Mattis considering sending troops to Australia....

I get it: when ya gotta fish.... but I did want to see it back down the boat ramp.

yeah yeah ....you THINK you will welcome the Boston Dynamics sex slave robots of the future- but this definitely falls in the category of ‘just because we can , we should’ hubris..... it’s not enough we cannot figure out the ethics of a self driven car deciding if it runs over the baby skunk , the mama coyote or just…

yeah yeah yeah “don’t compare your insides with some else’s outsides” blah di blah da.... I just got back from a 6 week road trip. With all sorts of last minute prep on the camper : shoe horned the golfcart batteries into the compartment so tight the door and trim had to be removed, home built solar array on the roof…

My 5s battery had gotten so weird [text one msg- drop to 2% ,plug in & immediately go to 70%] that I contemplated doing a battery change myself. [I’m a few hours from nearest Apple store] But these suggestions really helped-https://www.payetteforward.com/why-does-my-iphone-battery-die-so-fast-heres-the-real-fix/

and the science says: “In general, mediocre-but-lucky people were much more successful than more-talented-but-unlucky individuals. The most successful agents tended to be those who were only slightly above average in talent but with a lot of luck in their lives.” Just a guess but i’ma thinking Chucky was just lucky…

thanks for this

somebody might explain to the Broncos that they are a not -so- very-good- in fact -pretty- damn- shitty team.   Zero margin for error and that includes refs making those “questionable judgement calls”  .... 

gosh- entitled old white men who were given years of undeserved TV time turn out to be VERY incompetent ?   line up those fainting couches Lars.  

“The planet’s atmosphere will change but human nature won’t. Vollmann’s meager wish is for future readers to appreciate that they would have made the same mistakes we have. This might seem a humble ambition for a project of this scope, but only if you mistake Carbon Ideologies for a work of activism. Vollmann’s…

Dear World- single minded pursuit/accumulation of wealth does NOT equal functional/aware human being.  See exhibit A : John Mcafee  B: Donald Trump C:Howard Hughes    et al.....

Full disclaimer- clean n sober since ‘95- but not because i was all “yikes I’ll get cancer from this shit” - mine was just another story of spiral down til not much left. However.... man o man my life got GOOD.... pretty much by any and all metrics of so called “success” : from writing novels, publishing books,…

“We simply do not have the analysis in place yet to know more precisely what systems tip when, and what carbon bursts they will generate,” he said.

Yes- someone WILL absolutely get killed- It is the drumbeat that has preceded all the OTHER recent violence against “targets” - POC, women, immigrants, gays. That violence has already happened in numbers that should have garnered complete societal revulsion. It has not. Maybe now that the news media find themselves…

I am quite sure that after, I dunno, yacht 17?- they are gonna open those purse strings and help the homeless or lobby for universal medical care or rebuild Puerto Rico - cause that’s what I keep hearing that rich folks do...But remember- they should never ever pay taxes n stuff on that wealth....that would be so…

Dear GQ - a less sexy article that delivers the news: “Rich pretty much equals Lucky” .....and I would submit that being a white heiress is pretty fuckin a matter of luck.....https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_…

yes- the disinformation-as-long-as-we-make-a-profit IS one more nail. But the litany began before blogging [ever listen to AM talk radio hmmm?] The “news” long ago was just one more appendage of enhanced shareholder value, its veracity less important than ‘views’ or ‘eyes’ or ‘ears’ or ‘issues sold’. Ain’t capitalism…

I kinda think the Sunbeam Tiger was THE sleeper car.... I drove the 289 v8 Mark II version back in the 70s. Absolutely scared the hell out of me....and the only tip off was the little Sunbeam v8 badge....never street raced it but often wonder what it could have done..   .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Tiger

lots of us fail to reckon on wrenching room- and it can be insidious: either my 78 F250 w/ a 400 or my 82 Suburban with its 8MPG 350 had a rear spark plug [drivers side i think] whose access would suck every bit of joy out of a simple tune up.... OTOH the internet has all sorts of forum discussions on “remove the…

Ummmm- I’m betting I’m not the only guy who first saw him on an ad and noticed all my “gibbering asshat” alarms pegged at  eleven?