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Category: The Current Situation
Trump’s video
You’ve probably heard about the AI-generated video that Trump posted to Truth Social, where he interrupts Stephen Colbert’s farewell monologue on the last episode of The Tonight Show to throw Colbert into a dumpster. I’ve posted the video below, as an unlisted video on my own channel, to ensure that I don’t have to point to some MAGA account and help them profit from it:
The actual White House Twitter account reposted the video, which is another data point for the “Everyone is twelve now” theory:
Colbert’s video
What makes for far better and longer viewing is Stephen Colbert’s return to public access television a mere 23 hours after the final Tonight Show. He returned to his roots on Monroe, Michigan’s Monroe Public Access Cable Television, which is now called Monroe Community Media 1, to host their show, titled Only in Monroe.
He was joined by a number of famous locals:
- Only in Monroe’s regular hosts, Michelle Baumann and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson (who was Miss America in 1988). They drank shots of Cain & Grain from a local distiller, River Raisin Distillery.
- Jack White — yes, the Jack White from The White Stripes, as the musical director, complete with boom box and reel-to-reel tape player.
- Steve Buscemi, who made a public service announcement for the Buscemi’s Pizza in Monroe to clarify he has no connection to them
- Byron Allen, via FaceTime. He’s taking over “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” timeslot with back-to-back episodes of his syndicated Comics Unleashed.
- Jeff Daniels, who joined for an on-screen picnic lunch featuring a sandwich he invented, followed by destroying the set, with the approval of…
- …an unofficial fire marshall names Marshall Mathers, whom you might know as Eminem.
If you watch only one of the two videos featured in thsi article, make it the second one.
If you watch only one public access cable show this year, make it Stephen Colbert’s episode of Only in Monroe.
It’s that time of year, and this is that kind of blog, so here’s the 2026 edition of my traditional Mother’s Day greeting. Happy Mother’s Day from the baaaadest mutha of them all!
Since since we’re talkin’ ’bout Shaft…
Last month, I wrote about a manufacturing mistake that became a hit for the Year of the Horse: the Sad Horse. I placed an order for one, and because it came from a literal “slow boat from China,” it finally arrived last week!
It looks sad because a number of the plush horses made for this Lunar New Year left the factory with their snouts attached upside-down, turning their smiles into glum expressions. But because this expression reflects a lot of Chinese workers’ current “down and dissatisfied” mood (especially in their current “9-9-6” culture, the Sad Horse became a hit!
Read more about the manufacturing mistake that became a Lunar New Year hit in It’s the Year of the Sad Horse!
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Adding potato would also be acceptable.
Today — Tuesday, February 17, 2026 — marks the start of the Lunar New Year, and this year is traditionally known as the Year of the Fire Horse.
But thanks to a manufacturing error, it’s also the Year of the Sad Horse.
Since the Chinese zodiac characters are animals (here’s their origin story), each new year sees the release of a plush version of that year’s animal, made out in red, gold, and white, which are the colors of good fortune.
Since this is the year of the horse, here’s what this year’s plushie is supposed to look like:
However, because of a manufacturing error, many of those plush horses’ snouts were attached upside-down, turning their smiles into these glum expressions:
Surprisingly, this error made the horses incredibly popular, probably because they’re reflecting the current mood.
At a time of slowing economic growth and dimming job prospects for many workers, the toy has been embraced as the “cry cry horse” and become an internet sensation.
“The economy hasn’t been great, and life’s been tough for a lot of people these past couple of years,” said Zhang Ziqi, 24, a teacher in Hebei province. “That crying expression really matches how most people feel — stressed, anxious, kind of down.”
“It’s about allowing yourself to not be OK, to admit you’re in a low period,” she said in an interview this week.
Zhang Huoqing, owner of the Happy Sister shop in Yiwu, a wholesale hub in central Zhejiang province, explained that a worker sewed its snout on the wrong way. When a customer pointed out the mistake, she offered a refund — but the customer didn’t return the horse.
Photos of the sad horse appeared online, spread via social media, and it’s now a viral hit.
“Many customers liked it, and then it started selling very well,” she told Reuters. “So we just kept producing them.”
Since then, Zhang’s shop has been rushing to keep up with orders for the “accidental edition,” including some from overseas, and knockoffs have proliferated online. According to media reports, the worker who first made the mistake has been rewarded with an annual bonus of 8,888 yuan ($1,280) for the next 12 years.
Why 8,888? Because 8 is the lucky number in many Asian cultures. Pronounced bā in Mandarin, it sounds like fā which means “to get rich.” In fact, the New Year greeting in Mandarin, gong xi fa cai, really means “Hope you get rich.”
I’ll let Ronnie Chieng explain:
And yes, you can order a Sad Horse here in the U.S.! I ordered mine through Walmart:
If there’s a lesson to be learned from this, it’s that sometimes a bug can be a feature, or as I like to say: “When life gives you SARS, you make SARSaparilla.”
I’ll let the updated posting in Craigslist explain:
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Here’s a screen capture of the updated Craigslit Boston posting:
