"I am an extraordinarily brilliant person."

That raised a flag for me.

I am now pondering what it must be like to be the sycophant who actually wrote that.

"Amtrak wants to create a route between New Orleans and Baton Rouge within the next two decades."

Whoa, Nellie! You sure that's enough time? A man on the moon took just one, but that did not require eminent domain or navigating Louisiana politics.

Revolver by The Beatles, reinventing themselves, a pretty bold move, experimental, & timeless. From “Eleanor Rigby” to “Tomorrow Never Knows,”

I'm not going to lie, they pretty much reshaped pop music. here..

#NowPlaying #TheBeatles 🎧

The Sting

"He is a believer after all."

After all of 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩?

Thomas Eagleton seeking mental health care.

Google Desktop, for finding items in your local environment.

My wife lived in New York back in the 80s and he was a well-known joke. Spy magazine anyone?

I expect—and I pay for—better than this.

Tighten up, The New York Times.

Yes and no. We all understood that spaceflight was a risky business. What we did not appreciate were Shuttle compromises forced by budget. Two big ones were the segmentation of the SRBs to facilitate overland transport from Utah, and placing live crew next to instead of above the rocket propulsion.

If you’re of a certain age, then I’m sure this view of the Artemis II launch riddled you with anxiety for a few moments.

Absolutely a flashback. I was working at NASA Michoud on the external tank, watching live on NASA internal TV, and we knew it was our piece that exploded and consumed the Shuttle.

Took a few days for the SRB to be identified as the culprit.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

What an unfortunate loss for our city. Now ironically the mid-century modern architecture the demise of these classical buildings made way for is itself being demolished or remodeled.

Those "doubts" have been around for a decade. They aren't fresh.

Looking forward to getting djt signed US currency notes that will almost certainly land in my palm with helpful suggestions and directives scribbled in by my fellow citizens with their own Sharpies.

A very low bar for both, not worth arguing who is lower.

We play the same game with my name, "Stuart." Except in my case the name implies a character who is quirky, awkward, or otherwise weird in some way. It could be "LA Law," "Bonanza," or any number of sitcoms over the decades.

"unique political style"

<snort> WHAT?

You're The Top
Anything Goes
"You're Garbo's salary"

In New Orleans, we call them "doodle bugs."

What caused 8,500 customers in New Orleans to lose power? A balloon, Entergy says It was short-lived, but a mass outage left thousands of New Orleanians without power mid-Monday morning. The reason? A basic party store balloon.

Party balloons: the dangerous scourge of both air travel and Mardi Gras parades

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Ursuline's Dandy Lion regales the crowd during the Krewe of Carrollton

I came here to write exactly this. Beat me to it. Well done.

I don't think I could better parody the state of the Washington Post opinions page than an essay from a crypto guy and the legal academy's worst amateur epidemiologist that earnestly argues that "stolen land" rhetoric is misguided because of statutes of limitations on lawsuits to recover property

What are these "laws" you speak of?

Twin crises at WaPo and CBS explain everything about American media Right-wing billionaires wield media like a weapon - everyone else treats it like a liability

New from me:

Neutrality isn’t moral clarity when one side is building power and the other is pretending not to notice.

Screenshot of an X.com post by Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) reading, “Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.” Below is a photo of a man holding a rifle and a woman aiming a handgun, standing outside near a light-colored building.

Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."

I could go either way on devining who wrote this. Incoherent, full of unsubstantiated claims, which tracks. Also possible that a professional writer could mimic the style. After all it seems to have worked for 10 years.

We in New Orleans pay some of the highest auto insurance premiums anywhere, so both Scalise's analogy and price ignorance in general track here.