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Cheers and Jeers: Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-10
Potent Quotables
This week’s Top 10…
“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.” —Carl Sagan "There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician and that is down." —Frank H. Simonds “Thanks to Trump I got to hear my grandma say Stupid Motherf*cker.” —Facebook comment "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out it's just sort of a tired feeling." —Paula Poundstone "Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." —Gandhi "I'm in favor of liberalized immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English." —Calvin Trillin “Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he’s Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.” —Author-historian Ted Morgan "All right, brain. You don’t like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer." —Homer Simpson “The trouble with born-again Christians is that they’re an even bigger pain the second time around.” —San Francisco columnist Herb Caen "If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our real civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or we just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye." —Jack Handy
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, July 10, 2025
Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the annual Unforeseen Circumstances Festival has been canceled for the 50th year in a row. Also: the planning meeting for the 51st Unforeseen Circumstances Festival has been postponed because of...well, take a guess. —Glenn
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By the Numbers:
8 days!!!
Days until funding for the U.S. government runs out again: 83
Days 'til Maine's 60th Yarmouth Clam Festival: 8
Current death toll from the Texas flash floods: 118
Years since measles cases in the U.S. have been as high as they are now: 33
Percent increase in used car prices between May and June: 1.6%
Year-over-year increase in lumber prices: 26%
Age of Ringo Starr as of Monday: 85
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Last week on PBS's "NOW With Bill Moyers," there was a long interview with Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster and message-meister. Luntz recently advised Republicans to explain "the policy of pre-emption and the war in Iraq" by recommending that "no speech about ... Iraq should begin without a reference to 9/11." This would be despite the fact that the 9/11 Commission concluded Iraq has no connection to 9/11. Now you know why the administration continues to make this nonexistent connection. […] I'm listening to all this because this is what the shrewdies in Washington pay attention to—you can't hardly be a political writer anymore without sources on linguistics, semiotics, message control and all this good business. It dates you something awful if you do old-fashioned stuff, like call politicos to find out how it's going.
—July, 2004
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Tired, and very proud…
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CHEERS to C&J Theatre. My creative juices have been flowing lately, and they've gushed onto the printed page via the script for my latest off-off-Broadway play, which was inspired by the latest piece of legislation passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate, and signed into law by our mad king. Enjoy:
”Oh, Waiter!” [Curtain Up] Setting: A restaurant Waiter: Welcome to the Big Beautiful Bistro! Make I take your order? Diner: Yes. This all looks so delicious. Can I have the health care special? Waiter: Oh, I'm sorry, we just took that off the menu. Diner: Oh. Then I’ll have the deficit-reduction platter instead. Waiter: Sorry. We took that off the menu as well. Diner: Golly. Um…oh, how about the tax cuts for people making under 25k a year? Waiter: Gone. Sorry, but you appear to have the old menu. Diner: Well, what do you recommend from the new menu? Waiter: We recommend either the tax cuts for billionaires or the Gestapo. Diner: Gestapo? Waiter: Yes. Well, actually it's called ICE now. Same thing, just more cosplay. Diner: Look, let's keep this simple. Just gimme a plate of fresh Medicaid. Waiter: No problem. Just step this way into the hot, windowless boxcar that will haul you to the deep south where you'll spend 14 hours a day fulfilling your work requirement in the fields. Then, once you've filled out the 49 forms in triplicate, we might be able to scrounge up a small scoop of Medicaid. Diner (shaking head): On second thought, maybe I'll just go home and finish my can of Pringles. Sound effect: Sad trombone [Curtain down]
For your convenience, the sad trombone cue is now available on CD in the lobby.
CHEERS to toeing the line. Amazing—something sensible is afoot at the TSA. If you don’t appreciate the repeal of this bit of poo that Homeland Security made us step in for twenty years, then you've got no sole. Yes, the ankle-biters at airport checkpoints will no longer be sniffing your Buster Browns for TNT. Isn't that toe-tally cool?
Nicholas Calio, CEO of Airlines for America, a trade association, applauded the move, saying it will go a "long way in facilitating smooth, seamless and secure travel for passengers and is welcome news to the millions of people who fly every day." […] Shoe removal has been part of the airport experience since 2006, when the TSA instituted the requirement, citing intelligence indicating a "continuing threat" of explosives. The rule came after Richard Reid tried—and failed—to ignite his homemade shoe explosives on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22, 2001.
My apologies for how this item turned out. It's much too corny.
CHEERS to a pleasant jaunt to the Great White North. 67 years ago this week, in 1958, last decent Republican president Dwight Eisenhower spent some face time cavorting with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his liberal socialist commie pinko soulmates in Parliament. I could watch old newsreels like this featuring honest, pro-democracy presidents all day long…
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By the way, it was during this summit that Ike uttered his most famous words: "What does a five-star general have to do to get a Molson around here, launch an invasion?" Fortunately Diefenbaker kept a spare pair of underpants in the trunk of his car.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to the 44th state. On July 10, 1890, Wyoming—the "Equality State," so they say—joined the union. I've always felt a mysterious connection to Wyoming. This might explain it:
The post office in Bill, Wyoming. I wish to be buried under it. (Disclaimer: Only when I’m dead.)
Wyoming is home to Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Teton, and Dick Cheney. Oh well...two outta three ain't bad.
JEERS to ruining my big beautiful day. I had a big birthday party all planned for August 5th, with sparkle ponies and sparkle cakes and a sparkle piñata and sparkle face painting and games of Pin the Sparkle on the Sparkle, and now it's all RUINED! All because whoever does the time-keepy stuff has announced that the 24 hours swaddling MY birthday like a comfy sweater are going to be hacked and slashed to ribbons, making the entire day useless:
[T]iny day-to-day fluctuations in the Earth’s spin speed began to be measured in the 1950s with atomic clocks. Any number above or below the standard 86,400 seconds is called the length of day (LOD). The shortest day recorded was on July 5, 2024, when Earth completed its full rotation 1.66 milliseconds faster than the standard 86,400 seconds. Sorry I broke your clock, Mr. Timekeeper. There are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest distance from Earth’s equator, resulting in a minuscule increase in the Earth’s spin speed. The following are predictions from scientists: July 9: The day is shortened by 1.30 milliseconds July 22: Earth loses 1.38 milliseconds of the day Aug. 5: The day is shortened by 1.51 milliseconds
So the party's off. I'll just post a lame sparkle gif here and then go back to bed, sobbing over the unfairness of it all. I can do that. It’s my self-canceled party and I’ll cry if I want to.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 10, 2015
JEERS to stupid RNC tricks. The GOP is so spooked by Donald Trump's meteoric rise to the top of the polls that they resorted to throwing a sacrificial canary into the coal mine. So this week it was up to the most expendable person in the party, RNC chairman Reince Priebus, to tell Donald Trump how to behave like a proper Republican. Trump listened thoughtfully, responded proportionally, and then had his butler leave the chairman's bones in a pile by the curb.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to putting NASA on notice. Now see here, you government science nerds down there in Florida and Texas and wherever else you're doing your spacey stuff. I've had just about enough of all this foot-dragging. I demand to see new photos from the James Webb space telescope that I helped pay for with my tax dollars or I'm calling the proper authorities. I'll give you to the count to three: one…two…thr
This is the central region of the Bullet Cluster, which is made up of two massive galaxy clusters. The Bullet Cluster is unusual in that the intracluster gas and dark matter are separated, offering further evidence in support of dark matter. (Link)
Ooh. Pretty. Okay, thanks, you can go back to whatever you were doing. We’ll take over the analysis from here. In addition to the bullet I see twelve nickels, a can of hair spray and a box of Fig Newtons. I knew it—we are definitely not alone.
Oh, and today is Don’t Step on a Bee Day. Also known as the most popular holiday among bees. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial "Cheers and Jeers will get better. Bill in Portland Maine is deeply, deeply stupid, but he will evolve." —Brian Cox
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