Eric Hoffer pointed out in The True Believer (1951) that communism also attracts these kinds of people that just need to belong to some movement and that it’s not the ideology that matters to them. 

You just know someone in Tucson is going to slip one across the border, cover it in dirt and switch out a VIN plate from an 90s era Samurai. 

The Raiders play on natural turf. I didn’t know this. Natural turf in a domed stadium. It rolls out of the stadium on a tray-like thing into what I assume is the parking lot where the turf gets watered and soaks up all the Las Vegas sunshine then gets pushed back in for game time. I was amazed. Raiders also look good…

“Issaquah Joe” pretty much says it all (without the video). Hope things are better in TX for you. It rains too much in Issaquah anyway.

Came here to say that. Wasn’t disappointed. Pretty elemental. Even a tree stump under there with you is better than nothing. 

I’m all for twin beds. Actually, at this point, twin rooms. 

I’m hoping that corporations will realize that they really don’t need all that office space when workers are (by recent accounts) just as, if not more, productive working from home. Less office space taking up room and requiring energy combined with less cars driving into the city (Starbucks is screwed!) seems like a…

Excellent report Dharna. In Idaho there is now open rebellion. The middle of the road (for a Republican) governor has a stay at home order in effect until the end of the month. The AG published several op-eds attempting to explain how perfectly legal it is to order people to stay home during a pandemic. In response arm…

Not just countries. Alaska is reeling from BP’s pullout of the North Slope, now this. They are very screwed up there in the cold. 

Me and my spouse speak Romanian to fuck with the rednecks. They don’t know what to make of it. That some fancy Mexican you talkin’ there asshole? 

Assuming you can even get tested for Covid-19. CDC stopped reporting testing numbers. At Mike Pence’s direction? or is it because they do not, in fact, have any test kits to test with? or both? 

Lenin in his most fevered dreams could never have imagined a future in which the excesses of capitalism could make Moscow habitable in January and February.

I am tired of waiting for white people to educate themselves on the consequences of systemic racism

I’m guessing DJTjr and her play some weird sex game where he casts his flyrod towards that ungainly trout-mouth of hers and tries to get her to bite, then reels her in for some catch and release perversions. Doesn’t he have a bear to go kill somewhere?

I try to avoid driving at night for precisely this reason. But recently I found myself driving in the dark between Nevada and Oregon in one of the most desolate spots in the lower 48. It’s full of wild horses and other wildlife just waiting to ruin your night so high beams are important. But even out there I was never…

The full genius of GOP Jesus (Reagan) can be seen in how he beat down the traditional defined benefit pension and replaced it with defined contribution plans (401Ks). Now what is left of the middle class is essentially held hostage by their own 401K. They can’t vote for a leftist because all their money will disappear…

I got the flu for the first time since 2008, hope I don’t get Covidfefe on top of it. But there’s no reason to panic, tRump just put the guy who created an AIDS epidemic in charge of the Covid-19 response.

Borna looks like Alex Trebek. I’ll take wypipo’s cousins for $1000 Alex. 

Tomato needs a new home. Lock the doors.

There has always been a small contingent of federal judges that are idealogues who don’t care about the rule of law, are not so bright, and are senile or corrupt. But if things went bad in District Court you could usually count on getting a fair shake at the Court of Appeals (except maybe in the 5th Circuit). That all…