My grandfather (born and raised in Red Wing, Minnesota) liked to refer to car crashes as “bingle-bangle-bongles”.

Oh, he’ll absolutely throw them under the bus.

Oh no, not again.

For most normal politicians, one could count on them being concerned about their legacy -- as in, worried about how people will remember them, and worried about what it’ll mean for their children.  But none of that seems to matter to Trump.

I don’t think there is one. That I think is the horrible, awful truth. We have a bunch of morons who are making decisions that can destroy tens of thousands of people’s livelihoods just for that momentary boost of “ooooo, he sounds TOUGH!” on social media. If it immediately cripples US businesses, they’ll say “GOOD!”…

THIS. For a supposed businessman, he really does not understand what a trade deficit is. But then, he’s not really a businessman. He’s got experience in real estate, but that’s it. His time on the Apprentice was heavily scripted. He doesn’t know anything at all about manufacturing, engineering, supply chains, fulfillme…

There’s a Native cartoonist from South Dakota named Marty Two Bulls who depicts Trump’s hairdo as an independent entity with chicken legs that sits on his head (most of the time).  Sort of a Baba Yaga toupee.

We can only hope!  May Trump’s vanity preserve him from a hat and scarf.  (His corpulence will offer him some protection, however.)

I suppose in the *extremely* short term, it works out for Trump since all he’s really trying to achieve is to look super tough for his base. “GRRRR, ME TOUGH, ME APPLY BIIIIIIIG TARIFF ON FOREIGN IMPORTS!!!!!!! THEY’RE ALL COMPLAINING NOW!”

And a new agency that completely duplicates work already being efficiently done by an existing agency will be so convenient for DOGE — they won’t even have to work hard to find duplicative work to get rid of!

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I understand there’s a balance between getting maximum “spread” of retardant and not losing it to the wind.  And yes, it does take many, many, many, many flights.  It gets expensive, fast.

The longstanding “out of sight, out of mind” philosophy of rocket launch is unsustainable, clearly.  And while it’s tempting to think of SpaceX as having solved it with their reusable first stages, they really haven’t.  They’ve only mitigated it a tiny little bit -- and their vastly increased flight rate more than…

The fact he wiped the back window at all almost made me more annoyed. Like, you started, dude, why didn’t you finish?

Hah.  Bezos isn’t stupid.  He’s a CEO.  That is 100% marketspeak.  Believe zero of it.

We got a tiny bit of snow here in the Twin Cities over the weekend, and I had the pleasure of driving being a jerk who had barely cleared off his sedan as I entered the freeway yesterday. He’d wiped off about a third of his back window so he could see (the side he could get without walking his lazy butt around to the…

I am absolutely loving this terminology, but actually both are frequently true at the same time. The river bottom isn’t solid at all. It’s constantly changing, a source of endless frustration for the US Army Corps of Engineers that has to maintain the channel. But hey, it keeps dredge boats in business.

There are ten in the US; Canada has the lion’s share, because that’s where they were born. They fight fires locally, and also fly abroad to fight fires. It’s not unusual for Canadian-flagged Super Scoops to turn up in the US, and even overseas.  They go where the fires are.

Well, now I’m mad we’re wrecking stuff we’ve borrowed! I mean, I’m glad we’ve still got our fleet of ten, but jeez..... This is a valuable asset, and we need it doing its job.

When I saw the headline, I figured that idiot drone operators were just making it unsafe to take off. But an actual *collision* damaging the aircraft that badly? I’m furious! These planes are extraordinarily precious; there are only 10 in service in the US, including this one. When they find that drone pilot, he or…