Who could have guessed that commoditizing hatred would produce uncivil discourse, and a cult of personality?!?!

Spot on. I could not buy a new truck today - assuming I could afford one. They are all less trucks than they are are microvans with a tiny porch out back.

Our company is one of the lucky ones. We (a small software company) stayed remote, and are doing fine. Our office is due to close up in the Fall, when our lease expires. Our immediate supervisor has even said on more than one virtual call that he didn’t think it would work, but we have stayed productive despite his…

Nice. My wife used to use this same hack, but would also add left over bits of chicken and/or random steamed veggies from the fridge. Add a can of cream of mushroom and you can stretch this to two pies. Eat one now, fridge/freeze one for later.

I cook nice, fatty chicken thighs in a frying pan. Plenty of salt, pepper, garlic. When they’re done, collect all the drippings, heat the pan, pour in a bit of water to get the fond out of the bottom, and add to the drippings. Set the drippings in the fridge so the fat sets and I can remove it. And I keep my noodles…

Ah yes. The good old State’s Rights horse-pucky. And the state’s rights to do what exactly? Oh right, deny the rights of whatever undesirables they’ve been bred to hate most in the moment. I mean if a right is a right, why precisely do you need to have a separate state law about it? I suppose you could write a state…

Imagine how far up one’s hindquarters one’s head must be to lecture a deeply accomplished black woman about race in America. And to do so while being a supremely privileged male who has had more advantages than most humans who have ever existed. Good people, I give to you senator Ted Cruz! Good work Ted! Now how’s…

I think the market being up or down doesn’t really matter too much. We bought our previous house in 2007, right before the collapse. We sold 18 months ago for more than we thought we’d get and now we’re in a smaller house and paying just a bit less than the last place. The timing of the market didn’t really hurt us or…

I do wish we would go full on metric. When I was in middle-school, the education system in the States started a program of teach the kids how to convert from US to metric. We should have simply switched over. I don’t need to know that the next town over is X kilometers away when the sign says it’s Y miles away. Just…

The pitch of their rhetoric has gone full bore fascist/communist. “The Freedom Convoy” That takes away economic freedom and freedom of movement. Just the like “The People’s Republic of China.” Ain’t really for the People and sure as hell isn’t a republic. “Pravda” (Russian for truth). Good luck finding any between its…

Every team associated with a car’s design should send one rep to a bootcamp week for that vehicle. They will be made to talk someone from another team through a fix/swap or service of their most serviced components. They are not allowed to touch the parts, or tools, only to give instructions to the person doing the…

A well made point. And its spirit also enforces the notion of a civilian military rather than one controlled and paid for out of the pockets of the politically powerful. The people get the bill for the military so they ultimately answer to all of us.

Imagine the mental exercise required to think that a property owner has sovereign authority over the water and air that pass through their land. About like a passenger on a cruise ship deciding to drill a hole in the floor of their cabin. Sure we’re all going to die when the ship sinks, but I paid for the cabin, it’s…

You’re missing a verb “..., the unyielding pyre within Darvaza (which means “gateway” or “doorway”) flickers and hisses as the darkness above.”

Well he read it on the internet.  What could possibly go wrong?

9. Insurrectionists (Loud, unruly and not willing to admit having been in there despite Facebook posts to the contrary.)

First stop?  VEGAS BABY!!  I mean, they’re already in head to tail, gold lame jumpsuits.

You know, my wife and I were both journalists. I was for only a couple of years and she was at it for more than 30. I can tell you without the slightest hesitation that if we had found a story - and evidence - that 5,000 plus dead people voted anywhere we (and any other reporter I knew) would have done anything just sh…

Nice point about the use of “Communist”. I would imagine that the ‘government’ (You know; you, me and all the rest of us.) ever telling anyone they must, or the can’t, whatever - is communist too? Well, how’s about all these freedom loving patriots start driving on the wrong side of the road. At night. With their…

When their world view is, everyone is lying and is probably screwing you somehow, all you need is a different flavor - someone saying, “Well, how’s about all of US screw all of THEM!!?! Why I’ll do it for you!”