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Sand in your "cajoles" container might be a bit . . . uh, uncomfortable? I've read that an infrared tanning lamp works wonders (cf. bromeopathic therapy recommended by Dr. Carlson).🤣

I have a long story (too long for a Bluesky post) involving my first encounter with this song shortly after it came out. Suffice it to say that between the darkened basement room, bean bag chairs, black lights/posters, and a healthy dose of 2nd hand "smoke", it scared the stuffing out of me.

You could have a second career as a music video maker if you ever decide to ditch academia. This was pretty good.

Happy Halloween to you (and Bunz too).

The Internet Archive is enormously valuable to investigators conducting etymological and quotation research. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive is under enormous pressure from copyright maximalists who are unwilling to recognize its central importance in preserving living history

Hey kids, we've got a bushel of candy left and it's getting late. Come on by; best costume gets a double handful.

Trump Truth Social post showing before|after photos of what he refers to as the "Lincoln Bathroom".

This man is as good an interior designer/decorator as he was casino owner/operator. What a god-awful eyesore.

"My name is Trump, King of Buffoons. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and guffaw."

You nailed it here.🎯

It's going to be a never-ending, likely unresolvable problem because of the way nearly all humans process (or don't process) empirical information from the world around them.

This sounds like a corollary to "No good deed goes unpunished."

TACO is multipurpose.

Sadly, you may be right in a bizarro sense. OTOH, Faust would like a word here.

Gas station scene from the film "Duel" (1971). A red Plymouth Valiant car, driven by a man (Dennis Weaver), is parked beside a pair of gas pumps at a run down gas station located in a desolate part of the Mojave desert. A large sign loudly advertises a snake display, reading "Sally's Snakerama Station".

An older woman named Sally, owner-operator of the gas station+snake display, says to the visitor "Take a look at my snakes if you have time."

Trump, the great orange impresario (and his flying monkey, Grennell) would be much better suited to operating the venomous snakes display at this place rather than the Kennedy Center.

But candy corn helps us alleviate our oversupply of corn syrup!

I avoid Cadillacs because of him.

I am patiently waiting for the day he goes full Garblovian on the world stage and his stooges/handlers can't cover for it.

Just wait, those later teen years are coming and they'll be here sooner than you expect.

This Chilling Recording Reveals Large Bats Catching, Killing and Eating Birds Midflight The data answers an enduring question about the greater noctule bat

This is payback for the bats catching and eating birds (European robin) in mid-flight. Nature is amazing, but it's also sometimes harsh and chilling.
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a man in a tuxedo is applauding in front of a crowd Alt: A man in a tuxedo is applauding in along with a crowd in a theater.

This will get little or no love . . . but it should get just the reverse. (It was just what I needed today.)

Here's to puns!

Mommy told him to do this, didn't she?

If he'd really wanted to push the envelope, he should have said he was the unacknowledged child of Michael Rockefeller, sired out of wedlock, shortly before Michael's disappearance (likely eaten by Asmat cannibals) in New Guinea.

. . . and apparently beyond. I used to kid my Asian-born spouse they had more "cousins", "aunts" and "uncles" than I had hairs on my head. It took me a while to figure out there (usually) wasn't a blood-relation involved; they're were just used as terms of endearment/respect. Kinda cool!

Trump: "I barely know her; a friend introduced us once long ago. She reminded me of my wife Marla."

I know you know you think I know what you said, but the problem is I don't even know if I know what I know.😁

a man wearing a hat and a red shirt says they are who we thought they were ! Alt: a man wearing a hat and a red shirt says they are who we thought they were !

They are who we thought they were. So many of these people would have been right at home running things at Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka.

Very cool.

Now we know what Johnsons claimed "21-hour working days" have consisted of. It takes real work to gin up such bullshit.

Bottom line: His diminished capacity coupled with his basket of psychological pathologies (e.g., the oft-labled "malignant narcissism") means he has no business being in the WH

He now appears to operate at about one standard deviation below norm. The problem is, his mentation is being strongly affected by (likely) dementia onset, long-term Adderall abuse, accumulation of microstrokes(?) & host of other things. So quantifying the current observables could be misleading.

I'm hoping the GOP takes the bait. Jack Smith knows things that would reveal a lot of hideous things about Trump's personal involvement J6 and Mar-a-Lago docs cases well beyond what's in the public record. How much he'll legally be allowed to make public, however, is another matter.

Current Trump or his mostly lifelong baseline?

Somehow, and over the last 25 years or so . . .
Corporate. Media. Has. Become. Right. Coded.