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Phoebe Juel

@mattycornfed

Intl Humanitarian Law, Ag Health and Safety, Public Health, Civil War History, Rabbits, and an Haiku or two. Unicorn, Pioneer, Catamount, Hawkeye. Exasperated/Exhausted Episcopalian. Holder of a Jeopardy! annuity

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Fat side cartoon depicting the iconic 70's ship, The Love Boat sailing into the Strait of Hormuz. Hapless cruisers are partying on deck surrounded by floating mines, a small gunboat, and in the distance a naval vessel.

Fat side cartoon depicting the iconic 70's ship, The Love Boat sailing into the Strait of Hormuz. Hapless cruisers are partying on deck surrounded by floating mines, a small gunboat, and in the distance a naval vessel.

Starting to think I'm the only person who remembered this one.

12.03.2026 03:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is it with Iowa guys and those things? I have to hide them from my dad to keep him from goring himself on them.

12.03.2026 00:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This offers some insight into the senior military folks who were taken in by Elizabeth Holmes.

11.03.2026 15:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We could be working on climate solutions, cancer treatments, all sorts of wonderful things and instead we're doing this.

10.03.2026 21:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh dang, I want to read this!

10.03.2026 04:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Eyup, you can be JD, or a Heather, or Veronica.
Way too many of us chose JD or Heather.

10.03.2026 04:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Singing in the Rain sure hits different when you realize that it's also a huge fond parody of the pre-code Busby Berkeley musicals.

10.03.2026 04:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's even funnier than that. Senator Claghorn wasn't a real person; he was a character from the old Fred Allen show. Claghorn was a parody of the sort of performance that Sen. Kennedy is trying to perpetrate on the rest of us.

10.03.2026 04:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dispatches from the Oswald Spengler Memorial Book Club.

09.03.2026 21:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This kind of crud reminds me of an article I read a while back about the pre-legalization weed culture in DC - white suburban moms making brownies & lollypops & whatnot making bank doing deliveries to BigLaw & consultants knowing they'd never have consequences.
It's the worst kind of privilege.

09.03.2026 21:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reminds me of the management at the Tyson Pork pack in Waterloo, IA taking bets on how many workers would get COVID.

07.03.2026 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nope. Comic book culture has gone too far. Find the person who did this and wedgie them unconscious in front of the entire Pentagon staff.

07.03.2026 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tried to warn us all w/ the screenplay for Seven Days in May.

07.03.2026 20:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nope.

07.03.2026 19:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

07.03.2026 15:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 10176 ๐Ÿ” 2565 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 334 ๐Ÿ“Œ 129

I miss my Con Law text.
(My rabbit made a meal of the binding)

07.03.2026 16:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is what going to a small liberal arts college in the middle of a cornfield does to people.

07.03.2026 05:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Roughly" is going Atlas lifting there.

07.03.2026 03:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why couldn't people have gotten this obsessed with actual Brisco County Jr. (newsgroup sig files notwithstanding)?

Or heck, Legend! Legend was super fun.

07.03.2026 01:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've said it before, but you can really tell he did his residency at U of Iowa.

06.03.2026 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They really just do not give a good goddamn do they?

06.03.2026 18:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know, the Totenkopf is a particularly interesting choice for a former Abu Ghraib guard when you consider that the Totenkopf Division was originally made up of concentration camp guards. It's first commander was one of the key developers of the camp system.

06.03.2026 17:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't get between a lady and her greens.

06.03.2026 16:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They're a treat ever year, but for some reason this year's crop is especially good. There's a floral thing going on there that's amazing.

06.03.2026 05:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All the good thoughts.

06.03.2026 03:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ope, small error, it's CCAC, not Allegheny Community.

06.03.2026 02:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And there's the furry on "The Pitt."

06.03.2026 02:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Add Eric Rudolph to that list, but yeah.

06.03.2026 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Spicy and sweet generally go together.
Sticky and sweet generally go together.
Salty in the mix...complicates things.

Hot tamale is a good spicy Peep iteration.

06.03.2026 01:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want to be a Pirates fan. PNC Park is such a great place to watch a game, and now that the Cubs are owned by complete assholes I've had to put that fandom in abeyance.
But the Pirates management just insists on making any deep connection with the team a passport to misery.

05.03.2026 23:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0