When I was living in Hawaii I used to say I was from Hawaii and half the people I talked to had no idea that was part of the US. From 2002-2005 it actually helped a lot.

I think a lot of people mistook and still mistake his his mania for energy and the fact that he never pushes himself and vacations prolifically for stamina

And it’s looking like getting the shot as an adult will clear any HPV infection you’ve had before leading to reductions in head and neck cancers as well. Get the shot if you were deemed too old to get it before.

What’s funny is him thinking his followers are familiar with Shakespeare.

(Yes, usury is a common antisemitic trope, but the Shakespeare thing was just sitting there)

I usually do that while I’m taking care of the cruft of my morning, like answering email and sorting through meeting notes. Then I feel like I can get work done.

Girl Scouts gets (or used to) some of the same grants the Boy Scouts do, but the USG has underwritten the annual Boy Scouts Jamboree and some of the campgrounds for decades. That’s the funding that is likely being cut. It’s a significant expense for scouting.

All the boys in our 1969s-70s neighborhood went through Boy Scouts, Dem or GOP households together. Same with girls and Girl Scouts, though it wasn’t all the girls. The true conservatives put their boys in Indian Guides, the YMCA sponsored fake Indian group, now defunct.