Monday Night Open Thread

Did you ever watch something and immediately go “What the heck did I just watch?” That happened to me recently.

I like classical music. The Symphony Hall channel is one of my presets on SiriusXM. So, when I saw a video entitled “Rossini – Figaro on Chicken – Il Barbiere di Siviglia ‘Largo al factotum'” I thought, “Ah. Figaro. Barber of Seville.” When I thought “Wait. What? On chicken? What?!” So I watched it. And now, so can you.

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So, what’s on your mind? Got something you want to talk about? Something you’ve seen? Something you thought about? It’s Monday Night Open Thread, and you get to choose the topic.

Who wants to start?

Good People, Always Thinking of Others

Hunger strikes are now gaining popularity at ICE detention centers.

Well, if you weigh less, the deportation bus gets better mileage, and that lowers the carbon footprint. Way to save the planet, amigo!

The Movie’s Title is 80% Right

[Disney’s Dumbo (1941) Pitch Meeting] (Viewer #220,060)

Yeah, this was not a good choice for a live action remake, because the source material was just… well, not the good part of the 40s.

Link of the Day: Watching Government Like a Hawk Watches a Bunny. Specifically, the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog

[High Praise! to Ammo.com]

Right to Know: A Historical Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Trump Truths: Earth

In a surprising bipartisan move, President Trump will join Democrats in marking Earth Day by hypocritically scolding average Americans over insignificant lifestyle choices that don’t actually affect global temperatures.

Democrats (A Poem)

[Submitted by Oppo (High Praise!)]


“Political speech is protected.
And is no different from action.
Speech and action can be expected
To be violent among our faction.

“By the transitive property alone
Application of logic will teach
That violence is awfully well shown
To be protected speech.

“But Republicans can’t have political speech
Since that is the same as violence.
Violence is awful, and doesn’t belong
In the wrong hands. Logic. Silence.”

AOC Pushes to Abolish ICE: “Real Amnesty Has Never Been Tried”

“Also, we should abolish Taco Bell because REAL Mexican food has never been tried there!”

NEW YORK CITY (AP) – During a recent appearance in her home district of NY-14, Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told cheering crowds that it was time to abolish the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and drop all charges against undocumented immigrants, because “real amnesty has never been tried”.

“Republicans are always saying ‘we tried amnesty under Reagan, and the immigration problem is even worse now,'” said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez”. “Yeah, well that wasn’t REAL amnesty! Reagan made them pay fines and back taxes and stuff. REAL amnesty is like ‘fly! Be free!’ Like in the Wizard of Oz when that Wiccan person of color released her oppressed minority aviatory-simian subjects, telling them to ‘Fly! Fly! Fly!'”

“I always get a little misty thinking about that scene…” sniffed Ocasio-Cortez.

“Some people argue that they attacked the Scarecrow,” she continued, “but it’s not like he didn’t get put back together, and he got some fresh straw out of the deal. Besides Aviatory-simians are probably the ones who had to pick all the straw in the first place.”

“You know,” Ocasio-Cortez mused, “it’s the same way when people talk about Socialism being a failure, and then they point to Venezuela. Well, everyone knows that that it’s not REAL socialism – which has never been tried – that’s causing the problems. It’s because the government is full of graft and corruption. Plus they probably have an electoral college. You can’t have REAL socialism with an electoral college.”

“By the way,” she concluded, “we need to abolish the electoral college, because a REAL popular vote has never been tried. Well, I think maybe in Germany, once, but I don’t remember how that turned out.”


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Straight Line of the Day: The Only Thing Standing Between Joe Biden and the White House…

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the White House

The Illustrated Frank J: Consistency Optional

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Not Many Things Are Worth This Much

Supermarket tabloid staple The National Enquirer was recently sold for $100 million.

I know numbers that big numbers are hard to wrap your head around, but think of it this way: it’s the equivalent of 100 million Newsweeks.