First Looks category archive

A frolicking fence:

A Philadelphia woman whose Honda Odyssey was stolen in July says she later found parts from the vehicle being sold on Facebook Marketplace and exchanged text messages with the person selling them.

Off to drink liberally.

Things to do.

Walk the Line, about the life of Johnny Cash.

Whether or not you like country music, It is, by any standard, an excellent movie.

Thom argues that Trump’s attempt to create a new “red scare” is yet another Trump con. Rather, he suggests that

Americans aren’t embracing socialism—they’re rejecting 45 years of Reaganomics, billionaire rule, and an economy rigged against the middle class.

If you can find it on streaming (I saw it on Tubi), the Warner Brothers cartoon, The Dover Boys at Pimento Univeristy.

Bringing new meaning to the term “under cover cop.”

I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that, when (or is it if?) Republicans read the United States Constitution, the part about “promote the general welfare” somehow just does not register.

For example (via C&L):

A nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea is currently underway, and it’s tied to a parasite the CDC quietly dropped from federal surveillance back in July 2025. That timing lines up almost exactly with the Trump administration’s broader gutting of health and science agencies under the “government efficiency” banner, HuffPost reports.

A parasite called Cyclospora has sickened over 1,000 people across 29 states, with Michigan getting hit the worst of all. The CDC would probably have caught this sooner — if it hadn’t stopped watching for it.

Mageia v. 9 with the IceWM window manager. GKrellM is in the lower right; xclock, in the upper right. The wallpaper is from my collection.

I am starting to quite like IceWM.

Off to drink liberally.

They get fiendlier every day.

For some reason, I woke up thinking of this tune this morning.

Another “responsible gun owner.

Another portable phallus left lying about.

Another child.

Authorities say a toddler received a minor cut on his lip after a gun fell from a clothes pile and accidentally discharged at a residence in Baldwin County late Sunday.

At the Austin American-Statesman, James Kallison is distressed at efforts in Texas to replace public education with public indoctrination, observing that

Whether the issue is slavery, LGBTQ history, or the role of religion in public education, the state’s responsibility is to ensure students learn history as accurately and completely as possible — not as political leaders wish it had been.

I commend his article to your attention, as Texas is not alone in wanting to use public funds to promote public ignorance.

They get fiendlier every day.

At the Psychology Today website, Taylor Neff points out that “(s)ocial media is a prominent source of mental health misinformation*.

Follow the link for some pointers to protect yourself from the prevaricators.

And remember, “social” media isn’t.

Sometimes, justice can indeed be poetic.

Off to drink liberally.