This may damage irony detectors unless set to very low sensitivity.
[T]he Wagner Group—a private Russian military force that has been tied to the Kremlin—is offering prisoners money and a get-out-of-jail-free card to go “search for Nazis” in Ukraine, according to the independent Russian news outlet iStories.
Isn’t this a plot device in the 2009 movie Surrogates with Bruce Willis?
On the topic of spelling. This from Townhall.
Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed by Keke Palmer in New Orleans, Louisiana over the weekend as part of Essence Festival, but the bright lights and official backdrop behind the two women couldn’t distract from one problem: Louisiana was misspelled on the official signage.
But democracy is the system that grants the same Gen Zers the right to vote and determine our legislators. And the ignorance of the masses is widespread, not limited to Gen Z.
the Bonhomme Richard fire response “certainly had issues. … There was a lack of clarity in [administrative control] and [operational control] responsibilities.”
There is a fire on a ship. Whose responsibility is it to deal with the situation?
I am reminded of a story Ross Perot told after he had sold his EDS company to General Motors and (briefly) beome a GM Director. In EDS, if someone found a snake, he killed it and carried on with business. In GM, if someone found a snake, he set up a committee to decide on a course of action.
Elsa Kurt has nailed a pretty decent Kamala impression.
Here she is doing Fleetwood Mac lyrics in Kamala’s voice
Remember when Rick Monday saved the flag?
Perhaps we need to ban airline-related comments from this thread:
Until we do, here is a thread from Ian Cutress about bald-faced lies from British Airways to welsh on compensation for a cancelled flight. Click on tweet for the whole thread.
So in 2022 a commercial flight cannot safely fly in a thunderstorm? And I am supposed to worry about these clowns making AI? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Even Snoopy could get his Sopwith Camel in the air during a thunderstorm and that plane was FRENCH!!!
Actually, the Sopwith Camel was British, built by the Sopwith Aviation Company of Kingston-on-Thames, England.
Thanks for the correction John.
Why not just use a good ol’ piece of bread for the dog? Or have an actual hamburger?
Joey had the so-called protester in a headlock so quickly that he did not have time to drop the hot dogs he had in his hand.
And he did all this while being already injured, with his right foot in a cast below the knee.
The protester interaction was about 6s long… given Joey won with 64 hotdogs in 10 minutes, it’s fair to say this incident cost him one hotdog 
He’s old enough to remember “intermission”.
