Suddenly, being a pedo is just fine with conservatives

The whole fake QAnon thing was about how there was a cabal of liberals abusing children. They made up stories about secret basements in pizza parlors that don’t have basements and tied every liberal they could think of into it. Look at how terrible this is! Won’t somebody think of the children!

Turns out they were right about the abuse of children, but wrong about who was doing it.

Now they don’t care because, as we have seen time and time again, the current conservative in America stands for nothing.

cartoon by Chris Britt

The Good, the bad and the ugly

The Republican party these days is all about violence

Basically, the current Republican party believes in violence when it’s against people they don’t think are important. Immigrants, foreigners, people who don’t do what they tell them to do — it’s all okay. They celebrate murderers like Kyle Rittenhouse because he murdered people they don’t like. They support violence against police when the police are blocking them from entering Congress while screaming that they want to hang the Vice President. They want to take other countries by violence, like it was the middle ages.

It’s a childish, caveman-like response to things they don’t like, and this President is their caveman leader, urging them on.

Not bloody likely

Best and worst animated films of 2025

Time for my year-end countdown of the best and worst animated films of the year (based on Rotten Tomato scores, so take from that what you will).

In the 80s, I started a magazine called “Animato!” that later grew quite large and popular. I got to meet and interview great animators like Chuck Jones and Ralph Bakshi but later sold the magazine, and it went on to even bigger successes until the internet killed all magazines. So you can see my interest here.

This list only includes films that got at least 10 reviews, and ties are broken by the number of reviews. I did not include films that are motion-capture (that’s not animation!) or films that had a lot of CGI unless the CGI was for a major character in the film.

There are a lot more foreign films on the list this year — I don’t think that’s because there are more being made, but more are being shown in America thanks to streaming and as such, more are getting reviews than ever before. I also wonder though if this is very accurate, as some of the foreign films that did extremely well here did not get a ton of reviews. Maybe the only people reviewing them are people who love anime (for instance) and are already biased in favor? Then again, maybe not. I haven’t seen many of them so I can’t really say. (What are your thoughts? Comment below!)

Anyway, here we go:

  1. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle (98%)
  2. Lesbian Space Princess (98%)
  3. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (98%)
  4. Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc (96%)
  5. K Pop Demon Hunters (95%)
  6. Predator: Killer of Killers (95%)
  7. Ne Zha 2 (92%)
  8. Zootopia 2 (91%)
  9. Arco (91%)
  10. Endless Cookie (90%)
  11. Lost in Starlight (89%)
  12. The Bad Guys 2 (87%)
  13. Dog of God (87%)
  14. In Your Dreams (86%)
  15. SpongeBob: The Search for SquarePants (85%)
  16. The Light of the World (85%)
  17. Elio (83%)
  18. Dog Man (82%)
  19. Death Does Not Exist (79%)
  20. Scarlet (74%)
  21. A Magnificent Life (72%)
  22. Plankton: The Movie (71%)
  23. Stitch Head (71%)
  24. David (68%)
  25. The King of Kings (61%)
  26. The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (58%)
  27. Fixed (56%)
  28. The Twits (50%)
  29. A Minecraft Movie (48%)
  30. Sneaks (29%)
  31. Smurfs (20%)

Yeah, I know Zootopia isn’t at the top of this list, but it is the most obvious one people have heard of so I put it at the top. Here’s a poster of the #1 film. Doesn’t look like anything I’d be interested in.

Presents from your Uncle Sam

13th Annual War on Christmas

Here we go again!

Anger drives ratings, as Fox News is well aware. And that’s why they created the War on Christmas. Those poor Christians, being attacked and persecuted and treated terribly — how awful it must be to be a discriminated against majority. All those laws requiring people to never say “Merry Christmas” …  oh wait.

I remember now. None of that ever happened.

Every example Fox News gives for a “War on Christmas” always boils down to something like “They won’t let us force kids to sing our religious songs!” or “They say ‘Happy Holidays’ which acknowledges that not everyone is a Christian and therefore they are attacking us!” or “They are refusing to allow us to use their money (taxpayer dollars) for a religious display.”

You never heard of a “War on Christmas” until Fox News made it up as a way to gain ratings, because they have learned that the angrier they get their viewers, the more they tune in. So they create fake controversies each week, with this being the annual rerun.

So here we go again. It’s now the 13th year where I have challenged anyone to give me an example of a real “attack on Christmas,” because every one of these examples is, in reality, fought in defense. You wouldn’t even hear about them if these particular Christians weren’t trying to require everyone to obey their beliefs.

Once more, I am not counting the lone Grinch who doesn’t want anyone to say it around him, nor am I counting stores that want their employees to say “Happy Holidays” in order to include everyone. (Clearly, while on the job, employers can require you to do and say certain things.) I’m talking about a law or ordinance or anything that would prohibit anyone from saying “Merry Christmas” or otherwise stop you from celebrating the religious holiday.

It’s a wonderful death

AI fake stories are so easy to check

The number of fake AI stories I am seeing my friends share is growing like a cancer. These fake stories and pictures are only there to get you to click on the link so they can spam you with ads.

Please everyone — be a skeptic about everything and ESPECIALLY things you really want to be true. It only takes a few seconds to google anything you see. If it doesn’t pop up on a reliable news source, it’s probably fake.

This is especially true about celebrity news where you go “Oh, I always knew that celebrity was a wonderful person” because they said something nice or helped people in need or whatever. They’re so easy to check. Bruce Springsteen did not allow a handicapped fan onstage at his concert last night because he isn’t currently touring. Micky Dolenz did not travel to a hospital in New Orleans to sing to a child because he is currently touring (and nowhere near New Orleans). I mean, seriously, it took me less than a minute in each example to prove it wasn’t true.

I also see a lot of fake political news that makes me go, “Aha! Finally, the courts have ruled in a way I like” but then immediately look to see if it is mentioned on any reliable news site.

Check everything out. Don’t be gullible. It doesn’t make you look good.

The Bribery Clause