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- I like the current pace of the news coming out of the New York, Georgia and J6 probes. Understanding that we probably hear 20% of what’s happening (if that), that means they’re gettin’ shit done.
- Reportedly, Hannity had calls with Trump throughout Trump’s presidency, including after January 6th. A journalist would see those calls as a basis for a book giving insights into the President’s mind. Hannity sees it as a breach of media shill-presidential confidentiality.
- Play politics all you want, but leave the dogs alone. They’re pets, not pawns. Use your children for that.
- Republicans four years ago: “Look how much Trump has spent on arms to send to Ukraine!” Republicans now: “Why is Biden sending billions of dollars of arms to Ukraine? Why not just give Ukraine to Russia? They asked nicely for it.”
- Tucker Carlson is Neville Chamberlain with a TeeVee show.
- I like spicy food. Not all the time and rarely “melt paint” spicy. There’s nothing more disappointing when you order a spicy dish and it’s exceptionally bland–or the opposite: when you don’t want spicy and the food makes you sweat out your eyeballs. And I still haven’t gotten my sense of taste back fully since I got Covid in 2020, so “spicy” is one of the few flavor profiles I can still taste.
- When was the last time you had to give directions to someone? GPS has made us lazy about planning trips. Try giving directions to your grocery store using the road names and see what I mean.
- It’s hilarious that conservatives think Joe Biden should appoint Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court. It shows how she scares them.
- Those same conservatives say Biden should appoint–as Harris’ replacement when she goes to the Court–a Republican to be vice president in a sign of bipartisanship–because to them, only Democrats must show bipartisanship. It’s “Republican Privilege” to constantly act like a partisan ass and with a straight face urge Democrats to be bipartisan.
- How much do I have to pay Shriners Hospital to never have to watch their commercials again?
- Mitch McConnell is crying because he’s impotent to stop an appointment to the Supreme Court thanks to the Senate rules he passed.
- As someone with insomnia, I’ve been reading about “segmented sleep,” the sleep schedule of two defined periods of 3-4 hours of sleep, with a 1-2 hour “wake” period in between. Apparently, it’s how people slept before electric power, and for some, it’s more natural. For me, it means two periods of watching the clock numbers change slowly instead of just a single long one.
- I heard that dogs love snowfall because it deadens the sounds and smells they pick up, and it gives them a clean “palette” for their senses. The closest I get to that is the smell of clean laundry.
- A bunch of hardcore Trump supporters signed their names to their own arrest warrants when they signed on to be the alternate electors. They thought they were solidifying their cred as anti-Constitutionalists, but they paved their road to prison.
- Pence changing the language of the ceremony to count Electoral College votes on January 6th makes me wonder if he was trying to head off the plot, or trying to assist it. The language could signal that a state that had a forged slate challenging the legit ballots would have no votes cast. If so, Pence and Republicans are all complicit in trying to disenfranchise 26 million, or about 14%, of all voters.
- I’ve got a strange attachment to kitchen tools and the memories associated with them. My favorites: a pizza pan from the bar I once ran; my Lodge cast iron skillet, the first pan I ever bought; a bowl from the set that my family used growing up.
- Most stressful moments of my life: An IRS agent showing up at my company’s door telling me our payroll company had absconded with 18 months of payroll taxes that I had to pay. Watching people die, whether it’s over the course of months or in the blink of an eye. Every college academic deadline. My divorces were not stressful at all; the periods leading up to them were. And most surprisingly stressful was the last 12 minutes when my computer died before I could post RTF for the scheduled 10 p.m. ET drop time. (And my apologies to Mrs. Jack if I disturbed her as she was trying to get to sleep with the shouted expletive.)
