Offbeat Humor

.@JerrySeinfeld explains why @adamcarolla's "Rich Man, Poor Man" is one of the greatest comedy bits of all time 👇 pic.twitter.com/2HqFKHWApp

— The Adam Carolla Show (@AdamCarollaShow) June 9, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal @patrick_kidd pic.twitter.com/4PHH5pdjg7

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 11, 2026

 

Data Talks

When you can order banks to lend, local governments to build, and developers to borrow, GDP rises. The hard part is generating returns that justify the debt.

The funny part is ghost towns are even counted twice as „GDP growth“, when they are built, and when they are demolished. https://t.co/yXQhaD0bxo

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) June 9, 2026

 

Data Talks

The US went from a small agrarian economy to the world’s leading economic power for over a century. They were consistently at the forefront of new technologies. Always driven by migrants. How does the country sustain this edge? Source: https://t.co/9sxLT7eeVW pic.twitter.com/cSG0CqO1dJ

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) July 11, 2026

 

Meadows near Greifswald, 1822 by Caspar David Friedrich

Meadows near Greifswald, 1822 by Caspar David Friedrich (Germany, 1774-1840)

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Total Eclipse of the Heart

I see news today of Bonnie Tyler's passing.  She sang one of the anthems of the early 80's, Total Eclipse of the Heart.  

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A few years ago I came across a version repurposed by someone as an anthem for Marine recruiting.

@belligerent.one FOREVER CAN START TONIGHT. SemperFi #brandsofvalor #semperfi #marines ♬ Total Eclipse of the Heart (Radio Version) - Bonnie Tyler

And now, with her passing, I discover someone produced a mock version of the original music video, wonderful in its own way.

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RIP Bonnie Tyler.

Total Eclipse of the Heart has the refrain,  "Turn around bright eyes", not to be confused with the earlier song Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel used in the 1978 animation of Watership Down five years before Total Eclipse of the Heart.  Both big hits in different fashions.  

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Circumambient, 2025 by Alexandra Matthews

Circumambient, 2025 by Alexandra Matthews (Australia, 1963 - ) 

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History

yes. plato shows (you might say) the platonic socrates (a very specific sort of simple man) as superior to the homeric odysseus, who despite his merits did not quite attain to the highest heights of the life lived loving wisdom https://t.co/7ltJJIYJD0

— Michael Millerman (@millerman) June 9, 2026

 

An Insight

It is ABSOLUTELY amazing that they tried to end Hegseth’s nomination over an overtly and socially acceptable Christian tattoo by calling it Nazi symbolism but actively pretend that an actual Nazi tattoo is nbd.

*Amazing but not surprising. pic.twitter.com/C4cz8jY6nc

— Tandy (@dantypo) June 8, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I…

— Bob Elder (@southernphd) June 8, 2026