A Taylor Swift endorsement is perhaps more significant in the grand scheme of things, but when the 179-year-old SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN makes one as well (and as only its second), it certainly caught my attention.
After the first time I wrote "Fairhope Pubic Library" (I was on the board of the Friends of the Library and creating brochures, sending membership letters, etc.), I added "pubic" to the exclusion list in Word (which will mark a word as misspelled even though it isn't). Haven't had an accident since.
First Rush then FOX got them scared. Before he even began his descent on that escalator in 2015, Trump had inherited a flock of already trembling sheep.
Trump didn't read anything but I am sure a classmate or employee interpreted it for him, like a bedtime story. He said he had Mein Kampf on his nightstand - I would suspect it wasn't the book version, but the book on tape version.
Sam, My Lovely Wife used to have a habit -- I called it her hobby -- of cutting too close on right turns in parking garages, resulting in collisions with bollards. This hobb...errr.....habit persisted through three vehicles and two husbands. Thankfully, she hasn't hit a parking garage bollard in about 15 years. However, the central locking mechanism on the car hasn't been the same since the door panel was replaced.
I wonder if that would fill in the scratches, like a poor (drunk) man’s bondo. But it’s the driver side door anyway, and so not worth the DUI it’d take to apply.
No. However, the stomach acid might etch the scratches, making for it easier for a primer coat to adhere. A big patch of red primer on a car serves as a great warning to other drivers that the driver doesn't care about their car.
I wrote in last week about our car sending messages to check the backseat. It is a Toyota Prius Prime. I slightly misstated, though. It sends messages to the Toyota app. If you have the app on your phone, you get the messages on your phone; but it doesn't directly send messages to the phone.
Re: Linen skirts: A friend of mine ordered fried chicken on a first date, and had to wipe the grease off her hands frequently. It wasn't until she stood up that she discovered that the napkin in her lap had fallen off early on, and she had been wiping her hands on her linen skirt.
The "Richard Hatch-to-Trump" through line is amusing, but a bit too facile. The Hermann Göring comments are perhaps closer to why even non-political, common Germans supported the Nazis, but not entirely. The far too easily accepted and motivating delusion --- and to some extent understandable in the disastrous aftermath of WWI for Germany --- was victimhood. The Germans were ripe to need someone(s) on which to blame their suffering. The mass of the population was hardly likely to blame this on themselves or the leaders they supported who sent them disastrously into the "war to end all wars" --- so it had to be "others" who were to blame. Then along comes the Austrian house painter with helpful suggestions for those "others" --- Jews and communists, for example ---within easy reach: "others" obviously masquerading as Germans, who although they were born there, lived their entire lives there, and may even have shed blood for the Vaterland, were not really Germans and moreover were sinister influences causing the suffering and if allowed to go unpunished, would continue it. The very same phenomenon exists here, I suggest, but with a cold war and to a large extent --- although not entirely discounting the possibility of a legitimate grievance or two --- with the same need for scapegoats for what are viewed as reparations and other losses being extracted by a liberal enemy for the way things were --- at least in the mind's eye.
"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked . . . It works the same way in any country."
Of course. This has been part of the political/military playbook for eons. Twenty-five years ago, Barry Glassner wrote a book, "The Culture of Fear." If you haven't read it yet, please do.
I usually don't like going to MLB games anymore, for several reasons, but if White Sox-Tigers on the 29th is a must-win for the Tigers to earn a wild card slot, and a must-lose for the Sox to set the the record, I'll be there.
Btw --- of local (and presumably, very local, interest). As you may have noticed, the Evil Empire is trying to hold off the Orioles for the AL East title and the E.E. will host Baltimore for three games next week. The O's lead the season series 6-4, so the E.E. must sweep that series to clinch the tiebreaker. A sweep (yeah, sure...) and the E.E. wins the AL East pretty much outright and doesn't need the tiebreaker. However, should the O's win just one of those games, they would hold the tiebreaker over the E.E., meaning the O's would be crowned AL East champs if both teams ended the regular season with matching records. So, the surefire division-winning magic number of the final 12 games for the E.E. is 10. Quiz tomorrow.
Orange cat isn't earless, he's a Scottish Fold.
A Taylor Swift endorsement is perhaps more significant in the grand scheme of things, but when the 179-year-old SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN makes one as well (and as only its second), it certainly caught my attention.
Which candidate did SciAm endorse?
Harris 2024 and Biden in 2020.
If they make Bridge the official card game of the election; I bid NO TRUMP.
After the first time I wrote "Fairhope Pubic Library" (I was on the board of the Friends of the Library and creating brochures, sending membership letters, etc.), I added "pubic" to the exclusion list in Word (which will mark a word as misspelled even though it isn't). Haven't had an accident since.
First Rush then FOX got them scared. Before he even began his descent on that escalator in 2015, Trump had inherited a flock of already trembling sheep.
Trump didn't read anything but I am sure a classmate or employee interpreted it for him, like a bedtime story. He said he had Mein Kampf on his nightstand - I would suspect it wasn't the book version, but the book on tape version.
Line 3 of Sean's limerick is, unfortunately, one syllable too long.
Scratch vs vomit: you win
Sam, My Lovely Wife used to have a habit -- I called it her hobby -- of cutting too close on right turns in parking garages, resulting in collisions with bollards. This hobb...errr.....habit persisted through three vehicles and two husbands. Thankfully, she hasn't hit a parking garage bollard in about 15 years. However, the central locking mechanism on the car hasn't been the same since the door panel was replaced.
Has anybody tried vomiting on it?
Hmmmmm....if it happens again we might have to give it a try. With the proviso that the denter must also be the barfer.
Seems only fair. Unless you don’t mind turning flu season into car repair season.
Given its recent repair bills, I think the car doesn't give a shit what season it is.
True, AND a good rationale for pelting it with vomit.
congealed, ossified vomit
Almost as aesthetically pleasing as the stream of dried tobacco juice down the driver's side of pickup trucks: the Redneck Racing Stripe.
I wonder if that would fill in the scratches, like a poor (drunk) man’s bondo. But it’s the driver side door anyway, and so not worth the DUI it’d take to apply.
DUI DIY
No. However, the stomach acid might etch the scratches, making for it easier for a primer coat to adhere. A big patch of red primer on a car serves as a great warning to other drivers that the driver doesn't care about their car.
This is the way I feel about the value of celebrity endorsements.
https://youtu.be/YHDVvKlKLe4?si=YkOtpWpgsCf1TVXV
I wrote in last week about our car sending messages to check the backseat. It is a Toyota Prius Prime. I slightly misstated, though. It sends messages to the Toyota app. If you have the app on your phone, you get the messages on your phone; but it doesn't directly send messages to the phone.
About the draft felt after removing the coat at the interview, are we talking half-slip, panties or commando?
Re: Linen skirts: A friend of mine ordered fried chicken on a first date, and had to wipe the grease off her hands frequently. It wasn't until she stood up that she discovered that the napkin in her lap had fallen off early on, and she had been wiping her hands on her linen skirt.
The "Richard Hatch-to-Trump" through line is amusing, but a bit too facile. The Hermann Göring comments are perhaps closer to why even non-political, common Germans supported the Nazis, but not entirely. The far too easily accepted and motivating delusion --- and to some extent understandable in the disastrous aftermath of WWI for Germany --- was victimhood. The Germans were ripe to need someone(s) on which to blame their suffering. The mass of the population was hardly likely to blame this on themselves or the leaders they supported who sent them disastrously into the "war to end all wars" --- so it had to be "others" who were to blame. Then along comes the Austrian house painter with helpful suggestions for those "others" --- Jews and communists, for example ---within easy reach: "others" obviously masquerading as Germans, who although they were born there, lived their entire lives there, and may even have shed blood for the Vaterland, were not really Germans and moreover were sinister influences causing the suffering and if allowed to go unpunished, would continue it. The very same phenomenon exists here, I suggest, but with a cold war and to a large extent --- although not entirely discounting the possibility of a legitimate grievance or two --- with the same need for scapegoats for what are viewed as reparations and other losses being extracted by a liberal enemy for the way things were --- at least in the mind's eye.
That the word scapegoat exists at all is for a very good reason.
I left LEV 16:10 on my whiteboard when I got cut from my last contract after the customer said they wanted to go in a different direction.
Wow. The worst I ever did was print my resignation letter in comic sans.
I also put “Rule 91” on the board.
If you’re a fan of NCIS, you know Gibbs named his boat after his Rule 91.
“When you decide to walk away, never look back.”
"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked . . . It works the same way in any country."
Of course. This has been part of the political/military playbook for eons. Twenty-five years ago, Barry Glassner wrote a book, "The Culture of Fear." If you haven't read it yet, please do.
Ended it a bit early today, no?
it always goes 48-68 minutes, depending on question flow.
I usually don't like going to MLB games anymore, for several reasons, but if White Sox-Tigers on the 29th is a must-win for the Tigers to earn a wild card slot, and a must-lose for the Sox to set the the record, I'll be there.
I am re-thinking the whole thing. We might be on the wrong side of glory.
Ha. Do you live in Detroit?
Btw --- of local (and presumably, very local, interest). As you may have noticed, the Evil Empire is trying to hold off the Orioles for the AL East title and the E.E. will host Baltimore for three games next week. The O's lead the season series 6-4, so the E.E. must sweep that series to clinch the tiebreaker. A sweep (yeah, sure...) and the E.E. wins the AL East pretty much outright and doesn't need the tiebreaker. However, should the O's win just one of those games, they would hold the tiebreaker over the E.E., meaning the O's would be crowned AL East champs if both teams ended the regular season with matching records. So, the surefire division-winning magic number of the final 12 games for the E.E. is 10. Quiz tomorrow.
The next few series will be a tough trial for the O's. And when they get to the Bronx for the E.E. series, here come the Judge.