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I just use my Rival steamer even though rice is not technically my rival.

(It occurs to me that Lieutenant Blouse may be an example of what might happen when such officers go to the front.)

SHADOWMANCY!

At one point he does concede the value of unglamorous staff officers “who can reason and make lists and arrange provisions and baggage wagons and, in general, have an attention span greater than a duck.”

The last time I rented a car I reserved a compact but when I got to the desk all they had were pickups and SUVs.

The clerk said those are all that car rental companies buy anymore. They already have a shortage of normal cars; I think it'll be *really* unpopular once they're gone entirely.

Kathy Henderson has announced her campaign for mayor of DC. This is not a drill.

(For those of you who do not follow local DC politics, imagine Nancy Mace as a perennial candidate for power-mad HOA president, only without the professionalism, ethical standards, and financial probity.)

RIP to the first political candidate I ever voted for.

(1988 Indiana presidential primary.)

I’m proud of our common inheritance of ordered liberty and our heritage of killing Nazis when necessary.

Food is great. It
Unites us as a
Country of diverse tastes.
Kind of a true equalizing force

Isn't it neat to
Come together
Enjoying our memories?

From some of Fred's earlier blog posts, it might be intended to parallel a problem faced by mobile home owners who don't own the land their homes are on (and whose homes aren't exactly "mobile," despite the name).

The unbanked might conceivably not know what a 1099 is. A W2, though...

But thanks to Lady Gaga's appearance at the Super Bowl we Italians have returned to the list! Go us!

Probably because he wore his sunglasses at night.

Or Lloyd Figg?

For the typical Bluesky audience, Mayor (later Secretary) Pete.

(In other communities it might be Traci Paige Johnson, my 10th period biology classmate and creator of Blues Clues.)

I'm putting five bucks on "cryptocurrency lobbyist," btw.

Dad shot daughter after 'arguing about Donald Trump' Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

Today's Republican Party in a nutshell: it's perfectly fine to kill your daughter for not liking Donald Trump. You shouldn't even feel bad about it, especially if you have two more daughters at home anyway.

ca.news.yahoo.com/woman-shot-d...

My savesies are "I dug a path several feet long through barriers of ice and snow over two feet deep in places so people could safely use the crosswalk, so don't plow it over just so motorists can have yet *another* travel lane."

(My savesies are not respected.)

Post a banger that isn't in English, you say? So many to choose from! Let's go with...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8U_...

"Good Bunny" is in fact the name of Bad Bunny's charitable foundation.

(Though it usually goes by "Buen Conejo" as opposed to Bad Bunny himself, who generally uses the English form of his stage name even in Spanish.)

My understanding is he goes by "Bad Bunny," even in Spanish. (The Spanish-language press seems to concur.)

Jason Myers for MVP.

In your heart, you know it’s right.

A touchdown? Can they *do* that?

/2 I’m being told meth labs typically deliver and do not have on-premises seating

Watching the game from a neighborhood bar. When the ICE propaganda came on, the bar fell silent. Then someone shouted out “fuck that shit!”

Applause.

Axios figured it out? Axios? This is a real low point.

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it depends on the state. Georgia famously has a blanket prohibition, but most states with a restriction on handing out water only prohibit people affiliated with a campaign from doing so.

Odds that he asked AI about malpractice insurance and found out it was optional?

Two lines spring to mind for me:

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

(I think they’re quite good lines, but with his prodigious output two lines isn’t many.)

As a college prank, my father once covered an oversized kitchen sponge with paste "frosting" for a college classmate's birthday.

He felt really bad about it when the classmate's mother showed up unannounced and decided to have "a little taste" of the cake in her son's dorm room.