from the gossip-column dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side Thad with a comment about the news that the owner of the LA Times will be personally reviewing opinion headlines:

If anybody’s got some money to spare, consider donating to news sources that aren’t owned by billionaires, like PBS, ProPublica, 404 Media, or, you know, this one right here that you’re reading right now.

In second place, it’s MrWilson with a response to the accusation that we “love anti-Christian, pro-communist propaganda”:

True Christianity is far more “communist” than you would know, seeing as how you don’t read your own holy book.

“Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back”

“And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased”

“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?”

“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”

“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.”

“The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.”

“John answered, ‘Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.’”

“Sell your possessions and give to the poor.”

“They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.”

The greedy, selfish power-mongering pharisees you think of when you use the word Christians aren’t Christian in anything more than name.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the DC circuit court’s reasoning in upholding the TikTok ban:

By that argument banning entire news organizations, companies, tv or pretty much anything that has alot of users would be justified.

Next, it’s an anonymous comment about the idea that satire and parody should be “relatively clear to a reasonable person”:

And yet, there will always be people who are reasonable and informed about the context, but who don’t get the joke.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous reply to a longwinded and not-so-human-sounding comment:

Congratulations on your first ChatGPT copy-paste bro!

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the Texas plan to put drones armed with tasers and pepper spray in schools:

So, the next student homework will be:
Using only drones, robots, satellites, artificial intelligence, quantum physics, containerization, cryptocurrencies and two others buzzwords of your choice, describe a solution to prevent a bad person to kill good people.
This solution must cost less than $10k a year for all US schools.
You cannot use fire ball scrolls, unicorns or invisible gnomes.
You’ve got two hours.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with another comment on that post, this time from That Anonymous Coward in response to the full headline, Texas Legislators Think Drones Armed With Tasers And Pepper Spray Will Stop School Shootings:

“Texas Legislators Think”

OBJECTION!
Assumes facts not demonstrated by their actions!

Finally, it’s Mamba with a response to the suggestion that the leopard-eating faces are now coming for the brains of MAGA voters:

Starving leopards, then.

That’s all for this week, folks!