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Sep 20 2020
Not A Rant
Stars Hollow likes to consider itself rural, but we have 30,000 people living here (97% White). By contrast North Lake is lucky to have 200 over Winter and By The Sea about 4,000. World Headquarters is in New York City (New York City?! Yes, just like Salsa.). I’ve always found the residents friendly and accommodating …
Sep 20 2020
No Sports?
Why aren’t you watching the finish at Le Mans or the final stage of Le Tour? Oh, Throwball. 2019 Lacrosse Championships, Yale v. Virginia Think of it like Hockey only you can use your stick to attack people.
Sep 18 2020
Interacting With Crazy People
It’s kind of a weird thing but people talk to me whether I want them to or not, especially crazy people. Perhaps they think I’m sympathetic and paying attention. They are after all, by definition, mentally ill and in many cases delusional. When I talk with my Therapist about this phenomena she tells me I …
Sep 18 2020
A surprisingly good ruling, maybe.
The significance of this is not that it stops future deliberate degradation of the United States Postal Service to aid in Republican Election Fraud, DeJoy already agreed to that at the Hearings (not that I trust him farther than I can kick his sorry, lying ass). No, the really good thing is it directs the …
Sep 17 2020
The LRAD
LRAD stands for Long Range Acoustic Device and while you may think, “Oh, this is the perfect thing to crank up the volume on Wall of Voodoo’s Ring of Fire Album cut and really annoy my neighbors,” and it can in fact be used as a (very) loudspeaker, it is designed by the U.S. Military …
Sep 17 2020
Deplorable Focus Group
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Spoilers- These people are screened, paid, and usually highly motivated. I did a study with Plumbers to get a take on what level of subsidy would get people to opt for off-peak, high efficiency water heaters (I did other things than traffic, Cell Phones and Acne Cream for instance). I …
Sep 16 2020
More About Cops
Pigs, three different ones. Big man, pig man Haha, charade you are Wooh! You well-heeled big wheel Haha, charade you are And when your hand is on your heart You’re nearly a good laugh, almost a joker With your head down in the pig bin Sayin’, “Keep on digging” Pig stain on your fat chin …
Sep 16 2020
Choo Choo
Chugga, chugga, chugga. I think this is the whole thing from ABC News, but it’s inconveniently cut up in pretty random chunks So hopefully that pulls up the playlist. A transcript. Trump’s ABC News town hall: Four Pinocchios, over and over again By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post September 15, 2020 At the ABC News town …