Even if I paying a fixed fee, I’d want to be able to have the project audited if it suited me. It might be nice to know just how much I was overcharged when I was looking at the next bid on that letterhead.

As awful as it sounds, I find myself kinda hoping that *someone* at PREPA is a kickback out of it. If not, they’re just hopelessly incompetent and some weaselly friend of Zinke is reaping all the benefits.

I’m not sure whether PREPA is horribly corrupt, horribly incompetent, or some horrible combination of the two, but I wouldn’t suggest asking them to balance your checkbook.

You are a warped, warped individual.

It’s a mystery.

Oh, sweet Christ, I must be more warped than I thought. My automatic assumption was that he was suggesting that someone should send the twins free tickets for a flight on Malaysia Airlines.

Freight Train Rabbit Killer. You will either be wafted up to heaven on the gossamer wings of angels or dragged screaming into Dante’s 10th circle. There doesn’t appear to be any reaction in between.

Maybe Uber could start offering a new service.

I don’t know if it’s SOP these days, but my dentist now prescribes a nice big dose of Ambien for dental-phobic types before they come in for work. While I cannot confirm it, my niece says I *really* enjoyed having my tooth pulled. Once she prevented me from face-planting in the parking lot while she was trying to get…

Well, everybody needs a hobby.

The last time my social media business group asked if anyone had ideas for future speakers, I suggested any Macedonian running a Facebook page. They were not amused.

Apparently the Chinese have vastly improved their fire-retardent materials since their last round of “oops, how’d that happen?” children’s pajamas.

Borderline?

It says Portland, which would put it within the 100 mile zone, but it’s not accurate to say that the Constitution doesn’t apply to CBP in that zone, and it’s definitely not settled law. (For that matter, the magic 100 mile part isn’t settled law, either - it’s just a number that CBP picked out of a hat for itself.)…

I don’t know, though. Were they working independently and unsupervised, with keys to the property and able to come and go as they pleased? If so, it might be argued that just as they assume a fiduciary duty to the property owner for the care and condition of the residence, they in turn assume occupancy rights, albeit…

That’s a pretty long rant for no reason other than refusing to recognize that “things like this” just might refer to a slightly broader issue than ICE.

Yes and no on Roe v Wade, though. Yes, the forced-birthers on the ground are absolutely rabid to overturn Roe, and the twatwaffles running for office pander to them shamelessly. But the mere existence of Roe is a giant money machine for the PACs and the politicians, and overturning Roe would shut off the flow of money…

And at least attempts to use multi-syllabic words. Sometimes even words that exist.

It’s standard PR person BS advice. If they were honest, they’d admit that it’s got nothing to do with communication. It’s for the convenience of the photographer in getting everyone into an unposed photo without awkward height variations messing up the composition. I doubt Melania needs to be prompted to do it,…

I took their expressions as “bored but politely attentive,” because that’s pretty much default kid mode to having random strangers in your classroom. I know when I was that age, I could not have given less of a shit about the First Lady. Hell, I still feel that way.