Matthew Kordes

History will look back on this era to discuss the descent of our government into moral depravity. Somewhere in a future textbook will be a photo of the flattened east wing and the Major Events timeline of the whitehouse .gov website that starts in defense but ends up in a very different place.

If he were a king, there would be no house of representatives in session. Oh wait...

Pie chart of USC undergraduate demographics from collegefactual.com that lists White as 29.1%, International as 25.4%, Asian as 16.9% and Hispanic as 14.5%. The remained of the slice percentages are not given but they are listed as Black or African American, Unknown, Multi-Ethnic and Other.

On a personal note, I grew up in a super white midwest suburb. Going to USC was eye opening in all the right ways. This was everything I needed to understand the world better:

USC rejects Trump's compact - Daily Trojan Interim President Beong-Soo Kim said the compact would limit free inquiry.

dailytrojan.com/2025/10/17/u...

As an alumni I couldn’t be prouder.

The best way to describe money: collective delusion. As long as everyone accepts that is has value, it does. The moment they stop believing, it doesn't.

How is "Set a high moral standard for the presidency" not zero? Grifting every day. Posting AI meme pics like a teen bully constantly. Tossing insults routinely at every official who doesn't fully agree with him. A convicted felon, the first ever to hold the office. Who thinks this is a high bar?

I mean my first thought at seeing the 2028 Trump hats in the oval office this week were that the correct move would have been to reach for a drink, nab the hat, and then to sit on it when you settled back into your seat. Just to clear the sight line and all.

My brother had a very successful straightening through them and was considered an extreme case in the beginning. But it worked wonders for him.

Oh the stories that are going to come out of this…

Ah yes the dumbest UN speech since the last one Trump gave. The Simpsons “so far” meme very much applies.

Why oh why is he such a moron?

YouTube video by M D FFXIV OST Tsukuyomi Theme

But all time for me is actually this battle from FFXIV, it's at the end of the Stormblood expansion and it weaves many of the recurring themes of the last 40 hours of story gameplay into one masterpiece.

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

YouTube video by Sounds of Atelier Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk OST - Twilight Hour - MARIA

When you finally find her, you get a boss fight with the fully orchestrated version. And in a game where you can absolutely finish it and NOT save your sister, you kind of feel like you have to win the fight with this playing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bAx...

YouTube video by Sounds of Atelier Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk OST - Guidance

And I've posted this elsewhere, but my favorite video game track of the year came from playing a portable port to the PC for the Atelier series. Throughout the game you're hunting for your sister and with each clue you hear this track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcGC... but then...

Hard to argue with any track in Expedition 33 as someone's best. The whole soundtrack is incredible.

True of Brazil as well, so H will work for the same reason. I'd say Brazil is slightly better about not localizing as much as we do too, I might even favor it for that.

Although the Secret Service is rightfully being taken to task about how close randoms got to him on that stunt. He has no respect for the things designed to protect the office if it means a chance to prove his bravado.

Or high on coke.

For that price? Sure. But there is no correlation between those two points Mark. A will never cause B. It's a rather pointless question?

It is definitely lighter. Caputo 00 hasn’t been to hard to find for me.

Loretta Paganini says it has to be Italian 00

An admirable goal. I mean if I learned anything from the lady the most important thing is using not American heavy flour.

Fair enough

I bought the pasta attachment for my kitchen aid after I took the pasta making class. If it’s good enough for the Italian cooking school owner it’s good enough for me.

You always get some good ones though. The only saving grace.

So I've seen the Extra Sweet here in Ohio too. My standard move is to buy one sweet, one unsweet, and then I cut the two together 50/50 using a pitcher pouring 50% sweet back into each container. Not dissimilar to your water cut, but I wouldn't want to lose the tea flavor.

Multiple meetings today at work where we had conflicting information if tariffs are or are not hitting our materials. Confusion is no way to grow a business.

Looks like a dining area at Six Flags or a Cedar Fair amusement park.

HALL Rutherford has a truly spectacular setup.

Cleveland lakeshore picture from the air

It’s always strange when you climb going west from Cleveland to get to Chicago, but it let me get this full downtown photo of the lakeshore.