Parachutes cause cancer. They just cover that up in the media.

^^^ and also ^

Barnes: “But sometimes, when the game got really hard, I saw only one set of spikemarks on the basepaths.”

It’s the overlap of corruption and incompetence that is so frustrating. The Daleys were cheerfully corrupt, but they generally got the trash picked up and knew which way the long brown envelopes were supposed to move.

If you begin with the premise this world is incomprehensible gibberish, then ... cometh the hour, etc.

Bustling? No wonder the Hunters were always broke. They were holding the cash flow diagram upside down! “Don’t think we’ll be flying Eggburt to his yoga retreat this month, hon — we’ve got big payouts to Raytheon and our vape supplier coming up. Bills, bills, bills!”

Yes but the whole matter confuses me, perhaps because Duncan Hunter is too stupid to get anything right.

Gloucester did it blind. Team GorseCrawler!

Love how, at the end of the guitar bridge and just before launching herself at the final verse, she mutters, “Here I go.” 

“Stand back! I have a loaded bunny, and I am not ashamed to kill unarmed people!” Meanwhile, Netflix has moved Idiocracy from the ‘comedy’ section to ‘documentary’.

Yes, but does he offer (for hire) pseudo-intellectual taeks on how socialism ruins everything? Cuz he looks like he might!

We didn’t put all of the cheeses we had out for the party, and a second table is loaded with meats, breads, salads, and so on, and the kitchen bar has the wine and single malts, and while there are a few boring cheeses on those plates (Drunken Goat, meh -- but brought by a friend, so served) ... you are looking at…

“Nobody says anything better about me right now than Bannon. I don’t know.”

Did you buy some Oma? It is made by the von Trapp family (yes--that von Trapp family) and aged by Jasper Hill. Haven’t tried it yet, tho I do like a good Tomme or Gruyere. Morbier too, tho the flavor of that cheese varies so much from wedge to wedge I’m not entirely sure what it is supposed to taste like.

It would be hard to ever give up cheese, but dairy intolerance seems to happen to some folks even much later in life. Can take awhile to figure out that’s what’s messing with them. I’ve been veggie for 25-odd years now but still whimper a bit when the Thanksgiving turkey is passed around. :( We do like our cheese…

I personally know a few of those families, so I can tell you right now exactly what they’ll say: “Yeah, it kinda sucks, but climbing is who he/she was and I loved them for it.” I’ve had a number of friends die climbing -- and backcountry skiing and mountaineering. Don’t even pretend to instruct me what their loss…

Ground’s frozen solid in late December, but we could stack you on the woodpile until the April thaw. Our parties are a Paleo dieter’s nightmare, but more fun for it! (The bread table and dessert tray, not shown, have become more complicated since a number of our friends have gone off gluten/grain/soy/sugar/dairy for he…

Yes, Laramie. Figured you’d know the Voo reference. ;)

True, your basic corner store French or Spanish cheese (or wine) is top-shelf Murray’s in the US. But the best North American artisanal cheeses are as good as the best European now.

The drive to the park was probably more dangerous than the climb. Tho this time of year, there are still some objective hazards like loose rock & frost-levered flakes to consider. For all the Nose has become a bit of a pre-protected yak route, I’m kind of pleased at the safety record & improving cleanliness of the…