The lawyer will be OK. Lawyers get disbarred for stealing client money, not accepting client money.

It is the muscles in the breast of the bird that power the wings, so I call it in favor of Buffalo Wings ... wait ... Buffalo don’t have wings.

There’s no cat. There’s no cradle.

No one recalls “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the difference between bank failure and a bank run? Depositors were taking money out faster than this bank could liquidate investments without going fire-sale and going under. The depositors were taking money out to put where the interest paid was higher. 

The assets are worth the same as they were before. JFC. The problem is that people with deposits there have found a place they think are worth more and they want their cash now. Any investments, no matter how good, will fire-sale for less, but that doesn’t mean they were worth less. They are primarily US Treasury…

I’m hoping that was weapon’s grade snark from TTO.

EMTs don’t have a strong union but can be used a red herrings to try to draw investigators and public opinion. Didn’t work this time, but there have been times when the EMTs OD a detainee at the demand of the cops and it’s all “It’s the EMTs fault for messing up when we yelled to do the job faster.”

You drag a hook along the sea floor where you know the pipeline is. When it hangs up, you slide a bomb down the line. It releases when it hits bottom and they pull the hook loose and fish for the next location. No diving required. 

My sincere sympathies. 

They aren’t stupid. They are cruel. Cruelty is their reason to get up in the morning. 

The only one to benefit was Putin. The Germans had stopped buying Russian natural gas and shut off their end of the 49% they owned. Russia now had two pipelines they could not use. Why not blow up small sections? It means that it’s no longer a Western choice, it can try to shift blame to the West and Russia no longer…

Keep complaining about the Democrats and maybe you’ll get Trump back. 

Probably a case for using high intensity UV-C to destroy the spores in their happy environment, but I bet JD doesn’t want to spend for the effort. 

None of those are the worst sci-fi nightmares. Not even close. There are already enough weapons to kill in massive numbers and with horrific injuries to survivors. The modernization of warfare has generally been to use fewer arms and involve more exact targets rather than massive indiscriminate bombing.

The language that Mark Twain used seems selected specifically to be offensive - not to the people who were the fictional targets in the book, but to the real live people who used that language in their daily lives. To expose them as ignorant, nasty human beings who used that language to denigrate others.

One is replacing history with fiction, the other was fiction from the start.

What protects against slideshow presentations?

Bad news - no one checked the gun.

On an airplane is fine. It’s “in” an airplane that starts the fights.

Same for Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed.