Look no further than Idaho, the Appalachia of the West. Half the legislators claim to be farmers. Even if they aren’t they run out and buy a cow to tick the farmer box. The education system ranks one higher than Mississippi. Kochs keep em stupid and down on the farm. The farms being kept in business by hard working…

Check the vent filters on your microwave above the stove if it functions as an exhaust fan for the stove. The filters get filthy from airborne grease. Dishwasher cleans them up perfectly. 

There’s a bike race that follows the same route. The Iditarod Trail Invitational. Here’s what someone said on site about the weather on the trail 4 days ago:

There’s a couple of Australian budget airlines (Jetstar and Tiger spring to mind although I’ve tried to block them from my memory) that are sticklers for time limits on luggage. You have to weigh the bags yourself and put them on the conveyor before you get to the counter. Or something. It was all very confusing. The…

Oh so now we’ve got Russian trolls telling the democrats how to run their campaigns. Worst part is they’ll probably take his advice. 

Never been to Sibiu, Romania I take it.

Look, I’m certainly not an ex-airborne bro, but even I have a GPS/beacon I can use to text anyone in the world who has a cell phone from anywhere in the world. It costs $26 a month. So I’m slightly perplexed as to why these bros didn’t have one. Terrible movie/screenplay.

It’s fucking great. And I earned every penny of it starting with day labor with bums, logging (got scars to prove it), construction (back is permanently fucked), low-end fisheries jobs, and putting myself through grad school working in a fish market. The Czech Republic is now known as Czechia FYI. If I thought for one…

The only question really remaining for me is where to move to. I’ve been expecting this ending since the beginning and doing some planning. Here’s my final four picks: Romania; Czechia; Panama; or New Zealand. (Canada’s too cold and where it’s not, it’s too rainy)

What demographic condition triggers EJ?

I don’t understand how it’s even remotely legal to take my tax payer money and pay some truth-challenged morons to send their kid to a Jesus brain-washing school. I’m at a loss. Covington... Covington anyone?

Homer Sarasohn. No Flooze or Beanz, ungreying me will suffice.

Agreed, pretty clearly. I just leave the 20% tip when I write off a restaurant to ease my conscience. It’s a small price to pay.

Nixon’s crimes seem quaint now. At least he did some things for the environment. 

Good policy. I sold the one rental I had because people kept begging me to have pets. They’d move in knowing full well pets were prohibited then whine about it every month until their lease was up. 

Definitely with the pork/beef combo. Learned that from a Romanian. Not a place exactly known for its cuisine, but there you have it. 

Once a restaurant has done you wrong you’re done: don’t go back; don’t call; don’t whimper. Leave your 20% regardless, might not be the server’s fault. Restaurants come and go. Let them go. I’ve found that a large percentage of restaurants I’ve written off go under within the year. It’s not just you that got the bad…

Realtors hate me. First thing I do when they take me to a house is to go look over the back and side fences for a dog. If there’s a dog out I don’t even bother to go look in the house. I’ve lived next door to barky dogs way too many times, not having it anymore. If there’s no dog, I’ll look in the house. If I like it…

“But her prosecutions.” Here we go again. Commenters might also want to read this before making up their minds about Kamala, she was facing an uphill battle in hostile territory- https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stuck-in-the-70s-Final-Report.pdf

The GOP handed Obama a shit sandwich and he saved the US economy and probably the world from a devastating recession. I’ll never forget one of those first interviews he did where he basically laughed (at the absurdity of it all) that he never expected to win and have to save to the world. He thought he’d just have to…