[Pictures a manager walking to the mound: “Give me the ball, Tex. You gave it your best shot. Time to bring in Lefty."]

Jesus Christ, they are making the best case for secession (rather, expulsion) from the union just by the quality of their elected officials.

Karma, as a concept in Asian religions, is not simply an accounting system of bad events befalling doers of bad deeds to balance the ledger, etc. From what I’ve read in the Talmud, Koran, and Old & New Testaments, the Abrahamic God is an asshole.

Family trip to Beijing in the late 80s. This is before the country started growing 10% every year.

This is some Hemingway-level brevity. Bravo.

This week has been a helluva year hasn’t it? 

I'll always have a star for the very pinnacle of that series.

The other hand is...um...not free...

I’m glad I never had to do this shit, or I would be flipping the bird at the camera or doing the jerkoff motion with my free hand until I got tired.

Wait, where does it say Uber is paying $30 an hour again?

Wouldn’t the responsibility be on Tesla for not actually using misleading terms, though?

To be fair, there are many places in Georgia that could have produced Brian Kemp. Doesn’t make Athens more or less racist/horrible - it just puts it on that continuum.

Wallace being surprised by Trump? He could just ask his network-mates to give him some insights from up in Trump's colon.

It would be worth having the other two debates if Biden has some good “is that the only trick you know?” and “your mama taught you these manners, boy?” zingers ready.

I like the line from his stump speech that says Donny is too small for the challenge.

McConnell is likely thanking his lucky stars every night that he managed to get a black person to buy deep into his bullshit enough to be white Kentucky’s human shield.

How about if it comes accompanied by a drumbeat and chanting?

[kids actually start burning iPads and Kindles (heh)]

In the header pic, Simone Biles has the exactly correct “I’m at a male stripper joint” kind of reaction.

The ‘history’ here is that the old Coconut Grove Club fire (and the molasses flood before that) eventually turned the Boston area government into real hard-asses about health & building safety. I know from first-hand experience. The locals joke that if you applied for a liquor and restaurant license with a top-secret…