Things that Made Me Smile the Week Ending July 20, 2025

I have little motivation left to continue this blog, which is why I copy-pasted stuff from ChatGPT the last two times. Writing is less fun than it used to be. So I will be brief about the things that made me smile this week.

First of all, the lead actors for the Legend of Zelda movie were announced, and Tom Holland isn't one of them. I have nothing against Tom Holland, but I don't want to see and hear the same damn celebrities in everything. I've never heard of Bo Bragason or Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. I like that. Maybe they'll dye Benjamin's hair blond. I don't care if they don't. It's not like Link has never been a brunette before.

Second, the MAGAt cult is fracturing over its leader's refusal to release the Epstein files. Some of the dumbest people ever to walk this Earth are now grappling with the fact that a pathological liar and rapist lied to them to protect other rapists. And the pathological liar and rapist has such advanced dementia that he can't understand why his cultists won't forget about it when he tells them to forget about it. Let these godawful people eat each other alive.

The accidental shooting of Arthur Afa Ah Loo put a real damper on protests in Utah, but they're picking back up again. I joined one on an overpass near my home. I felt good when people honked and I knew we had solidarity, and I felt good when people flipped us off and I knew we'd made their day just a little bit worse. A garbage man (in more ways than one) was too busy flipping us off to look where he was going, and I hope he doesn't have a job anymore.

I joined a much bigger protest at the Capitol that evening in honor of civil rights icon John Lewis, and then I joined one for Palestine yesterday that had a piss-poor turnout because one of the organizers got confused and told people it was canceled. Just like at the last Palestine rally, a mentally ill Zionist was there wearing an Israeli flag, but this time he actually shouted disruptive things into his megaphone instead of staring at it like he didn't know what it was. Someone splashed water on him, and he went and got the police, and then he threw a fit because they wouldn't arrest the guy. "How is that not assault? If he threw a rock, would that be considered assault? What's the difference between a rock and water?" I'm not joking. Those are actual words that came out of his mouth.

The entire reason I mentioned those protests was so I could mention the jerks who got upset and didn't have a good time. I'm petty like that, and I'm not sorry. Those things made me smile this week. And so did Kush Kubes, but you know that by now.