Canning funnel.

Makes it easier to get things into glass jars without the narrow opening that would get clogged in a smaller funnel.

Move in with your aunt and uncle now, before the dementia gets any worse.

As big as Lake Ontario.

Seuss began writing Green Eggs and Ham after Bennett Cerf, his editor, bet him $50 (equivalent to $544 in 2025) that he could not write an engaging children’s book using a vocabulary of 50 words.

Hmmm…

Big Enough - Kirin J. Callinan

It’s really fucking difficult to accept that the same guy drew both of these cartoons.

“I just think it’s wrong to speed-grow a clone in a vat, then have a lifetime of happy memories of falling in love with each other implanted into the clone’s brain, and then get those same memories implanted in your brain, and then marry the clone, even if the both of you are deeply happy and satisfied with your marriage! It just doesn’t seem right!”

“God, Grampa, you can’t just say things like that out loud anymore!”

If less than one percent of Nader voters in Florida had voted for Gore instead, he would have won the state and and the country. Voting matters.

There’s a really interesting multi-part series called Brows Held High: Starship Troopers about the fundamental differences between Heinlein and Verhooven and what each was trying to say, between Heinlein’s original and Verhooven’s interpretation.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think Heinlein was fascist or even fascist-sympathetic. If you read more of his fiction and, my personal favorite, his non-fiction book Take Back Your Government, which is about how and why to get involved in democratic politics, you get a much more complete view of a really interesting guy. Some of his views were fair or even highly-progressive for their time. Some were weird and gross. But he’s not one could simply stick a “Fuck That Fascist” pin in and walk away.

Steve Rogers?

I’ve got a concept for a wrestling tag team of a couple of black-hat villains who escaped from a silent movie. They wear old-timey muscle man singlets under swooshy blacks capes, have handlebar mustaches, work out with spherical dumbbells, and they’re always tying people to train tracks or saw mill logs and trying to steal the deed to wrestling.

So probably like silent movie piano jazz.

TOFU: Trump Only Fucks Up

Rock DJ has one of highest deltas between “Enjoyable Song” and “Deeply Upsetting Music Video”

Spider-Man for the PS4 had fast travel via subway, by why would you miss out on web-slinging your way from one end of Manhattan to the other?

Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.

Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.

Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.

“Woah! Don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air?! You don’t know!”

“I need a length of rope!”

[Puts down a gold coin worth a month’s wages.]

“Good person” might be a stretch, but plenty of autocrats come to power in situations where people’s real needs are not being met, and they are able to present a plausible-enough case that they ought to be given extraordinary powers in order to provide for them. Whether it’s a good person looking to sweep away a corrupt old system or a prospective dictator looking for a way to exploit vulnerability, the pathway can be much the same.