As Longtime Readers know, I am generally not in favor of “verbing” — turning a noun into a verb. I do like using existing words or terms appropriately to create a fresh description of something altogether different.
Here’s a good example from Combat Controller:
I like it.
Nobody said it has to be over the ocean…
So in we dive, to swim through the murky waters of recent events.
In Political News:
...forget it, Glenn; they could start loading them onto trains, and these idiots would still be voting for Democrats at the Skokie El station polling booth.
...and we are surprised by this, because…?
Dispatches from the War Between The Sexes:
...yeah, in my yoot I used to try this line on recalcitrant women; never worked.
From the Police Blotter:
...hey, it’s not like the corpus delicti was gonna need it, right?
In Medical News:
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And:
...maybe in some Socialist parallel universe.
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In Nutrition News:
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Speaking of the latter sports equipment, here’s a report from Paris:
...and here I thought prossies were legal in France.
...that’s just what the French refer to as “bleu”, kids. And it’s not even boiled, either.
And in related news:
...or the U.S. could just tell the Olympic Committee to take a hike and let some shithole like Kyrgyzstan host their little spectacle instead.
And in today’s 
...no link because eeek.
...that trannie thing just isn’t working for you, Nancy, is it?
And in 
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...not her normal look, mind you:
And not her usual immaculate self:
But that’s enough news for the day.
Let’s say that many years ago your company stopped producing a popular car model in the line-up. Now time has passed, and you want to reintroduce it, using the model’s old name in the hope of using its storied cachet to attract buyers.
Nothing wrong with that in principle, of course, but there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. Here’s the right way:
The original 1969 Dodge Charger Hemi R/T, a roaring, powerful and dangerous muscle car pushing 375hp:
The relaunched 2010s Dodge Charger (SRT Hellcat), a still-more powerful, even-more dangerous roaring monster pushing a jillion (okay, 700+hp):
The styling may have changed,the engineering improved, but the essence of the beast remained the same.
Now let’s look at the (oh-so very) wrong way to relaunch a brand. From Ford U.K.:
The original 1969 to mid-70s Ford Capri, a sporty, spirited and sexy little two-door number:
The 2025 proposed Ford Capri, a blocky, all-electric (!!!!) SUV (????):
…which retains absolutely nothing of the spirit of the original, and isn’t worthy of even carrying the name.
Someone From Marketing needs to get summoned into a windowless, soundproofed room for a four-hour ball-kicking. (And yes, I’m quite aware that a woke model like this may well have emanated from a womb-bearer, or someone with pretensions thereto. Or a committee — same thing, really.)
And no, I’m not taking bets that this abhorrent abortion of a vehicle is going to fail, abjectly and miserably.
Here’s a tale of how to screw up a franchise, perhaps the greatest franchise of them all:
Back in 2021, the bottom began dropping out of Disney stock, which had been worth around $175 a share before Disney decided to hyper-politicize its movies and TV shows. Disney specifically targeted little kids for grooming with gay-themed propaganda aimed at sexualizing them and encouraging them to question their gender.
Additionally, Disney destroyed some of its most beloved and profitable Golden Geese franchises—Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, Willow, Indiana Jones, etc.—by turning them into left-wing propaganda videos obsessed with sexuality, race, and gender.
And the result?
In April the stock rallied to $123 per share, up from $91 per share at the beginning of the year. In Early May, Disney stock reached as high as $116. But all this year’s gains are now gone. Currently, the stock sits at just $90 per share.
It will probably sink still lower — perhaps as low as $70.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of wokist, child-grooming assholes. No corporation is too big to fail, and I hope this one perishes utterly.
Doc Russia sent me this essay and asked me whether I thought it accurate. It is, 100%. Read it for yourself.
Choice excerpt:
This didn’t have to be the way colonization ended in southern Africa. The evil of apartheid could have been done away without putting murderous thugs in charge. Rhodesia could have remained a democracy rather than becoming a brutal dictatorship known for its genocidal campaign against white farmers and a rival African ethnic group. South Africa could be a functional country rather than an anarcho-tyranny-ridden hellhole where thugs murder, rape, and steal from the Boers with impunity as the country’s infrastructure collapses and its economy follows Zimbabwe’s down the drain. But, thanks in no small part to US foreign policy, the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened. And now crosses symbolizing the murders of white farmers line the roads of South Africa by the thousands.
Ask me again why I left. And why no Democrat should ever, ever have access to U.S. foreign policy.
Long ago and worlds apart, from quite possibly one of the best albums of the 1960s.