM (IhVqi)

203 Apparently, there are some butthurt Confed sympathizers here who would prefer Lenin to Lincoln.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:08 PM (77rzZ)

I'd prefer Ross Perot to either. And I'd prefer you not get the SALT deduction.

Piss off, seriously, while you do this "I don't know why people care" passive aggressive shit.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:15 PM (hk7Ln)

204 Bjork‘s white thighs … The Blade dated an Icelandic girl once. She was closer to Asian-y Inuit-y than lilly white.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Well, you're a slut. You've probably dated a girl from every country, including Vatican City.

BTW, we were discussing one Sydney Sweeny here earlier. What's your opinion of her?

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)

205 Re: sidebar ad

Every now and then, CBD has his points.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:15 PM (zZu0s)

206 Geez, why are we living the meme now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:16 PM (zZu0s)

207 I remember farm information reports on Chicago radio channels ... not public radio. They might have had one too, but their FM stations don't carry far.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)

My dad once had a job that required trips along the hi-line of Montana (US 2?) he would pick up Canadian crop reports and was amused that they pronounced Potatoes as "budaydas."

Posted by: Mike, Son of Keith, First of His Name at July 25, 2025 05:16 PM (0aYVJ)

208 Apparently, there are some butthurt Confed sympathizers here who would prefer Lenin to Lincoln.

Ah, yes the Lincoln was a tyrant or something crowd. Are we litigating that again?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (WiETh)
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I actually back Lincoln's invasion of the South, on balance. And am 100% on abolition.

So not sure if that net was meant to be thrown around me or not.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

209 >> NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin resigns today, July 22, 2025, amid $1.1B federal funding cuts to public broadcasting.

Oof. Not to be shallow, but is that the half wolf, half donkey breed some have spoken of or is it the love child of Yoko Ono and Steve Buscemi.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:17 PM (WiETh)

210 Bjork and Fenelon Spoke in an igloo for a week.

Who wins?

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:17 PM (fV+MH)

211 Iceland is generally considered the drunkest nation on Earth. Not that that is a bad thing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 05:17 PM (hIY2p)

212 Edith Chapin looks like central casting for "pinch-faced scold"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2025 05:17 PM (n+Gtf)

213 During the actual fracas, Southerners seemed to call Jeff Davis that just as much if not more than Old Abe.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)

Anyone who so much as said "maybe you shouldn't be allowed to beat the hell out of a guy in broad daylight" back then was probably called a tyrant. And his mother and wife and sister were called whores, too. Just to be safe.

Rhetoric was spicier back then.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2025 05:17 PM (RlmPm)

214 I remember farm information reports on Chicago radio channels ... not public radio. They might have had one too, but their FM stations don't carry far.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)
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Regular old broadcast stations did farm reports when I was a kid.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2)

215 The igloo

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (bXbFr)

216 People don't use "yclept" nearly as often as they should.

Merriam-Webster tells me that 'yclept' is the past participle of 'clepe'. Well, thank you for clearing that up!

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (IhVqi)

217 I watch American TV and the ads are all gay and spherical people of melanin singing about AIDS drugs.

East Asian ads? How to whiten your skin and be kawaii.

Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (t0Rmr)

218 Bjork‘s white thighs … The Blade dated an Icelandic girl once. She was closer to Asian-y Inuit-y than lilly white.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Well, you're a slut. You've probably dated a girl from every country, including Vatican City.

BTW, we were discussing one Sydney Sweeny here earlier. What's your opinion of her?

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)

******

Please. This conversation will be greatly improved if we all use the 3rd person form of address.

Signed...The EFG.

With respect to The Bulg and The Blade.

Posted by: EFG at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (6Y7N9)

219 I wonder how much Edith Chapin was being paid.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (vFG9F)

220 I actually back Lincoln's invasion of the South, on balance. And am 100% on abolition.

Then tell me your thoughts in Indentured Servitude. Because the North loved that shit. They still love it.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (hk7Ln)

221 >> think the whole Civil War could be called like Churchill did the Second World War--the Unnecessary War.

So, I would say that about almost all wars.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (WiETh)

222 The Thunderbirds are practicing overhead. Very cool. I do believe that 'loud' is half the point. I love it.

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (t+VLa)

223 And I'd prefer you not get the SALT deduction.

Piss off, seriously, while you do this "I don't know why people care" passive aggressive shit.
Posted by: Long Memory

I don't give a shit about the SALT deduction, which I think has gone away anyway.

But anyone who says they'd prefer Commies to the re-unification of the country is right out with me. If that's passive-aggressive so be it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (77rzZ)

224 One can be happy about how the CW worked out, but also be pissed on how it worked out.

Slavery=bad
Loss of states rights and the subsumation of everything to the almighty federal leviathan= bad

Both can be true and if you cannot see that, well you're a retard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (zZu0s)

225 Nina Totenberg hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (/oBpS)

226 "Iceland is generally considered the drunkest nation on Earth. Not that that is a bad thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove"

Good god if you're more drunk than Russia you're dead.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (fV+MH)

227 I wonder how much Edith Chapin was being paid.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 05:18 PM (vFG9F)
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Offhand, multiples of what she was worth.

I'm sure once the money is out of commie broadcasting, she's moved on the greener grift pastures.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)

228 The old "spending more time with my family" excuse.

As if they'd want them around without bring home an income.
Posted by: Auspex at July 25, 2025 04:42 PM (Y8DZL)

None of these newshawks ever get quotes from family in these situations.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:20 PM (8avO+)

229 Bjork‘s white thighs … The Blade dated an Icelandic girl once. She was closer to Asian-y Inuit-y than lilly white.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Well, you're a slut. You've probably dated a girl from every country, including Vatican City.

BTW, we were discussing one Sydney Sweeny here earlier. What's your opinion of her?

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)
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I’m a slut who lives in a city where there’s girls from every country on the planet, and maybe from other planets.

Sweeney is mid in all but boob. I really don’t get the obsession with her. She might not make it into the VIP areas of exclusive Vegas, nyc, or Miami clubs.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

230 Did you ever hear of that guy Portnoy’s liver recipe?

Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (jgmnb)

231 Then tell me your thoughts in Indentured Servitude. Because the North loved that shit. They still love it.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (hk7Ln)
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The North has "indentured servants"?

Do you mean "wage slaves"? Or something else.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (krQz2)

232 The Blue Angels are going to be around here somewhere next month. Need to find out where exactly. I don't think the Thunderbirds will be here this summer.

Posted by: Mike, Son of Keith, First of His Name at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (0aYVJ)

233 ... despite being whiter than Bjork's thighs in winter.

-----------------

I identify as Casper The MAGA Ghost.

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (/oBpS)

234 WWI was the most unnecessary war of all.

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (fV+MH)

235 Did you ever hear of that guy Portnoy’s liver recipe?
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (jgmnb)
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I wouldn't want to eat his liver.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (krQz2)

236 Nobody in rural areas tune into NPR or PBS. To all the city folk out there, us rubes are way more connected than you think
==

The Mary Cloggensteins of the world beg to differ. They're stuck in their small towns suffering the rubes. NPR is their only lifeline to sanity. Pour one out for them as they lose what's left of their minds.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (0bjKf)

237 Iceland is generally considered the drunkest nation on Earth. Not that that is a bad thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Only since Putin is a teetotaler. Once they get Yeltsin 2.0 in office, Russia will surge into the lead again.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

238 Nood. Come and mock the formatting errors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (ExV1e)

239 The Thunderbirds are practicing overhead. Very cool. I do believe that 'loud' is half the point. I love it.
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (t+VLa)
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There’s a good documentary on them on NF. They got balls of fucking steel.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (aeiyZ)

240 Sweeney looks dead from the neck up, but she does sport a wonderful profile.

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (t+VLa)

241 But anyone who says they'd prefer Commies to the re-unification of the country is right out with me. If that's passive-aggressive so be it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (77rzZ)

I don't want to get "re-unified" with you. Its not that hard to understand.

Don't want to send my kids to the army - because its always my kids in the army at the enlisted ranks. And all the shit always comes from the NorthEast and West Coast.

You're on your own.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:23 PM (hk7Ln)

242 "Iceland is generally considered the drunkest nation on Earth. Not that that is a bad thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove"

Good god if you're more drunk than Russia you're dead.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (fV+MH)

In 2023 Moldova was number one, about 50 percent above US. Considering there's not a lot of money there...

Iceland isn't on the list. Russia is about par with the US...possibly because of the Muslim areas.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)

243 "Let's just find a better way forward."

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"Make USAID Great Again!"

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:23 PM (/oBpS)

244 Everybody wants a war until the shooting starts and you watch the man next to you die.

The South had a chance to turn down the temperature, instead they lit the powder keg. They made the conscious choice to pursue war. They chose, poorly.

Victoria spolia.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:23 PM (WiETh)

245 I watch PBS SpaceTime on YouTube, sometimes PBS Eons, but that’s about it.

SpaceTime is not woke at all but the presenter has the sniffles like he regularly snorts cocaine. I’m not bothered by that because you pretty much have to be high to understand some of that physics stuff.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (ifskw)

246 "Iceland is generally considered the drunkest nation on Earth. Not that that is a bad thing
Posted by: Smell the Glove"

***
Considered by who?
( -- Ireland)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (omVj0)

247 Then tell me your thoughts in Indentured Servitude. Because the North loved that shit. They still love it.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:19 PM (hk7Ln)
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The North has "indentured servants"?

Do you mean "wage slaves"? Or something else.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (krQz2)

Long Memory...not Accurate Memory. Lol.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8avO+)

248 I used to know what a past participle is, back when I was smart.

Posted by: Javems at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8I4hW)

249 232 The Blue Angels are going to be around here somewhere next month. Need to find out where exactly. I don't think the Thunderbirds will be here this summer.
Posted by: Mike, Son of Keith, First of His Name

They fly an amazing three day airshow in Seattle the first full weekend of august. You and your bride have a place to stay if you want to come out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (mT+6a)

250 BREAKING: NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin resigns today, July 22, 2025, amid $1.1B federal funding cuts to public broadcasting.

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"Stifle yourself, dingbat!"

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (/oBpS)

251 Everybody wants a war until the shooting starts and you watch the man next to you die.

Occasionally I saw the people demanding we enter the Uke war come to this realization - that they'd be sending people to fight and die. Their general argument? Its a bunch of southern hicks that like killing people so even better if we lose a bunch of them in additional to killing all those Russians.

Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (t0Rmr)

252 The South had a chance to turn down the temperature, instead they lit the powder keg. They made the conscious choice to pursue war. They chose, poorly.
Posted by: Marcus T

To be fair, John Brown also elevated the temperature quite a bit.

Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

253 Regular old broadcast stations did farm reports when I was a kid.

Posted by: Axeman

=====

Dad hobby farmed. Mom was a labor and delivery nurse.

In our house, you did NOT talk when the grain prices were reported, or the birth announcements made, on the local hamster wheel powered AM station.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8AONa)

254 a buddy contracted with Exxon for years and had many occasions to visit Russia. Observations he shared:

women are desperate to not depend on Russian men
Russian men drink A LOT
a lot of things are found when the snow melts; tools, toys, bodies
larger cities are typically very clean

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (8uzBS)

255
Ken Burns' "The Last Days of PBS"

*mournful violin plays*

*very slow zoom on picture of Ken Burns with fork in hand staring at a plate with a single small block of tofu upon it. Beside the plate is a glass of tepid creek water*

*very slow zoom on writing upon an iPhone's screen*

My Dearest Olivia,

I hesitate to tell you, my dearest, of the hard times which have fallen upon me.

No longer have I been able to attend swanky parties in Manhattan with those delightful Cambodian shrimp rolls, but have instead been forced to subsist on one meager portion of tofu per day and a single glass of water

Due to the terrible financial restrictions placed upon PBS by the rampaging Trump, I have been forced to cancel my series on The American Pancake, and its terrible racist origins in white supremacy.

Be strong my darling for there is a glimmer of hope. I have made the acquaintance of a furry man about town known as Ace who has promised to take me on a so-called "hobo hunt" this Friday evening. He assures me that a great feast shall be the result of this hunt, and that our empty stomachs shall be filled.

Take care sweet Edith. Perhaps this Ace fellow can help me find financial succor.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (iJfKG)

256 >> I don't want to get "re-unified" with you. Its not that hard to understand.

You’re arguing the abstract and out of context, not the facts. The fact is once a line is crossed, a very clear line and you move towards kinetic action there’s almost no turning back until people start stacking bodies.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (WiETh)

257 Shit. That’s next weekend! Holy crap time flies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (mT+6a)

258 Sweeney is mid in all but boob. I really don’t get the obsession with her. She might not make it into the VIP areas of exclusive Vegas, nyc, or Miami clubs.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

Probably just a reaction to all the androgyny they are pushing in Hollywood now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)

259 Victoria spolia.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:23 PM (WiETh)

Absolutely fucking not. No matter how big you are. That will be a no.

But to be fair - do you see why people down here don't buy all in to the shit you say up there ?

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (hk7Ln)

260 Don’t southerners sometimes refer to the ACW as “that late unpleasantness” or some similar euphemism?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:27 PM (WdMlw)

261 "They fly an amazing three day airshow in Seattle the first full weekend of august."
_______
I'd never been to an air show until the shores of lake Washington many years ago. I had a blast and have been infatuated with them ever since. I loved the blue angels. Enjoy the show!

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 05:27 PM (t+VLa)

262 I used to know what a past participle is, back when I was smart.
Posted by: Javems at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8I4hW)
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Don't worry, we don't use them anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (krQz2)

263 >> To be fair, John Brown also elevated the temperature quite a bit.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

Absolutely fair. But he got swatted down and it was pretty clear how outright aggression and military, really treasonous kinetic action would be treated. The South thought they could win militarily and that’s one reason they moved. They were wrong.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (WiETh)

264 You’re arguing the abstract and out of context, not the facts. The fact is once a line is crossed, a very clear line and you move towards kinetic action there’s almost no turning back until people start stacking bodies.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (WiETh)

You really don't seem to get it. No. Just a no.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (hk7Ln)

265 Newd

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (tykPk)

266 One of the things that was attractive when I came here was this philosophy of all things considered,

____

Yeah, Edith?

Did you consider *all* the things?

Did you consider that you look like what happens when a beaver fucks a mud fence?

Did you consider that you're a dishwater dull mediocrity who couldn't compete in the private sector, in an industry full of numbskulls?

Did you consider that even an Untouchable whose feet got burned off in a South Indian leather factory's tanning vats still had a life better lived than a government journalist?

Just how much have you considered, Edith?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (BI5O2)

267 I used to know what a past participle is, back when I was smart.
Posted by: Javems at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8I4hW)
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Don't worry, we don't use them anymore.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (krQz2)

I thought that would be an electron or proton that used to exist… right?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (WdMlw)

268 Sweeney is mid in all but boob. I really don’t get the obsession with her. She might not make it into the VIP areas of exclusive Vegas, nyc, or Miami clubs.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

Probably just a reaction to all the androgyny they are pushing in Hollywood now.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)
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I agree. She unashamedly caters to the male gaze. That, plus she seems kinda fun and happy and not a screeching harpy mental case. So men are reacting a bit like horny teenagers seeing an attractive naked girl for the first time.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (aeiyZ)

269 I actually back Lincoln's invasion of the South, on balance. And am 100% on abolition.

Then tell me your thoughts in Indentured Servitude. Because the North loved that shit. They still love it.
****
Not sure what is so bad about Indentured Servitude. Worked fine for first Thanatopsis in 1629. By 1635 he was free and on his own.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 25, 2025 05:30 PM (GYt5+)

270 The South had a chance to turn down the temperature, instead they lit the powder keg. They made the conscious choice to pursue war. They chose, poorly.
Posted by: Marcus T

To be fair, John Brown also elevated the temperature quite a bit.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

I have no truck with John Brown. Terrorism with a religious tint is still Terrorism. The Abolitionists in the North made a mistake by sanitizing him. Later the troops found the song good for marching.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:30 PM (8avO+)

271 I used to know what a past participle is, back when I was smart.
Posted by: Javems at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8I4hW)
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Don't worry, we don't use them anymore.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (krQz2)

I thought that would be an electron or proton that used to exist… right?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (WdMlw)
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No, it's just an ex-participle.

Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:30 PM (krQz2)

272 Yeah shes cute

The in thing for now

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 25, 2025 05:31 PM (bXbFr)

273
>>>Republicans cancelled funding for her perverse propaganda network just because they don't want people of marginalized communities to have voices.

It's just like the love that dare not speak its name.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 05:32 PM (63Dwl)

274 Don’t southerners sometimes refer to the ACW as “that late unpleasantness” or some similar euphemism?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:27 PM (WdMlw)

That is one of the terms. Not sure if it was a Southern one.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)

275 >> Absolutely fucking not. No matter how big you are. That will be a no.

Absolutely yes, where I come from. In fact if I was Lincoln I would have built a throne with their skulls just as a reminder they shouldn’t fuck around. But maybe I’ve been around this shit too much. Lincoln was magnanimous post war because of what he really wanted from the beginning which was a peaceful resolution to the conflict and reconciliation. He’s a better man than most because of that alone. People like you, and I question your genuine intent, don’t like it because the South felt justified in undertaking kinetic action which they knew would divide the country, which incidentally was the point of no return all along. But they didn’t care and now some still can’t live with the fact they gambled big knowing the odds and lost. So give it a rest.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (WiETh)

276 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OVER 25 YEARS AGO MY COLLEAGUE REFERRED TO NPR AS "NATIONAL COMMIE RADIO."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 04:41 PM (ZmEVT)

I've referred to it as National Proletariat Radio for years and years. Pissed off any leftist friends I had.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (5xuJ/)

277 WWI was the most unnecessary war of all.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (fV+MH)

Crimean War is another good candidate for that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

278 Better way forward that doesn't mean Federal handouts

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 05:37 PM (+qU29)

279 Absolutely yes, where I come from. In fact if I was Lincoln I would have built a throne with their skulls just as a reminder they shouldn’t fuck around. But maybe I’ve been around this shit too much. Lincoln was magnanimous post war because of what he really wanted from the beginning which was a peaceful resolution to the conflict and reconciliation. He’s a better man than most because of that alone. People like you, and I question your genuine intent, don’t like it because the South felt justified in undertaking kinetic action which they knew would divide the country, which incidentally was the point of no return all along. But they didn’t care and now some still can’t live with the fact they gambled big knowing the odds and lost. So give it a rest.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (WiETh)

Some civil wars end surprisingly calmly. The Roman Social Wars (90 bc ish) had notable items like the Romans starving everyone in an Italian town to death. then a few years later the Senate just gave a general amnesty to all but a few towns in exchange for stopping the fight.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)

280 WGN 720 and WBBM 780 radio in Chicago did farm reports in the Eighties.

They mostly covered news in a way that we wouldn't even recognize today. Subtlety lefty but with an actual plausible "both sides" vibe.

They were part of the MEDIA, and pretty leftist, but nothing like the totally corrupt "press" we have today.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 05:39 PM (E2+Uh)

281 I thought that would be an electron or proton that used to exist… right?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (WdMlw)

or one that just went past you.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

282 General Tecumseh Sherman on Civil War.

https://tinyurl.com/uf2e8ey8

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2025 05:44 PM (5xuJ/)

283 When you lose your job because it is cheaper to hire an illegal NPR never said a word. When they lose their jobs because private media can do it cheaper they squeal like stuck pigs. Very fat pigs.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 05:48 PM (unUNN)

284 The Colberts, Kimmels etc are so used to being paid astronomical sums for insulting most of their audiences that they came to believe it is their right. Their arrogance is stupendous and their downfall is so sweet for the downtrodden.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 05:52 PM (unUNN)

285 "I have had two big executive jobs for two years and I want to take a break."

This is why women can't compete with men. They're weak and I'm ashamed of my kind.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 25, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)

286 There are people writing stories about how much money NPR and PBS are making from private donors and selling it as SEE? SEE? EVERYONE LOVES NPR!

BUt everyone looks at this and goes "what's all the fuss about, obviously they didn't need the federal money"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:24 PM (dfIr7)

287 Crimean War is another good candidate for that.

Great Britain fought a bunch of stupid pointless wars in the 19th century. After the Napoleonic war they seemed kind of bloodthirsty and always looking for another fight

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:26 PM (dfIr7)

288 The Nazi Propaganda Radio(NPR)losing big just like the Propaganda Broadcasting System(PBS)Big Brothers losing it

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (wGqjj)

289
Survived one war, don't rightly believe another is required.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (hKoQL)

290 I looked up some other pictures. The granny glasses are not flattering but she looks better when she's smiling as most of us do in pictures. And no, I no fan of NPR.
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