Thanks, I was thinking “I live pretty close to Evergreen Community college, and I’d never heard of this.”

They also made it look like the Dems made immigration the issue for the shutdown. Immigrants don’t vote, and defending immigrants over government workers like the military is a no-win argument. It was quite well done.

My work’s offsite was at the Museum of Ice Cream. The workers are terminally perky, there is too much ice cream to eat and the quality is not good, and who the hell over 10 eats cotton candy or pop rocks? And if it’s a museum of ice cream, at least I’d like to hear Tom Carvel’s voice saying his ice cream has ‘less…

It’s nothing to feel bad about. Chuck Berry’s biggest selling single was My Ding-a-Ling. If you don’t know what that is, please don’t ruin your day by searching for it - it’s Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer-level bad.

Thanks. I just checked goodreads, and there seems to be a bit of White Savior in the telling as well. Funny how even something well-intentioned like building schools there can be bad (corruption, water shortages in using cement, etc.).

I would have gone with Gary Numan’s Are Friends Electric? A touching song about lost love and finding it hard to make any kind of human connection. The lyrics start with some hits of what’s to come (so now i’m alone / now i can think for myself / about little deals and S.U.’s / and things that i just don’t understand…

My mom gave me Three Cups of Tea a few years ago, and her taste in books is terrible so I knew it had to be terrible, but can you give me the scoop of what makes it so bad? I’ll buy you a virtual cup of coffee for saving 12 hours of my time (I’m a slow reader).

A moose once bit my sister...

This is the best thing I’ve seen on here in quite some time. I also like the way you threw all that Marvel Universe stuff into one role and put it at the very end, because that’s as much space as it deserves.

That’s like that old Johnny Carson joke (which I still like), saying they were going to convert his movies from stable film stock to flammable nitrate.

Sheriff Joe’s gotta be in there too. Edit: I can’t read apparently.

A piece of saa-sage got lodged in his heart again.

Mrs. Paul says “no more fish sticks for you kids!”

From the timeline in the article, it’s this year, so it’s getting worse. A great article btw, I’m getting this book!

I can’t believe that the Executive branch is making the CIA and FBI and good guys either, but it’s happening, and the FBI in particular seems to be the only governmental org keeping us from fascism. So, the system works, kind of.

Basically, it’s any government organization that tries to enforce our laws and protect our Constitutional rights. When you see somebody say “deep state” it means they’re not OK with the FBI or CIA, but would be fine with the KGB or SS.

Small-time grifters grifting a new system is also a very old profession.

I’d rather a Greyhound ride between Flint and Detroit.

In Silicon Valley, a lot of companies shut down for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. It gets them to clear some vacation hours off the books (forced vacation, yay) and not pay the heating fees on their buildings for a week, which is great for them, so it’s not all altruistic. I kind of liked it because…

Yep, sometimes I get an article in my FB feed, but for some reason I can’t comment on it there. So I go to avclub.com on my phone, and can’t find the article. Happens at least once a week. The site is terrible. And such small portions!