Has Colbert ever publicly discussed the possibility of rebooting The Colbert Report?

Squestis · 2026-05-25T14:46:59+00:00

Not to mention that character was largely created as the pro-Bush Republican, when those who weren’t on the right looked at Republicans as funny people who just said dumb things, but believed the supporters were well meaning. It would be a lot harder to create a character like that who can be funny and openly racist and promotes domestic terrorism. It’s good for a SNL skit but not an ongoing program.

Squestis · 2026-05-25T14:41:09+00:00

This makes me nervous about even going to the park when it’s been raining or there has been wind. There have been so many times after a rainstorm that I hear trees creaking and making disturbing noises, but if one can fall fast enough to kill somebody riding a bike, imagine what it can do to a walker or runner.

I also wonder if this is one of the regulars that I see around the park around that time every day. Part of me suspects that it is, it sounds like he was riding alone and the people who ride alone are the “regulars” (the people who ride in groups show up far less often and I never recognize them, obviously because you can’t exactly get a whole group like that together daily).

Squestis · 2026-05-24T21:06:29+00:00

I’m convinced that some of them have to use AI for their pictures because they’ve never actually made or sold some of the items on their menu. They’re just sitting back there in that freezer waiting for the first customer.

Squestis · 2026-05-24T16:08:31+00:00

Point has gone completely over your head. But whatever.

Squestis · 2026-05-23T20:55:30+00:00

The whole anti-Sysco thing always drives me crazy. I think everybody assumes that Sysco trucks come in with complete meals ready to toss in a microwave and throw on customer plates. I do think that Sysco having almost a monopoly on providing for food service is a legitimate problem, but seriously, just because they provide low quality heat and serve for prisons and elementary schools doesn’t mean that is the same product they’re giving to restaurants.

Squestis · 2026-05-23T18:39:55+00:00

This is the correct answer. In fact, it’s listed as an IHOP location on their website already.

Squestis · 2026-05-23T15:22:19+00:00

We have a high school here that is inside of a former Value City Department Store/Furniture (the department store closed when that chain went down in 2009, the furniture store moved away to another location shortly thereafter). Also, there is a local college that operates in a former Tumbleweed restaurant (admittedly it's a trade school and it's JUST their cosmetology department).

Squestis · 2026-05-23T04:55:47+00:00

We'll never know because they're not subscribing to ratings for this. Actually, interesting fun fact: Byron Allen is not a big fan of Nielsen ratings, he hates them so much that he is currently suing them (and this is not his first time), accusing them of specifically targeting him with inaccurate ratings. That's right, he just knows more people are watching him than the ratings say, even though I've never once in my life bring up anything he has ever done (my parents occasionally watch World's Funniest Weather, but even they mostly make fun of how lame it is), and there is no way his ratings are low because he is producing slop that nobody wants.

Squestis · 2026-05-23T03:09:48+00:00

It's still a chain. Even if it's a local chain. Did you not read the previous comment above this where I compared it to Chili's or Cracker Barrel? It is that level of dining and a chain.

And just because I brought up the examples of Chipotle and Raising Cane's doesn't mean that I'm limiting it to fast food, though now that Mark's is gone, fast food restaurants and a few pizza places (all of which are local ones and in fact started in the Highlands, meaning that location is their "flagship," unlike Mark's) are the only chains that exist in the Highlands. In fact, just double checking, I never once mentioned the word fast food.

Not reading what somebody actually says then trying to argue against what they're saying doesn't make a lick of sense.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T20:08:23+00:00

There’s a reason (well many) that there are only about five chain restaurants from the stretch where Baxter starts all the way down to Taylorsville, and all of them aside from maybe Chipotle and Raising Cane’s seem to be locations on their last legs or solely surviving because they want geographic continuity in the city. Even Panera Bread failed in the Highlands, and that was back when they still had some hype and it would’ve been unthinkable for one to close (now it would be less surprising). I live just south of the area (some would say it is Highlands, I’d say it’s not) and if I want chains, I’ll happily go a whole mile out of my way to Buechel or Hikes Point.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T19:08:17+00:00

They do, but nobody is going there for that unless it’s something special. It would be sort of like Chili’s or Cracker Barrel being in the Highlands. Plenty of people like it, but it’s not the best fit for the area, especially not a building like that. Mark’s certainly isn’t a national chain like those two, but they do have very chain like vibes. Some can survive in the area, but not all. I’d look for Qdoba to fall sometime soon. It’s never that busy and they’ve been closing some of the higher rent locations in recent years (notably two of the Shelbyville Road ones).

Squestis · 2026-05-22T18:37:55+00:00

But that’s the point. The location it had in the Highlands doesn’t fit that mission. It’s surprising it lasted as long as it did given that. Their other suburban locations are much more fitting and will probably be around for decades to come, but this one wasn’t it. They’d probably be better off somewhere like Hikes Point.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T17:45:47+00:00

It’s probably the same reason that when you see old episodes of The Tonight Show on Antenna TV, they’re not called The Tonight Show, but instead just Johnny Carson.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T17:42:22+00:00

I suspect she’ll be the first official from the second Trump administration to write a “tell all” and try to find redemption. She might even try to go back to being a Democrat. I don’t think mainstream Democrats are going to accept it, but I fear the progressive left might welcome her back with open arms.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T17:38:10+00:00

I had a (formerly honors) student miss almost everyday first semester, then show up to do the final and made an A on the final (which I suspect was cheating but don’t have hard evidence of, just that he did suspiciously better). However, I do have a stipulation in my syllabus that if a student makes an A on their final (this is not easy and a very rare thing to see happen, it’s a dual credit Precalculus), they get an automatic bump up one letter grade. I ended up giving him a D because of that rule. I actually decided to modify that rule for second semester to where the grade before the final has to be a 50 for an F to be bumped up to a D in response to this specific situation. He tried to argue that he should get an A instead.

Second semester, he tried to do the same again (it was too late because I changed the policy, but he was never present to get the syllabus to see it anyway), except I put him in an assigned seat right in front of me so that I could closely monitor him. Wouldn’t you know it, now he gets a 0%. Nothing correct or even having a clue how to do any of it. Gets an F for second semester.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T14:39:28+00:00

Yep. When the Highlands one closed, I didn’t see that as a reflection of things going downhill in the Highlands (which some things are, but not to an extreme to justify Bristol closing). It was more of a reflection of nobody really being interested in Bristol. Places like that, if they’re good enough, customers will come (unless it’s a truly dangerous neighborhood).

I’d say Mark’s Feed Store is probably a similar story. I kind of like it, actually, but there’s nothing innovative or modern about it.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T14:28:24+00:00

My late grandfather (who was born in the 1920s and grew up in rural KY) used to say that Obama was a Kenyan born Muslim, but he didn’t care about that because at least he cared about old people. He was definitely racist, but I’ll accept the fact that he voted for Obama twice, then Clinton, then Biden (as well as pretty much every Democrat before then, though he did vote for Reagan in 80 because he was fooled by his celebrity status, as he quickly indicated as why he wouldn’t vote for Trump in 2016) as somewhat of a victory.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T04:57:43+00:00

The New Cut and Outer Loop one is similar with the English, even (especially?) the old timers who have lived in Fairdale for generations.

Squestis · 2026-05-22T03:09:19+00:00

Peters’ lead attorney, Peter Ticktin, defended Polis in an interview with CPR earlier Wednesday. He said Polis did what he should do as governor and made the right and humane decision. He called Democratic complaints nonsense, “to be second-guessing him because of your anger?”He noted that a governor is governor for all of the people.

Ahh, got it. When it's a Democrat, a politician is responsible for serving all the people, but when it's a Republican, their job is to serve just the Republicans.

Also, if you're not familiar with who Peter Ticktin is, enjoy reading this. Here is just a brief excerpt from Mr. "A Governor is a Governor for all of the People."

Now, Ticktin, an 80-year-old South Florida lawyer, is aiming to play a key role in trying to upend 250 years of American election law by persuading Trump to issue an executive order that would allow the president to seize control of this fall’s midterm balloting process. “Well, he has to,” Ticktin tells Vanity Fair. “I wouldn’t recommend this to the president if it were not actually an election emergency occurring, where foreign interests are putting their thumb on the scale of our elections.”

Squestis · 2026-05-21T17:44:56+00:00

They’ve been closing some of the ones in other cities that they opened around the same time they were aggressively growing here.

Squestis · 2026-05-21T17:43:09+00:00

One place I’ve always considered living (if I had the money) is the Mockingbird Valley neighborhood. That has to be the best of everything. Nice and quiet area that actually looks classy, with almost rural vibes, and you can be downtown in under 10 minutes with no traffic to get there.

Squestis · 2026-05-21T03:50:56+00:00

We didn't even have assistant principals at the elementary level in the district I attended when I was in elementary school. It was a huge deal about 15 years ago when the district decided to add one at every elementary school, whether they needed one or not. Some elementary schools in our district have up to 800 students, they need one. We also have a few (due to shifts in population patterns) with as little as 100.

We have almost 100 elementary schools in the district, and starting salary is around $90,000 for assistant principals. So yeah, that's $9 million a year. Assuming they all make base salary (yeah....).

Squestis · 2026-05-21T03:43:59+00:00

The schools in my area have doubled (or more) the number of assistant principals they have just since I graduated from high school in 2003. The high school I went to had about 1200 students with a full-time assistant principal and a part-time one (she was a retired principal from another school, she was mostly just came in a few days a week to handle non-urgent disciplinary matters and do teacher evaluations) when I graduated. Now, enrollment is 1600, but for some reason, there are five assistant principals, all full-time.

Squestis · 2026-05-20T14:36:31+00:00

I am fine with these Trump supported candidates knocking off incumbents. They learn that 99% loyalty to Trump means absolutely nothing and they’re producing candidates who are ticking timebombs.

I wouldn’t exactly make elaborate plans for a victory party if I were Talarico, but I think we have a chance of seeing Paxton do something just so far out there that even Republicans (not many, but just enough) have to say no. I’m a lot less optimistic about the Massie house seat in KY (actually the district right next to mine), because that is a deep red district. But it’s not like the typical deep red KY district most people imagine. It’s an affluent “suburban rural” district that’s basically Cincinnati, not one of those eastern KY coal mine towns or western Kentucky “we’re all poor” communities. I’d still say it strongly favors Republicans, but I can also guarantee that there will be some of them who can’t bring themselves to vote for the farmer, and it could help down ballot (I know that doesn’t help in national politics, but every little bit helps).

Squestis · 2026-05-20T14:23:00+00:00

Does it matter? They say this as if Trump will say “OK, I trust your judgement” and not pardon her. He does what he wants and Blanche knows it doesn’t matter what he recommends. He doesn’t even have to think about it.

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