susan collins:  you can always count on her vote when you don’t need it.

Exactly, symbolic victories are overrated, I’d rather have actual victories.

I think Manchin did announce that he was going to support her, but I suppose I can at least be thankful that collins’ support means we won’t have to hear an endless parade of discussion about Sinema. So that’s at least one tangible benefit coming from her vote, which is more than usual.

ted cruz is probably the one person who would pull out the “Do you know who I am?” question hoping that the answer is “No”

I just assume that caging is acting like Abed after watching ‘enough’ Nic Cage movies:

Nice

Counterpoint: If a recipe has a trap step like that, then it is a badly written recipe.

Person of Interest also slots nicely into that category.  Pretty much every time you start to think, hey this person is making a really dumb decision, it turns out you don’t know the whole story...

I assume we don’t even talk about this:

mmm red kibble again!

He looks like someone at the cloning facility mixed together the samples of NPH and a Malcom in the Middle era Bryan Cranston...

I also think that for a not-insigificant number of them, they really do want the type of autocratic control that putin and erdogan represent. File this under the “When people tell you who they are, believe them” category.

Right, I think he’s supposed to be 15 at the start of the book.  It’s not surprising that they aged him up a bit, and got someone a bit older to play him.

Nah, it’s plank #1, of 1.

Yeah, about the only thing I use full power for is popcorn, everything else is usually like 60% power for about 2x the time I would normally use...

I’ll be happy when they finally remove the Candy Crush faction divide, and let the Sweets team up with the Sours, but I’m sure there will be plenty of complaints from people saying it’s Candy Crush, not Candy Cuddle

Right, you should at least ask for the receipt for a URL to a picture of an irritated monkey

I think it goes beyond that - pull up the ladder, and replace it with a toilet.

“The Government MANDATES that you MUST drive on this road”

It’s literally in the first paragraph of the quote from the Reuters article, and also in the title of that article: