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edhopper's Journal
edhopper's Journal
February 9, 2026

Kid on the Rocks

I dreamed this joke, no lie

Someone offered me a 12 year old Malt Whiskey.

I said: "No, I don't like 12 year olds, I'm not Kid on the Rocks."

February 8, 2026

Melania Worldwide Box Office

It stands at about $160,000 outside of the US. (Where it's $13 million from ghost ticket sales.)

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt35291758/?ref_=bo_se_r_1

If you consider the average price of a movie ticket around the globe, that is 16,000 to 20,000 people plucked down their Euros or Yaun or whatever to see this garbage.

Trump, the most popular President globally, EVER!

February 8, 2026

Request to the Media, do not put Olympic results in the headlines

Just tell us the results are in the article.
Some of us actually want to watch for the sports to see what happens.
Giving away the results is just an asshole move.

February 8, 2026

At some point you have to stop being called "Kid"

And I think we are well past that.

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February 6, 2026

"Trump blames starting a nuclear war on unnamed staffer"

Doesn't remember where the nuclear football is."

February 4, 2026

What Bezos spent on the Melania bribe film

would keep the Washington Post running for a year.

Destroying journalism is the point, not a result of financial decisions.

February 1, 2026

I have become an agnostic as far as a mythical or historical Jesus.

First let me state I am an atheist, and whether or not there was an itinerant preacher named Yeshua, who was the kernal for the Gospel's Jesus, I think the New Testament is 95% fantasy and almost ever story and quote is fictional.
But there is a debate for whether there was a man at all, or if Jesus is pure myth.
I have been reading some articles for both sides. And since there is scant evidence for a historical Jesus, and contemporary evidence is nonexistent, it comes down to a rational look at what we do know.
I find both sides have equally compelling arguments from both camps. And since this isn't about any of the Gospels being true, which is easily dismissed, it comes to how Christianity originated. Especially where Paul, and later Mark got there information from.
Still an interesting historical question which I find doesn't have a clear answer.

Edit:
Thanks for the thoughtful answers so far. I should also say i do not think Yeshua, if he existed, started Christianity. That was Paul, a thoroughly unlikable person.

January 30, 2026

They know they don't have a case against Don Lemon

He is more than able to defend himself and the case will be thrown out.
But that's not why they did this.
It sends a message to all reporters that if you cover the protests, you can get arrested. And the journalist from small News outlets don't have the same resources, and neither do some of the News organizations they work for.
It's intimidation that they can make your life Hell if you cross us.

If they did this to a local reporter in Minneapolis, it might get a mention somewhere in the News, but a national known name gets the attention they want.

January 26, 2026

Who else feels they could be Good or Pretti

Not because they are white, but because I could see protesting ICE and just ending up in this kind of situation. Trying to drive away, helping someone who is knocked down, standing still.

They don't need a reason, do they?

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