37 years ago, the world lost Gilda Radner
I often think of the sketch.
Hours after she died, Steve Martin hosted SNL and scrapped his monologue. With tears in his eyes, and a joke, the show paid tribute to her with their classic: Dancing in the Dark.
The Golden Girls, but with today’s hair and styling.
From big 80s perms to sleek, fresh looks, Blanche is out here serving main character energy, Rose looks like your cool aunt who does Pilates, and Sophia and Dorothy still delivering one liners with the best of them.
Do you think the comedy would still hit the same today?
A father catches a convicted child predator who had repeatedly approached his small children in his yard talking to his 6 year old daughter and takes action.
Anyone saying the father is out of line is extremely suspect.
On this day 13 years ago, my only son was sworn in to the US Army. In ten days, it will be 12 years since he was killed in Afghanistan 2 weeks before he was due to come home. He was just 21. This week is also Memorial Day. My greatest fear now is that he will be forgotten. Please help me remember my boy during this tough week of special dates (share if you feel inspired. It never gets easier but the love and support always helps. ♥️🇺🇸
Jacob H Wykstra
KIA May 28th, 2014
Maruf, Afghanistan
Jake was a Christian, an athlete, a patriot, an artist, dog lover, a friend to all and the funniest, happiest guy in the platoon. Jake, you’ve left a huge void in our lives, but we will see you one day and there will no more heartache and no more goodbyes ♥️🇺🇸
As I and a thousand other thinkers have declared, until and unless we come to recognize the singularity of the human animal and other animal souls, we will live in a perpetual state of war, famine, disease, heartache. I am chosen.............chosen to do my best to save the innocent "animals" of this world from the soulless monsters that roam amongst us. He is but one of a million more
My 16-year-old son with Down syndrome was so excited to apply for his first job at the local grocery store, but after three interviews, he kept getting turned down. Each rejection crushed him a little more, and he started saying he’d never be good enough to work anywhere. I was heartbroken watching his confidence disappear. Then we walked into Murphy’s Hardware Store, and my son lit up seeing all the organized tools and supplies. The owner, Mr. Murphy, noticed him carefully straightening a display of screws that had gotten messy. ‘You’ve got a good eye for organization,’ he told my son. ‘Are you looking for work?’ When I explained about the previous rejections, Mr. Murphy just shrugged. ‘Their loss. Can you start Monday?’ For the past eight months, my son has been their most reliable employee always on time, never calls in sick, and customers love his genuine enthusiasm for helping them find what they need. ‘Best hiring decision I ever made,’ Mr. Murphy told me recently. ‘He sees the job as important, and that makes all the difference.’ My son comes home every day proud of his work, finally understanding that the right place will see his worth.
My grandfather said he’d never move into a retirement home.
He said, “Too expensive… and the food tastes like someone boiled sadness.”
Instead, he checked into a beachfront hotel.
We asked, “Grandpa, isn’t that even more expensive?”
He smiled and said, “Not really.
At the retirement home, I’d pay $200 a day for cold meatloaf and no visitors.
But here? For $150 a day, I get ocean views, room service, fresh towels, a pool…
…and suddenly all my grandkids remember I exist every weekend.”
Then he leaned back in his chair and delivered the final line like a mob boss:
“And if I die in the hotel lobby, the manager will actually look disappointed.
But at the nursing home? They just call it Tuesday.”
Every freedom loving human who also cherishes and loves "animals" must stop feeding the ravenous appetite of Communists and who they are genetically. You will never satiate their ravenous appetite for money, control and exploitation of "animals." President Putin got rid of them in the former USSR but we really don't have men of that caliber in the USA who have stepped on stage as of yet. The last one got keel hauled.
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.
The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.
Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.
Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.
When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.
The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.
When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.
Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.
Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.
The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.
Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.
Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.
Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.
Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.
A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.
The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.
The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.
The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.
That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.
Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.
Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.
Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.
You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.
The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.
Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
I just had the craziest experience at the airport.
We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.
Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”
Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.
The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”
He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”
Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…
Start clapping.
I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.
All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.
It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.
@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.
Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape
Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of their lands and recalls how Catholic girls were tattooed with Christian motifs to stop them from being abducted, converted to Islam, and forced into sexual slavery
"That’s why many chose the grave, our mothers did not birth slaves”
Turkey is already attacking the group for performing the song
Anywho.... in Edinburgh today and there was this thing at Holyrood... yes folks.. that is in fact the Royal Regiment of Scotland being led by Royal Irish Regiment pipers (FAB) into the Royal Palace at Holyrood. Royal Irish pipers.... in Scotland🫡
The gaslighting that no "grieving widow" could ever be involved in her husband’s murder isn’t working.
Kouri Richins posed as a devoted Utah wife & mother after her husband Eric died in March 2022 from a cocktail she prepared. She later self-published a children’s grief book, "Are You With Me?" and went on a book/PR tour. Family & friends spotted inconsistencies and pushed police until she was arrested for poisoning him with fentanyl. In March 2026, she was convicted of aggravated murder.
FBI data shows 550–650 spousal homicides per year, totaling thousands over a decade. On top of that, roughly 100–110 spouses were involved in murder-for-hire plots against their partner in the last 10 years, with about 10–11 cases annually.
Wives kill their husbands & husbands kill their wives every year, both directly and by hiring others.
How many times have we seen a husband/wife/parent on TV claiming their spouse/child disappeared and they are worried sick about them? Do they get blanket immunity? Or does their behavior get scrutinized by law enforcement and the public when their words fail to have emotion & body language associated with a tragedy?
Scott Peterson, Chris Watts, Heidi Grant, Casey Anthony, Susan Smith, & Diane Downs to name a few. The public did not believe their behavior aligned with grief. Diane Downs LOVED the spotlight. She ate it up. She could not keep up with her lies. No one believed she was a victim because she was not sad. She never shed a tear.
Pretending it’s ridiculous or evil to even ask questions about Erika Kirk ignores the facts. That’s why the coordinated PR campaign branding skeptics as demonic or soulless falls flat. Reasonable scrutiny isn’t immoral, it’s normal.
To the coordinated media campaign - You cannot tell me facts & behavioral observations are are not applied to cases like this.
Erika didn't pull the trigger & she was only part of the plot. But I do believe she conspired for Charlie's murder with government officals, and I do think she is loving the spotlight she has always been after.
Soulless & evil is defending a cover up.
I applaud those pushing back on the nonsense narrative that a widow is never suspect.
#TruthForCharlie
Commies aren't shit-they NEVER design, create, start up, innovate, invest their own money, time, resources to create a product, business, service. They are EXACTLY like parasites, blood suckers. They weasel their way into an existing successful country and through their PSYOPs and murderous trickery they commandeer the youth of their targets by sneaking into the public school system, they own the media entertainment complex where they cut away at the fabric, they pick their commie faces to say what they know is pure shit because MERIT always chooses these words, "fairness" "equality" equity" blah blah blah. They start up ONLY FANS, ASHLEY MADISON, SOUTHERN POVERTY CENTER, I provide the ENTIRE list in my book THE PROGRESSIVE VIRUS. And one of things they always do they destroy "animal" welfare.