(cartoon Michael de Adder) #trump #iran #epstein
— Wolf Hour (@wolfhour.bsky.social) March 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Deflection
Monday, March 02, 2026
Some More Bagpipe Music
You know I love me some pipes. Here are The Red Hot Chilli Pipers doing Queen.
A Coincidental Homeowner
Among the big names of the American Civil War, Wilmer McLean is pretty far down the list. You might not have ever heard of him. But his presence is found in the geography of the war. McLean was a wealthy man, with a grocery store, a plantation, and a family. He was a staunch advocate for the Confederacy, and volunteered his home in Manassas, Virginia, on the banks of Bull Run Creek, as Confederate headquarters. You can guess what happened there- twice. McLean and his family bugged out twice while their home and property were ravaged in battle.
After the second battle, McLean moved his family to a safer spot, in a village called Appomattox Court House. There, he once again learned what having the nicest house in town will get you. Weird History tells us of McLean's somewhat coincidental role in the Civil War.
Miss Cellania's Links
There are no psychopaths. Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. (via Damn Interesting)
When cats hear the automatic feeder. Turn the sound on.
"What’s The Ugliest Statue In Your Country?"
Former MAGA Supporters Are Sharing The “Wake-Up Calls” That Finally Made Them Leave, And It's Incredibly Eye-Opening.
Women's Clothing Sizes are Crazy- Here are the Depressing Details. (via Metafilter)
Frederic Tudor, the Ice King of Boston. He grew rich by shipping ice to India.
Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman’s Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived. (via Strange Company)
After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal. (via Damn Interesting)
Ha! Ha! Ha!
A 1934 short supposedly banned due to drug use, where Betty Boop and everyone else partakes in laughing gas. Everyone today knows that stuff is way too expensive.
Dodged a Bullet
Morning.
— Frostbitten Flamingo (@flemtheparrot.bsky.social) March 1, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Sunday, March 01, 2026
Where Eggs Come From
Where do the eggs in your refrigerator come from? The supermarket, of course! But before that, they come from chickens. Sure, you already knew that, but you've probably never thought about how a chicken makes the egg, and how they manage to do it almost every day for months at a time. What goes on inside a hen in order to lay an egg every day is astonishing.
Egg production is managed differently depending on whether you want eggs for the breakfast table or chicks. If you don't gather eggs every day, a hen ends up with several eggs, and stops producing them in order to keep them warm for hatching. For this, you'll need a rooster. But if you only have hens, and take their egg every day, they'll keep laying them as long as they have the proper nutrition and the proper stimulation- which is not a rooster, but sunlight!
Warning Labels Come From Lawsuits
Remember the first time you bought a hair dryer and saw a warning label that said "Do not use while bathing"? You had a good laugh and wondered who would need such a warning. Most bathrooms don't have an electrical outlet near the bath tub -for a reason. See, there's always someone with no common sense who will use a product in the most dangerous way possible, injure themselves, and sue the manufacturer for not warning you that you aren't supposed to eat fire logs, or that you have to unfold a folding chair, or that swallowing dry ice is dangerous.
Chill Dude Explains runs through ten product liability court cases that led to warning labels written Captain Obvious. Most of them seem pretty dumb, but people did get hurt. The last one is correcting the record because the general public completely misunderstood the case.
Starting a War
With less than 24 hours before air time, the writers at Saturday Night Live threw out the planned opening skit and started over from scratch, because the biggest news story of the week suddenly changed. The jokes write themselves, though. It would be funny if the news that it parodies weren't so horrible.
Sooner or Later
The Grass Roots! I don't know what TV show this was, but the random laugh track is annoying.
Update: Commenters have identified the show. I guess the YouTube description has been updated since I first posted this video around 15 years ago.
The Sales Pitch
If you can't fulfill a need for your customers, the next tactic is altruism and guilt. That's when you let them know that proceeds of your sale benefit the local school charity, or in this case, the Gopher Guides. When that fails, you have to bring out the big guns. This little girl has put some real thought into her spiel. Avoiding future awkwardness must be worth at least five dollars. This is the latest comic from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.
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