Love that I subscribed to a block list that took care of it before I ever knew he was here.

In the DC suburbs you get people looking for day labor work in convenience store parking lots, right outside of the U-Haul property, etc.

It’s not even that interesting. In 7th grade he needed one more subscription to win a prize, so he bought one to Guns & Ammo, and then actually read it. He really liked Charlton Heston’s column, and he ended up self-radicalizing.

Wipe your sunburn with some vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar, because I always have some). Takes the sting right out.

Then you get someone like me who will accidentally send you in the wrong direction since I compress distance in my brain and will forget that there are several intersections in the middle there somewhere.

They become their own markers, though.

I was on it and then ended up without coverage, and had to go off of it. I never had an issue with alcohol, but I continue to have no desire for it at all. I had been a 1-2 units per week drinker and now it’s more like 1 per month or less. The food noise in my brain is also still greatly reduced.

I’d think that improved vascular health would decrease the incidence of vascular dementia, the second most common type of dementia.

We are the same age, and I have the same reaction. There’s also a pretty direct parallel between the Republican base reaction to Iran-Contra and January 6. Both obviously illegal and both staunchly defended by the base. Of course, I watched the hearings directly on CSPAN after school.

My dog Scout was running around the house, slipped on the hardwood and went into a skid, landing with his toenail on top of my pinky toe, breaking it.

There was a deli in Columbia, MD in the 90s that had a “California Health Sandwich.” It was a double decker on sunflower seed bread with hot mustard and filled with cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, alfalfa sprouts, and havarti cheese. I think they made the mustard in-house.

LOC’s Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is also quite beautiful in a very different way. You cannot tour the facility, but their magnificent theater does public film screenings most Fridays and Saturdays.

Pair this with Vance being on record as advocating for this administration to ignore court rulings because he apparently believes that this is where the checks and balances lie. Yale really needs to rescind his JD independent of the Bar yanking his license.

He was advocating for that stuff before Oprah. She amplified him, she did not create him.

Cheese & dagger skills - but if it’s only cheese, I’m still in.

I get that. But if the federal government says that congestion pricing is illegal, then it is also in the interest of other entities that get to set congestion pricing in other jurisdictions to lobby on behalf of the MTA so that they do not miss out on their own profits.

I’m sure that Transurban was also lobbying on this issue. They operate the express lanes in Virginia around DC and down to the bedroom communities, and their whole business model is based on congestion pricing. They own 50% of those lanes and get 100% of the fees for decades.

I suspect there’s going to be a tipping point soon, but it’s hard to say whether we are too spread out for massive protests to be widespread enough to be effective. Sane people need to do the same local to state then federal ground-up takeover on the left that the right did.

59% of us are one paycheck away from homelessness. Yes, people care less about distant federal government than they care about food and rent, and cannot see how they can risk the food and rent to change the distant federal government. There hasn’t been enough widespread pain to change that.

If you’ve been paying attention to the efforts to disenfranchise people, it shouldn’t surprise you that it works.

A lot of this comes down to voter registration. There’s a 30% gap between eligibility numbers and registration numbers nationally, from what I have seen. And that may be less about caring and more about access to registration offices, documents needed to register, and time off to do it.

There are never too many doggos.

That’s so sad. I remember my mom telling me that she and my dad were allowed to look at other people, because “we’re married, not dead.” They were married for 53 years.

Kennedy directly called it a crisis during his radio and television address on October 22, 1962.

That said, my father lived through it and said that contemporary news coverage called it the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a senior in high school and worked part-time at a local radio station.

Cuba called it that

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Nightmare fuel

Because then he can have actual serfs.

It really helps to turn on the stove before you add the food to your pan. #themoreyouknow

A brown tabby kitten is trying to climb out of a soft-sided carrier in the front seat of the car. This is Bowie, he has just been handed over to come home at a little under 3 months old.

Bowie is no longer a kitten, but this is what he looked like a year ago. He’s still a very sweet boy.