John Euchler
@johneuchler.bsky.social
This is the best day of all my lives. Please enjoy your cutlery.
I foresee a day when “Republican” is taught to children in history class, along with “No Nothing” and “Whig” and “Free Soil” and “Nullifier” parties…a thing of the long-ago past.
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I foresee a day when “Republican” is taught to children in history class, along with “No Nothing” and “Whig” and “Free Soil” and “Nullifier” parties…a thing of the long-ago past.
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Thank you, Mr. Hamill.
My only disagreement with Mr. Rather’s words is, to quote Newt Scamander, “He doesn't want to lead you. He just wants you to follow.”
My only disagreement with Mr. Rather’s words is, to quote Newt Scamander, “He doesn't want to lead you. He just wants you to follow.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thank you, Mr. Hamill.
My only disagreement with Mr. Rather’s words is, to quote Newt Scamander, “He doesn't want to lead you. He just wants you to follow.”
My only disagreement with Mr. Rather’s words is, to quote Newt Scamander, “He doesn't want to lead you. He just wants you to follow.”
Enjoy!
If you find yourself amongst people complaining about the snow, just smile and say, “You really do not have to shovel it: if you wait long enough, it will depart on its own!”
Smile a second time, lie down, and make a snow angel…
If you find yourself amongst people complaining about the snow, just smile and say, “You really do not have to shovel it: if you wait long enough, it will depart on its own!”
Smile a second time, lie down, and make a snow angel…
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Enjoy!
If you find yourself amongst people complaining about the snow, just smile and say, “You really do not have to shovel it: if you wait long enough, it will depart on its own!”
Smile a second time, lie down, and make a snow angel…
If you find yourself amongst people complaining about the snow, just smile and say, “You really do not have to shovel it: if you wait long enough, it will depart on its own!”
Smile a second time, lie down, and make a snow angel…
No, none. Please forgive my lack of clarity:
I just wonder if this recent absurdity will collapse the administration while none of all the morally repugnant and criminal acts have…I can sure see it being used in campaign ads soon.
I just wonder if this recent absurdity will collapse the administration while none of all the morally repugnant and criminal acts have…I can sure see it being used in campaign ads soon.
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
No, none. Please forgive my lack of clarity:
I just wonder if this recent absurdity will collapse the administration while none of all the morally repugnant and criminal acts have…I can sure see it being used in campaign ads soon.
I just wonder if this recent absurdity will collapse the administration while none of all the morally repugnant and criminal acts have…I can sure see it being used in campaign ads soon.
“Bleak whimsy.”
So, not ICE raids targeting non-felons, federal employee firings, suing universities, media companies and law firms, selecting unqualified cabinet members, dismembering the Dept. of Education, Epstein, killing non-combatant survivors of an attack, but…this? Will this be “the straw?”
So, not ICE raids targeting non-felons, federal employee firings, suing universities, media companies and law firms, selecting unqualified cabinet members, dismembering the Dept. of Education, Epstein, killing non-combatant survivors of an attack, but…this? Will this be “the straw?”
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Bleak whimsy.”
So, not ICE raids targeting non-felons, federal employee firings, suing universities, media companies and law firms, selecting unqualified cabinet members, dismembering the Dept. of Education, Epstein, killing non-combatant survivors of an attack, but…this? Will this be “the straw?”
So, not ICE raids targeting non-felons, federal employee firings, suing universities, media companies and law firms, selecting unqualified cabinet members, dismembering the Dept. of Education, Epstein, killing non-combatant survivors of an attack, but…this? Will this be “the straw?”
Hilarious! All of my stories are true.
(You have to admit, it’s a cool word.)
(You have to admit, it’s a cool word.)
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hilarious! All of my stories are true.
(You have to admit, it’s a cool word.)
(You have to admit, it’s a cool word.)
“(Patel) insists he’s ‘a steward of the taxpayer dollars.’ “
I never saw the movie, but the title embodies what is spoken (and written) by this administration, almost as a mission statement.
I never saw the movie, but the title embodies what is spoken (and written) by this administration, almost as a mission statement.
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“(Patel) insists he’s ‘a steward of the taxpayer dollars.’ “
I never saw the movie, but the title embodies what is spoken (and written) by this administration, almost as a mission statement.
I never saw the movie, but the title embodies what is spoken (and written) by this administration, almost as a mission statement.
Heh.
Two (2) of my favorite (living) authors do.
Two (2) of my favorite (living) authors do.
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Heh.
Two (2) of my favorite (living) authors do.
Two (2) of my favorite (living) authors do.
Nah, that is not nearly as distracting as when an author uses “thrumm” more than three times…my HD/ADD/ADHD (the first two letters stand for “high-definition”) makes me pause reading the most exciting chapter to say, “Wait—didn’t they use “thrumm” in chapter thirty-seven…and also chapter eleven?!?”
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Nah, that is not nearly as distracting as when an author uses “thrumm” more than three times…my HD/ADD/ADHD (the first two letters stand for “high-definition”) makes me pause reading the most exciting chapter to say, “Wait—didn’t they use “thrumm” in chapter thirty-seven…and also chapter eleven?!?”
Mr. Garrett is correct in his logic.
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mr. Garrett is correct in his logic.
1) I would watch it. Maybe not in a theater. Unless it was one with a full menu, and depending on what was on the menu.
b) I thought “Lobster Santa,“ ‘cause…red…but that’s only after Santa is cooked, which would be very bad, and now I am thinking I would be too scared to go watch your movie. Sorry.
b) I thought “Lobster Santa,“ ‘cause…red…but that’s only after Santa is cooked, which would be very bad, and now I am thinking I would be too scared to go watch your movie. Sorry.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
1) I would watch it. Maybe not in a theater. Unless it was one with a full menu, and depending on what was on the menu.
b) I thought “Lobster Santa,“ ‘cause…red…but that’s only after Santa is cooked, which would be very bad, and now I am thinking I would be too scared to go watch your movie. Sorry.
b) I thought “Lobster Santa,“ ‘cause…red…but that’s only after Santa is cooked, which would be very bad, and now I am thinking I would be too scared to go watch your movie. Sorry.
I used to love to yell that at students during fire drills…
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I used to love to yell that at students during fire drills…
“Hundreds of millions…”
(Sigh.)
Couldn’t just say, “Like a bazillion, or whatever…” as a child would.
(The mathematics just keeps on getting…more…worserer.)
(Sigh.)
Couldn’t just say, “Like a bazillion, or whatever…” as a child would.
(The mathematics just keeps on getting…more…worserer.)
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“Hundreds of millions…”
(Sigh.)
Couldn’t just say, “Like a bazillion, or whatever…” as a child would.
(The mathematics just keeps on getting…more…worserer.)
(Sigh.)
Couldn’t just say, “Like a bazillion, or whatever…” as a child would.
(The mathematics just keeps on getting…more…worserer.)
Okay, I am absolutely not defending this behavior, but…Could there have been a pre-meeting wager?
“Ha! You lost, Noem! Now, you have to thank the President for his control of natural disasters! That was the bet, remember? If I had lost I would’ve had to tell him that he’s taller than Lincoln…”
“Ha! You lost, Noem! Now, you have to thank the President for his control of natural disasters! That was the bet, remember? If I had lost I would’ve had to tell him that he’s taller than Lincoln…”
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Okay, I am absolutely not defending this behavior, but…Could there have been a pre-meeting wager?
“Ha! You lost, Noem! Now, you have to thank the President for his control of natural disasters! That was the bet, remember? If I had lost I would’ve had to tell him that he’s taller than Lincoln…”
“Ha! You lost, Noem! Now, you have to thank the President for his control of natural disasters! That was the bet, remember? If I had lost I would’ve had to tell him that he’s taller than Lincoln…”
“Yukon Territory: self-isolating for a thousand years.”
(Got that on a bumper sticker on my drive through during COVID.)
(Got that on a bumper sticker on my drive through during COVID.)
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“Yukon Territory: self-isolating for a thousand years.”
(Got that on a bumper sticker on my drive through during COVID.)
(Got that on a bumper sticker on my drive through during COVID.)
Absolutely.
I know that I sure donut.
I know that I sure donut.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Absolutely.
I know that I sure donut.
I know that I sure donut.
Yep. I clicked the little “like” heart.
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yep. I clicked the little “like” heart.
(Oops. “Robur the Conquereor.“ My apologies!)
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
(Oops. “Robur the Conquereor.“ My apologies!)
…Over two million lives are estimated to have been saved worldwide by crews (such as the US Coast Guard) working aboard Sikorsky helicopters.
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
…Over two million lives are estimated to have been saved worldwide by crews (such as the US Coast Guard) working aboard Sikorsky helicopters.
Thank you so much for this.
I am reminded of young Igor Sikorsky who, upon reading Jules Verne's novels, like “Conqueror and Clipper of the Clouds,” believed that the fiction of a hovering heavier-than-air vehicle was possible—and designed the first machine we could call a helicopter.
I am reminded of young Igor Sikorsky who, upon reading Jules Verne's novels, like “Conqueror and Clipper of the Clouds,” believed that the fiction of a hovering heavier-than-air vehicle was possible—and designed the first machine we could call a helicopter.
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Thank you so much for this.
I am reminded of young Igor Sikorsky who, upon reading Jules Verne's novels, like “Conqueror and Clipper of the Clouds,” believed that the fiction of a hovering heavier-than-air vehicle was possible—and designed the first machine we could call a helicopter.
I am reminded of young Igor Sikorsky who, upon reading Jules Verne's novels, like “Conqueror and Clipper of the Clouds,” believed that the fiction of a hovering heavier-than-air vehicle was possible—and designed the first machine we could call a helicopter.
“Tiglion?”
(Ohhh, you must mean a liger…)
(Ohhh, you must mean a liger…)
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“Tiglion?”
(Ohhh, you must mean a liger…)
(Ohhh, you must mean a liger…)
(Sigh.) May I humbly request that, after the current occupant of the White House is…evicted…that we, all of us (Congress, media, social posters, historians and teachers, military personnel, foreign heads of state, children) forever refer to the individual as He Who Shall Not Be Named…
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(Sigh.) May I humbly request that, after the current occupant of the White House is…evicted…that we, all of us (Congress, media, social posters, historians and teachers, military personnel, foreign heads of state, children) forever refer to the individual as He Who Shall Not Be Named…