Classy Warfare

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

I do! At least when I can get the chance. I usually go freshwater bass fishing but I’ve got a trip to the beach coming up so my brothers and I are gearing up for a good couple days of surf fishing

Today’s diversion from the ongoing crises is ordering tackle for my surf rod

Paging @pacificwatershrew.bsky.social

Here’s the thing, man. I don’t wanna be Rich. I wanna just be comfortable enough that I can do the stuff I wanna do, set my kids up for the future, and retire young enough to actually enjoy it, ideally working a job where I’m at least not making the world worse

That’s because physical courage is simple, you either succeed and become a Big Damn Hero or you die and don’t have to deal with any of the fallout

I truly cannot convey the magnitude of naivete of the US Democratic Party

The flip side of this is your average customer service rep is not ready for the NATO phonetic alphabet

Hundreds of people all trying not to breathe on each other but positively vibrating with excitement and relief and joy that maybe we'd get through it

So I had to enter a lottery to get my covid shot in the first place, when I found out my number was called I ran out of my work and drove to the county college where the National Guard had set up a vaccination center. Everyone in line was super excited and it felt like the beginning of the end

God, that's even dumber, that makes me so happy

I'm not going to say this makes me happy but it definitely tickles

My mom worked in the Covid ward at her hospital and apparently almost lost her job when she tore into one of those doctors. The only reason she didn't get fired (allegedly) was she's the most senior nurse in her hospital and helped train most of the doctors on staff

It's a tie for me between the US strategic cheese reserve caves and fettucine alfredo being named after a chef in the 60s

I’m really trying but it’s hard when I can point at the choices Young Me made and say, “See where we are now? This is all your fault.”

I just kinda laid out the timeline of the last 15 years and realized for 14 of them I’ve been running at full speed and never had a chance to breathe so I missed out on a lot of experiences and opportunities

Man, I just had a realization on the drive back from getting the kids and it feels real real Not Good

Good god my arms are hairy

Not specifically Watership Down but yes

A black-ink tattoo of a wild-eyed hare

Look what I got today!

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

I WAS JUST SAYING THAT like the Philly city connect uniforms aren’t my favorite either but the Rangers uniforms look like traaaash

Ten years ago if you told me I'd peak as a pretty okay SSG, I wouldn't have believed you but hindsight being what it is, well...

You know that scene in Black Hawk Down when the Rangers are trapped in the city at night and it's just "welp, good luck, try not to die before daylight when CAS can fly again"?

That's kinda what it feels like when I'm waiting for an important email and it hits 17:00 and I haven't gotten it yet

Very easy slam dunk issue for Dems that will be ignored because their consultants are scared of trans athlete polling.

These are the actions of a man who's had some very tough but productive conversations with the Dudes with Guns in his state

They were at Warped Tour in DC this year and I made all my friends come with me so I could scream-sing Pool Party

Is there some reason why my property tax bill is expressed in “$ of tax per $100 of assessed value” instead of just a percentage of assessed value, or is this just a holdover from before indoor plumbing

I imagine being able to let the video run while the transcription software records and then proofreading it later still takes less time and effort than watching the video and doing the direct transcription manually