I don't see any Hugos in there. Yet.

Court jester?

Because "boys will be boys," and we can't be too hard on their tender egos.

Definitely ergonomical.

My sympathies to the officers whose careers are being hijacked to run Project POTUS Ego Stroke.

I remember my grandfather talking about surviving the fighting in World War I only to wake up in an army hospital in France not knowing how he'd gotten there, because the influenza pandemic had caught him and left him delirious. Glad that only the "best people" are leading us.

Only the "best" people.

plaque on a bench in loving memory of me. I'm not dead yet, just self centered.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

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Democrat leadership -- masters of the circular firing squad. You have one job to complete by June: Make certain that at least one electable Democrat survives the primary. Do it. (Please.)

And the void stares back. . . .

Welcome to the neo-Tripartite?

Not sure if it's reducing the cortisol or dopamine more, but there *is* an effect.

"Senator, accidentally honest statements I may have made as a member of Congress are very different from those I would make as a brown-nosing lackey of Heavenly Father Trump. . . ."

Only the *best* people.

Personally, I found it sometimes *more* useful to include the "saids" in the audio -- if the narrator isn't clearly switching voices from one character to the other, the missing cue of a visible line break in written text can occasionally make it a bit confusing as to who is talking.

One must survey one's demesne from time to time.

I got a better intuitive grasp of statistics from D&D than I ever did from any math class.

Are "Christians" who don't follow the teaching of Christ actually Christian? (Hint: No.)

It's almost like religious hypocrisy is common among politicians. Shocking.

Rubio is no doubt jumping for joy that this inevitable "diplomatic" fiasco/albatross will end up being hung around Vance's neck.

If we in the U.S. don't want a "toll booth" put in place at Hormuz (a *very* bad notion), then perhaps we should start by insisting that our idiotic, demented president stop threatening to do so on our own or in partnership with Iran. The current situation is -- in every way -- his responsibility.

With what? Did they finally bring up the littoral ships with the mineclearing modules?

We miss you, Darrell Sweet.

Trust Donald to screw up surrendering.

Imagine how much we could make just directly selling them a batch of W80s! Deals galore!

Only one of them is reality . . . and everyone knows which one that is.

Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize!!

President Nyarlathotep Is Simply Engaging in Classic “Mad Outer God” Negotiating Tactics “This is classic Negotiating 101 courtesy of the Faceless God himself. Sure, he may have kicked it up a notch from ‘sheer madness’ to ‘abject depravity,’ but...

"We all know he’s the Crawling Chaos, and that title implies a certain degree of unpredictability. But even for him, his vow to “gorge on the carcass of humanity itself” unless his latest (albeit nebulous) demands are met is pretty intense."

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