Supreme Court throws out convictions of New Jersey officials in Bridgegate scandal – Political corruption is legal. That’s literally what the Supreme Court said. Unanimous ruling. Even the liberals went along with this bullshit.
The first Google account you sign in to is set as the default account. This was driving me nuts until I figured it out.
“She’s starting to shake! She’s starting to shimmy!". Thanks, @odd!
Everybody alive today will be somewhat germophobic the rest of their lives. Like the way my parents' generation, who grew up in the Depression, were always frugal in at least some ways.
[Several years ago]
JULIE: “What is ‘mansplaining?'”
ME:
ME: “This is a trick, isn’t it?”
Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic
++ Alvim Corrêa’s beautiful, bleak illustrations from the 1900 French edition of HG Wells' “War of the Worlds.”
++ Lobbyists are lobbying for big financial bailouts for … themselves. After ensuring that the bulk of previous bailouts went to fat-cat businesses who don’t need the money, lobbyists want their turn at the trough.
++ Either we sacrifice landlords and banks to save businesses and jobs, or we lose the businesses and jobs and take the landlords and banks with them.
++ Chef Itsuo Kobayashi has done beautiful paintings of every meal he’s eaten for 32 years.
++ An appeals court says Miami jail doesn’t need to provide soap, making waiting for a hearing into a possible death sentence, and encouraging the spread of coronavirus, not just in prison, but to the population at large.
++ Ohio has a snitchline for bosses whose employees won’t go back to work, so those workers can be denied unemployment benefits. Great way to increase the death toll, Ohio!
I am hosting a video conference for dozens or hundreds of people this evening so of course today seemed like a good day for me to get my first shaving cut in years. And it was a big one. My bathroom this morning looked like the Texas chainsaw massacre.
The grocery store was nearly out of our favorite brand of cookies, Tate’s.
Lots of gluten-free cookies left, though.
I guess people are all if I’m gonna be dead in month fuck it I’m having gluten.
We watched the first episode of “Rome” last night. Polly Walker is va va va voom. I am attracted to smart, sexy auburn-haired women who can have me put to death.
We may be dramatically overestimating China’s capabilities – David Ignatius on The Washington Post – We may be making China seem more capable than it actually is, as we did with the supposedly unstoppable Japanese economy of the 1980s and the US/USSR “missile gap” decades earlier.
The Washington establishment needs an existential foreign threat.