Thursday, February 19, 2026

Bobservations

The other morning I was in our home office and Carlos came in to ask a question:

“I need a word that starts with letter ‘B’ for an acronym we’re trying to create.”

“A ‘B’ word? Any ‘B’ word?”

“Yes—”

“Box, boxer, boxing, butter, biscuit, baker, bowling, ball, basketball, bruise, big, back, backwards, babbling, Babel, basement, baby, babysitter, back, backhand, backache, Bug, Bat, Bus, Bun, Bin, Boon, Bliss, Beard, Bread, Brain, Bugle, Beauty, Brave, Baggage, Budget, boredom—

“STOP!!!”

“Bureaucracy, Ban, Buy, Bear—”

“BOB!!!!”

“Yeah! Bob, and beach and …”

I could have gone on and on but finally I said,

“Believe.”

“Yes. That’s it.

Best be.

This Tuxedo says is from September 2021 …

But by all means, sit by and do nothing and let it happen, or … CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

It appears that the massive crowds expected at Melanie: From Whore House to White House never appeared. It its third weekend it suffered a 62% drop in attendance and puts the “film” on a path toward grossing $15.4 million in total, nowhere near the $40 million that Jeff Bezos’ Amazon spent to acquire it and an additional $35 million to promote it.

Amazon MGM swears that Melanie: From Whore House to White House will muster strong numbers on streaming to make up for its poor box office showing but they have no plans for a release date as yet.

Movie-speak for no one will see this.

By now, you’ve all heard about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Arizona. Sad; I wouldn’t wish it on anyone and I hope they find her alive and everything ends well.

But … cases like these infuriate me because all the media hype surrounding the case has made its way into every single news program mostly because Nancy Guthrie is Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother.

And because she’s white. It isn’t lost on me, nor should it be on anyone, that when a women of color goers missing, you barely get a blurb on the news before it moves to the back page.

If it’s a trans woman you get almost zero news reporting, and the same goes for missing or murdered  indigenous women.

I wish the media would treat all missing persons stories the same and not continually give precedence to white women and young white girls, while ignoring any and every other woman that is taken.

Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes after turning down an offer from CBS News—formerly the Columbia Broadcasting System but now called Complete Bull Shit—to renew his contract. Cooper, a longtime Husband-In-My-Head, has been a correspondent with 60 Minutes for nearly two decades and was reportedly on Complete Bull Shit News MAGAt-editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’ short list to anchor the Complete Bull Shit Evening News, but he not only rebuffed Weiss’ attempts to recruit him, but he also walked away from 60 Minutes.

Excellent job, sir.

Orlando is about to take a long-anticipated step at demolishing the former Pulse nightclub to make way for a permanent memorial honoring the 49 people killed there in 2016.

Some signage will be saved and become part of the memorial, and the current shrine along S. Orange Avenue will be partially closed during the work, though a small area will stay open so visitors can still leave flowers and other tributes.

Never forget. 

Kunal Nayyar of “Big Bang Theory” has been quietly paying medical bills for random families in need:

“Money has given me greater freedom and the greatest gift is the ability to give back, to change people’s lives … [but] what I really love to do is go on GoFundMe at night and just pay random families’ medical bills. That’s my masked vigilante thing! So, no, money doesn’t feel like a burden. It feels like a grace from the universe.”

The actor—who played Raj Koothrappali on “Big Bang Theory”—boasts a net worth of $45 million.

Good on him.

This is Hungarian born model Máté Kovács—who apparently also goes by Kovács Máté—but the question is, under either name Would You Hit It?


13 comments:

  1. Regrading the rant, I worked on reform/replacement of adult guardianship for years, it bothered me that Britney was on everyone's mind, but no one talked about the anonymous people in their own neighborhood who were being stripped of their rights and property and locked in facilities when all they really needed was help with housekeeping, or managing their meager income.

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  2. Krayolakris8:55 AM

    Bravo, Anderson!

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  3. Anderson Cooper is demonstrating journalistic integrity. And bravo as well to Kunal Nayyar, using his wealth for good.

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  4. I think that the US need to follow the lead of most of the free world and have a health system free at the point of contact. In the UK we pay a National Insurance tax while we are working. But the tax we pay is far, far less than insurance premiums. The same is true for other European countries. It's not socialism; it's about giving everyone who needs it the health care they deserve. If you want you can have insurance, but whether you can or can't afford it, then the NHS is there for you.

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  5. Tuxedo was a very wise cat.
    Your rant is spot on and sadly it's the same issue in Canada. The media attention to stories about POC is minimal at best.
    I do wonder what Anderson Cooper will do? Run for political office, perhaps?

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  6. After what Cooper did to Kathy Griffin, I no longer had any respect for him. Walking away from (c) BS is a good start in regaining my ability to watch again.
    What Kunal is doing is what all people with those kinds of funds should be doing. Bravo! I knew there was a reason I liked that dude.

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  7. So does Carlos play Wordle?
    And the new Republican equation...GOP = CO2.
    We'll see if the numbers uptick when the military goes to see that whorepic Melania. I've heard that Hegseth is forcing soldiers to go see it. We'll see. Exciting times indeed!

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  8. News this morning: the former Prince Andrew has been arrested!

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  9. Hungarian you said? Why, yes, of course!
    Good for Anderson Cooper. Bari is dismantling an American institution. That's why they put her there. I'm waiting for them to turn on HER. It won't be long. She's another useful idiot.
    Quick goss: Savannah was one of the first to bring to the forefront the discussion of the Epstein survivors. Make of that what you want.

    XOXO

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  10. I hope you won't mind me saying this Roberto but your rant dial seems to be permanently stuck in the "on" position. This seems entirely right given the state of affairs in Trumpland (aka USA).

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  11. Kunal Nayyar is a hero.

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  12. Anonymous11:51 AM

    the dog's mother
    (Carlos) (Tuxedo always)
    xoxo :-)

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