@jon-nyc good points. The defiance of a subpoena is always a bad look, and promotes the "What are you hiding mentality," whether it be Bannon, Holder or Lerner. Whoops. My bad...only one of them was held accountable. But yeah, there's a place for - I hesitate to use the word - "secrecy" in government. Still when "oversight" doesn't get "oversight" is stinks. Behind closed (non-leaking - heh) doors, perhaps would be another solution. The other problem is that these meetings usually end up being nothing more than political grandstanding, and little real knowledge is delivered, or even sought.

Interesting to see local inner city orange surrounded by suburb blue. You see that in Houston and Dallas. I've only recently learned how entirely screwed up Houston is, with a pro-crime DA.

So is Doctor Jill the first woman?

Those are pretty common figures on the web. I'd say they're right.

Not. Funny.

We’ve still got all of our old iPads (except for the very first when that broke when I dropped it, and the one that flew off the Steve’s car on the interstate when he left it on the roof of his car - he went back and found it, but it had a big tire mark on the cover) I use the old ones to store photos on that I use for painting references (so much easier to have a photo on a big screen, can’t believe I used to paint huge paintings from tiny 3.5 x 5 photographs).

Hmm. Looked at the dates. We get back from Alohaland 4/16, have theatre tickets 4/18 and head for Winston Salem 4/4 for graduation. That would be tight. If we can make it, would you like to go?

Aerogarden is great for starting plants that you will transplant into larger pots. But as an herb garden of its own? Problematic as the plants never grow quite as beautifully or as evenly as the pictures they show. Usually, one of the three plants takes over. I haven't learned yet how to prune them to the right shape. I'm about to start some new herbs for the summer. If you really want to grow them inside you need a bigger, taller unit.

The dirtiest job?

Let's talk a bit about Kim...She and my wife are not close kin, they're either 3rd or 4th cousins. She's from Tickfaw, but she has kin up this way. She was a helluva high school player. My old high school has a trophy case littered with girl's state championship trophies. We were in a different classification than Hammond, but everybody in Louisiana girl's basketball knew who Kim was. At the Sweet 16 (girls tournament held at one location) she led Hammond to four state championships. She went to college at Louisiana Tech, where she won two national championships (the talking heads were wrong on tv today, one of Kim's college championships was AIAW which was the championship before NCAA). She later won another championship at Tech as an assistant coach . Kim also won a gold medal in Olympic Women's Basketball. Some folks wonder why Kim didn't replace Barmore, but you don't replace the winningest coach in college basketball. When Barmore did retire, he'd won almost 90% of all games he coached. Kim took the head coach job at Baylor and won 3 national championships, including one with a 40-0 team. Now, Kim has a natty at LSU, in just her second year Since the inception of the NCAA Women's Tournament in 1982, Mulkey has been in the tournament as player or coach every year except for 1985 and 2003. She is an absolute 5'4" fireball in high heels.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/mcdonalds-temporarily-shuts-us-offices-chain-prepares-layoff-notices-wsj-2023-04-02/ McDonald's will be laying off corporate staff. It has temporarily shutdown US offices, told staff not to come into office so they can receive layoff news virtually.

@jon-nyc said in TNCR has a manual: @Copper said in TNCR has a manual: It should say on the internet, not in the internet. This should be Appendix A to the manual. Erata.

@LuFins-Dad said in Hay LD: Thanks! Though I’m not sure how many more I should follow… Started following a few and now my feed is so full of trans stuff that I can’t really get an accurate feel about how relevant this really is. I’m also getting disturbed by how much it’s bringing out the worst in everyone. I don’t know. I have to find more joyous Twitter recommendations in my feed… Mark Hamill and Pat Sajack both have pretty good Twitter games.

I wonder if he'll be let out on bail, or will he be locked up in solitary.

@mark said in Stoned & Dead: it was easier to obtain It was very easy for my neighbor. When I was growing up, my next door neighbor was named Tom McNichols, everyone called him Red. He was 2 years older than me. We played ball together when we were young. At one time he was considered the largest pot dealer on the east coast. He imported by the ton. Here is a PBS Frontline story about him. They have video of him leaving an auction in London after buying John Lennon's piano, for $19K cash. Red had good taste and he ended up with a significant pile of cash before the feds took it all away. He also owned several places in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston. He wasn't really a tough guy or anything like that, he was a very nice guy, mellow. Maybe it was the weed. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/whoprofits.html Link to video

@Jolly said in Is our children learning?: I understand some healthy skepticism, but this stuff is being fought out in schoolboards across the nation. I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt and we had groomers decrying the removal of some books from school libraries. They got heard and then they were ignored. As parents said...You want your child to wallow in crap, buy it for them yourselves. Okay, this is confusing . . . the quote you're responding to here is what I posted to answer a point Lufin made believing I had misunderstood something. A clarification IOW. I wasn't making any point of my own. Might not be worth clarifying.

Bury that bastard. I hear McDonald's is hiring...

@Mik said in Seen at O’Hare: GreaT idea. City employees probably can’t afford weed on their salaries. Bennies are bennies.