Open thread 6/27/2026
The names are far less interesting than the hairstyles. My high school yearbook features some doozies, although mine was relatively sedate:
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The names are far less interesting than the hairstyles. My high school yearbook features some doozies, although mine was relatively sedate:
You are right, I.had almost forgotten.
Nothing beats Billie Eilish.
Names nearly gone—I am finding it difficult to remember female peers who did NOT have those names. Susan was, I believe, the most common name.
Rob Butler on the “Tectonics of the ‘doublet’ Venezuela earthquake(s) – 25 June 2026”, (8:20): https://youtu.be/sGALP-s6Tmo
Butler also briefly explains the method and purpose of the projected death and injury estimates.
Debbie.
Peggy Noonan’s weekend WSJ piece has been quoted at length elsewhere. Here it is if you’d like to read the whole thing – it’s great!
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-tartan-army-takes-america-12f40479?st=y6XpJE
AI has made several disruptive developments that have just come to light Amazing is the only thing I can think of to describe them.
AI Scott Adams has an excellent summary: https://x.com/AIScottAdams/status/2070873472767496333 The AI stuff starts around minute six.
Texas Board of Education votes to require Bible reading in schools.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_0d462f54-9051-44a1-903a-66f542363382.html
Probably most of us has seen it before but SSA keeps track of popular names, for example here you can see the popularity over time of Liam, the #1 boy baby name for the last 8 years.
You can also see what was most popular for your birth decade. Mine has exactly the names I remember from school.
How to deal with knuckleheads that insist that the US fought the wrong army in Europe in WW2 ?
It should be clear to any rational person that the very temporary wartime US – Soviet alliance was not an endorsement of Communism even if FDR was from the left side of the American political spectrum. Some knucklehead on the Fox News comment section – a rabid anti ” boomer”- insist we were fighting for Communism in WW2. What weirdo world do these people inhabit ?????? Is this Tucker Carlson’s doing?
Those hairdos! I am old enough to remember them . . . and the urban myths surrounding them.
I’ve been reffing youth soccer for 20 years. I was amused around 2015 and even up to now, how many “Maverick”s were playing soccer on boys teams. Yep, those 30 to 40s year old parents. Top Gun really was a cultural phenomenon movie.
Names all common enough, but the hair.
Seems to me more late 60s pictures
These dames are depressing.
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Women’s hair should be clean. It should not be colored. With a few odd exceptions, the terminal point should be below the ear. There should be no gunk on your hair. You can part it on the side with barettes or you can part it in the middle. Bangs on women are good but not for everyone. The lenses on your glasses should not be oversized; cat’s eye glasses are an idea whose time has come and gone, one hopes for good. Eschew contact lenses. If I can see your cleavage, you’re showing too much. If you’re having trouble with acne, consult an expert for a program to keeping your pores clean; do not take tetracycline. If you’re a heavy girl, try ponchos and muumuus. Your clothes should not be too busy; you should have a clear preference for solid colors. Favor flat shoes.
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Don’t even think of getting a tattoo.
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If you have an amulet and a don’t-bug-me ring on, you have sufficient jewelry.
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Use dental floss 2x a day, no exceptions.
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Leave expletives for stag settings (where you’re not present). Slow down when you speak and avoid junk and filler (“and I’m like…and he goes and I go…”).
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Not everyone needs to know what is your opinion or what your mood is at this time.
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If you cannot afford orthodontics for all of your children, give priority to your girls.
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Do not give your daughter manufactured names, cutesy names, or names with non-standard spellings.
Selfy: Texas Board of Education votes to require Bible reading in schools.
Here’s the list:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/texas-schools-required-reading-list/
ArtDeco: These dames are depressing.
Instant Classic!
I’m a Boomer (born in 1957) but by the time I graduated high school many of those names, and all of the hair styles, were no longer popular. IIRC.
steve walsh:
Yes, I’d say those styles are pretty much 1961-1965.
There still seem to be plenty of Karens around;)
Art Deco said, those dames are depressing.
You forgot “get off my lawn.”
Takes me back, not to high school, which I don’t remember, but to college in the Sixties. Some of that stuff was a real glamor look, which worked in public but…..
”Probably most of us has seen it before but SSA keeps track of popular names…” [link follows]
ssa.gov is unavailable.
”This website is temporarily unavailable
We’re sorry, we are working on restoring the site as soon as possible.”
It’s getting to be that it would be easier to make a list of things that work than things that don’t work.
Niketas: Thanks for the SSA site. That was interesting.
How are are all those Deep State/ Russiagate prosecutions going?
From Joey DiGenova, we find Paul Sperry reporting that while tactics have changed, the over all strategy for prosecutions remains the same.
Two intro paragraphs:
“Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a “grand conspiracy,” RealClearInvestigations has learned that the man now leading the probe of that scandal is pursuing multiple conspiracy prosecutions that are smaller and more manageable, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the probe.
“Since taking over the Justice Department’s far-flung investigation in April, veteran prosecutor Joseph diGenova and his team quickly concluded that combining all of the alleged wrongdoing, which ranges from falsifying evidence and committing perjury to leaking classified information and obstructing justice, into one unified plot and trying them together as a single case would be unmanageable.” MORE
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/russiagate-prosecutor-calls-audible-grand-conspiracy
It’s a long article!
Something I find a bit annoying is the habit of using ‘Karen’ as a pejorative. It’s needlessly unkind to a very substantial number of perfectly pleasant women of all ages who happen to be named that.
HC68: re, Karen as a pejorative:
Yes, I agree. I wonder how to make the point without a name. Make one up?
I felt similarly about “Brandon” — knowing a couple smart ones.
But the joke still made me laugh.
Re: Jordan Peterson update
Just learned that since April JP is in bad medical shape again. Here’s his daughter giving a lengthy update on his health and her health — she has similar problems:
–Mikhaila Peterson, “Jordan Peterson Health Update and Psych Med Injury Discussion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9bzpDogoeo
She says that severe depression runs in the family. She and her father have spent years on antidepressants and other psych meds that she believes has damaged them both. This was the driving force behind their all-meat diet, which helped to an extent.
JP has had a flare-up of akathisia, apparently due to the stress of both his parents dying, selling his house and moving plus mold exposure. Akathisia is a nightmarish condition of acute physical and mental distress, making it impossible to relax and difficult to sleep. Normal functioning is out of the question.
Akathisia is often linked to the use of or withdrawal from psych meds. After JP got off the SSRIs and Klonopin in 2020 then recovered, he was good. So when the symptoms started returning, he and his doctors didn’t understand what was happening.
The Petersons are having a very tough time. JP will be releasing some of his recorded presentations this year but that’s about all he can do for now.
Mikhaila is using this as an opportunity to update people on her father’s condition and also as a sort of public service announcement on the dangers of psych meds.
I saw those drugs do terrible things to my mother and college roommate. Mikhaila has my full support on that score.
Thanks for the update, Huxley.
He’s one of the great men of this generation—trying to help others and to often getting slammed for it.
Any idea why those meds are still being prescribed if they do such horrible things to (some) people?
You forgot “get off my lawn.”
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If you’re on my lawn, you should be delivering a package, or you should be one of the visiting nurse staff we see, or you should be one of the shirt-tails who live down the street from us.
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Women who make deliveries for a living or work as OTs have to be utilitarian about certain things. Getting tattoos, piercings, and coloring your hair blue do not advance practical ends.
Blue hair and tatoos make a statement – hostility to normies, not of my tribe. Tribalism, another failed mode of human society.
Happy birthdays today to Mel Brooks and Elon Musk, 100 yrs and 55 yrs of age respectively. Good goin’, guys!