The Giving Pledge is whitewash. Certainly Ms. Bezos' idea of philanthropy differs from most people's. It might actually differ from the dictionary definition. You don't know.

The second oldest.

Ppretty much this. There's way too many urban legends about FICO scores out there. The only tip worth using is to PAY YOUR DAMN BILLS ON TIME. Do that, and you will have nothing to worry about as far as credit goes. My credit has been consistently and comfortably over 800 for a couple of decades now. 

27 fantasy points this week. The Pats' defense has taken me from a 2:1 underdog to 50:50. I'm going to cry when they take their bye week.

I don’t blame Kershaw. I blame his boss. This whole idea of putting in starters as closers in non-emergency situations is plain stupid. Kershaw should have been last in line, at best. If it’s the 16th inning and you’re out of relievers and it’s a choice between Kershaw and the utility outfielder on the bench who…

There are Americans who are still driving the smoking wreck of a car onto which they pasted Bush/Cheney ‘04 stickers to the trunk lid back in ‘03, who will swear that Donald Trump is the stable genius with unmatched wisdom he says he is.

I wonder what Mike Pence considers party food.

The baggage carousel will get you off the floor. I'd it starts moving, chances are good flights have resumed.

Or you get yourselves in a shooting war with the rest of the world, which you lose, then rewrite your constitution with the goal of precluding this sort of thing from happening again. Kind of like Germany in 1948.

The Civic is actually a premium product. The Corolla, not so much, although it will run until the heat death of the universe, and you will start looking for excuses to get rid of it after 10 years of trying (and failing) to kill it. That Sentra interior kinda reminds me of a Corolla, circa 2007 or so - a particularly…

Das its fuer die Amerikaner. Wir Deutschen brauchen sowas nicht.

I would have guessed 1989, except for the infotainment screen. 

Because it's five grand cheaper?

The Subaru logo and the unused turn signal lever?

That was, I believe, a “work truck.” You know, a truck that does work, as opposed to a sedan sans trunk lid that stands in for the minivan you should have gotten to haul your wife and kids around because you have manhood issues.

Last Thanksgiving, the local HEB was selling sweet potatoes eight pounds for a buck. I had to do a double take before filling several of those flimsy plastic produce bags with a dollar's worth of sweet potatoes. My frau thought I was crazy. Then she acquired a taste for them. 

Well, they can pull a Ford and only sell trucks. That's a plan, until someone in the middle east sneezes and the price of oil goes to $250 a barrel.

So if our military's role in the world is being diminished, when can we reduce the Pentagon's budget? I'm guessing never.

That’s “role.” And you're right. The President can't just declare a Secretary of Office Supplies and Refreshments without congressional approval. I am sure Congress had to sign off on President Washington's cabinet picks at some point. All four of them.

Dick Cheney ran the government in those days. I don’t think Dubya could handle it by himself.