Doug Mahugh

The truth is these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Finally got around to reading Lolita, and now I'm wondering whether Bruce Springsteen ever read it.

A big boy in the Highland Mountains yesterday.

Butterfly populations have declined precipitously across the Midwest and other areas in recent decades due to insecticides, habitat loss, and climate change, but in the Highland Mountains south of Butte, Montana they're still swarming every clump of wildflowers.

I don't know who needs to know this, but there *is* an "I" in the Spanish word for team (equipo). Thus concludes my World Cup commentary for 2026. See you in 2030!

The wet spring and summer this year is bringing out a lot of color at high elevations in southwest Montana. This is at 9500 feet in the Highland Mountains yesterday.

What it’s like to be married to a recently retired person: “Should I run out to pick up another bottle of wine?” “No need, I bought twelve yesterday.”

Hiked up Mount Washburn in Yellowstone yesterday. Highly recommended!

The final moment of this evening's fireworks show in Butte, America. I took a ton of video and audio of the evening, will post a longer compilation when I can. As usual, the amateurs all over town were amazing. When it comes to fireworks, Butte is the epitome of the lawless west.

Looks like it's time to repost my pinned post.

Yo-Yo Ma is one of countless musicians who have refused to play at the Kennedy Center after its name and mission turned fascist, but here's a nice performance he did at the then-brand-new Kennedy Center with his sister when he was 7 years old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwk...

Post an album you have listened to 100 times.

Feels so awkward to see man-children masturbating one another in public.

Vibe coding FTW.

"If I'm sick, I'm sick whether I believe it or not. My refusal to be persuaded will not keep me from sickness; it will only keep me from remedy. But I won't be able to make a choice about truth unless I hear it. "Fundamentally, healing involves confrontation." www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontat...

Trump could really teach the Pope a lesson by taxing churches.

Seeing all the photos of the Hungarian Parliament Building online this evening made me go back and revisit two photos that I took of it a few months before Viktor Orban's second premiership began in the spring of 2010. Budapest is a great city, I hope to get back again.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

O’Hare Terminal 5, 4:30AM Tuesday: short TSA line, no ICE spotted. Didn’t check the Dunkin’ Donuts.

Have paid no attention to skiing at the Olympics this year, but I am suddenly a huge Eileen Gu fan.

Felt like the dogs were cute this afternoon, might delete later. And for what it's worth, all three of these characters were worse behaved puppies than any dog Kristi Noem has ever met, especially that psycho bitch Nancy on the right, whom I fucking adore. #FuckKristiNeom #Iwouldnt

Germans know what’s at stake.

Brilliant analysis of where we are and how we got here, and applies more broadly than just in the US. The so-called resurgence of far-right politics around the globe is a mirage propped up via social media by self-serving shills on the right and cowardly doomsayers on the left. Fuck them all.

RIP, Cookie.

I Love Lucy

These numbers strike me as inflated. Are there really three Londoners who would pay money to sit through Melania's life story?

Between scenes like this and the public execution on Nicollet Avenue this morning, feels like it's time to admit that the civil war has begun.

I wonder what any of you would do differently in your lives if I said "yes, America is at this moment a fascist nation." Because I tell ya what, if I thought so, I'd be doing things differently. For starters, I wouldn't bother worrying about elections or candidates or whom to support. /1

Credit where it’s due - this is outstanding journalism.

After a year of listening to sanctimonious Europeans complain that non-MAGA Americans aren't doing enough to fight Trump, the Greenland situation is giving then a chance to show us how it's done. So far, they have released a sternly worded statement.

The US press has a lot to learn from the UK press about how to appropriately cover current affairs. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

"We're gonna need you to tone this down quite a bit, the sheer number of plot twists and emotional climaxes and letdowns is just too much for viewers who aren't doing hard drugs." - the studio, after I submitted my screenplay based on this evening's FCS Championship game between MSU and ISU.

After stripping the US down for parts, our billionaire overlords have shifted their sights southward. Time for a statement of concern from Hakeem and a sanctimonious finger wag from Bernie before the circus moves on to Greenland.

Trump saying tariffs made the farm bailout possible reminds me of Leonard Cohen's 2009 Seattle show, when he thanked his longtime manager Kelley Lynch - who had stolen most of his money behind his back - "for making tonight both possible, and necessary."

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Other noteworthy accomplishments of the only NO vote, Clay Higgins (R-LA): Voted against 2020 election certification Said the violent attack on Paul Pelosi was a "nudist hippie prostitute" Spread lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets Married four times, sued for not paying child support