It never ceases to amaze me that anyone, anywhere, would not know better than to misbehave on a flight. How many stories do you have to see to know that’s a 100% loser.

@Jolly said in Getting It Good & Hard: The last Republican mayor of Detroit was elected in the 1950's. I'd say Detroit went down a bit since then... Yeah, but look at Chicago. No question that there was all kinds of corruption, nepotism etc during the Daley (both of them) years. But Daley Jr did a great job of rehabbing the city. The Loop became vibrant, the city, at least the business and shopping areas, was clean. Rahm Emmanuel (remember him?) almost seemed like a placeholder, but the city didn't go into the crapper. That started under Lightfoot, and it'll continue, I fear, under Johnson. The last Republican mayor of Chicago was "Big Bill" Thompson in 1931. Wanna talk about corruption??.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Do it!: liked Martin Freeman's portrayal of Watson the most of the ones I've seen. His frustration and exasperation with Holmes is very funny and understandable, and he's by no means played as being a dummy. He was in the show that I watched. He was quite good also.

I think that the strictest is the Swartzentruber Amish. I do not believe that they even allow cushions in their house, except on the beds. Make it uncomfortable to sit around, and people won't sit around - they will go and do something. LOL

@jon-nyc said in HB 291: Hard to believe it’s necessary. The only place I’ve seen vaccines enforced in the last year is inbound US flights and that’s only for noncitizens. It was 18 months ago.

I dunno...that Judge Jeanine Piero book is looking tempting too. Let's take up a collection and get Jon both!

@Jolly Just lots of old mistakes That’s a given, been that way since before humanoids began to make tools.

Indeed. The buck doesn’t stop there. Not to mention she was domestic policy advisor and those are all foreign policy.

The modular system never worked right and the propulsion systems have been a nightmare, constantly breaking down. I don't understand why we don't configure the ships for a single mission, re-do the power plant/drive system to a conventional lay-out and get thirty years out of the hulls.

@Jolly said in Hey Phlebes: A thread for bloodsuckers? Let me consider that. Yup. You can Bank on it. It is.

I'm sorry, but the sentence should be 30 minutes in a 10x10 room with the child's family, with no charges being filed afterwards.

It seems to be cable TV's night of the long knives today. Maybe there's a connection!!!!

@George-K said in YouTube TV?: @Doctor-Phibes said in YouTube TV?: Sod that. You should see my cable bill.... We saved over $120 a month ditching Verizon cable when we moved. I do miss watching the Formula 1, but it was an awful lot of money just to watch a bunch of knobheads going round in circles, and since it was about the only commercial-free thing on there, that was all we watched.

We have an eagletarian marriage. She has eyes like a hawk, and will frequently pounce upon me from a great height, seemingly out of the blue. Other than that, I cannot comment.

It seems like frequently the problem isn't a good guy with a gun, but an idiot with a gun. There's no IQ test with these things.

@Horace said in Warren: "Reform SCOTUS": @jon-nyc said in Warren: "Reform SCOTUS": There is something unprincipled about “adjusting the relationship” if it’s done to punish political speech, which obviously this was. When an unprincipled but expedient public/private business relationship runs up against important cultural principles that voters are allowed to care about, then that business relationship can be adjusted, of course within the law. The voters are allowed to pick and choose with whom they do business. They are allowed to vote for politicians who will make those choices on their behalf. They would not be allowed to throw Disney management in prison or sick the IRS on them. No, only the Biden Justice Department can do the latter,

@jon-nyc said in Men Need More Love, the Longevity Inequity: Meanwhile there are half a dozen Offices of Women’s Health sprinkled throughout government and zero Offices of Men’s Health. Clear evidence of how effective government is!

@Copper Youngkin has already said "nope."

Nice to see Glenn Loury out there.