This morning, I saw two squirrels chasing each other up and down the big palm tree in the backyard. Minnie was straining at the leash to get at them. So I let her off the leash to circle around the tree and jump for a while. Whether this was kind or cruel of me depends on whether you view things from the perspective of the dog or the squirrels.
After washing up for bed I put on my sleep T-shirt and then I realized I had absentmindedly put on my exercise T-shirt, so I took it off and put on my sleep T-shirt, but then I realized I had absentmindedly put on my everyday T-shirt and I took that off and put on my sleep T-shirt.
Then I thought of a recent post by John Scalzi in a similar situation where he talked about needing to sit his brain down and have a conversation about how T-shirts work.
I thought for a minute about attending World of Coffee SanDiego in April, but if I’m reading the website right, even a one-day Sunday pass would cost me $105, which is a lot.
Nobody remembers the planes that don't crash
American diplomacy and espionage were ambushed by the fall of the Shah of Iran, the fall of the USSR, and 9/11. Are they useless? Or are there occasions when they headed off catastrophe and we — most Americans — just weren’t paying attention?
Trump has hit the basement of his support now — and he's never going to lose these supporters
For the people who still support Trump today, no revelation or action will cause them to give up on him.
Based on what we know so far, it seems likely that Trump engaged in vile, depraved sexual practices. His business was a massive money-laundering operation. He openly and nakedly accepts bribes in staggering volumes. He falls asleep in meetings and demonstrates mental incompetence.
And yet Trump’s approval rating stands at 40%. Two fifths of America voters look at Trump and think that he’s their boy!
If the Republicans are soundly defeated this year — and pray that happens! — the people who support Trump today will continue supporting him for decades and believe that he was betrayed.
The game now is to activate the apathetic voters, the people who believe that Democrats are no better than Trump, and that there’s nothing we can do to make things better. That’s the Democrats’ job, and the Democrats have been shit at it so far (which a few exceptions — hi, Zohran Mamdani!).
An important update on my earlier “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” take: I am informed by car-guy friends that Citroëns were sold in the United States until 1975, so it is perfectly plausible that Giles would have been driving a decrepit Citroën 25 years later.
Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work. In case you wondered about that.