Watched: M*A*S*H S2E14, Hot Lips and Empty Arms. Margaret wigs out when she learns that a nurse she did basic training with is marrying a wealthy doctor — a man whom Margaret rejected. Margaret requests a transfer back to the US.
This is the first time we see her as a person rather than a caricature. She’s lonely. She settled for Frank Burns because he’s there. Loretta Swit shows acting chops, getting drunk and angry and revealing her character’s true thoughts. Margaret has become disgusted with the person she has become. She believes she deserves better, and she’s right.
Hawkeye and Trapper’s abuse becomes a kind of friendship. Sort of. MASH was shockingly misogynistic in its first season; now that we’re well into the second season, it’s toned down. This is one of the better episodes I’ve seen so far.
Another thing that stands out rewatching MASH in the 21st Century is the relative absence of Asians. You’d think there would be more Asians in a show set in Asia. But we don’t see a lot of Asians in MASH, and 99% of the Asians we do see are prostitutes, helpless peasants and the occasional murderous North Korean. Jack Soo and Pat Morita, who appear in early episodes, are delightful exceptions. 🍿
The Qanon cult believed political and financial elites were conspiring in a global sex-trafficking network that preyed on children, and that this conspiracy included billionaires, the Royal Family, Hollywood elites and even one of the two major-party candidates for US Presidency in 2016.
Reasonable people — including me! — found this cult to be both ridiculous and scary. Oh, come on. Those kinds of conspiracies don’t exist except for paranoid entertainment.
Plot twist! Turns out that was happening but — further plot twist! – the guy Qanon thought was the hero (Trump) turned out to be in cahoots with the chief villain (Epstein), and maybe was himself one of the top pedos.
Humain leverages abundant Saudi power infrastructure for AI advantage. My latest on Fierce Network.
'The assaultive cleansing of American society'
Josh Marshall: MAGA’s energy is focused on mass deportation and, perhaps even more than that, “the assaultive cleansing of American society, of both those who are ‘illegal’ and/or brown, but also white people whom through various forms of sexual license, gayness, uppity womenhood and non-traditionalism, are collectively standing in the way of Making America Great Again.”
This is why I will never support Republicans. They hate me, my friends, family and people I admire and see us as enemies of America.
Like FDR said: “They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”
Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being too ‘woke.’ Republicans love free speech — their freedom to say what they want, and their freedom to force you to say what they want.
Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein. “We’ve basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick.”
Epstein and Bannon thought they were running a global conspiracy to burn down global democracy and replace it with a network of fascist states. Maybe they were really doing it, maybe they were just kidding themselves.
Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of international espionage, deregulated finance, far-right politics, eugenicist race science, information warfare, and unfathomably intricate human trafficking networks. Epstein wanted to break the internet and, eventually, democracy, to cover his tracks and cash in on the chaos…. Were Epstein and Bannon really building a crypto-funded far-right coalition of pro-Russian dictators across Europe? Or were they just LARPing as kingmakers with each other over email?
Now that I’ve split my meme posts into a separate blog on Micro.blog, I might migrate all my Mastodon followers to my Micro.blog account. I’m sure I will not regret it and change it back, like every other time I made that transition. I am also sure this transition is an effective use of my time.
I’ve decided to split this blog in two. I’m going to use mitchellaneous.net for the memes and other curiosities I’ve found on the Internet. I want to keep that ephemera separate from what I post here — when I resume posting here. I haven’t been feeling it lately because (gestures broadly to the world).
Those of you who receive my newsletter will now receive two newsletters. Feel free to unsubscribe from one or both; I view blogging as like having a model train set in your basement. Not everybody is going to be interested.
Mecha Comet is a handheld, modular computer that runs Linux. It looks sweet, and it tempts even my Apple-pilled heart.
I’m making travel plans for conferences in the first half of the year. Visiting the press page for the DTW Ignite conference in Copenhagen in June, I saw this banner photo at the top. I’m second from right.
I got a PR pitch for an article on integrating cannabis into healthcare. I am tempted to respond, “We are a telco pub. Why would you think this pitch is relevant to us? Are you high or something?” Cheap, obvious joke.
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S. cities including Portland and Lewiston, Maine. That violence has made it crystal clear that the goal of attacking immigrants is not simply to create a white nation; it is also to terrorize Americans into accepting the domination of MAGA Republicans.
— Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From an American, January 28, 2026 (Wednesday)