This might be a blessing in disguise for him. Except for the children.
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams announced on Monday that he has metastatic prostate cancer and only months to live.
Before you chastise me for not putting this in the good news thread:
Adams did not go into detail about his treatments, other than saying the anti-parasitic medications ivermectin and fenbendazole did not work for him.
You think? Maybe you should be a little more public about that, asshole.
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Old news, but new bill:
A freshly filed bill brings the topic of furries in Texas schools to the House. The bill, Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education Act, pet-named the F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act, would ban students from observing “non-human behaviors,” which include, but are not limited to, meowing, barking and hissing; wearing a tail, collar, or ears; and licking oneself in a grooming manner.
“No distractions. No theatrics. Just education,” Gerdes wrote on X.
You’d think that would preclude this bill itself…
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So no more singing of Old MacDonald, I assume? No recitations of Baa Baa Black Sheep? Is it okay for kids to use a “Speak & Spell - Down on the Farm” toy? (No, it doesn’t exist.)
I’ve been watching the Doom Patrol recently and the Bureau of Normalcy, “… an organization that is dedicated to the extermination of eccentricity and difference …,” seems downright tolerant compared to these assholes.
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Now, I’m not a person who ever had children, but I do recall from being one, that kids are super weird. Like really weird, and sometimes play bonkers games including being animals. And, from my fading memory, if a grown up had objected to me meowing for fun, I would have only meowed more. Meow, check out these cat ears I made for myself. Lick lick.
I’m also not a furry, but I do hope the furry kids have fun storming the castle.
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He’s not wrong, just not in the way he imagines.
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A related point came up recently in the Map Library.
In the second map, each hexagon represents one electorate, which is about 110,000 people.
To people who enjoy knowing stuff, it’s a striking display about how population density varies so much. And then there are the dangerous goofs who think it’s excellent conspiracy territory.
I like the phrasing “Acres don’t vote. People do.”
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My short answer would be “because that’s a map of where the people live”. Of course it’s more complicated than that…for instance it’s actually where enfranchised people live, because there is no small amount of cheating going on to make that much red on the map.
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No worries. Project 2025 will eventually make sure that only men who own land have the right to vote.
Problem solved!
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This is such a stupid bill. But unlike many stupid bills filed this session, this one has stalled. It never even got a hearing in committee. Deadline has passed for TX House to move any house bills out of committee.
It could be revived as an amendment to some bill that did make it out, but that is unlikely. It died before even being heard in committee.
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I would hope at least someone replied with this or something similar.
(Edit: or a link to https://try-to-impeach-this.jetpack.ai/ for a more in-depth answer)
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“Just lucky, I guess?”
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I’d like to see something like that showing the effects of the electoral college, and how Democrats do get elected president occasionally despite the huge bias toward red states.
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