Boring, but competent:

This is the best thing I've seen in weeks. I laughed and smiled throughout the whole thing.

I am curious to know what exactly their plan was to identify Bill 37 in a field of other Bills.

A pretty clever move from him.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051023120710.htm

"Rittenhouse took the lives of innocent people with the intent to do so—by strapping an assault rifle to himself in a crowd of unarmed citizens. That is the textbook definition of intention. Uh, no it isn’t. I think the school needs to look at some of their admissions standards in the other direction….

I wonder if they got dr. Fauci's approval....

That's something she'll remember for a lifetime. Impressive.

(Had I used a polarizer there'd have been no reflection. Ah well, fuck it.)

There’s no way that boat made it that far without an army of tug boats. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

The Smithfield Little Theatre is back up and running. We have the season subscription. Last month was Virginia Wolf. We went opening night. There were maybe 30 people in 175 seats. That was Thursday night, I assume attendance improved over the weekend. Next up is Clue in February.

@taiwan_girl said in Using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to make profit for the tax payers: @george-k said in Using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to make profit for the tax payers: Charles Lane (WSJ) said the biggest mistake of doing this is letting the people think that the president actually has some control over gasoline prices. This Julia Horowitz (see CNN tweet above) obviously disagrees, at least for now.

@george-k Good to know, I agree about pushing with the thumb, but turning is probably best with my index finger. We'll see..... ho ho ho

Also... married for 55 years and counting.

Which I understand was not a great deal better than this one.

She’s much better, thanks. Fever was gone yesterday and she was fine today. But the cookies….the cookies…

Two sides to every story and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. (Note to add: I have not followed this story so closely so dont have an opinion on one side or the other).

Interesting. There is one thing about Taiwan that I dont think most people know - it is actually very mountainous. Probably 2/3 of the island is mountains, and it is only along the western coast that the land is pretty flat and that is where most people live. However, I do not think that mainland china will "physically" invade. I think they would try and blockade us. Probably try to damage the port of Kaohsiung in the south and near Taipei in the north.

@jon-nyc Thank you. That is a cool area of paris!