Absolutely!

I grew up calling it “pop”, but my husband (from SD) calls it “soda” and this has infected me.  Now I go halves.  Sometimes it’s “pop”, sometimes it’s “soda”.

I forgot a mostly-empty one in the car on a cold winter’s day about a month ago. By the end of the day what was left was a slushy. :-) It’s not catastrophic as long as a) it’s open and b) there’s some headspace in the can.

And that’s assuming international manufacturing waits for us to catch up.  This would be a gift to China.

Oil is oil . . . right?

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!

dryer lint animal figurines

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.