Companies don’t pay corporate taxes, their customers and shareholders do. Any taxes paid get passed along to the end user.

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl.

Except that the CWA negotiated for 20k workers to get the $1k. At&T is giving it to 200k of their employees.

“Leave the gun. take the cannolis.” Words to live by.

It fluctuates from say $500 to $3500 depending on the time of the month. Anything more goes into my Ally savings account where I’m earning a whopping 1.25% (up from .91% a short time ago). It takes a 3 business days to retrieve cash from there. Any big emergencies get put on a Citi card earning me 2% cash back.

A convicted felon is not allowed to hold a firearm. Even for one handed to him as a jokey picture posted on FB. You are told this when you get convicted of the felony.

If you’re just a tourist who shows up on a random day?

No tickets necessary for me last fall.

Don’t bother going to see the Franklin Institute. I went back to see it last fall and it looks it hasn’t changed since I was a kid in the ‘70s. And it’s crazy expensive.

Since I moved to Houston, I do Xmas with local family members and we generally give a gift to each family member. Nothing too extravagant, but it makes for an energetic get-together. This year, one person pushed secret santa on us and now we’re all grumbling behind that person’s back.

Unfortunately for Native Americans they were doomed from the git-go. Early traders spread diseases, inadvertantly, that eventually wiped out 7/8s of them. Even if the subsequent colonizers had been Quakers, North America was doomed to be depopulated. At that point they had no chance against the various and sundry…

Have you seen any deals on gift cards yet?

Have you seen any deals on gift cards yet?

I flew my girlfriend’s mom up from Chile to stay with us for 6 weeks. She hadn’t seen her son or two of her daughters, or their offspring, for 13 years. The woman is 86 years old and ate like a horse. We outfitted one bathroom just for her with a chair to sit on and a stand alone little cart to hold all of her…

I can’t find the article and I don’t want to out the journalist since I can’t find it. Google “Tec-9" and “fingerprint resistant” and you’ll get the flavor of it.

A reporter for a major NE newspaper was writing an article on assault weapons and how they are marketed. He had this angle that this one particular gun was advertised as being fingerprint resistant and that meant the manufacturer was pro-criminal. I tried a bunch of different ways to explain that the oil your skin…

I wish I had.

How do you handle a reporter who doesn’t understand the subject they’re writing about?

$145 million paid to the Clinton Foundation.

I recommend Traveller for your far future sci-fi RPG needs. It’s been around almost as long as DnD and it is a blast. It can be harder to find a group to play, but it is worth it.

Only eat? Lucky.