SwingingTheLamp

It’s the Holy Roman Empire all over again! And, today, NATO includes countries which do not border the North Atlantic, including several which are entirely landlocked. Or, my favorite, the Big 10 Conference in the NCAA has a logo that looks like the number 16, and has 18 members.

I’ll be motivated to do it tomorrow.

I can change her.

I can quit any time I want.

One more lane will fix traffic.

Having a baby will strengthen our relationship.

Can’t fool me, I saw that post about re-charging your cat from a plasma globe…

So then why do we have the idiom, “dead cat bounce”? Seems this would only work until the cat dies. (Entropy is a bastard.)

Oh, wow, there’s a deep cut! Love it.

Good. Honestly, I’m not surprised, given the way the wind is blowing, and to give props, Maria Lazar struck me as more of an old-school Republican, not a batshit MAGA that’d fire up the base.

U.S. government policy has not even closely reflected the will of the people since 1980, at the latest. Instead, the Overton Window kept moving right, and ever-more neoliberal, until we got to a point at which our only choices were between a grifter with populist energy, and a candidate offering a clearance-bin version of the “HOPE” that turned out to be more neoliberal ratfucking back when an effective salesman had pitched it to us.

And, no surprise, tons of people checked out of a political process which offered no meaningful response to their day-to-day life of getting economically ratfucked, because it just drained their energy for no discernable benefit.

So… you asked.

Our demented puppet President has powerful people propping him up. Would be mighty helpful if Germans did something about Thiel, and South Africans did something about Musk. Australians, you good with handling Murdoch? Okay, let’s go.

I used to date a woman who’s a month older than me. She used to joke about robbing the cradle. Too bad I’m not as clever as the Futurama writers, or I would’ve insisted instead that I was robbing the grave.

Don’t forget about their emotional support vehicles, for which they need cheap oil.

At least it’s better than when they cast Paul Bettany as Maturin in that movie opposite Russell Crowe. He’s not even a turtle, he just studied them.

Cars.

(And by “logical” I mean the thing that overwhelmingly poses the greatest danger to my well-being.)

It ran an article like that years ago.

“You’re fighting back against out aggression? Hey, no fair!”

Not wolves in Pennsylvania. Coyotes, almost certainly.

The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)

Yup, I’m just amused by the autocomplete typos from a screen keyboard in a comment about the utility of screen keyboards.

It’s really not much is a problem when we ask have touch keyboard in our pockets

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Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.

I’d be happy, too, if I didn’t have to wear pants.