Copyfighting SF writer Eric Flint will be editing a new online adventure sf magazine for his publisher, Baen Books. The magazine will be called Baen's Astounding Stories Universe.

The magazine will focus on publishing side-stories from the long-running serials that are Baen's stock-in-trade, and promises to pay enough that writers could make a substantial portion of their living from for them. — Read the rest

A Flint, Michigan sales clerk gets fired after refusing to sell crack pipes. Link Discuss

When did The Flintstones start to suck?

Classic cartoon fans will soon have another source for watching Bugs Bunny, Jonny Quest, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Speed Racer, and more. Bruce Haring on Deadline.com reports that a new network, MeTV Toons, is set to launch June 25, 2024

The new MeTV Toons collaboration between Warner Bros.

I've written a couple of pieces about former foreign correspondent for The Economist and best-selling pseudo-archaeologist Graham Hancock's wildly popular Netflix "docuseries" Ancient Apocalypse. In those pieces, I described how archaeologists have pointed out the white supremacist nonsense driving Hancock's thesis and have urged us to consider the power of everyday people instead of focusing on fictions about "aliens" creating ancient civilizations. — Read the rest

Viral videos, circulating on TikTok and the news, show people absolutely freaking out over the latest Stanley water bottle drops at Target. New colors trigger social-media fueled stampedes that Eater recently called "inevitable." They explain:

As Eater reported back in 2022, Stanley's ascent was explosive.

Duda Lozano is a tattoo artist based in Barcelona who creates the most incredible, realistic-looking "patch-style" tattoos. His work, according to Killer Ink Tattoo, is "inspired by comics, minimalism, and an in-depth knowledge of the way light and shadow play over skin." — Read the rest

On the eve of Cyberpunk 2077's literally game-changing 2.0 update and in the wake of Elon Musk embarrassing himself yet again (although that seems to be a daily occurrence), the two have intersected in a story that's as amusing as it is deeply, deeply pathetic. — Read the rest

Isn't it a hoot to look at old weapons? Whenever a movie features an old flintlock pistol or musket, it automatically becomes more interesting. The inefficiency inherent in the weapon instantly heightens the tension, as we intrinsically understand how unreliable or primitive they are. — Read the rest

Flint Community Schools in Michigan announced that it is banning backpacks from all area facilities for the rest of the school year. The children are now safer, writes Superintendent Kevin Jones.

"We are doing all that we can to create a safe and secure environment for our scholars, families, teachers and staff," Superintendent Kevin Jones wrote in a letter posted on the school district's website.

In the grotesque carnival of political theater, Ron DeSantis plays the role of a sinister barker, adept at concealing the volcanic fury simmering beneath his stony facade. — Read the rest

Velma should have been a runaway success story. Using The Venture Brothers as evidence, audiences have a strong demand for adult versions of classic Hanna-Barbera characters. Cartoon characters like Johnny Quest, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo are so intricately woven into the fabric of pop culture for Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z that producing mature versions of the aforementioned IPs is basically a license to print money. — Read the rest

In this fascinating Aeon piece, archaeologist April Nowell explores our changing understanding of Paleolithic childhood and how modern socio-cultural prejudices, along with the difficulty in finding skeletal remains of children, have caused us to overlook or greatly underestimate the role that adolescents played during the last Ice Age. — Read the rest



From the 60 Minutes archive comes this story from 2014, when they "first attempted to answer the age-old question: does your dog really love you?"

"Chaser," the smartest dog in the world, learned from social inference, not repetitive stupid dog-trick pedagogy. — Read the rest

Ron DeSantis wants the Florida Supreme court to impanel a grand jury investigation of the dangerous Covid-19 vaccine. He will surely want the grand jury to look into the sleazy Florida Governor named Ron DeSantis, who, as seen in Colbert's video below, repeatedly urged Floridians to allow deep state nurses to inject the Gate/Soros 5G toxic cocktail into their pure blood. — Read the rest

X-Men 3: The Last Stand is the Spider-Man 3 of the X-Men franchise. Spider-Man 3 is an objectively terrible film with only a few redeeming attributes. Chief among those aforementioned attributes is the inclusion of Thomas Haden Church's turn as Flint "Sandman" Marko. — Read the rest

The red wave was nowhere to be seen last night in Michigan, where Democrats won control of both the state House and Senate, according to Detroit Free Press. This is a legislative sweep not seen in the Great Lakes State since 1983. — Read the rest

Writer Mark Russell (God Is Disappointed in You, Flintstones, Exit Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles) and artist Steve Pugh (Flintstones, Hellblazer, Doctor Strange) are back with more dark adventures of late capitalism in Billionaire Island: Cult of Dogs. — Read the rest

Flynnstones, meet the Flynnstones!

Also known as part of Donald Trump's pardoned "inner circle," convicted felons Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and Steve Bannon were dubbed the Flynnstones by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–MD) for helping the ex-president create a "yabba dabba coup time" at the capital on Jan. — Read the rest

As we stand neck-deep in a sea of primetime animated shows, one might wonder, "where did all of these animated shows for adults come from?" The answer is The Honeymooners, of course. Good night, everybody. 

No, no, I'm kidding, folks. — Read the rest