I THOUGHT THEY WERE JUST GOOD FRIENDS. I DIDN’T REALIZE HOW FAR THE RELATIONSHIP HAD PROGRESSED:
Kristina Sexton will serve as the intimacy coordinator for 'Godzilla x Kong: Supernova'.
The previous Monsterverse films did not utilize an intimacy coordinator.
(via: https://t.co/kxcKSaghbZ) pic.twitter.com/jWnNXkme91
— Monsterverse News (@MVFilmNews) September 4, 2026
PUSHBACK IN BRITAIN:
šØBREAKING: A massive number of blacked out men in balaclavas have taken control of roads in Dover right now to protest to the illegal migrant invasion
They are REFUSING to move, with more protesters beginning to arrive.
The whole country backs them. š“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ pic.twitter.com/9U7egGl9yr
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) September 5, 2026
For 70 years we have been ignored, Tony Blair even "rubbed our noses in diversity." The worm has turned with the blockade in Dover. https://t.co/faIN7rB5nf
— David Atherton (@daveatherton) September 5, 2026
BILL OF ATTAINDER: Nick Shirley SUES California Over āStop Nick Shirley Act.ā “Nick Shirley announced today on X that he is suing the state of California over the controversial bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that critics have dubbed the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act.'”
THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN:Ā Englandās Historic Cathedrals Turn to Pop Concerts and Silent Discos.
A Luther Vandross impersonator is performing in various cathedrals including the nave of St. Albans Cathedral, the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain that stands on the burial place of Britainās first martyr, St. Alban.
Meanwhile, Wells Cathedral, founded in 1175 as the first entirely Gothic-style cathedral in Britain, will be the venue for an imitation David Bowie concert on Nov. 21.
Every medieval cathedral in England appears to be hosting these concerts, except for two: Westminster Abbey and Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. The events, aimed principally at generating much-needed funds, are commercially operated by a Spanish company called āFeverā that introduced them in early 2021 with classical music. The concerts then expanded, becoming pop and rock cover bands a year later. The Register reached out to the company for comment, but it had not responded by press time.
Arguably more controversial than the candlelight concerts are āsilent discos,ā organized by another company, London-based MEGA Events, and which have been taking place in some of Englandās most historic cathedrals for the past couple of years. One of the most recent was in Canterbury, for centuries Englandās mother Church and where St. Thomas Becket was martyred, held on the Solemnity of the Assumption. The entertainment involves partygoers wearing headphones and waving strobe lights as they dance to pop music from the 1980s and ā90s over the tombs of deceased noble citizens.
Canterbury Cathedralās most recent disco featured multiple bars and stalls in the naveās side aisles selling alcohol and merchandise. The deanās office stressed this all took place away from the site of St. Thomas Becketās martyrdom in 1170. The historic cathedrals of St. Albans, Truro, Durham and Salisbury are also among those hosting these discos ā coined āraves in the naveā by their critics. MEGA Events has been contacted for comment.
From last year: Graffiti art in Canterbury Cathedral ābelongs in a car park.ā Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick didnāt intend for A Clockwork Orange to be a how-to guide for 21st century British aesthetics:
In his 2000 book, The Abolition of Britain, Peter Hitchens wrote, at the conclusion of the chapter titled “Hell Freezes Over:”
The Church still goes through the motions, its priests and ministers officiating at abbreviated ceremonies in the production-line crematoria of the nation, at funerals where fewer and fewer of the younger mourners have any idea of how to behave, or dress, or speak, or of what to say. At the funerals of the young, entirely secular pop songs are often played as substitutes for hymns. In the last few years, mourners have taken to telling jokes during funeral eulogies, as if they were at a wedding. Decorum has disappeared not because people are consciously ill-mannered but because they have no idea that it is required. Children at a primary school in the Isle of Wight were spoken to sharply by their teachers in 1996 after they mocked and jeered at a passing funeral. Nobody had told them that death demanded respect. And in a world where blinds are not drawn down, and there are no hats to doff as the hearse goes by, how were they supposed to learn, and what does it matter anyway?
And yet, night after night, in the wards of a hundred hospitals, people die as they have always done, alone at the end and in many cases afraid of what is to come, more and more comforted by morphine, less and less by the Holy Ghost. We prefer not to notice. In the midst of death, we are in life and
John Lennonās wish in āImagineāāāno religion, no heaven and no hell, and all the people thinking for todayāāhas come true. How odd that the Church itself should have helped it to do so, by abandoning its cold and austere central truth, that we must all die and may be judged, the one piece of ground nobody, not even Hitler or Stalin, could ever have captured from it.
As Drew Pavlou wrote above, “Itās actually stunning how much the elite of Britain hate their own culture and civilization. You couldnāt even invent this as satire.”
LET THE SUN SHINE IN: Success Academy Sues New York State For Suppressing AP Test Scores.
They aren’t hiding this stuff because it makes them look good.
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CDR SALAMANDER: GOFO Accountability–Russian Style.
BETHANY MANDEL: Lindsay Clancy supporters may see mistrial as a victory ā but itās really a step backward for womankind.
Millions of American women are celebrating a victory of sorts this weekend ā a hung jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial.
The caseās future is uncertain. It will likely be difficult to find enough jurors capable of coming to an unbiased decision after the entire country has been riveted by this trial.
It appears that 11 members of the jury favored some form of leniency, whether a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict or a lesser conviction, while one male holdout forced the jury to hang. He was, it appeared, a modern-day āJuror 8ā from the famous play Twelve Angry Men ā but in reverse*.
This is a victory for Clancy, whose team will now enter either another trial with the prospect of another sympathetic jury or plea negotiations with the upper hand.
* In more ways than one: Did 12 Angry Men get it wrong?Ā
CHANGE: Measurable and Stunning 18-Month Decline in Number of Foreign Born Living in the US. “In the 18 months from January 2025 to July of this year, the number of foreign-born people in the country has declined by 2.9 million. Like, I’m sorry – HOLY SMOKES. Now, that’s a number.”
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: The US Could Have a $100 Billion Stash of Rare Earth Elements ā Hiding in Coal Waste.
UPDATE: Reader John Steakley writes: “Be it lumber, coal, granite, marble, natural gas, rare earth elements, or just indefatigable young soldiers, America always returns to Appalachia for its most valuable resources. But as John Denver reminded us, where the mountains are older than trees, such returns are to be expected . . .”
So true. John and I were on the National Space Society board together. I had dinner with him not long before he died. He was much buffer than in his 1970s era, and very interested in aviation. Though perhaps not as safety-conscious as would have been ideal.
THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Soil Scientists Buried 2,000 Pairs of Underwear to Prove a Point.
SETTING WOMEN’S RIGHTS BACK 200 YEARS: How Some Female Lindsay Clancy Jurors Reacted to the Mistrial Declaration. It’s Not Shocking.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Scientists Expose Unexpected Driver of the May 2024 Superstorm.
THAT OTHER GUY ON THE CROSS: No matter your view of Christianity, this short take by Alistair Begg should tickle your funny bone.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What college students really need in their first aid kits.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Mayor Mamdani Up All Night Practicing Sad Face For Upcoming 9/11 Observance https://t.co/gp7FHTYtUs
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 4, 2026
LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: CNN botches Gloria Steinem tribute days after embarrassing Dolly Parton impersonator mix-up.
Related:
The mother who just killed her 2 year-old was an obsessive Lindsay Clancy supporter.
I told you. Women are especially susceptible to social contagion.
It can cause eating disorders, self-harm, "gender transition," and yes, even child murder.
Be warned. https://t.co/H7t5jSrDLl
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) September 4, 2026
LIVING HISTORY: Inside The āTop Secretā Plan That Led To Biggest Pro-Second Amendment Ruling In 90 Years.
With a change in presidential administrations came a change in attitude toward the devices. In 2021, the Biden administration began pushing to classify the items as āshort-barreled riflesā under the NFA, and issued a final regulation to that effect in January 2023, giving those who owned firearms with those devices 120 days to register them with ATF in an āamnestyā before they would face a potential ten-year prison sentence.
Pro-Second Amendment groups challenged the regulation in court almost immediately, eventually securing court orders blocking it. However, they also began to eye a legislative fix to the issue once President Donald Trump won a second term.
āOne thing we could do is we could work with the [second Trump] administration to undo that regulation,ā Johnston said. āThe other thing we could do is just nullify that statute, try to repeal that statute.ā
Despite the straightforward nature of the plan, GOA didnāt want to broadcast their intentions and risk pushback from anti-Second Amendment organizations. Therefore, it didnāt openly discuss any moves pertaining to federal legislation regarding suppressors or other items covered by the National Firearms Act in its national alerts at the start of the 119th Congress.
Well played ā and do read the whole thing.
GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:Ā Maybe Paramount-Warner Should Leave L.A.
The party crashed when COVID literally shut the town down for years, followed by Peak TV overbuild, cord-cutting, streaming losses, rate hikes, two strikes. Then, to the shock of the Gen Z-led merchandising industry, the customer rejected their Bluetooth Sandinista Mickey Mouse dildo and decided it was inappropriate for kids.
Where others see a smashed dildo, David Ellison sees the pieces of a $165 billion 2001 Time Warner/AOL merger for the bargain-basement price of $110 billion. Heās ready to leave where heās not wanted. Heāll be fine.
However, for L.A., itād be a death blow. The infrastructure is already suffering with vendors going out of business and crewmembers quitting. If Paramount-Warners leaves, the built-in advantage of being a mecca for filmmakers with access to top talent, props and equipment disintegrates overnight. Studio stockpiles of props, wardrobe, cranes and cameras can truck over to Nashville or Austin. Crews can suddenly live in lower-cost states and afford homes and schools for their kids. They may have to pray to Baby Jesus a little more, but a little Holy Ghost Power never hurt nobody.
This is not 1986, when you have to shoot below the roof of a backlot set. We can extend and digitally enhance anything. Setting up shop in business-friendly, film-friendly cities has no downside if the infrastructure truly moves. Every vendor benefits from the lower cost of living for its employees, especially the struggling working class that no one seems to give a shit about in these culture wars.
A major studio leaving L.A. is a nuclear explosion that creates a chain reaction. Eventually other studios start calculating a zero percent state income tax. The math was already there, and yet the only incentive the politicians are handing them is the incentive to act on it.
California already lost Tesla and SpaceX to Texas. McKesson, Oracle, Chevron, Charles Schwab, CBRE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, AECOM, Public Storage. Palantir went to Denver. Yamaha left for Georgia. The fucking owner of In-N-Out now lives in Tennessee. When politicians treat business as the enemy, the question isnāt why Paramount would leave. Itās why would they stay.
Will the last business out of California please turn off the Greta-approved eco-lights?
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Fought the Law and the Law Won Real Good. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to take a totally deserved beating, why to keep it in your pants at the park, and that for some people, holstering your pistol might not be as easy as it looks.”
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