Woman's definition of a bastard: A man with a three-inch dick and a ten-inch tongue, and all he wants to do is screw.

It's his schtick. Like Ann, I find him occasionally entertaining. I make no pretensions about being in the political middle. The only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

The jokes have been flying among my old “Debit Suisse” buddies but this is overblown and they’ll be fine.

@Jolly said in The New Term: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126041958/supreme-court-new-term a tumultuous term a second potentially stormy term sustained and dramatic turn to the right overturning of a half century of precedents it finds its approval ratings plummeting And that's in the first two paragraphs. The starkest question is whether the previous decisions were grievously wrong, the same rationale the court majority used last term in overturning Roe v. Wade. Good, now do Plessy. Since 2013, the court has struck down or neutered key provisions of the landmark 1965 law "Neutered." Nice. It's a shame that Ginsburg isn't around to proofread Totenberg's screed.

Don't know about East Texas, especially down near the Gulf. West Texas is bad. Been a lot of herd culling this year, just not enough grass...And hay prices will be higher than a cat's back this winter.

Shelby is no longer PC.

Except the groupings in gin rummy are all logical and don’t change every year.

@George-K said in Hurricane Ian: [image: 1664816220488-screen-shot-2022-10-03-at-11.56.21-am-copy.jpg] Well, they're kinda right. Served for dinner not came to...

There have definitely been some core "groups" that generally started and stopped about the same time, and I would argue made some of the better seasons of SNL... late 70s, mid-80s, mid-90s, and late 2000s... but there is a larger cast it seems lately, with changes, so it does feel less consistent. I think also SNL faces an insane amount of streaming/alternate pressures that no longer makes it a weekly staple of entertainment that some used to rely on it for. That being said, I watched a little bit of it last weekend for the first time in probably 10 years. Ironic.

Leave it to the video maker to monkey around like that.

The painted on “clothing” has been HUGE with cosplayers at Sci-fi/Comic Book Cons.

Sit down and shut up, you incontinent witch.

Oddball lab fact... In Africa, pretty common not to have a very robust or very competent medical lab testing system, especially in rural areas. Some LFT results should be confirmed by more rigorous methods...HIV being the most prominent. Not in much of Africa. You ping positive on one LFT, the doc will reach for a different manufacturer's kit. You ping positive on that one, and tag you're it. Diagnosis established. I have a friend that travels around the world for the ASCP, trying to institute lab personnel training programs. She has some pretty neat stories...

Was announced this morning that DISH and Disney came to a handshake agreement. Details will be released after the contract is finished.

Hard to snuggle up with a frog, though...

@Klaus said in From postmodern abundance to premodern survival: I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but he seems to be a little late to the party. Look at the books from Charles Murray, Heather McDonald, Andrew Doyle, ... . They've been saying similar things for years. But you see, they required entire books to establish and support their conclusions. Mr. Hanson did it in a few paragraphs. Therefore he is greater. Books? Give me a break… (snort)