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I like to think of it as lowering an impossibly high bar set by my dad. "Kids, you can stroll across the bar I've set for you."

I understand why NPR interviewed retired Vice-Admiral Harward. He grew up in Iran, still has connections, was part of his professional life. But he did give a kind of "we'll be treated as liberators" line that sucked nuanced analysis out at the end. Just marking because we saw the pattern from Bush2

I once got stranded by a fire on a runway in Toronto and was sent to a frontage-road hotel by the airline. There was somehow a gathering there and it was epic furry.

And to have the whole thing announced by a guy in a white baseball cap with the big USA in front, also not important, but so fucking crass; just infuriating.

My now-deceased very Christian mother from rural Georgia during his first term over the phone: "can't someone take him out?"

"Mom. Chill."

I assume that Taiwan has the ability to inflict real damage on densely populated coast (no idea about PRC's missile defense systems). Potential nightmare trying to evacuate.

But she didn't pronounce the 'r' in surprise even though she said it.

I want to go on the record that she, in fact, said "surprise me" and not "suprise me."

After a long week for both of us I suggested we go out for dinner tonight. My wife usually declines for budgetary reasons, but she was thrilled. "Where would you like to go?" "Suprise me." So I found a relatively new and highly rated Afghani restaurant. It was great! Rumi Kabob House in Manch, NH.

Sweet Georgia O'Keefe

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: to have bootlickers hide evidence, fail to investigate, and otherwise obfuscate on one's behalf

It's just not the same:

"Lay down your arms--
Warfighter of love."

I think it was Lee Kwan Yew who said something like "allowing Japan to remilitarize would be like giving a liquor bon-bon to an alcoholic." Hyperbole, sure, but the sentiment is understandable.

Also, there's this assumption that folks moving here from MA are liberals (some are, I'm sure). But I think we get a large percent of libertarian tax refugees, too (not necessarily FSP). Anyway, I've only been here 15 years, but the weird has really accelerated recently.

Gonna do a Kalshi on whether more or less than half of the students in my Friday afternoon before spring break class shows up.

Reading the article it's good to see that he may not be finding redemption completely. Some major US universities won't be involved in the initiative if Mr. Ito is involved and there's at least a little push back in Japan itself. PM Takaichi seems happy to look the other way, though.

AI will do those tedious tasks for you so that you have more time to sleep under newspapers on a park bench.

Rice-field art in Shohei Ohtani's hometown in Iwate Prefecture from 2025. Shows Shohei in Dodgers Blue (dark) uniform watching a long hit with his dog to the right of him watching as well.

Related to the mural, this is a photo I took of rice-field art in Ōtani's hometown in August 2025.

The same guys who couldn't be bothered to attend Lex Wexner's deposition in Ohio w/ Dem colleagues?

West side of Manchester, NH, too.

As my dad used to say "it's a crap shoot."

Yep. What he and others of his ilk think of as "woke" is really critical thinking. He shouldn't be surprised when those he considered friends on the right display a lack of these skills.

It would give my wife diarrhea for a month, but I'd love to make this for her.

Don't make me like him.

Pulitzer.

"And you know what? Fuck it, the 250' arch I proposed? Now 300'."

Sending messages that really don't need sending at this point.

Did she bring her game face?

It's like they've all got a very specific hypno kink.