Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.

Happy Sunday, dear friends! Can you believe it? Only one more week of August left and we get to the “ber” months. I confess, my favorite time of year. The end of August doesn’t mean the end of summer, yet, but September is the promising gate to fall (football, pumpkins, cozy evenings :::happy sigh:::) Of course, a change in seasons doesn’t mean a change in our seething masses of Leftists. Such unhappy — and unhinged — folk. And why are so many of them old white women? Was there a meeting I missed? I’m enjoying my seniorhood especially when I can share a glass of bubbly and a table loaded with good food with you all. Sunday brunch is the best and I urge you to get your plate, fill your flute and let’s get to it. L’Chaim!

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Oh look! Another Sunday, another thing that never happens …

HOLY SHlT

City Councilman Abu Musa (D-MI) on tape stuffing ballots in middle of the night from darkened truck (second incident).

He won last week by 76 votes. pic.twitter.com/tYMuomZyJa

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 17, 2025

MaIl-iN BAllOTs aRE sECuRE!!!

In the days before the August 5 primary election in the troubled city of Hamtramck, Michigan, surveillance videos caught several people allegedly stuffing the municipal ballot drop box with suspicious ballots.

An August 1 video shows two men in a car handling stacks of ballots and placing them into Hamtramck’s drop box during the day. In another video, a pickup truck arrives at the drop box after dark with three people inside. The driver gets out of the truck and crams stacks of ballots into the box but has trouble because the box is so full.

No more blanket, mail-in ballots. And can we get rid of Voting Season, too? Make Election Day a national holiday and the vast majority of voters need to get their tuchus to a polling place on that day alone.

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You hate the media? Not enough, you don’t

I call AP Asswipe Press for a reason.

An Associated Press report suggested a Gazan woman evacuated to Italy to receive medical treatment died of malnutrition after arriving. The report did not note that the woman suffered from a severe pre-existing illness: leukemia.

The Aug. 16 report—which was also published in ABC News, U.S. News and World Report, and the Los Angeles Times—said the woman, 20-year-old Marah Abu Zuhri, “arrived in a ‘state of severe physical deterioration'” and died after “entering a respiratory crisis and subsequently going into cardiac arrest.” (snip)

Shortly thereafter, on Aug. 17, Israel released a medical report from Aug. 9 showing that Zuhri suffered from leukemia, which can lead to cardiac arrest by lowering red blood cell levels and causing blood clots. The diagnosis did not make it into the AP’s description of Zuhri’s condition, even as one Italian media report published on the same day as the U.S. wire service’s piece referenced Zuhri’s “already fragile condition due to acute leukemia.” The AP cited “Italian media” when reporting on Zuhri’s name but not her condition.

via GIPHY

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Peak “Do you know who I am?”

:::snort:::

Getting drunk in public is just not a great look on anyone. But trying to pull rank on a law enforcement officer? Hoo-boy.

A Rhode Island state prosecutor will be placed on unpaid leave after she was caught on video invoking her title and telling a police officer he would “regret this” as she was arrested outside a restaurant in Newport last week.

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan’s unpaid leave begins Monday, with no end date in sight just yet, a spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office confirmed. In the meantime, the office is continuing its review of Flanagan’s Aug. 14 arrest on a misdemeanor willful trespassing charge.

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Vouchers, please

BREAKING: A student in Florida was nominated by his own teacher as "Most Likely to Become a Dictator" because he was a conservative, a parent just revealed.

The teacher allowed students to label him a "N@ziphile" because he was interested in WW2 history and ROTC.

They… pic.twitter.com/giiXqW4iIl

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 20, 2025

The rest of the text: “They literally tried to give him a “certificate” for “Most Likely to Become a Dictator.”

FIRE THE TEACHER. They can move to New York or California – get a job there.

I disagree. I believe this teacher should be forever barred from teaching anywhere. Bigoted bullies need to be strictly confined to jobs where there is no chance of interacting with minors.

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Potty-mouth goes mainstream

David Mamet has some thoughts (a link for behind the paywall) …

Things change, and my early plays have become part of the canon. Their profanity is not only no longer exceptionable, it’s no longer found worthy of note.

Today’s late-night television gagsters and their political counterparts dredge for laughs or votes telling our president to “fuck off” or “piss off.” This, though no longer the thrown gauntlet prefatory to violence, still signals the end of rational discourse. When one has nothing left in the golf bag save “fuck you” and, having been uttered, that’s no longer available, what is left save “and I really mean it”?

Which is where we find ourselves today. Stephen Colbert was canceled not because he was no longer funny, but because his audience noted it and so his show lost a lot of money.

The “f” word has lost its power. It used to be the ultimate swearword. It brought the head of listeners up and to attention almost like the sound of breaking glass will immediately silence diners in a restaurant.

Now? Meh.

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Well, he really is NOT ‘daddy’ material anyway

Imagine being in labour with twins and hearing the father of your children telling your midwife his pronouns. https://t.co/5JwY9Omxpi

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 23, 2025

What a narcissistic putz.

I wish that we as a society had already established gender-neutral parent words which everyone is aware of, to allow me to be recognised as my full self, but the poor state of LGBTQIA+ education means this feels like a distant possibility.

I realised I was non-binary and came out in early 2017, at the start of a wave of lots of other people realising the same thing. I was 25

He sings one note through his article — “Me, me, me” — replete with pictures of him, and him alone. He’s fabulously agender and whines throughout on why the whole of society doesn’t accommodate his fad-identity (you know, as he said, he’s riding a wave).

When it came to registering their birth, for example, I was frustrated to see that the form only had three options: one for opposite sex couples and two for same sex couples covering ‘males’ and ‘females’.

It felt like a literal example of the ‘othering’ of non-binary people.

“It’s a CONSPIRACY!”

If mom has two-brain cells to rub together, she needs to take those twins and get away from this mental case as soon as possible. I agree, do not call him “daddy”. He is incapable of being one.

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Your Sunday smile

No panic, just a quick and decisive response. And she’s only eleven years old.

An 11-year-old girl is being hailed as a hero after she rushed to the aid of a 5-year-old boy who fell into a wall across the street from her house.

On August 15, 5-year-old Jack Buss was playing outside when the cover of a water well gave way beneath him. He fell nearly 20 feet, landing on a small concrete ledge inside while clinging to a pole. His mother, Kathleen Freeman, heard a noise and then a scream she said she had never heard from her son before. Looking down, she realized her little boy was trapped underground.

Desperate, Freeman screamed for help — and that’s when 11-year-old Juliana Fischer came running.

Brava, Juliana!

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I’m sorry to bring up a sore subject, dears, but our time together today has come to a close. Do enjoy the rest of your Sunday … stay cool, relax and let’s meet here again next week. Cheers!

featured image original graphic by Darleen Click