A massive contraption full of secrets

Because this is the internet and everyone is very loving and trusting here, I’m going to come clean: I am a firefighter and, having just gotten my EVOC license and been cleared to drive, I just last week distinguished myself by driving the light rescue the wrong direction to go to a call.

I . . . guess that helps. She’s challenging an entire studio audience to fight her in a back alley?

I think it’s dawning on Kentucky, Ohio and everywhere-but-the-coast of Pennsylvania that things are bad now and will never substantively improve: Coal employment peaked in 1923. Fracking will make you rich only if you are the owner of a fracking company. You are walled off from any meaningful routes of communication…

Ugh. Twenty years on and “Lead singer from Smashmouth” is STILL the aspirational appearance for these guys . . .

Um, it says he’s in a volunteer company.

A delicious invasive species.

I don’t even think so. There are people whose 15 minutes run out at the 2 minute, 11 second mark.

I don’t get the joke. I didn’t get the joke when I first watched the video.

I use self-checkout lines because it makes it easier to steal things.

I kind of don’t believe in social science any more. Not political science (especially not polling), not sociology, not psychology, not anthropology (except for the bones-of-Neanderthals type). I’m even having doubts about economics. It really just seems like things in the world happen and they are just broken-mirror…

[his unpaid intern picks up]

I’m not a racist...I have a black friend.

ESPN’s dying on a lot of hills simultaneously these days. It’s quite a feat.

Would you accept statues of Confederate generals reworked so that they are depicted fucking each other and/or being fucked by their own horses?

FDR served four terms. And his attempt to add additional justices to the Supreme Court was rejected by the public and Congress.

I’ve posted several times: just swap the heads of the generals with those of their horses. “Well looky there: It’s General Traveler riding his faithful, four-legged Leebeast!”

There isn’t actually a hard line between malice and incompetence. The two mix quite freely, in varying combinations and in ways that are impossible to separate and meaningless to try. Being evil doesn’t imply genius and being stupid doesn’t absolve you from evil.

Cultural appropriation doesn’t exist.

If the military’s so awesome, why don’t they win?