I have an idea that might make gerrymandering much more difficult.

No district can have more than 4 sides. If one of them is a state boundary, that is one of the sides, plus another three that must meet at right angles.

That should be "Once and Future FCC Chair" Lina Khan.

Want to hear something hilarious? As a member of AMC's A*List program, I pay $20 a month and get to see four movies a week.

www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist

One of his old Mafia buddies once said "He would lie about the time of day, just for the practice."

Why don't we use the same "forfeiture laws" that apply to drug dealers on so-called "White collar criminals"? That if you're found guilty of something like raping young girls, you not only lose your freedom, you lose your corporation and it becomes a public entity.

The first class menu on the Titanic was just lousy with these sort of dishes.

I just reread the list, and they *do* have chili poutine!

A menu board for mean poutine, listing a dozen different options.

Chili was one of the few things not offered at the poutine stand my late wife and I visited in Vancouver before her last wish Alaskan cruise.

Vickie used to recruit focus groups for a company called Fieldwork.

She tended to specialize in medicine, I joked that this was because she was the only person in the office who could pronounce "phlebotomist" correctly.

Neither of us would have any future as a junkie.

I haven't gotten to the point where I can donate blood yet, but I've definitely come to appreciate a skilled phlebotomist. I've had two colonoscopies so far, and I'm due for a third, and I have notoriously difficult veins. They always seem to stick me three times before getting a good one.

I used to have crippling needlephobia, so much so that I had to visit a dentist friend's office and be on nitrous for an insurance blood draw.

9 days in the hospital with pneumonia took care of that (I still don't know what they did to the back of my hands every night at 3 AM…never opened my eyes)

What's that they say about academic politics being "the most vicious kind because the stakes are so low."

Is this American poutine?

Do all of them have regrettable beards?

When I did search, it credited Roger Ailes rather than Rupert Murdock, and none of the sources gave an actual interview. Nothing that I could have used for a Wikipedia reference.

I'm here for the Reginald Perrin deep cuts.

You should meet Professor Jeff Jarvis, who has had an equally non-traditional path to professorship.

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Finally! Nobody wants their phone to be any damn thinner! Screw you Jonny Ive!

Beef prices have been rising; have meat alternatives like Beyond and Impossible finally reached price parity?

One of the guests on @twit.tv "Macbreak Weekly" podcasts asked the obvious question; why do all these billionaires who presumably have "FU Money" never seem to actually have the gumption to tell those in power to go fuck themselves?

As much as I despise Steve Jobs, he might have actually done that.

I'm astounded by how good it looked in IMAX. It was shot with Sony CineAlta F23 prototype cameras and finished at 2K. But I was in the front row of the IMAX theater, and I didn't see any artifacting. There was a credit for Lola FX which didn't exist when the film was made.

I can remember what theater we saw it in - the AMC Ward Parkway, the original "multiplex" with two screens. We had been waiting for it, while Terry embarrassed Sid Sheinberg with a full page ad in Variety, asking when the movie was going to be released.

Vickie and I saw it in the theater, and I was so stunned that I was stuck in my seat after the credits finished and could hardly stand up.

Selfie of balding old man in a movie theater.

I am also in an IMAX waiting for Speed Racer to start!

One of the magical superpowers that I acquired as a "senior citizen" is no longer giving a damn what other people think. I lost the love of my life 2 years ago, and I'm going to remain alive and healthy in order to carry on her legacy.

Elderly couple in front of the marquee of the Hammersmith Apollo Theater advertising Kate Bush's Before the Dawn series of concerts.

I lost my wife of 41 years at the end of 2023, and right until the very end she told anyone who asked the secret of a long and happy marriage - separate top sheets and blankets. She always required two blankets, and I'm perfectly comfortable with a single sheet except in the depth of winter.

It's only April, and he's already won Husband of the Year.

This is as it should be - EVs are mechanically much simpler than ICE vehicles. And of course the long-term maintenance costs are vastly lower.

I'd love to have a source for the quote, if you have the time.