I think it generally means “the under-heralded glue that held it all together.” And that’s accurate.

By which I assume you mean “the best songwriter”

She was the George Harrison of Fleetwood Mac.

God, Will Smith is just compulsively a phoney baloney.

Man those cop exams are really weeding out the crazies, aren’t they?

The JFC on the license plate must stand for the reaction of ‘JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!’ when you see the price for this.

If the world needs anything, it’s a humongous on-the-nose example of how being obscenely rich and “successful” does not guarantee that someone is competent in any given field, even if it seems like it’s up their alley.

The right wing packed court that hates women? The court that will allow the republicans to steal the next election?

Enjoy your alternative facts.

Your reminder that the police are not obligated to protect and serve you. This is likely why we see these “MAGA” cosplayers with badges showing how little they give a fuck about your children and teachers.

A foundation to fund more David Lynch projects?

That is not even close to being accurate.  He made the offer, waived due diligence, sale closed.  Tough shit.

Buys Gawker, immediately fires anyone who doesn’t make slideshows and bans anyone that complains about slideshows.

That’s the hard part I have with all this. I don’t care about twitter as a platform, and I think one less social media platform is probably a plus. And it’s fun watching Elon fuck something up so badly, when he literally could have walked in and done nothing and they would have kept going.

Forgotten Chodes was my punk band!

Or he could buy it and shout “Stick to slideshows!”

No one forced him to enter a legally-binding agreement to purchase Twitter at a dramatic overvalue of his own making.  He was forced to adhere to the legally-binding agreement that he’d entered into of his own free will, that’s true.

Second highest at 27% at the mid-terms in over 30 years:

The Monster Squad could work.