Chris Riddle

Watching Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Face the Nation this morning comes across like the Morrie's Wigs commercial from Goodfellas.

I'm glad to have this kid around when the chips are down. Maybe consider kicking a few bucks your local station's way in honor of all those snarky kids who, thanks in part to public radio, have a healthy sense of gallows humor at way too early of an age.

After threatening to eat the rest of their bag of candy, my teenager just sassed me with, "you and what funding?"
Cold-hearted smart ass — I've never been prouder
Public Radio Dad Life

Me this morning after adding the rescission package to the stack of bullshit piling up in my personal life since January.

Maybe unrelated, but there are ICE raids rattling my neighborhood today, and the crew doing gutters across the street has been replaced by 3 white guys who seem to be learning on the job. A sure bet is that one of them will fall off the roof while my OSHA 30 card bursts into flames in my wallet.

We're on our way to the Tariff Showcase Showdown

With the amount of copyright infringement being committed by the White House Office of Digital Strategy, it's going to be a little tricky pressing China on intellectual property issues with a straight face.

Trump Pledges 50% Tariffs Against Brazil, Citing ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Bolsonaro

I guess paying 50% more for cachaça and Beetle parts because a president feels that his buddy has been treated so unfairly is better than getting bogged down in a war because someone plotted to kill a different president's daddy

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Comey Tracked by Secret Service After Post Critical of Trump

I know some folks don't know the difference between 86 and 1-87, but it's not really about that, is it?

The world is going to end when Stephen Miller's kids start throwing a prothesis e around the house.
"Papa, can we go to /e/Starbucks?" "May I please have a /e/Sprite?"

Happy Canada Day to my friends and family in or from the True North, strong and free.

You have to be tricky when you kill them, or they'll come back like the hydra.

I quit a 2-pack-a-day habit about 18-years ago, and there's not a day that goes by where I don't miss them. I think I just got a lot better at keeping myself in check.
My afterlife is going to be me able to smoke as much as I want, with none of the negatives.
Hang tough out there.

With all of these people being labeled as Communists lately, Communist Party USA must be wondering where all those member dues are. What do you say, @communistsusa.bsky.social, do you think the checks are in the mail?

Keep on rocking! The condensed snark I put into slugs is my therapy.

After decades of secretly reading Janes Defense Weekly, cheers to all the folks coming out of the woodwork to share their expertise on these latest happenings.
Good on ya'

The powers that be are definitely making a lot of Gen X folks nervous. More so for this one, with a 15-year-old and knowledge of the human cost from being tied up in the sandbox for decades.

And to the giddy Book of Revelation champions out there today: may you eternally stay right where you are.

Happy West Virginia Day from the Gem City

I sincerely worry that too many End Times folks are in influential positions that could edge their dreams moving closer to reality.

With a guy in charge who seems to make a lot of decisions based on an '80s and '90s worldview, I'm maybe just a little nervous these days.

Y'all say a prayer for George Soros's wealth after he pays all those protestors for showing up yesterday. That said, the postage paid for sending out all those checks will surely keep USPS above water for at least a few more months.

To Catch a Smuggler has become my hotel TV guilty pleasure.

Protect My Public Media Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.

The House narrowly approved legislation to claw back funding for public media outlets across the USA.
If you value the array of services available on NPR, PBS, & your local station, the time is now to make your voice heard.
Find out how to be a zero-hour hero at protectmypublicmedia.org.

House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.

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I'm silently enraged while sitting on the top deck of a Chicago hop on hop off bus. I'm going to continue enjoying my family vacation, but there's a spot along the River Walk I might spit into the river later today.

FFS

Happy No-No Day to all who celebrate!

A leak from a storage tank containing 50,000 gallons of nitric acid in the Vinton County village of Zaleski has led officials to ask residents to evacuate the surrounding area.
WOUB will have updates throughout the afternoon on the radio, our website, and this evening at 6:30 on WOUB-TV's Newswatch.

the lie doctor determined you were telling the truth on tv ALT: the lie doctor determined you were telling the truth on tv

My summertime guilty pleasure has traditionally been watching drama unfold in one-hour increments on late-afternoon TV, but this summer, it looks like it's going to be on Twitter. There, and in the courts.

After going decades without, I'm back in a town that offers Speed Racer OTA at 1-in-the-morning.