Making it about you:

Fucking moderates are why the right doesn’t have to work too hard.  The left just divides and conquers itself.

These things are always so general as to be rendered meaningless. I live in the suburbs of one of the above cities and every house that sells in my specific town goes for more than asking (often much more).  The market slowed a little in terms of listings during the colder months but sales prices were still very…

A somewhat related story. My buddy, who’s a state trooper, once saw a truck go flying by with emergency lights on (volunteer fire dept.). He radioed into the station to find out what the emergency was since he wasn’t aware of a call. When he found out there was nothing, he pulled the truck over, only to find the…

Ok, first of all, there’s more than one Rochester in the country so way to make me work for it. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I know the newspaper so I know it’s the one in my area and to look into more background.

I love how they always say it’s a part of history as if they’ve been using that symbol since civil war times when the reality, as the article says, is that this was done during civil rights times and was absolutely all about race which they like to deny.

Every time somebody says cancel culture, people need to just start replying, “you mean fuck around and find out culture... fixed that for you.”  People need to understand the difference between a random cancel and one that is literally the direct result of your actions.

Assault is never the answer.

The more you can avoid swimming with the masses, the nicer the trip. TSA Pre-check (we have Nexus which includes it), airport lounges with better spaced seats (and food, drinks, and better bathrooms). jetBlue Mosaic also gets us first boarding and our luggage is first off at baggage claim.  We can also use points for…

This isn’t me but I secretly was jealous of my seat mate on a Dulles to Heathrow flight when he slept from wheels up to wheels down, head against the bulk head.

I can drive to NYC in 5.5 hours. I can fly it in 1 hr. Add in the time it takes at the departure airport and to get into Manhattan from one of the arrival airports and it’s not a lot of time savings (though parking is an added hassle). We have leaned toward air but drove it more than a couple times.

If the dealer holds the cards, doesn’t that make it a seller’s market, not a buyer’s market?

I had a similar experience with CarMax and I sold two cars through them.  I used their online tool which gave me what I believed were very fair offers and they paid me exactly what the tool listed, no issues.  Could I have done better, maybe, but not without haggling and spending time and effort to do so that I’d…

15% is not a very good tip (and if you said 15-20, then it was 15). If you marked it down because it was physically small, then they were also in the right to mark down their effort.

Where’s option 4: I felt strongly about it for a few minutes but just don’t anymore.

Unlike some of my neighbors, I just don’t cover my lawn in insecticides and fertilizers and there are plenty of dandelions and clover and bees seem to love it. I still mow regularly so it’s still neat by neighbor standards but not so “perfect”.

If it were a HIPAA violation, would that make it inadmissible as evidence?  Once can hope.

Losing weight is not the same thing as being healthy.

I’d like them better if they didn’t always forget to include the salsa!  Happened today.

My daughter has a tree nut allergy.  In grade school one pistachio from a friend put her into anaphylaxis.  The fun with that allergy is every wannabe great teacher would keep her away from peanuts, popcorn, or anything that remotely resembled a nut or a seed.