The last few times I’ve flown have been domestic with United, American and Southwest and they all require you to buy a ticket up from basic if you want the option of making changes. Adds about $100 to the average round trip flight.
I had to cancel a Jet Blue flight a few years ago with several months notice and I didn’t get a penny back.
Even better airlines often make you buy more expensive tickets if you want the option of changing or canceling your flight. That’s been my experience the last few times I’ve bought a ticket.
This feels dishonest to readers — a byline as I see it is signaling “this specific human being reported and wrote this.” It’s like a certificate of authenticity and also accountability. If a story is generated then the reporter didn’t really write it.
@uncrewed.bsky.social with Dow back on the ballot and the Democratic write-in almost sure to make it too (he only needs 50 votes in the primary to make the November ballot) looks like this one’s going to be competitive.
The Bills will not win the Super Bowl until William B. Davis dies.
Cranberry sauce.
The fact that we stayed in Vietnam for so long despite having a draft weighs against the idea that the absence of one is what’s driving unnecessary wars. Not to mention most of the decisionmakers who got us there were World War II veterans, it’s not like they were unaware of the horrors of war.
I like the Saranac Lake area a lot, the outdoorsy funky mountain town vibe reminds of similar towns in the Rockies. And the Thousand Islands has its charms. But yeah the smaller more remote towns that don’t get those tourism dollars can be pretty grim.
It’s a weird district (I used to live there). It’s been getting redder, lot of people work at prisons or as LEOs and a lot of the rural blue dogs are GOP now. But it has an independent streak, Stefanik’s predecessor was a Democrat.
It’s a stretch but not as much of one as the numbers indicate.
Yeah a few of the state parties — including the one here in New Mexico, which has actually enjoyed the occasional local electoral success unlike a lot of them — disaffiliated after that.
(e) the home of the last-ever Cheeseburger in Paradise. (Which ironically had better wings than burgers.)
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One time my wife told my mom I “add a w” to words like dog and coffee and my mom, who has a heavier accent than me, was baffled because she can’t even hear it in her own speech.
I think half the reason my wife asks me to make hot dogs a lot is she wants to hear me say it and hey that’s fine by me.
There’s this perennial candidate in Idaho who legally changed his name to Pro-Life. When he was running for governor and the debate moderators asked Broncos or Vandals he replied “neither they’re both socialist institutions.” Thought that was a creative way of sidestepping the question.
Stopped there years ago. It was good but I actually preferred the lake trout we got from some random little place on the east side, better value too.
Someone’s campaign would end when they stop at Blake’s and eat a breakfast burrito with a fork and knife.
In Idaho and most of New Mexico (probably Montana too) you can spot the reservations on any voting map, deep blue dots surrounded by a sea of deep red. It’s like looking at a map of Mississippi.
Northern New Mexico is an exception, the whole region is so blue the pueblos don’t really stand out.
It’s been fascinating watching how libertarians have been breaking in the Trump years, the divide between the ones for whom tolerance was actually important and the ones who enjoy racism and find ways to reconcile calling themselves libertarian with supporting a police state.
He cut his teeth in politics in 1960s Georgia. There are a lot of things to admire about Carter but it shouldn’t shock anyone that he might have played some games and held some views that don’t look good on BlueSky in 2026.
Yeah with extractive industries specifically I can kind of see a point, it’s easy to see why a coal miner wouldn’t vote for the party that says there should be fewer coal miners. But those industries are only big in specific areas, most people in rural America don’t have any connection to them.
They weren’t subtle making Namond’s mom one of the main villains of season 4.
I always enjoy seeing the turbines when I’m driving from El Paso to Santa Fe, it’s the only thing to look forward to on that long lonely stretch from Carrizozo to Cline’s Corners.
And if you’re trying to make the point that activist-speak is a political handicap — and I’m not saying I agree, I don’t think it matters much either way — there are other examples like “unhoused” or “Latinx” that have escaped containment so to speak. Most people have never heard “justice involved.”
Yeah I’ve heard the phrase or versions of it from people involved in prisoners’ rights and criminal justice reform advocacy, Beshear didn’t make it up. I’ve never heard it from a politician though or anyone else who isn’t in those specific spaces.
Right, if his point is “rural conservatives are sometimes in favor of specific progressives policies” that’s true. But people have opinions on what society should be like that if anything motivate them more than promising material benefits.
There are a lot of problems here but two big ones are 1. Lot of rural areas started shifting red before any big economic losses and 2. Rural nonwhite areas are very Democratic. An understanding of linear time and the ability to read a precinct map is enough to poke some major holes in his thesis.
This sounds like some of the ex-Mormons I knew in Idaho.
Next season on Dark Winds.
Night supremacy.