CHOPS is tops

Some of the wild things I learned in the drugstore. #funnystory # cartoontales

@sjgiardini those Crackers are pretty prolific!

florida cracker style in old town, florida (1940)...

'I always thought the (made-up) designation of Boomers—1946-1964—was bogus; if you can’t remember JFK’s assassination or The Beatles arriving in America you ain’t no Boomer.' @MUGGER2023 splicetoday.com/pop-culture/si…

Had a girl scream it in my 5yo face that prez Kennedy was killed. Had no idea what it meant,I think she was the first unhinged Liberal (jk). It was a karate kick in the head to my Irish neighborhood. Luckily, many weren’t around for the later revelations that Camelot was Horse shot.

@nickgillespie @MUGGER2023 Born in 55. Walking home from school and a neighbor stopped on the road to tell us the Kennedy had been shot Watched the Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan

@NeilChecking @BoJangle7007 @MrPitbull07 Journal of American medicine study on the effect of attending religious services and how that attendance lowers risk of suicide substantially . jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

@BoJangle7007 @MrPitbull07 A perfect example of how there's no hate like Christian love.

This is the final photograph of Phillip Herron 34, crying in his car, literally minutes before taking his own life. He was a single Dad with three kids, struggling with crushing debt of over $20,000 and was desperately waiting for a Payday loan he'd applied for. But it was paid in arrears, with a 5 week wait time. That wait drove him even deeper into debt, and when he died he had $4.61 in his bank account and clearly couldn't see any other way out. Like a lot of people, especially men, he kept all of this to himself, nobody else knew how bad things were getting. This poor man even had to tell his children that Santa Claus wouldn’t come this year, and in his suicide note he wrote that they'd be better off if he wasn't around any more. And now he isn't. We need to talk more. We need to be kinder. And we need to be a country that helps each other when we need it the most.

New @ToddSeavey: We’re never more than an election away from another crazy celebrity ruler. splicetoday.com/politics-and-m…

"I look forward to this new and probably final season of Euphoria precisely because it resembles nothing on television now. It’s a survey of itself, a show about a show, something far more experimental and strange than anyone expected." splicetoday.com/pop-culture/th…

Fascinating account of an old New York City family. splicetoday.com/writing/what-c…

Tottenville Carnegie forgotten-ny.com/2026/04/totten…

Where does one begin explaining the political bias present in all of academia & scholarship programs as well? splicetoday.com/politics-and-m…

Via @alexL_E_I: Chasing Kimble splicetoday.com/moving-picture…

frame vernacular style in east lake weir, florida (1895)...

georgian style in edgecombe county, north carolina (1810)...

@sjgiardini @SpliceToday2022 hey, you just gave me an idea for a movie! Dead Democrats arise from the grave and they are outraged at the going on in this country. They march on Washington attacking everybody in sight.

"truman was a democrat, but he was a democrat when that meant something very different. this was a man who ran a haberdashery and never mistook a résumé for a character reference. the scholarship named for him now exists primarily to credential a class that would’ve made him reach for the bourbon."

"Language isn’t neutral. It signals belonging. And belonging, in elite institutions, is the first requirement for advancement." splicetoday.com/politics-and-m…

@sjgiardini @SpliceToday2022 “ made him reach for the bourbon”-I like that! I was to his house, and independence, Missouri. He lived such a simple life. Like somebody who was working class.

fisheating creek in palmdale, florida...

queen anne style in brooksville, florida (1884)...

@shadowop marjorie kinnan rawlings lived about an hour away...

@lambchops1 @MUGGER2023 @MoustacheClubUS Ha! Still up for debate how much Viking blood most Irishmen carry, but good golly old Norman probably still has lutefisk at Christmas with his family tree.