Care work is the quiet engine of this country, and our politics have never risen to meet the people who hold us through childhood, disability, illness, and aging.

He keeps “acing” these cognitive tests, as if they were the SAT or something like that, as opposed to some diagnostic to determine if 5150ing the rat bastard is the best course of action for his and our safety.

The entire stock market is a hostage situation. Maybe a better analogy for the market is everyone aboard bailing like mad so the ship doesn't sink. Or perhaps the most ironic example of "United we stand, divided we fall"

Proof positive that Kennedy has prescribed himself some powerful meds.

One of my faves was a real-time chyron that transcribed a voiced "Margery Taylor Green" to "marginally Taylor Green"

The Ancients podcast has a series on the fall of Rome that I recommend highly. Here's a link to the main pod page: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
And one to the first in a series on Rome's "fall":
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If only the dog could tell us the REAL story.

What do you think the machine by Weird Science is? Adding machine?

You probably have to rethink more. When your city is 1,290.6 km2, and there is no city center ... you're kinda screwed. It would need to have been rethunk over a decade ago. Wish we could start over. (Los Angeles, but other cities as well.)

Does anyone know when Mar-a-Lago will be under water? (I'm really tired of waiting...)

I have trouble with the books located in LA where someone is in Long Beach and they suddenly need to get to Oxnard and it takes them 45 minutes. And anyone who says "I'll be right there" in LA isn't in LA.