Now that the who-screwed-who discussion of the Epstein files has died down, is it permissible to look at the other…problematic issues that are being exposed? Like, say, this:
In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a luxury farm in the woods of Connecticut. The guests had been hand-picked by prominent New York literary agent John Brockman, who frequently hosted similar salons for luminaries in science, technology and media.
The problem? Brockman had included two women on the list, and his staunch supporter and biggest funder wanted them out.
“John, the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in response to an email about the programming. “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.”
The story goes on to quote some of these hand-picked geniuses and their feelings about women:
Take Roger Schank, an AI researcher and theorist who died in 2023. He suggested in one email that “intelligence comes about in part from real focus” and that it is rare for a woman to not be “first and foremost focused on what others are thinking and feeling about her.”
“Hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you or why you don’t own a kelly bag,” he wrote. To which Epstein responded: “It’s the tail of distribution , no really smart women – none.”
This site went on to note they left Epstein and his friends’ punctuation and spelling errors intact. Ha ha ha.
It was the “why you don’t own a Kelly bag” that really chapped my ass. My sample size of female scientists is admittedly small, but in both my professional and personal lives I’ve met a few, and I can’t think of a single group of women less interested in Kelly bags. If one were given such a pricey luxury, they’d be more likely to sell it to fund their labs than actually use it.
One group whose luxury lust I can find believable? Teenagers and Eastern European sex workers, i.e. the sort of females Epstein chose to surround himself with.
Epstein also had problems with people who weren’t white. He had interest in race “science” and is fond of dropping slurs here and there; at one point he refers to black people as chimps. So of course he was besties with the current president.
We now return to my current interest: Finding the craziest groups on Reddit. Hulu is running that stupid JFK Jr./Carolyn Bessette “love story” series, and it has reawakened interest in Bessette, the famous blonde who didn’t want to be famous, but was achingly beautiful, and died with her similarly beautiful husband, leaving behind their story and a lot of pictures. They’d never grow old, never get divorced, never see their bodies change or hair fall out. And they have the nuttiest fans on the internet. I had to step away when I realized there are people out there who can identify Bessette’s hair color by month and year. They’re my current nominees.
Finally, I leave you with a photo of Baldilocks and Beelzeboobs, the chairs of this year’s Met Gala.
The Met Gala is an event that exists solely to generate photos, and I can’t wait to see what Beelzeboobs wears. You could look at this photo all day and not get to the bottom of its weirdness. This is the biggest self-inflicted reputation bazooka in recent memory. And who is advising them in this behavior? They can afford the best PR agency on the planet, and yet.
In the olden days of journalism, this photo would have been pinned to an out-of-the-public’s-eye bulletin board, and captions welcome. Feel free.
In the meantime, I have some stuff to get ready for, so gotta go. Good weekends, all.
Jeff Gill said on February 27, 2026 at 11:44 am
That’s it. I am NOT going to the Met Gala this year.
(keeping my streak alive…)
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Dave said on February 27, 2026 at 11:58 am
Was it in comments here that I read that if the Bezos who was loading books into car trunks and delivering them could go into the future and see today’s version, he’d hit him in the mouth? If so, apologies for repeating it.
OTOH, maybe he’d think, yes, that’s exactly what I want.
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ROGirl said on February 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Funny, I was thinking about boob jobs recently, but the ones from the early 2000s, when several women in my office suddenly had huge boobs, but not porn star boobs. I thought the balloon boob trend had been left in the past, but there will probably be more maga women getting them now.
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David C said on February 27, 2026 at 12:09 pm
Jesus H. Christ, she look like she uses Lenin’s makeup artist.
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alex said on February 27, 2026 at 12:14 pm
Somewhere I read that there’s a saying in France that a woman over 40 has to choose between her face and her ass. I guess when you’re rich enough to have it all, you can have your ass in your face.
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Deborah said on February 27, 2026 at 1:09 pm
Someone on Bluesky said something like, Ms Bezos looks like she stuffed 2 Jeff Bezos’s down there and only the bald heads are showing. How tacky can she get?
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Mark P said on February 27, 2026 at 4:01 pm
I read somewhere long ago about why human breasts stay enlarged all the time no when most mammals’ are enlarged only when nursing. The speculation was that they were sexual mechanisms to recall the look of a bare butt, since humans often mate face to face instead of from the rear as most mammals do. If that’s true then Mrs Bozo’s breasts are doing an admirable job.
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Sherri said on February 27, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Every time I see her Mrs Bezos’ breasts, I wonder if you get a pump with that boob job or have to supply your own?
Bezos said his original criterion for a wife was that she be able to get him out of a third world prison. It looks like he focused on a different attribute of a comic book woman for his second.
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Julie Robinson said on February 27, 2026 at 6:49 pm
Those look extremely uncomfortable, like they are straining her skin. They also look rock hard. The face isn’t good either.
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Jakash said on February 27, 2026 at 7:55 pm
I’ve got nothing to add to this rollicking assortment of remarks other than holy moly, that’s a disgusting (as well as bottomlessly weird) photo.
I’m not sure what zingers the newspaper’s “out-of-the-public’s-eye bulletin board” would have provided, and I’m sure they’d have been cherce, but the nn.c Commentariat is certainly doing very nicely with the assignment, indeed.
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brian stouder said on February 27, 2026 at 8:18 pm
Well, I’ve clicked into NancyNall.com for many, many moons now, in order to stay abreast of current events, and today’s installment is flat-out overwhelming!
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Brandon said on February 27, 2026 at 9:09 pm
Meanwhile… https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/fans-threaten-boycott-met-gala-023037106.html
After Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez made headlines at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were spotted in the front row at Milan Fashion Week for Prada’s Fall/Winter 2026–2027 show on Thursday, Feb. 26, in Milan.
Their appearance comes amid reports that Meta is teaming up with Prada on a new line of high-end smart glasses.
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Bitter Scribe said on February 27, 2026 at 9:51 pm
For some reason I am thinking of those chickens bred to have such enormous breasts (white meat being more valuable) that they have a hard time walking without tipping over.
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tajalli said on February 28, 2026 at 12:40 am
Bitter Scribe, I thought that was turkeys. Anyhow, what a sad situation, I can’t even laugh.
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Kristen said on February 28, 2026 at 7:37 am
To call this much attention to your boobs is just so weird to me, especially when you know they’ve been pumped up via plastic surgery. Are women like Sanchez proud of their chest? I guess it’s obvious she is. She must be taped or somehow glued into that foolish gown – not sure how else she avoided nip slips that evening. It’s just so tacky and gross.
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Pam H said on February 28, 2026 at 10:50 am
I thought the purpose of plastic surgery was to look better. This person looks like a cadaver in a gold dress. Bezos must be blind, I wouldn’t take her out in public. He would have done better to buy an inflatable (which if I could draw, brings to mind a great cartoon).
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Deborah said on February 28, 2026 at 11:18 am
I agree that her breasts look painful and hard, bet she can’t sleep on her stomach.
Oh, and we’re at war with Iran now and already 63 young girls between the ages of 7 and 12 have been killed when their school was hit. Can you just imagine the terrorist attacks we have to look forward to in this country?
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Jakash said on February 28, 2026 at 12:17 pm
I’ve been wondering whatever happened to Brian, who clocked in at #11. I guess once he moved, he decided he was off the hook, comment-wise.
Might have known that it would be a post like this that would prompt an exception to his lurking! 😉 Anyway, good to hear from you, my good man.
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Sherri said on February 28, 2026 at 1:43 pm
I don’t know, I’m not a brilliant foreign relations thinker, but it would seem to me that if I were Iran, each time Israel and the US launched preemptive attacks on me would constitute more evidence for why I needed nuclear weapons.
I’m not saying I want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but we don’t launch preemptive attacks on countries that have nuclear weapons.
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LindaG said on February 28, 2026 at 1:57 pm
Just read “Nomadland” about people living in cars, vans, RVs, and whatever, finding seasonal jobs at Amazon and just about killing themselves for low wages. Then I remember the Venice wedding and now see this! And I have some Amazon stock too. Oh my!
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Sherri said on February 28, 2026 at 2:03 pm
Kash Patel is ridiculous, but his girlfriend is next level. Good thing we’re paying for a SWAT team to protect her when she travels!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/kash-patel-girlfriend.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PlA.ybCh.ZgZ0su7krS5X&smid=url-share
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Icarus said on February 28, 2026 at 3:44 pm
I thought we attacked Iran last summer to curtail its nuclear program. Did we miss?
What is the justification for preventing other countries from having nukes if we (and the other big countries) can have them?
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Brandon said on February 28, 2026 at 3:52 pm
I’ve been wondering whatever happened to Brian, who clocked in at #11.
Not too long ago, I asked if anyone had heard from Coozledad. He stopped commenting here around 2017 but was active on other blogs like JoeMyGod.
And Pilot Joe hasn’t been heard from in a long time either.
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alex said on February 28, 2026 at 4:32 pm
Pilot Joe got himself blocked for being an uncivil asshole. Coozledad left of his own accord in a huff and badmouthed the commentariat here on his own blog before apparently giving up blogging. Can’t say I miss Pilot Joe, but Cooz was genuinely funny and a great contributor when he wasn’t mad at others in this community, apparently over political differences that were more a matter of degree than core beliefs. I don’t know if you remember Danny, a conservative troll who used to antagonize Cooz, and me as well, but he completely vanished at the same time Cooz did.
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Icarus said on February 28, 2026 at 4:35 pm
Brandon @ 23: Coozledad has stopped posting on his blog and I think Pilot Joe got sent to the airlock.
But it does bring up a dark side of commentators. Sooner or later, every one of us is gonna pass to the great Blog in the Sky, alas, even our hostess.
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Sherri said on February 28, 2026 at 4:40 pm
Iran has been about to get the bomb for decades.
https://vizzlo.com/d/abkfXTdOQZOSY3RecPg5sA
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Sherri said on February 28, 2026 at 4:59 pm
The competition for dumbest Senator is very fierce. I didn’t think it was possible to be dumber than Tommy Tuberville, who’s dumber than previous dumbest Senator Ron Johnson, but Markwayne Mullin is not going down without a fight, as he demonstrates that he is unaware that the current day leader of Iran is not the same person who came to power in 1979.
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Jakash said on February 28, 2026 at 7:24 pm
It’s been 19 years since that hero the orange felon didn’t like, John McCain, jokingly sang “Bomb, Bomb, Iran” to the tune of “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED! that the winner of the vaunted FIFA Peace Prize has decided to do so. Uh, not THAT shocked. I’m sure he’s very carefully considered all the consequences, especially since he’s such an ace student of history.
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Deborah said on February 28, 2026 at 7:56 pm
It’s not polite to mock someone’s name if they were given it at birth, but “Markwayne” doesn’t help the man seem anything but dumb. Couldn’t he just have shortened it to Mark? Kind of has the same vibe as “this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl. I don’t remember what TV show that was from.
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Dorothy said on February 28, 2026 at 8:54 pm
She’s one good, strong sneeze away from those bowling balls dropping over the edge of that gown and scoring a strike.
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Dave said on February 28, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Newhart is the show the brothers were on, Bob Newhart running a New England inn.
I, too, have wondered how Coozledad has been, he was always in a rage, I can sort of relate better today when we should all be in a rage. How on this earth does he even cope today?
Danny, if I’m remembering correctly, lived in San Diego. I seem to recall he could be far more reasonable, even in disagreement.
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David C said on March 1, 2026 at 5:41 am
The DoD is so messed up under Trump and Kegsbreath right now. This isn’t going to go well. I work in defense industry. We started on a couple of projects and first the money was pulled back “temporarily”. Then it was “It’ll be coming after the shutdown”. Now it’s been next month, next month, next month. I’ve been working there for over eighteen years, and I’ve never seen anything like it, even during the his first administration. I know a lot of those decisions are made by civilian staff. They were probably DOGEd. Since competence isn’t a prerequisite for a position in this administration, they probably backfilled based on loyalty. WASF, but maybe this is the thing that will get him impeached and removed from office.
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Mark P said on March 1, 2026 at 1:04 pm
I haven’t been hearing much about how Patriot is working against Iranian missiles. I saw a video that showed three (I think) launches against an incoming missile, and they all missed. One looked like it followed some debris to the ground. One looked like it got into a tail chase against the missile, and that’s definitely not how it’s supposed to work. They all looked confused. There has been time to work on Patriot and other missile defense systems, and these Iranian missiles seem to be the kind that could be intercepted. Are we that incompetent now?
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basset said on March 1, 2026 at 2:10 pm
SWAT bodyguards at the hair salon… she apparently does not live in my part of Nashville, or maybe there are enough black Suburbans roaming around that I just haven’t noticed a few more.
and… Dorothy@30 for the thread win!
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Ann said on March 1, 2026 at 4:51 pm
“Baldilocks and Beelzeboobs.” Can’t stop laughing.
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Carter Cleland said on March 1, 2026 at 7:24 pm
I think it was Ben Rhodes who said a couple of days ago that Bibi told Trump not to attack Iran until the Eisenhower was in position, with its missile defense systems, like the Patriots, at the ready. Big, tough Israel’s anxious to pick fights if we’re there to defend them.
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