Richard Neill

IF YOU START SAYING NICE THINGS ABOUT DUKE I WILL TOTALLY UNFOLLOW

Now I’m wondering about plural of Lasagna.

No peanut butter, how about this?

The Remarkables and the older Kentuckian. And an Illini.

< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

So…isn’t the point of these tariffs for orange to pressure importers to shovel cash his way till he removes them? Isn’t that how mob protection works?

Newspaper article headline "Trump congratulates Chiefs, but stays silent on Eagles"

As if Eagles fan's needed another reason...

Sure you laughed at me for installing heated Toto toilet seats in North Carolina where you can count yearly subfreezing days on one hand.

Nobody’s laughing today.

Straight up enjoying Ravens-Bills over the air after every streaming app on my 'smart' TV wants me to pay for Paramount+. Really enjoyed the antenna dance to pick up the DTV signal too. OLD SCHOOL RULES.

WOW. Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi's letter to Biden (but, really, to all) is today's required reading: "I have battled for justice, even if it meant there would be none for me."

And, though unnamed, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin get their earned response.

So…Bluesky isn’t available in Turkey, though vpn gets around this easily. What’s up with that?

Brief connection in Istanbul before heading on to Hanoi.

How many Scaramucci's will the Trump/Musk bromance last?

I remember seeing the large and small magellanic clouds just by looking up at night while living in New Zealand. For the many of us who've grown up in light polluted skies seeing the "uncovered" sky is like breathing clean air after living in a smog bowl.

Things are looking up today.