Archive of entries posted on August 2025

Straight Line of the Day: Helpful Ideas for Disney Corp.

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So, it’s not just the Democratic Party:

Disney Is Reportedly Desperate To Get Male Audience Back After Years Of Pushing It Away
Outkick | August 21, 2025 | Ian Miller

On Thursday, Variety reported that sources say that Disney Studios is actively soliciting ideas and pitches from creatives that it hopes will lead to new movies that appeal to younger men. Specifically, males aged 13-28. That’s not a misprint; a movie studio is trying desperately to figure out stories and ideas that might appeal to teenage guys and young male adults.

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Sidebar — An apt and ept writer:

The masculine stampede from the Democrats
American Thinker | 22 Aug, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

… Now Democrats can’t define what a dude is; they want to wokify the military into some gaudy pageant for drag queens who fear guns; and they’ve replaced “politically incorrect” humor with stern lectures. No wonder American men are fleeing the Democrat Party like it’s a sexually transmitted disease.

Speaking of STDs, one of the Democrat lectures that Americans are forced to endure is that young people shouldn’t “discriminate” against potential partners who have HIV. Democrats have even gone out of their way to decriminalize the intentional act of infecting someone with the virus. This is the same political party that calls men “homophobic” and “transphobic” if they refuse to date “trans women” (psychologically disturbed men wearing push-up bras). …

Perhaps that’s why the “right-wing” pejorative has lost most of its sting since Obama “fundamentally transformed” America into an oasis for femboys and pansexual furries. Can you imagine how many teenage boys have asked, “So the ‘Nazis’ get to date pretty girls who wear Sydney Sweeney’s jeans?” Once they realize that Democrats merely graffitied the Republican Party’s front door with lies and slurs and that the average Republican voter just wants to live well and be free, the choice of future political affiliation is easy. Democrats live in fantasy; Republicans prefer reality.

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Straight Line of the Day: Other “Oopsies” in the Judicial System That Would Be Kind of Bad: …

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Shocking Moment Judge Announces Wrong Verdict in Murder Trial: ‘Didn’t I Say ‘Not’?’ [Police Murder]
New York Post | Aug. 21, 2025 | Patrick Reilly

A judge in Atlanta left a courtroom gasping after he mistakenly delivered a devastating “guilty” verdict for a man charged with murdering a police officer — when the defendant was found “not guilty” on all counts.

Bond Girlathon Friday : Results from 8/15/2025 : New Matches for 8/22/2025

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Time for me to shine in the guest host role. Have fun.

Results

Serena Scott ThomasNo PreferenceAkiko Wakabayashi
1055101

Sophie MarceauNo PreferenceTsai Chin
196035

Matches for 8/22/2025

Match 1

Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) vs Rosemund Pike (Miranda Frost)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Karin Dor0 – 2 – 0131 – 6 – 240
Helga Brandt

Actress:Karin Dor
Nationality:German
Bond Movie:You Only Live Twice (1967)

Synopsis:

Helga Brandt was a SPECTRE henchwoman who pretended to fall in love with Bond and switch to his side, only to try and kill him the next morning. For failing to kill Bond, Brandt is killed by head of SPECTRE Blofeld, who drops her into a pool of piranha fish. Helga Brandt was very similar to prior Bond girl Fiona Volpe, as the producers tried to replicate their prior success.

Karin Dor

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Rosemund Pike2 – 0 – 0345 – 5 – 81
Miranda Frost

Actress:Rosamund Pike
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Die Another Day (2002)

Synopsis:

Miranda Frost was an MI6 agent assigned to investigate Gustav Graves. An Olympic fencing champion, Frost worked as Graves’ publicist and fencing partner. Bond discovered that Miranda was a double agent working for Graves, who had killed off Miranda’s competition in the Olympics so that she could win gold.

Rosemund Pike

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Match 2

Jill St. John (Tiffany Case) vs Rachel Grant (Peaceful Fountains of Desire)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Jill St. John1 – 1 – 0267 – 0 – 206
Tiffany Case

Actress:Jill St. John
Nationality:American
Bond Movie:Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Synopsis:

Tiffany Case was a diamond smuggler in part of a pipeline of smugglers that ultimately ended at Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Courier Peter Franks was supposed to pass the diamonds to Tiffany, but Bond intercepted and impersonated Franks, and managed to take the diamonds for himself. Bond’s involvement saved Tiffany being murdered, and she eventually switched to Bond’s allegiance.

Jill St. John

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Rachel Grant2 – 0 – 0350 – 6 – 69
Peaceful Fountains of Desire

Actress:Rachel Grant
Nationality:Filipino
Bond Movie:Die Another Day (2002)

Synopsis:

Peaceful Fountains of Desire was a masseuse working for Mr Chang of the Hong Kong Yacht Club Hotel. Bond arrived and took the presidential suite, and was soon surprised to have a complimentary masseuse knock at the door. Knowing Mr Chang was with Chinese Intelligence, Bond felt down the girl’s legs and took her gun. He smashed a nearby mirror to reveal Mr Chang spying on him, and talked to Chang directly instead of having the girl find out information.

Rachel Grant

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Another New Word

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Vishing. You heard it here first. Well, second, if you read Channel News Asia.

Can people tell a real voice from an AI-generated one? We put it to the test
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AI-related fraud attempts surged by nearly 200 per cent in 2024, according to a cybersecurity firm. CNA takes a closer look at deepfake voice phishing, an increasingly common method used by scammers.

“Hi, how have you been? So I heard about this restaurant that just recently opened up. Want to go check it out the next time we meet?” These were the innocuous sentences used in a simple experiment to find out if people in my social circle could distinguish my real voice from an AI-cloned version.

The result was some confusion – but more importantly, the ease with which the imitation was generated suggests that more attention should be paid to the phenomenon of deepfake voice phishing, or vishing.

♪ “When you vish a porno star . . .” ♪

Millions of dollars have been lost to scammers using cheap yet increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to impersonate the voices of real people.

… AI-related fraud attempts surged by 194 percent in 2024 compared to 2023, with deepfake vishing emerging as one of the most commonly used methods, said the company’s senior fraud analyst for the region Yuan Huang.

“Vanity, V.D., Vishing.”

— Bilious Caesar

What To Do If You See A Mountain Lion in the Bay Area?

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Any ideas?

Here are some craptastic ones:

What To Do If You See A Mountain Lion While Hiking in the Bay Area
KQED | Aug 14 2025 | Sarah Wright

…“I felt really small,” said McDonald, a biologist and researcher who’s now the founder and president of the Bay Area Puma Project, a local wild cat research and conservation organization that’s part of the Felidae Conservation Fund. “I disrupted his opportunity to get a meal.”…

That’s “survival,” lib.

…And while she had fears, “he was not a threat,” she said. ..

And that’s anti-survival.

… “It’s really important to keep your pets inside.”…That goes for outdoor cats and unsupervised dogs in yards as well as livestock …“

A herd of cows?

I notice she didn’t add the logical extension: “yourself.”

And here’s my absolute favorite part:

“If you have a backpack, you can put that over your head to make yourself seem a bit bigger,” he said.

At least you won’t see the mountain lion anymore, with your head in the backpack.

If the mountain lion is advancing toward you, you can even throw rocks or sticks at it, he said.

Experts — is there anything they haven’t thought through?

Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results for 8/13/2025 : New Matches for 8/20/2025

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So happy to be posting these for your pleasure. Do I bring you pleasure?

Results

Barbara BachNo PreferenceFiona Fullerton
212122
Sue VannerNo PreferenceMaryam d’Abo
148072

New Matches for 8/20/2025

Match 1

Caroline Munro (Naomi) vs Kell Tyler (Linda)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Caroline Munro4 – 0 – 0552 – 7 – 262
Naomi

Actress:Caroline Munro
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Synopsis:

Naomi was an aid for Karl Stromberg, and escorted Bond and Anya Amasova to Stromberg’s oceanic citadel, the Atlantis. After Bond’s meeting ended, Stromberg instructed henchman Jaws to kill the two spies. In an intense chase sequence with Bond and Amasova driving a Lotus Esprit, Jaws shot at them from a car, another henchmen tried to kill them with a sidecar-missile, and Naomi tried to shoot them down from a helicopter. She met her end as Bond blew up her helicopter with a surface-to-air missile.

Caroline Munro

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Kell Tyler1 – 3 – 0381 – 12 – 619
Linda

Actress:Kell Tyler
Nationality:American
Bond Movie:The Living Daylights (1987)

Synopsis:

A lady of leisure, Linda was aboard her boat complaining on the phone to a friend. “It’s all so boring here Margo, there’s nothing but playboys and tennis pros. Ugh, if only I could find a real man.” At which point, Bond landed his holey and smoldering parachute on the yacht, hung up her phone and dialled exercise control. He said he would report in an hour, until Linda held up a glass of champagne, then he changed his mind to 2 hours.

Kell Tyler

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Match 2

Olga Bisera (Felicca) vs Carey Lowell (Pam Bouvier)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Olga Bisera0 – 4 – 0133 – 5 – 628
Felicca

Actress:Olga Bisera
Nationality:Bosnian
Bond Movie:The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Synopsis:

Felicca worked for Aziz Fekkesh, a black market dealer who was selling the microfilms of a submarine tracking system. Fekkesh instructed Felicca to entertain Bond, should he call round, so that henchman Sandor could kill him. In their brief time together, Felicca took a liking to Bond, and when she saw Sandor about to shoot him, she spun round and took the bullet herself.

Olga Bisera

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Carey Lowell2 – 2 – 0607 – 6 – 434
Pam Bouvier

Actress:Carey Lowell
Nationality:American
Bond Movie:Licence to Kill (1989)

Synopsis:

Pam Bouvier was a CIA freelancer pilot, and an informant against drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond found her name on an informant list along with the time and place of her next meeting. He met her at a bar and escaped with her after Sanchez’s henchman Dario showed up. Pam then flew Bond to Isthmus City to find Sanchez, and became his executive secretary as a cover.

Carey Lowell

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