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I know Trump likes to shoot off at the mouth but that would show an amazing lack of self preservation even by him. Especially someone in no way guaranteed the presidency or other legal cover. "A guy hoping to be elected -- especially one seeking votes from right-wing 'We love the troops'-types -- w...

Maybe he's so brazen because he knows that his fans won't care one bit and his putative detractors will explain that it couldn't possibly mean what you think it means because nobody would be that dumb. Actual Twitter transcript discussing Trump's CNN lie: ME: Trump just accused CNN of cutting off t...

A day or so before he pardoned Arpaio, I watched a live broadcast of Trump's rally in IIRC Phoenix on CNN. Specifically, I watched on CNN while Trump told the Phoenix audience that CNN and other liberal fake-news sites just cut the live feed of said rally, because the Fake News Media doesn't want Am...

We know that Trump's son and campaign manager met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, as well as a few other people, arranged via Trump friends with contacts in Russia, because she supposedly had dirt on Clinton. We knew that when this meeting was arranged, an associate of the Trump family wrote: This is o...

It looks like trolling? I know TDS is a thing on both sides of the aisle, but ... Can't quite tell if serious. Because a better answer is...he was publicly conspiring with the Russians? That seems a lot more far fetched than he was trolling. Further down on Julian Sanchez's tweet thread, he suggest...

And on top of that... Man wasn’t drinking while driving, just sipping at stop signs, he told deputies VERO BEACH, Fla. — A man who told officers that he had been charged twice for drunken driving in Missouri assured them he was not drinking and driving this time when he was questioned in a McDonald...

Turns out I actually own three such shirts with buttons high on the sleeves; when I dyed my bad-color shirts last night, turns out one of the formerly ugly-green, now attractive-blue, shirts has it as well. And -- this is not something I "learned" so much as "figured out" -- it looks MUCH better if...

So Trump's nominee for Supreme Court is a man who's argued that sitting presidents should not face civil or criminal prosecutions.

Moderate drinking is fine if you're already feeling good and would like to feel better (or if you're with friends and want to loosen up a little, be quicker to laugh at their jokes or whatever), but using it because you feel bad and want to feel good, or seek to "fix" social anxiety thereby, is far ...

To be fair, back in 2002 the statement "Donald Trump, president of the United States" also would've resulted in laughter. (And any claims that said POTUS would implement kiddie concentration camps where baby prisoners went months without ever being bathed would be considered unrealistic paranoia.)

Turns out I actually own three such shirts with buttons high on the sleeves; when I dyed my bad-color shirts last night, turns out one of the formerly ugly-green, now attractive-blue, shirts has it as well. And -- this is not something I "learned" so much as "figured out" -- it looks MUCH better if ...

Have you considered getting a couple battery-operated fans in case of power outages? I think "O2 cool" brand can be had for around $10 apiece.

Ever since I moved to Atlanta and realized the summertime wardrobe I'd bought in more northerly climates is thoroughly inappropriate for the Deep South, I've been visiting thrift stores and buying lightweight linen and silk garments to replace the humidity-hoarding cotton I had before. Since I was g...

I can't help wondering: had Jeff not shown me this, how long would it have taken before I discovered the inner cloth buttonhole-strip? Once I did, I'm sure it would've taken me very little time to figure out what it was for -- but I must've worn each shirt at least three times, and never noticed the...

Two of the long-sleeved linen shirts I've bought for extreme-hot-n-humid conditions have buttons above the elbows on their sleeves. I thought those were so you could roll up the sleeve and then put the elbow-button through the buttonhole on the cuffs to keep the sleeves in place; I never could fold/...

Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams. Short read, not as good as the original but still enjoyable.

Like George Will before him, Max Boot has left the GOP and called for Democrats to win this November. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/conservative-columnist-max-boot-calls-republicans-white-nationalist-party-wants-democrats-to-take-over Conservative columnist Max Boot favors a Democratic Con...

Is it dry or humid where you are? If it's a dry heat you could at least set up a makeshift swamp cooler.

Ugh, that level of heat is downright dangerous. Hope you get your AC fixed soon.

I've been hearing thunder for the past hour and more, as storms keep rolling by but not actually hitting where I live. But the temperatures have dropped to only the mid-70s! It's daylight hours in July, and I actually have the AC off and the windows open! Woo hoo! (It's still muggy as hell, but so l...

Sometime in the past couple years -- after moving to Atlanta -- Jeff and I were watching an old talk show whose host (maybe Dick Cavett?) was interviewing a pre-"Wrath of Khan," pre-"Fantasy Island" Ricardo Montalban, who talked about bullfighting -- and made a point of saying something a la "Now th...

The thing about body lice is that (duh) if one kid is infested, it's a sure bet that lots of kids are. And IIRC, body lice is far worse than head lice, because head lice will "only" make your head horribly itchy, whereas body lice spreads all sorts of wretched diseases, including typhus. MAKE AMERIC...

A lawsuit filed by a migrant woman whose 14-month-old was returned to her after 85 days says the baby's clothes weref illed with dirt and lice when she got him back; apparently the kid has not been bathed at all. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-border-migrant-trump-o...

I remembered the unspecified threats of invasion, but I am still not sure they were anything other than his random blabbering. Trump's basically sentient Id; everything he says and does is ultimately just "random blabbering." Only his blabbering has real-world consequences because of the position h...

whether Jones has a defense under Times v. Sullivan; namely, whether the Sandy Hook victims and parents are "public" persons [Shudder] If that'll be the argument, I hope it loses. Maybe his argument will make some principled pro-1A argument that'll make me change my mind, but IMO it would set a bad...