For Your Consideration

I give you Zapp Hegseth:

Omg 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Vhw3H8RCYo

— Ingrid Guthrie (@IngGuthrie) September 10, 2026

Yes, I know. That which is seen cannot be unseen.

I Love This

It's an all too common story, Nigel Farage conceals a multi-million Pound payoff gift from a crypto billionaire friend, and when Parliament starts looking into it, he resigns and announces that he will run for again in the by-election to replace himself.

The established political parties see this as a transparent political stunt, and so will not be putting forward a candidate to stand for election.

There is a candidate running against him, Count Binface, a perennial parody candidate whose platform includes, among other things, "Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a more sensible position."

While it is almost certain that, for the first time ever, Count Binface will get his deposit back. the UK requires a £500.00 deposit to be refunded if the candidate gets more than 5% of the vote, to stand for election.

It also makes a mockery of the racist charlatan Farage. 

What had been an opportunity for self-aggrandizement is now a battle that he can only lose, because there is no way that he cannot underperform in the elction. 

Count Binface had been looking forward to a relaxing journey back to his home planet of Sigma IX when Nigel Farage dropped a political bombshell on Tuesday.

Instead, Britain’s hottest new political property said he was left with no choice but to perform a swift intergalactic handbrake turn when news broke that Farage had resigned as MP for Clacton, triggering the possibility of a byelection in the English coastal constituency he has represented since 2024.

Farage, the leader of the rightwing populist Reform UK party, has been accused of using the poll to shake off a deepening scandal over financial gifts he has received. But the plan appears to have backfired after his main rivals announced they would boycott the byelection. The Clacton byelection is now likely to be a two-man race between the Reform leader and Binface.

“I didn’t know old Farage was going to self detonate … did I?” said Binface, a veteran of British elections, where the parody candidate is something of a mainstay.The 5,900-year-old leader of the Recyclons is the creation of Jon Harvey, a comedian from Lewisham in south-east London, who has run against former prime ministers including Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson, as well as Theresa May in his previous incarnation as Lord Buckethead.

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He said that he had been inundated over the past 48 hours with emails and messages from Binface activists offering to knock on doors and deliver leaflets on his behalf in what could yet emerge as an electoral shock on a par with when Hartlepool United’s mascot, H’Angus the Monkey, was elected as mayor of the northern English town. 

Skeet of the Day

Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age

— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) September 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM

The NYT Pitchbot is the apotheosis of the broken both-sides thinking at the New York Times.

The fact that the Times is widely regarded setting the news agenda for the main stream media is a tragedy, or maybe it's a farce.

It's been going on for far too long. 

Bummer

 Tom Lehrer has died at age 97.

Mind Blown

You just need to watch the first few minutes of the intro, though with Lee Marvin, James Coburn, and Leonard Nimoy starring in this particular episode, it is worth a full watch:

By comparison, look at this:

I did not realize how closely Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker hewed to the original.

Ever Heard of the Streisand Effect?

Well, the alleged cyber security firm CrowdStrike apparently has not heard of the Streisand Effect, which is why they have attempted a DMCA take-down of the ClownStrike parody site. 

For those who do not know what the Streisand Effect is, it is when a public figure takes actions to suppress information or mockery of them, and as a results increases interest and exposure of that information and mockery.

The singer Barbara Streisand attempted to remove photos of her house from a web site in 2003, and as a result, those photographs became well known and widely distributed.

So the clowns at CrowdStrike are attempting to take down ClownStrike, and as a result the latter is attracting crowds:

Doesn't CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?

That's what IT consultant David Senk wondered when CrowdStrike sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice targeting his parody site ClownStrike.

Senk created ClownStrike in the aftermath of the largest IT outage the world has ever seen—which CrowdStrike blamed on a buggy security update that shut down systems and incited prolonged chaos in airports, hospitals, and businesses worldwide.

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Setting up the parody site at clownstrike.lol on July 24, Senk's site design is simple. It shows the CrowdStrike logo fading into a cartoon clown, with circus music blasting throughout the transition. For the first 48 hours of its existence, the site used an unaltered version of CrowdStrike's Falcon logo, which is used for its cybersecurity platform, but Senk later added a rainbow propeller hat to the falcon's head.

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It was all fun and games, but on July 31, Senk received a DMCA notice from Cloudflare's trust and safety team, which was then hosting the parody site. The notice informed Senk that CSC Digital Brand Services' global anti-fraud team, on behalf of CrowdStrike, was requesting the immediate removal of the CrowdStrike logo from the parody site, or else Senk risked Cloudflare taking down the whole site.

Senk immediately felt the takedown was bogus. His site was obviously parody, which he felt should have made his use of the CrowdStrike logos—altered or not—fair use. He immediately responded to Cloudflare to contest the notice, but Cloudflare did not respond to or even acknowledge receipt of his counter notice. Instead, Cloudflare sent a second email warning Senk of the alleged infringement, but once again, Cloudflare failed to respond to his counter notice.

I would note that there are no ads at all on the ClownStrike Site, not that it matters from a legal perspective.  (Hopefully, Senk is one of those hippie pinko types)

I agree with Mr. Senk.  CrowdStrike's lawyers have more pressing matters to attend to than attempting to shut down a 2 page web site on the .lol domain.

Ecch (Tweet) of the Day

Officials Ponder Combining Olympics And Paralympics Simply By Infecting All The Athletes Repeatedly With Covid. pic.twitter.com/oyBuu7MkXy

— The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) July 24, 2024

This, of course a parody account, and it's incredibly dark, and incredibly hilarious, or at least it is for me.

This is dark though.

Brilliant!

I saw this on Facebook, and I am not sure of the provenance, but it is brilliant!

(on edit) After some Google Fu, I think that this might have appeared in Mad Magazine.

When did they start doing color at Mad?

Tweet of the Day

Have we really become so cynical that we believe that $10 million in bribes could affect the decisions of the Chief Justice of the highest court in the land?

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 29, 2023

Needless to say, the New York Times Pitchbot is a parody account.

It does, however do a near perfect job of describing the solipsistic and corrosive world view that infests the Gray Lady.

It also does a very good job of predicting what we will see in the New York Times.

Snark of the Day

Calling out the actual jerks


The phony testimonials

Over at Science Based Medicine, Jonathan Howard unloads a serious can of whup-ass on the pundits/doctors who seem determined to maximize harm and death from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Do You Have Coronaphobiaphobia? Ask Your Doctor if Notmybizumab is Right for You.

Are you a doctor who has written multiple articles saying “now is the time to stop living in fear?” Did you say cautious people were not “truly not actually living right now“, months before anyone had been vaccinated? Are you engulfed with white hot rage by the handful of people who still wear masks in crowds? Have you relentlessly mocked them on your podcasts and Twitter feed? Have you called them “idiots“, “STUPID“, a “bunch of fools” “total morons“ “delusional” and “off their rocker”? Did you mercilessly shame anyone who wanted a booster just weeks before the Omicron variant ripped through the population? Do you actively encourage strangers, whose lives you know nothing about, to repeatedly expose themselves to a new, mutating virus with unknown long-term consequences? Do people who are still trying to avoid SARS-CoV-2 remind you the pandemic didn’t end in 2021 as you said it would? Have you coined new terms to stigmatize anyone who doesn’t want to repeatedly get sick with COVID for the rest of their lives?

If so, you may have coronaphobiaphobia, an inexplicable fear of and inappropriate obsession with total strangers who want to avoid COVID. Signs of coronaphobiaphobia include:

Read the rest, it is epic.

Science Based Medicine is produced by the New England Skeptical Society, who appear to be the coolest people in New England.

Schadenfreude, Day 3

So here we are, 3 days and 11 votes and we still have no House Speaker.

I am amused.

It's patently clear that Kevin McCarthy will never be speaker.

On the first ballot, he had 19 Republicans voting against him.  Now, it's 20½. (Victoria Spartz has been abstaining since the 4th ballot, and it counts as a half vote with the electoral bath)

A few more people move away from him, and we'll have a run on the Kevin that looks like the bank run scene from It's a Wonderful Life, which suit me just fine.

BTW, I have a source who leaked me a copy of a cell phone video of Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene at the next House Republican Caucus Meeting: (Yes, I edited this all by mysekf.)

Arr Mateys!

It be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Break out the Grog.

The Response to Jeff Bezos' Space Penis

For the life of me, I cannot tell if this is serious of satire

In response to the phallic appearance of more mainstream rockets, they have developed a rocket that looks like female genetalia.

As Anna Russell would say, "I'm not making this up, you know."

The group Wer Braucht Feminismus (WBF?), claims that the shape is actually more efficient, assuming that they are actual scientists, and not an exercise in guerilla theater.

I'm kind of inclined to believe that it is the latter.

On a technical level, an optimal design of a spaceship would likely resemble a Sears–Haack body, basically an elongated football shape, at least in terms of transonic drag (MaxQ):

A German feminist art group has revealed a vulva-shaped spaceship concept, which it is encouraging the European Space Agency to help realise in order to better represent humanity in space and "restore gender equality to the cosmos."

The group Wer Braucht Feminismus? (WBF?), which translates to "Who Needs Feminism?", created the Vulva Spaceship concept to challenge the convention of phallic spacecraft design.

The yonic craft was designed to signal inclusivity and the group has started a petition on change.org calling on the European Space Agency to consider the project.

"The project adds another dimension to the representation of humanity in space and is communicating to the world that anyone has a place in the universe, regardless of their genitalia," said the organisation.

I think that this project may be deeply offensive to the M'Koorik, the people of Vega IV, who reproduce through budding.

America's Finest News Source

Congress Approves Defense Relief Funding For Americans To Receive Stimulus Aircraft Carrier

—The Onion

[Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell added that should Americans need to pay rent, they can always sell their aircraft carriers to the Saudi government.

Brilliant.

Adding to the List of They Who Must Not Be Named

Inspired Photoshop Work

When someone passes a certain level of both inhumanity and irrelevance, they end up on my list of She also has been memed by The Onion:

Ellen: ‘I Never Intended To Make Staff Feel Unsafe By Wearing A Bloodied Ram Skull And Stalking Them With A Hatchet’

This is a level of screwing the pooch that approaches some sort of twisted dog bordello.

America's Finest News Source

Republicans Ridicule Democrats For Caring As Little About Sexual Assault As They Do

—The Onion

It's funny because it is true.

Also, Biden should release his Senat records at the University of Delaware.

Tara Reade claimed to have filed a contemporaneous complaint, and it should be in Biden's records.

America's Finest News Source

Federal Reserve To Infuse Wall Street With $500 Billion Worth Of Cocaine

—The Onion

The full broadcast is below:

America's Finest News Source

Poll Finds Bloomberg Trailing among Young Black Males He’s Already Thrown in Prison

—The Onion

It is really depressing that a parody news site has more journalistic integrity than most of the main stream media.

The Onion Abides

There are times that it appears to be the only real news source in America, as evidenced by this headline:

Washington Post’ Impeachment Critic Gives Insipid Day One Inquiry 2 Out Of 5 Andrew Johnsons

I would note that The Onion's article is really not that different from some press coverage calling the impeachment hearings a "snoozer".

Seriously, what the f%$# is wrong with the journalism schools?

You See, the Onion Has This Website Called Clickhole………

It's a parody of click bait sites (Buzzfeed, etc.), and they just published an article titled, "I’m Sick Of Busting My Ass Doing Neo-Nazi Stuff Only To Have Some Masked Antifa Dweebs Get Credit As The Real Fascists."

It mocks so many things on so many levels so very ably.