They weren’t tax increases, they were revenue enhancements.

Was going to skip it since it’s about Bieber but then saw POTUSA and decided ok, that’s worth reading.

Was pretty sure Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf had something to do with that Gaga performance until I remembered they’re both dead.

Still flinch a little when I hear “Roger, go at throttle up.”

I’ve thought this for awhile, that the people who remember the mass slaughters, genocides and economic collapses between 1914 and 1945 and made sure it never happened again are all gone. The people in charge now have no memory of that and so they aren’t deterred from making it happen again.

The Beatles recorded a song about you

This was quite popular where I went to college.

Fozzy Bear, too

Wicked cool.

Glad I’m boring so I don’t have to worry about either therapy or writing a memoir

That alone makes the empire great.

Northern lights

Bad Bunny Concludes Puerto Rico Residency With Emotional Marc Anthony Duet Bad Bunny closes his Puerto Rico residency with a long list of guest appearances, including an emotional duet of 'Preciosa' with Marc Anthony.

Where does Bad Bunny fit in this?

variety.com/2025/music/n...

I’m staying away from downtown those days. The bars are going to be packed.

Labor Day is a day when American workers thank our employers for allowing us to give them our labor.

Truck Stop, Iowa The Iowa 80 Truck Stop in Walcott bills itself as The World's Largest Truck Stop, and is as much a part of the UI experience for many students as Old Cap, Kinnick, and Carver Hawkeye.

If you saw the the story that CBS Sunday Morning did today about the World’s Largest Truck Stop in Iowa, here’s a story I wrote a few years ago about the same place.

now.uiowa.edu/news/2013/02...

I have a side gig with the local minor league hockey team. Is that like making pottery?

As the son of a former rock and roll DJ, I appreciate this.

Mississippi River towns where I have set foot

-Bemidji
-Grand Rapids
-Aitkin
-Brainerd
-Monticello
-Twin Cities metro
-Lacrosse
-Lansing
-Marquette
-McGregor
-Prairie du Chien
-Gutenberg
-Dubuque
-Quad cities metro
-Muscatine
-Oquawka
-Burlington
-Quincy
-Hannibal
-St. Louis
-Memphis
-New Orleans

Hey, that’s what I do! Well, the publicist part of it anyway.

Scaramucci is an eternity compared to that.

Is this the one with the giant mockup of NYC, complete with planes flying out of LaGuardia and JFK?

I was on an intramural basketball team in college called The Venerable Bedes. We were really bad.

What the people at Fox believe about climate change doesn’t really matter because their audience doesn’t want to hear about it and their political patron doesn’t want them talking about it, so they’re going to mostly ignore it.

As a former journalist I appreciate that spelled lede correctly.

Vertigo is like riding a roller coaster so it’s kind of fun at first, but after a few minutes you want to get off and it won’t let you.

Iowa grad, of course.

My social media feeds are filled with stories about Uecker and David Lynch which would normally have been a great thing.

We had a Fraser fir for our Christmas tree this year, so if Howard Cosell was in our house today he’d have been saying “down goes Fraser, down goes Fraser, down goes Fraser.”

I’m the lyrical Jesse James.