Scott Kennedy

As slogans go it's clearly inferior to the Jimmy Buffett song. As a set of operational objectives, you may want to consider inverting them.

GOP simultaneously claiming immigrants don’t pay taxes while fighting for tax data to target immigrants.

Any season that has too much extreme weather is going to kind of suck, and after the mild summer we had last year I guess we were due. Hopefully we'll get a mid-80's, low humidity summer next year.

The heat index was already in triple digits before 10:30 this morning. Extreme summer weather is every bit as unpleasant as extreme winter weather.

Headline: Why Man United's imperfect pre-season finale opens the door for greater things

White Sox blogger take:

“Officer Rose, 33, had two children, and his wife is pregnant with a third. He was just a few weeks from his first anniversary with the department. He had graduated from training in March and had served in the U.S. Marines...”

Second time we’ve read about pregnant widows in two weeks.

(The Hill) - Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn (R) was arrested for soliciting a teen on Monday, authorities said, hours after he introduced a bill proposing "Trump derangement syndrome" (TDS) as a form of mental illness. Detectives with the Bloomington Police Department had communicated with Eichorn, who was under the assumption he was talking to a 17-year-old female, police said. He arrived Monday to meet the teen in person but was instead met by local officers. He was later booked at the Bloomington Police Department jail and was expected to be transported to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center. A felony charge of soliciting a minor to practice prostitution was pending, authorities said in a statement Tuesday.

they're all like this, aren't they?

[whispers] just like the ghostbusters (hmm)

I would watch this movie, but first I have a question: how come free wine isn't enough to get us in the priesthood any longer?

Oh my god the way the Brewers just beat the Mets...

They say stress eating is bad for you but that's because most people give up before it starts working

I swear every time I go back and watch an '80s or early '90s movie I discover somebody from the Sopranos who I forgot was in it. In this case it's Livia Soprano in The Naked Gun.

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

Tonight TCM has Support Your Local Sheriff, followed by Support Your Local Gunfighter, two lighthearted James Garner movies.

If you liked the movie Maverick that he did in the 90's with Mel Gibson, these have the same energy.

I heard it's Jay Cutler

Ford Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results • Second-quarter revenue reached a record $50.2 billion; incurred a net loss of $36 million as a result of special items • Adjusted EBIT was $2.1 billion, including $0.8 billion of adverse net tariff-related impacts; operating cash flow was $6.3 billion, adjusted free cash flow was $2.8 billion • Company declares a third quarter regular dividend of 15 cents per share • Reinstated full-year 2025 guidance includes adjusted EBIT of $6.5 billion to $7.5 billion, adjusted free cash flow of $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion, capital spending of about $9 billion, and a net tariff-related headwind of about $2 billion DEARBORN, Mich., July 30, 2025 – Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) today announced its second- quarter 2025 financial results.

so ford is operated at a loss last quarter despite record revenues because they took $800m in tariff charges in q2 (when tariffs were lower than now) - and ford is just one company.

this is getting quite bad now.
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Chart showing the % change in the broad trade-weighted USD every year since 1974, YTD as-of August 8 for that year.

Worst year ever for the dollar when measuring through August 8

Bud Billiken is the best smelling parade, the parade route is long as hell, but someone is BBQing on every block.

Prevention is better than cure, except when it comes to the prices you can charge and the profits for your shareholders, in which case prevention is a losers’ racket.

Farthest I've been:

E: Atlantic ocean
W: Pacific ocean
S: Gulf of Mexico
N: about 3500

Once you see in real time Trump's idea to implement something unconstitutional go from incoherent Truth Social post with his cult as its only audience to New York Times article, it's hard to deny the accountability the media has in purveying his fascism & folding without a fight.

How is failing to display static text a coding error?

Screenshot from Casablana. Text: Welcome back to the fight. This time, I know our side will win. - Victor Laszlo

This is an incredible line for 1942.

A map showing the southern tip of Lake Michigan along with portions of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The map shows elevation relative to the surface of Lake Michigan.

Chicago is pancake flat because it rests on what was once the bottom of Lake Michigan (or rather, the proglacial lake that preceded Lake Michigan). The ancient lakeshore is easy to see in this "elevation" map that I made by joining the lake's bathymetric data with a digital elevation model.

Hot take: if you take away the nice clothes and the formal speaking pattern, Rick is a Billy Bob Thornton character. That remake would be sacrilegious, but he would devour that role.

If you want to watch people stand up to Nazis, Casablanca is about to start on TCM.

I was expecting the internet to be funnier on a night when a guy who goes by Big Balls gets concussed by two 15 year old unarmed sweethearts.

Alex Acosta resigned in shame* from the first Trump administration because of the sweetheart deal he cut for Trump's longtime best friend Jeffrey Epstein.

Seems like it might be worth talking to him?

* Yeah, that used to be a thing, even with them!

RESULT: Democrats have defended a state Senate seat in Rhode Island by a margin of 82% to 16%. So that's a victory by 66 percentage points.

Harris had carried this district by 11 percentage points in November. This is the 2nd biggest overperformance for Democrats so far this year.