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.

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…

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.

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

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!”

I wanted to call ours The Mistress Bedroom.  My wife was less than keen on the idea.

I wanted to call ours the Mistress bedroom.  My wife was less keen.

That van plays Dokken, right?

When our family was still all in one place we used to do gritty police procedurals and similar. First Deadly Sin, Jennifer 8, Blood Simple, Seven, etc. Just something light and breezy.

Not to mention the endless shifting of risk to the workers. No we won’t cover your reasonable expenses. You work for yourself, not us so you figure it out. This isn’t unique to trucking either. You’re right. If they keep screwing the little guy over and over, they’ll be lucky if all they do is walk away.

Sure. They’re so utterly powerless they have been forced into idleness and porn. And somehow seem to still be earning most of the money and holding most of the power. Such a shame to see them suffer through life of well compensated, oppressed maleness.