To be clear: I have no knowledge of anything like that actually happening, I’m just saying in the past it would never even occur to me that the DHS secretary might see political pressure in their decision of when to certify that a candidate receives protection. Standard for an ex-VP is six months, standards for…

...and today I learned that secret service protection for ex VPOTUSes expires after six months. Cause I would have assumed he’d still have protection. And under no other administration would I wonder if someone might play politics with the approval of protection. 

I knew I should have been worried when I complained about baby boomers running everything and my monkey paw curled a finger.

I subscribed recently because of the YouTube, FWIW. So I can say with confidence it has driven a non-zero number of new subscribers. Now, has it driven more than one? I cannot say.

Oh, wait, I have misread this article.

I prefer a cotton thigh-high. Double layered is good for hiking. Always want a nice thick pair for bumming around the house on a cold day. Bombas makes some pretty comfy ones, though a little pricey.

“I feel like you’re the boogeywoman of the right, and I’m the boogeywoman of the left,” co-host Meghan McCain said

There’s BritBox, but I feel like I went through the lineup of that once and there’s not the panel and competition shows I’d want to actually watch.

The thing is, unless my audio is really fucked up, that’s...not remotely simlish.

I’ve seen it when browsing around Youtube, but haven’t given it a shot yet. As with most stuff like that, like to see if there’s a legal way to watch in the US before going to the ole y’tube.

Gibberish language spoken by the Sims in the EA game franchise.

Great Pottery Throw Down is just an excellent name for a show.

I think the biggest problem with the US version is that it’s 44 minutes to allow for commercial breaks rather than 60 minutes. So everything is just a little rushed. Which I believe accounts for most of the problems people have with the show.

Not even nearly, got me a Shamrock two weekends ago.

As a liberal Virginian its been great fun to watch the legislature this week. There were some misses (failed to repeal Right-to-Work, failed to pass a mandatory reporting structure for lost guns) but there have been a shit ton more hits than misses.

Aw man, I haven’t thought about lovefeast in years. My college was in the same town as a major Moravian settlement, and just before winter exams everyone stopped studying for an hour and came together for a non-denominational collective deep breath at the chapel and had a lovefeast. Music and singing and delightfully…

I mean, we had a president wage an actual literal war against regions that voted against him. Though they did force his hand on that one.

Sawbones podcast also points out that fatality rates trend higher in the early days of an outbreak like this because the only people we are certain have novel coronavirus are the ones in a position to be tested because they’re sick enough to be hospitalized. Plenty of people may have been shaking this off like a…

Saw someone suggest this as a great plot element for a heist movie. Help pre-clear the getaway route.

‘What IS a Caucus-race?’ said Alice; not that she wanted much to know,
but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak,
and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as
you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day,…