Dave Ferguson

Supposed to be the Dangerous Dozen, but...

Atlas: kidnapped by Antifa.
Brutus: heard someone whisper "fentanyl."
Caesar: mom's car broke down in Rock Creek Park.
Darryyll: on standby at Court House metro stop.
Æthelred: med leave (dissed by high schooler last week).
Frank: well, you know Frank.

Or maybe those that have wives are afraid that's what will happen.

"Uh...what's in this?"

"You want to make your own casserole? That door leads to the kitchen."

Spokesperson is anonymous so his last six exes don't rat him out.

I take this to mean that the brother-in-law lives at Mar-a-Lago.

Nothing says entitlement more than yet another plutocrat insisting rich people need INCENTIVES to seem to understand anyone who has to figure out whether they can afford a seat upgrade.

Liz Wozniak and Lori Hill were a pleasure to work with and a credit to the profession.

October will see my wife's seventh anniversary as a citizen of Canada.

I think a clear goal, even if it's not realistic, is a starting point for a client who might not be able to otherwise articulate the problem/opportunity/situation.

Our decision was to present the goal (spouse gets permanent resident status, similar to U.S. green card) and have an initial consult to learn the paths (if any)...

Eventually connected with North Star Immigration in Halifax NS, whose site and blog gave us some sense of how they worked.
@nsil.bsky.social

We were contemplating moving from the U.S. to Canada (I'm a dual national; wife is American-born).

Reading about the process online was frustrating; felt like a hall of mirrors with added booby traps where you lose your fees and have to start over...

The only "constituent affairs" number Ken Paxton recognizes is Greg Abbott's.

He's gonna sell Alaska back to Tsar Vladimir.

For bitcoin.

Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list The remote Heard and McDonald Islands haven't been visited by humans in almost a decade.

I didn't know the US even *had* an embassy for Heard Island and the McDonald Islands.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Snyder *did* get fined by Montgomery County, Maryland, which also had restrictions covering removal. I'm sure the $1,000 penalty really hurt Snyder's ego, which on a sensitivity scale of 1 (normal person) to 10 (billionaire) is probably an 8.2.

www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2005/fe...

A special assistant the the Park Service director helped grease the skids. Snyder cut down 130 trees. One estimate was that this added as much as a million dollars to the value of his home.

The office was named by Trump as National Parks Director in 2018.

In 2004, Dan Snyder, who owned the Washington DC NFL team, wanted to cut down some trees to get a better view of the Potomac from his home. The trees were on federally protected land between the home and the C&O Canal...

It will end up colonizing Charon--repeatedly--while insisting that it's really the third W in "Jupiter."

So is urushiol.

Since my car is electric, I only go to this one gas station that has a car wash.

Getting "health products" at a gas station is a lot like buying upscale decor at Lumber 'n Stuff.

If you ever make it to Victoria, you'll have to text me. We got good coffee.

Nobody with croissants like Two if By Sea (are they still in Dartmouth?), but I did get a Paris-Brest pastry here.

-- Cape Breton boy

I don't pick up unless the *name* is already in my phone.

About 1% of the unknown numbers leave a message.

About 90% of those messages are dead air.

The data go to another spa.
You wouldn't know them.

Before 8 this morning, I got two texts inviting me to group chats.

Each went to 19 other phone numbers with the same 3-digit exchange as mine.

YouTube video by Jacques Pépin Foundation How to Separate Eggs

youtu.be/ZXzMMEKCV9E?...

"Good exuberance" (instead of "gold") in the alt text was a typo, but I think I'll just leave it. Too hard to repost and use "patriotic" instead.

Parody of a news photo showing Trump entering the Oval Office through a door featuring half a dozen fake-gold decorations, with more good exuberance around the door casing. In the news photo, a woman is standing just inside the door, which would strike her if it opened any further. The woman's head and upper torso have been replaced by a poorly-edited photo of Joanna, a waitress in the movie Office Space. Joanna has just been reprimanded by her manager for not wearing enough "flair" on her uniform -- the collection of pins and badges that employees at the fictional Chotchkie's restaurant are required to wear.

(true story)
Work Buddy: Want to go to the GPO?
Me: Sure.
WB: I need to get a license application for my CB radio.
[Yeah, okay, this was a while back.]
Me: Can't you just use the radio?
[Unsaid: ...like my 66-year-old dad?]
WB: It's the law!
[The weed he consumed regularly didn't count.]

I spent about six years working at 400 North Capitol Street, a grueling 10-minute walk from where CNN is. It was four minutes closer to get to the GPO publishing office, a thing to do with a work buddy on slow days.

We survived. Probably due to consumption of half-smokes on the way back.

I'm surprised the staffers aren't yet required to wear fake-gold bling as headpieces, or at least carry them around on poles like a Roman legion's aquila.

CNN: 820 First Street NE in DC.

Within 300 feet:
- Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
- National Disability Rights Network
- Howard U. School of Nursing
- US Dept Edu Federal Student Aid
- Carefirst BC/BS...

and the U.S. Border Patrol.