The review. It was a pretty good meal with a decent dessert and the worst after-dinner mint I could possibly imagine.
Jey's win was fine and all and I guess I want to see what he'll do with it but I compared him to Jack Swagger deliberately. I agree with what the heel Gunther said months ago: Jey is a fine tag team wrestler.
New Day went from "not needing a belt" to "needing a belt". Pity that the War Raiders are so very bland. I've already forgotten them.
The El Grande Americano match was fun. The announcing put it over the top. I'll enjoy seeing what's done with this over the next few months and I'm certain I'll be sick of it right around Summerslam when we can drop it and move on to something else.
Jade Cargill is better than I remembered her being. Good for her. She put on a quality match.
LA Knight is a lot of fun but... yeah, he had a good run. I want to see what they do with Jacob.
I can't believe that Charlotte lost! I can't believe that Tiffany won! Pity that the match stunk.
Reigns vs. Punk vs. Rollins struck me like this: Remember when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out? It was 25 chapters of nothing and then a flurry of activity to set up the last book. The match was 25 minutes of nothing (fun nothing, mind!) and then a flurry of activity to attempt to turn Heyman, I guess. I thought that Heyman was unturnable and I guess I still think he is but I'm willing to see how wrong I would be about that in the next month or so.
Iyo Sky vs. Bianca Belair vs. Rhea Ripley was, like, *REALLY GOOD*. I was shocked! And I was shocked that Rhea didn't win! Really good match, though.
Man, I hate Logan Paul. And now he's going to disappear and we're going to see AJ Styles vs. Carrion Cross. And I'm going to watch them fight and think about how much I hate Logan Paul.
Bron Breakker vs. Penta vs. Finn Bálor vs. Dominik Mysterio was a treat. That's always the best kind of match for a weak heel to win... and they had Dominik win the best possible way: Stabbing Finn in the back and, tomorrow, he's going to ask Finn "what's the big deal? Judgment Day won a belt!" Maybe they'll somehow manage to put the lid back on the pot and keep it simmering for another month or so.
I'm glad Drew won. He was approaching Kane levels of "win on TV, lose at the PPV".
Orton vs. Joe Hendry was a comedy match. They had to throw something together in the last few weeks and that was what was thrown together. It's a pity that they had to make TNA look like a buncha tools but Joe Hendry was charismatic enough to win me over.
As the Cena/Rhodes match was going on, I said that, as a technical match, the match was a C- but, as a psychology bout, it was an A-. We got to watch a 1980's match between... I dunno. Dusty Rhodes vs. Roddy Piper. Cena was doing *EVERYTHING* to keep getting boos and Cody was doing everything to keep getting cheers. And then they brought out Travis Scott and I went from "this is very interesting" to "this is crap, what the heck, what are they thinking?"
All in all, if it were any other PPV, I'd say it was a good one with a skunk as a last match, but it was Wrestlemania so I merely have a very bad taste in my mouth.
He means those who have the stones to keep speaking truth to power in the face of the speech police.
Which, I suppose, is true as far as it goes (it's got a robust sense of reality!) but doesn't contain a moral element.
The speech police? They're just speech policing from the smack dab middle of their consensus that they're enforcing. Not good, not bad, just is.
The people who point out that ACAB? Well, if they get censored... first you have to deny that they did, then you have to point out that they should have just talked louder in the face of being squelched. No morality, no discussion of incentives, just the will to power.
Eh, Trump has two major things going his way when it comes to the Dems.
1. The whole desire to fact-check. Trump says something like "A third of X are Y!" and the media will trip over itself explaining that Trump was lying because it's only 31% of X that are Y. Four Pinocchios!
2. The "Directionally Correct" thing that we saw with, for example, the tariffs. "I agree that tariffs are good but we should use them like *THIS* rather than like *THAT*". (And it only gets worse if this or that politician has actually read Uncle Milty.)
But he touches on some of the dynamics of this situation and, yeah, it's not great. There's a drip drip drip of new information that, if not calculated, is unfortunate enough to suspect that it was calculated.
Guessing that the poster he lifted from was this one:
Can't find the elephant one so I'm guessing that the above was somewhere across the street and the elephant one was done from memory (because there are a couple that are *CLOSE* but don't have the frock or the hat and there are a ton of posters that it could be an amalgamation of).
The worst pushback that I saw was from Emily Ratajkowski. I don't want to engage in too much freelance psychoanalysis but I kinda got the "intrasexual competition" vibe rather than something deeper.
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Are you ready for Wrestlemania?”
Okay.
The review. It was a pretty good meal with a decent dessert and the worst after-dinner mint I could possibly imagine.
Jey's win was fine and all and I guess I want to see what he'll do with it but I compared him to Jack Swagger deliberately. I agree with what the heel Gunther said months ago: Jey is a fine tag team wrestler.
New Day went from "not needing a belt" to "needing a belt". Pity that the War Raiders are so very bland. I've already forgotten them.
The El Grande Americano match was fun. The announcing put it over the top. I'll enjoy seeing what's done with this over the next few months and I'm certain I'll be sick of it right around Summerslam when we can drop it and move on to something else.
Jade Cargill is better than I remembered her being. Good for her. She put on a quality match.
LA Knight is a lot of fun but... yeah, he had a good run. I want to see what they do with Jacob.
I can't believe that Charlotte lost! I can't believe that Tiffany won! Pity that the match stunk.
Reigns vs. Punk vs. Rollins struck me like this: Remember when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out? It was 25 chapters of nothing and then a flurry of activity to set up the last book. The match was 25 minutes of nothing (fun nothing, mind!) and then a flurry of activity to attempt to turn Heyman, I guess. I thought that Heyman was unturnable and I guess I still think he is but I'm willing to see how wrong I would be about that in the next month or so.
Iyo Sky vs. Bianca Belair vs. Rhea Ripley was, like, *REALLY GOOD*. I was shocked! And I was shocked that Rhea didn't win! Really good match, though.
Man, I hate Logan Paul. And now he's going to disappear and we're going to see AJ Styles vs. Carrion Cross. And I'm going to watch them fight and think about how much I hate Logan Paul.
Bron Breakker vs. Penta vs. Finn Bálor vs. Dominik Mysterio was a treat. That's always the best kind of match for a weak heel to win... and they had Dominik win the best possible way: Stabbing Finn in the back and, tomorrow, he's going to ask Finn "what's the big deal? Judgment Day won a belt!" Maybe they'll somehow manage to put the lid back on the pot and keep it simmering for another month or so.
I'm glad Drew won. He was approaching Kane levels of "win on TV, lose at the PPV".
Orton vs. Joe Hendry was a comedy match. They had to throw something together in the last few weeks and that was what was thrown together. It's a pity that they had to make TNA look like a buncha tools but Joe Hendry was charismatic enough to win me over.
As the Cena/Rhodes match was going on, I said that, as a technical match, the match was a C- but, as a psychology bout, it was an A-. We got to watch a 1980's match between... I dunno. Dusty Rhodes vs. Roddy Piper. Cena was doing *EVERYTHING* to keep getting boos and Cody was doing everything to keep getting cheers. And then they brought out Travis Scott and I went from "this is very interesting" to "this is crap, what the heck, what are they thinking?"
All in all, if it were any other PPV, I'd say it was a good one with a skunk as a last match, but it was Wrestlemania so I merely have a very bad taste in my mouth.
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Hollow Knight”
Aaaaaand the game is beaten.
I collected all of the grubs and 39 1/2 charms. I googled what I needed to do to find the last half of the 40th and... yeah.
The game is beaten. Really good Metroidvania, though.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
He means those who have the stones to keep speaking truth to power in the face of the speech police.
Which, I suppose, is true as far as it goes (it's got a robust sense of reality!) but doesn't contain a moral element.
The speech police? They're just speech policing from the smack dab middle of their consensus that they're enforcing. Not good, not bad, just is.
The people who point out that ACAB? Well, if they get censored... first you have to deny that they did, then you have to point out that they should have just talked louder in the face of being squelched. No morality, no discussion of incentives, just the will to power.
"
One of the best indicators for SF has shown up: There's a newspaper article talking about windshield repair shops struggling.
"
"Therefore, censorship didn't happen. Q.E.D."
"
"Well, the censorship wasn't *ABSOLUTE*. Therefore, it didn't happen."
At least "private companies can do whatever they want" had the benefit of acknowledging what happened rather than trying to deny it.
(But maybe we'll get to "but it was good though".)
"
The weird thing is that people were, in fact, censored for the opposite.
"
Eh, Trump has two major things going his way when it comes to the Dems.
1. The whole desire to fact-check. Trump says something like "A third of X are Y!" and the media will trip over itself explaining that Trump was lying because it's only 31% of X that are Y. Four Pinocchios!
2. The "Directionally Correct" thing that we saw with, for example, the tariffs. "I agree that tariffs are good but we should use them like *THIS* rather than like *THAT*". (And it only gets worse if this or that politician has actually read Uncle Milty.)
"
Surely it's good news.
If the polling goes down hard enough, even the rats will moderate.
"
Looks like he was swatted last night.
FA.
FO.
"
Townhall now has a column: Did the Trump Administration Set a Trap for Democrats and Media on the 'Maryland Father' Case?
Yes, yes. Guy Benson, Townhall, Fox News, etc.
But he touches on some of the dynamics of this situation and, yeah, it's not great. There's a drip drip drip of new information that, if not calculated, is unfortunate enough to suspect that it was calculated.
On “Good Use of an Old Barn”
Guessing that the poster he lifted from was this one:
Can't find the elephant one so I'm guessing that the above was somewhere across the street and the elephant one was done from memory (because there are a couple that are *CLOSE* but don't have the frock or the hat and there are a ton of posters that it could be an amalgamation of).
On “Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right”
We never find the sauce. We merely become the people who believe in it.
On “Throughput: Telling Women They’re Womening Wrong, But In Space”
The worst pushback that I saw was from Emily Ratajkowski. I don't want to engage in too much freelance psychoanalysis but I kinda got the "intrasexual competition" vibe rather than something deeper.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
Oh, you can continue to believe Fauci. No one will censor you for bragging about doing so.
"
Is that the article from February again?
(Clicks link.)
It's the article from February again.
On “Throughput: Telling Women They’re Womening Wrong, But In Space”
A rat done bit my sister Nell
But Katy's on the Blue
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
Nothing to be done, I guess.
"
Lab Leak is now the official position of the USG.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It Again”
Also, Maribou's bod has informed us that the snow is still coming.
On “Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right”
I mean the "mangia sauce".
On “Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It Again”
OH YEAH WRESTLEMANIA
On “Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right”
Maggi Seasoning Sauce?
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
Well, the good news is that the cops were called and the guy was removed without any particularly weird tasing incidents.
On “Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect Arrested”
Are you familiar with the fallacy "Begging the Question"?
It's an important one!