Doing nothing is better than the alternative, if they're going to be there.
Elderly White Hippie - and proud of it.
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Doing nothing is better than the alternative, if they're going to be there.
Round, round, you get around...
What time?
I'm fortunate. Practical road trip range - recharging from 10% to 80% for about 225 miles - is a pretty perfect match for my bladder and back stretching range.
Grandmother?
Emma Stone's mother?
Actually, I thought you were going for the one on the top of the hill in Clinton after crossing the Delaware on I-78.
But what's the expiration date on the gas in the tank?
Reporters, whenever your subject ignores the question, respond with "So are you not going to directly answer the question?"
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.” - Carl Sagan #QOTD
Just finished rewatching Seven Days in May, from 1964. …sigh…
It’s feeling like the lower courts are the only ones willing to stand up for the Constitution against Trump, Miller, et al. I only hope the Supremes find the fortitude to do the same.
#LastWeeksViewing 8/24-8/30/25 Unforgotten, S5 (2023) - Rewatch - PBS Unforgotten, S6 (2025) - PBS Withnail & I (1987) - HBO/Max Thunderbolts* (2025) - Disney+ Leaves of Grass (2010) - Prime Hostage, S1 (2025) - Netflix Hidden Blade (2023) - Prime
The new Cracker Barrel logo had a problem in and of itself. It would have been as bland as the food.
"Everything is deeply intertwingled." - Ted Nelson #QOTD
Is ICE in Guadalajara?
Limestone..."While it's not the most durable option compared to some other stones, it can be a cost-effective and attractive choice when properly sealed and maintained."
WTF?
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
OK, but I'll keep calling you our JV VP.
It's a Tennessee GOP thing.
Watching Hidden Blade (2023) on Prime. Watching the fight scene with Wang Yibo, it's hard to believe Tony Leung is 63. Damn.
This makes sense.
How will any of this stop someone shooting through a window?
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” - Thomas Paine #QOTD
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Connections Puzzle #811 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 EAT?
Been going on a while, if my dormant Twitter history is any indication.
In Tennessee, the GOPer Assembly Speaker is more creative for small change. tennesseelookout.com/2023/04/18/t...
This, like so may of these situations, is wrong...just wrong. Our nation is having its soul ripped out and shredded.
Thank the gods that I''ll probably be out of here in 20-30 years.
The new acting head of the CDC is not a doctor, has no public health experience, and is connected to and sponsored by Peter Thiel. What could go wrong!
Putin?
He’s got it backwards. We hire these bureaucrats for their professional expertise to guide the elected amateurs and help keep them from running us into the ditches.
In America they hang pictures of traitors in their military academies
Maurice, speaking of “the pompatus of love”.
Just a friendly reminder that it's not too late to bring back #Hannibal. I don't care if it's just the cast doing a table read. I need another season. Wouldn't it be a delightful holiday gift? Halloween is right around the corner...
Let’s get witness statements from the CDC Four as well.
Insignificant digits
Because he’s had seven moths of up close and personal observation of a tragedy.
Who?
How do we go about creating a shadow government of ethical former employees so we can be ready to pick up the pieces at the end of this debacle?
#ff - My recommended Friday Follow this week is @gdanmitchell.com. In addition to his own photography, he beautifies my feed will well-curated examples of others’ images as well.
…or the GOP.
Let’s not forget that we wouldn’t have had the guy desecrating his previously fondly remembered initials without DJT.
The message of Andor and Rogue One is that it’s not necessary to master some ineffable “Force” to help overthrow an oppressive government. It’s up to the 99.9% of us with no special powers or strength.
battle plan: attack proud boys with po’ boys
Maybe he meant midichlorians.
Too bad Kamala lost. Otherwise…
Next on the agenda…degenerate art.
Oh. And guns.
Oh. And guns.
So. We’re going to blame violence not on the existence of mental health issues, but on the drugs that are being used to try to deal with those issues. Maybe there’s a correlation between SSRI usage and violence - and that’s a big maybe - because the people taking SSRIs have problems.
So. We’re going to blame violence not on the existence of mental health issues, but on the drugs that are being used to try to deal with those issues. Maybe there’s a correlation between SSRI usage and violence - and that’s a big maybe - because the people taking SSRIs have problems.
Finally, some good news out of Texas.
“The Player: Generally speaking things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they can reasonably get. Guildenstern: Who decides? The Player: Decides? It is written.” - Tom Stoppard #QOTD
Holy crap...this isn't The Onion...
Is it just me, or are any others of you out there getting what seems like a creative way of getting one to look at a spammy email? I've recently been getting a flurry of "Delivery Status Notification" emails that have nothing to do with anything I have sent. Trying to figure out how they do that.
Maybe, maybe not but definitely showed sufficient promise to get a chance to prove itself.
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Gaba-gaba-gool.
Wonder if anyone there will arrest him and deport him to Cuba.
#ETTD
The same kind that eviscerates the CDC.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” - André Gide #QOTD
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
I think this guy is the one who's overburdened with challenges.
Andor/Rogue One was a history of the 5-6 years leading to A New Hope. What was Obi-Wan Kenobi up to during those years, while keeping tabs on the twins? And is there a writer of the quality of Tony Gilroy that could tell that story without leaning too hard on Old Ben Kenobi's Force capabilities?
We're f-ed.
but for these vile guns
HGTV board and batten (the trendy follow up to ship lap).
A new low in "thoughts and prayers".
quiet part, out loud
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Of course they are
It’s not about picking winners and losers. If Intel is the model, it’s about shaking down losers.
I’ll have to take your word for that bit about the interior design changes. The only relationship I have with Cracker Barrel is through my sister-in-law and her partner who park their RV in its parking lots when on road trips.
The same guys who broke air traffic control have got their sights set on the rails. #OffTheRails.
Oh s#!t…
Psychophants
A new art form is in the offing…creating AI prompts that result in the most egregiously gonzo responses from the LLM.
Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Admitting here and now that it wasn’t until a few years ago, as I entered my 70s, that I realized what was really happening to that little piggie that went to market. Most of my life I thought he was going shopping.
Thune carried 2 mortgages for more than a decades as a Senator; one in DC & a second in South Dakota. He legitimately listed both as his primary residences when he applied for each loan. That is common now. So maybe he should sit this one the fuck out. southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/11/13/t...
Gotta pack in those omega-3s for winter.
It’s not their fault they’re there. So boos are not called for. Yet.
Someone should tell Trump that Japan is stealing our seawater.
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
Witless is tied with Nutlick for the role of chief sycophant, but the happy Valley Girl is making her move.
This 👇 thread if you’re looking to lighten your day. (And these days, who isn’t?)
Make that a “Japanese or Korean TV”.
"When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." - Henry David Thoreau #QOTD
Make the logo great again?
"Be all you can be" has certainly had the bar lowered.
