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Overnight Open Thread [07/13/2026]

The bison is far more in tune with the American spirit than the eagle or the turkey (Benjamin Franklin's laughable choice for a symbol). It's the size and weight of a compact sedan, and can run 35 miles/hour. It's cranky as f*ck; and will ignore you until it decides to toss you in the air because you are mildly irritating. And then forget about you, because you are unimportant. It has the quiet confidence that that everything else should probably get out of the way. And if you don't? It makes clear that stupidity has consequences.

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It's a cleverly written skit, but the performance is utterly and completely brilliant.

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The American obsession with celebrity is becoming unhinged from reality. I think it is tremendously damaging to our culture, because the celebrities most worshiped are often vile human beings whose claim to fame is stuff like gangster rap, or even worse, insipid pop music! Artist sells out of trash collected from Taylor Swift's wedding. Yeah...she is an impressive businesswoman, but five years after she stops performing her music will be as popular as the hundreds of other bands that simply faded away.

The obsession comes at the expense of paying attention to more worthy things. Yes, get off my lawn! Seriously, I understand that entertainment is an integral part of our world, but the caustic influence of amoral post-modern entertainers is not good for us as a society.

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Just look what you dodged! Don't ever say I don't do anything for you maniacs!

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Don't ask me why these three are on my personal play list. I have no rhyme or reason for what goes on it. If I like the way a song sounds...even a little bit of it...I go for it. And why not? The worst thing that can happen is that I skip it.

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I find heavy equipment operators to be amazingly impressive. They run multi-ton vehicles as if they were surgeons. And yes, I bitterly regret not becoming one.

There are few concepts that have done more for Man than hydraulics. Imagine a world without it!

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Somebody sent this to me and claimed it was how they manufacture American Cheese.

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