Deputinize America

That’s not even the black box stuff.

It’s Franzia.

Pretextual witch hunts are what the antithesis is.

Judge Juicebox is historically incompetent and churlish In her abuse of criminal process.

I’m old enough to remember a time when having the force multiplier of a strong set of multilateral trade and defense alliances was considered good, and which provided some constraint on reckless and ill considered unilateral action because it required consensus.

Gulf of Tonkin II, Electric Boogaloo.

“How were we to know that you can’t easily penetrate deeply into the territory of a hostile, well-armed power with unforgiving terrain and a populace that hates us? We’d won the air war already - why did they still oppose the incursion?”

Pay Per View. I’d watch the shit out of that.

Brandy…

My favorites were the brand new best friends 4 rows back who, despite my unaided (at the time) hearing impairment could be completely understood by me the entire flight that boarded at 6 am.

I hate hearing those conversations. I just want to sullenly drink my bad coffee.

Oh, so she can hang with the others.

…promo meme, I’m ignoring it. If it’s a link by a legacy journalist to a youtube with hyperbolic pronouncements (Katie Phang), I’m not watching.

Thanks!

Here’s a hint to posters - if you use “We the People” in your post, I’m not going to take you seriously. If you’re a legacy journalist whose primary visual is a huge and uninformative banner with your face (Heather Cox Richardson), I’m not bothering to click it. If you use yellow type in your…

This is why I’m getting my substantive news from the Guardian, Al Jazeera, France Presse, and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Her boss nakedly told her that “we don’t make money unless money gets sold, and you’re denying way too much”.

The idea was to approve trash which would then be bundled up and sold off.

I couldn’t make a wrongful termination case out of it at the time, sadly. The underwriting backstops failed.

Yes and no. This discussion is probably dead, but I’ll share a relevant story. Back in 2007-2008, I’d been contacted by a potential client who worked for an independent underwriting service, approving mortgage loans. She was under huge pressure to approve every application, no matter what.

Is he going to wear that stupid smile to the gallows?

Why has nobody beaten him to death with a baseball bat yet?

Is anybody going to laugh at him for paraphrasing Orwell?

I found out many years ago that I can make money at craps (it took about 45 minutes of watching before I laid down my first chip), but it takes a long time and is too much like work. I cashed out and quit that night and never came back to it since.

And I can’t stand blackjack.

I’m wondering whether his NG majority was something akin to a pity fuck.

The ranks are filled with mediocre O4s….

Were you jerking off when you typed that?

Such a warrior….

Duke was a lot more fun to hate back in the days of Coach K and Allen Grayson….

He definitely needed a lot more peer-based social correction during middle and high school.

I own a "don't you dare pick me up, you heathen human" cat who nonetheless crowds me in bed, crawls into my lap while watching TV, tries to eat off my plate, nuzzles me when I work from home, and is constantly up in my business and face because she's nosy.

I absolutely adore her prickly nature.

What is this “we” shit?

BTW - one of my favorite days ever was me laying out under a techtonically folded cliff at a naturist beach near Xora Sfakion, Crete and reading “1177 BC”. The approachability of your prose brought the region’s history into sharper, better focus for me.

Thank you for that gift.

The Sea People were the dirty fucking hippies of the era, and as always, they were right….