A Self-Respecting Fish

I used to quote this cartoon when I was doing boat tours, although I misremembered the punchline as "tries to finish the job." I half convinced myself I imagined it.

It's not exactly the same thing, but it reminds me of that comic of yours about the old guy who had deep, set opinions on how green beans should be cooked.

Youth's an intellectual adventure where you're encountering alternate ideas for the first time. They might be weird and offputting, but there's an element of excitement. By the time you're our age, your opinions have cemented enough that you just say things are gross.

I mean, I don't even live in Chicago and I'm emotionally invested in this.

3. They name all six plows Abolish ICE. Or maybe five and one spot for Svencoolie.

Deadline to Vote in Chicago’s Snowplow Naming Contest is Saturday; Will ‘Abolish ICE’ Win After Leading Nominations? “Abolish ICE” is now one of 25 finalists that Chicagoans can vote for through Saturday, with the top six vote-getters winning the honor of renaming one snowplow in each of Chicago’s six snow districts...

Two options:
1. Abolish ICE is named a winner.
2. They pull a Boaty McBoatface wussout* and quietly cancel next year's contest.

*The Brits named the boat the RRS Sir David Attenborough and tried to get away with calling one of the submarine drones Boaty McBoatface but we know better, England!

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat . ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .

I mean, most tunnel ideas are below.

I think devoting a full day of class to the tunnels would be fascinating. Why the myth started, why it stuck, what did different variations say. But if you've got to get to other stuff, just say "You're thinking of service entrances" and send 'em a YouTube link to Geraldo making an ass of himself.

Watch the Geraldo thing in class? I say downgrade unless you have the time to demolish it fully and correctly. Chinatowns were also said to be full of tunnels (also bullshit), but that fed into racial stereotypes of subhuman mole people in opium dens. White guy gets a tunnel myth and he's a genius.

I always liked Don McLean's response when asked about its meaning: "It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to."

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

YouTube video by DonovanVEVO Donovan - Season of the Witch (Official Audio)

Teaser for my next freelance story, but also why isn't Donovan bigger? There's a hell of a lot more to his reperoire than Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU35...

I'm going to ride one like I'm car surfing in Teen Wolf.

Names are being withheld pending notification of the programmers.

Ah, so that's what the Space Invaders look like from the front.

Are you a defund?

So even Trump didn't watch that Kid Rock thing.

Oh no, he's going to cancel the penny again!

Macbeth: SHIT

I just realized I should have gone with "Batman? Yeah, it's Gordon. We found where Dent is hiding."

Does it flip a coin to decide how it fights Batman?

I'm also amazed there was fake news more than a century before the first newspaper. Woke town criers?

Spent too much of this week joining online arguments about voting guides and endorsements. That was dumb and I regret every moment of it. Every argument about local endorsements boils down to someone saying "Please tell me how to vote but not like that."

But personally, I find this guide has more transparency than many of the more standard ones. The bar associations' process for judges ranges from opaque to a complete black box and the Trib is... President Gary Johnson. Injustice Watch is good for judicial stuff, but that's about it. Grim field.

That's an insightful point that you're bringing to this conversation, not the original poster. His only point seemed snark.

Ha, like the ICE guy who got hit with a sandwich and testified it was at "point blank." The right loves the scary military terms.

Can an intelligence tactic be military grade? "Military grade" is just a standard for physical stuff the military buys, right? Like saying "These socks are good enough to sell to the Army."

I don't live in the district, so it's not my place to weigh in. My point was more about how cherry-picking that one sentence about Kat A. from a 90-page, single-spaced document wasn't representative of the guide as a whole.