With all the measures this administration has taken to make federal workers’ working conditions and compensation better and fairer as a way of setting an example for the private sector, this and the nonsense with the California National Guard enlistment bonuses seem especially strange and unjust.

Sidewalks are for feet; bikes are wheeled vehicles that belong on the road. I suggest you get used to it and stop pitching an entitled hissy fit. Also: don’t swerve around people on bike. Pass them just as you would if they were driving a motorcycle, car, pickup truck, or an 18-wheeler. As road users, they are…

One correction: The cast iron dome is painted, but the Texas pink granite that comprises most of the exterior is really quite pink, flecked with black mica and clear quartz.

Ah, The Corinthian!

I came here for this specifically. Well done.

You could have had Drew, but nooooo...

Giga-W or GTFO.

Radar: have you heard of it?

Those are all on Joe’s playlist, which you can easily hear blasting from the bitchin’ system in his Trans Am due to his liberal use of the t-top in summer.

Is the sanction only against bulgy cotton cargo shorts? I favor nylon/spandex hiking shorts that have flat zippered thigh pockets for my summer casual needs. Their overall profile is indistinguishable from non-cargo shorts. I guess I’m asking: is the the shape or the function that makes them unfashionable?

Because it’s hard to get a photo of that statue from the front without getting the tower in the shot, too.

Please.

They ought to erect a series of arches with bells on chains hung at just the right height leading up to this underpass to create an audible or possibly tactile (depending on the weight of the bells) alert that you’re not going to make it, and should take another route.

I’m so very glad I’m not the only one who thought that. Is she ca-ca-catching the wave?

Cherokee would be an interesting choice, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_…

Curiel is a Kappa? Can he cane?

That’s the cobbler I go for every time. The Round Rock location’s just not the same, though.

Prince preferred that position to the presidency.

You got me all hopeful that Coopers had, for some reason, opened a location in that suburb. Then I noticed how close together the P and L keys are. Back Llano it is, then.

I once got a water bill for my Social Security number. It took me a moment to recognize the massive sum as that familiar string of digits entered into the wrong field by the billing department.