*amongst

Bootlickers is good too. Although maybe lickspittles would have been even better.

Almost any two syllable noun with the emphasis on the first syllable, I’d say: Pothook toothbrush airstrip knickknack needle cheesesteak sandwich
Maybe not genius, except ironically, which isn’t exactly the same thing

Maybe a standing offer to PR of statehood or independence, with a 30-year return period if they don’t like the results.

Literally, no.
Although Nyc should still embrace “Red Apple”

I dunno; “Red Apple” is pretty good imho.

Ginger striped cat with white chest and paws lying on a bed with his front paws hanging over the edge and looking adorable

I think my housemate’s cat is that one’s brother…

I’d argue we’d do better to replace EBT with cash payments.

Pre-pandemic it was much less. 10 or maybe 5 a month.

100 a MONTH !

OK, but can they not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but also automatically synchronize cardinal grammeters?

Dry your tears and read a quotation from Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage:

“The OED shows that the earlier sense of *disinterested* is the simple negative of *uninterested*; it is dated before 1612 …”

A little-appreciated benefit of going back to paper straws is that it is again possible to make whistles from them. I had the pleasure of demonstrating this almost-lost knowledge to some young persons at a farmer’s market this morning and I have high hopes they will pass it on in turn.

If the Dems take the House next year they should elect her Speaker and refuse to seat him. And read back all his lies when he complains about it.

Doesn’t know and doesn’t care.

I fantasize about a democratic federal government concluding “that is not a republican form of government as guaranteed by the constitution”, and enforcing fair districts in a state election.

Several decades, I’d say.

Also treat Nazis that way.

I’d guess because they have nothing else to feel good about.

Begging the question is a stupid expression that should be retired from the language.

Delightfully insane!

As a Californian that’s flattering but there are other great states. Portland has one of the best used bookstores on the Best Coast, if not the country.

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Nero may not have been an especially good emperor but he was an immensely better person than Trump. Look him up.

I’ll be happy if Dem consultants can learn that.

Disingenuous squalid and dishonorable sounds like a new hat for @kenwhite.bsky.social

Strong disagreement here. Gas use per distance traveled is more intuitive (smaller numbers mean less gas used) and mentally easier to use (to get gas used for a trip you multiply two numbers instead of dividing)
Also, golf scores should be given as holes per 10 strokes.
I am not a crank.

One of my pet peeves is people saying the US uses Imperial units. NO!
The US uses US customary units!
They are NOT the same!

I suspect way too many local police even in blue states approve of this kind of thing

Good choice on the steam, as you know electricity will set up counter rotating ether vortices that spoil the thrust from the screw.