Jim Evans

Okay, hear me out. Double feature: Ratatoullie and The Menu.

When you’ve lost Greg Abbott, you gotta ask yourself just how far from the pack have you strayed?

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Screenshot of text message thread asking if my wife can get a Mexican flag for our van. Inspired by a Twitter post noting that some liberals are doing so to waste ICE’s time hoping to get pulled over.

Y’all, I’m starting to wonder if my wife might be trying to get rid of me…

(#ObligatoryDisclaimer That’s a joke, y’all. I am quite confident that @drharmony.net loves me.)

Did not expect a callout of my employer like that, but the math checks out.

I am the front runner for the 2028 Democratic nomination for President. Like, seriously, folks, nobody can credibly be considered a “front runner” for that race.

Apropos of nothing, Aldrich Ames died in federal prison today…

Food trucks are just the ice cream man for grown ups. Change my mind.

Hey, Senate Democrats who caved on the shutdown, how’d that “pinky promise, we’ll give you a vote on the subsidies within a few weeks” work out for you?

Was so, so tempted to post one from Gone With The Wind, but that’s way to cliche, and Drumline is a bit too obscure (though my high school’s marching band was tapped to portray the fictional HBCU “Atlanta A&T” marching band in that film).

Post a movie where you are from

Mark my words, Marjorie Taylor Greene is running for President in 2028.

I’m a huge fan of Ray Porter as a narrator. Can’t say enough good things about his work. I’ll plug Brian Troxell here too, but only because he was my college roommate and I’m a supportive fellow.

So, so many time.

Seriously though, Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, all so generous with their time. Joshua Malina, I’d been a fan of even before The West Wing (SportsNight was too good for TV). Man, it’s time for a West Wing rewatch.

Over the years, I’ve met most of the principal cast of The West Wing (though not John Spencer [RIP], and, to my great dismay, Allison Janney). They’ve been uniformly lovely. But my fave was Emily Procter, because of a story that’s too long to chronicle here.

Follow them here on Bluesky too @ppfa.org

Folks, please put the TL;DR section at the start of the thing I’m not going to read because it’s too long.

Besides, you should be doing it anyhow, regardless of your relationship status. Go ahead and help destigmatize visits to PP for reproductive health care.

Do it even if you’re in a committed, long-term, monogamous relationship. Yes, even if you’re a man. Even if you’re married and aren’t seeing someone outside your marriage. Even if you’re celibate. Do it anyway. It lets PP fund other reproductive health care, especially for those who can’t afford it.

People occasionally ask me what they can do for resistance. Here’s a small thing: Go to your local Planned Parenthood and get an STI (sexually transmitted infection) panel. Let them charge you (or bill your insurance) for it, if you can afford it.

I’m just pleased that the author used the correct, but often misstated, “champing at the bit.”

True confession time. Going back to the Maguire novel, in my head, I read the character name Elphaba as pronounced “el-FAH-bah” as opposed to the apparently correct “EL-fuh-buh”.

Able Archer ‘83 was arguably the closest we’ve ever been to nuclear war (yes, even closer than the Cuban Missile Crisis).

In today’s heightened tensions in international relations, particularly between the U.S. and Russia, Hollywood is missing a huge opportunity to make a cautionary tale via a big budget drama about Able Archer ‘83.

I don’t make the rules…

Some states do, in fact, require a special election to fill the vacancy, but it is not constitutionally required, and Florida is not one of them.

This is consistent with laws in some other states as well, and is consistent with the 17th Amendment, which authorized direct election of Senators by a state’s electorate (prior to that amendment, Senators were elected by state legislatures.

Florida law gives the Governor the ability to appoint a replacement to serve until the next general election, which would be November 2026, at which point, the winner would serve the remaining two years of Rubio’s term. Rubio was reelected in 2022 to a six year term, to face reelection in 2028.

For reference, I’m old enough to have watched Nixon’s Oval Office address announcing his resignation, but not old enough to have understood the context.