From G just now...

The US Ambassador to Japan is George Glass.

It's hilarious to me to hear people I know, who LIVED in the city between 1975 and 1990, talk now about how it's so scary they can't even go there.
Start clutching your pearls, look at what the scene on the left (1980) turned into (current image at right)!!!
(Photo credit to NYC's own Brian Rose)

This man is being interviewed for:
A. An ingenious method of keeping kids off his lawn
B. His Nobel Prize
C. His epic collection of Idiocracy merch

This was going to be a nice photo of my dog with Lady Gaga's piano. My hand slipped, the dog moved, the piano mover moved...and I snapped the pic an instant before the doggo threw a stick across the floor.

They'll always feel like that. But they were "VHS tape with Friends stars explaining how to use a computer" ago.

Our Times (though...there are a few nods to Back to the Future)

Yes, yes it was. Anyone who has access to the internet, the ability to read, and doesn't live on Mount Stupid knew $2T was a number pulled out of thin air and the entire DOGE concept was a farce.

Placebo trials for a vaccine, when a safe and effective one already exists, is both unethical and bad science.

Let's let people who live on Mount Stupid make health and safety decisions for us all!!

You misunderstand.
The government can't make ME wear a mask, because MY freedoms.
They can send OTHER people to gulags in other countries.

From another angle, in another era:

Well, hello there.