LDAHL
Senior Member

In olden times, I worked on a project called ASAT, which had a mission of “negating hostile assets in space”. As you say, most intelligence-gathering...

Who brought up this “super creepy stuff” in the first place?

But a great deal more expensive.

How will the DNC impose its will on recalcitrant states? Especially places like New Hampshire or Georgia that are controlled by the bad people. They...

There are many branches on the great tree of stupidity. One of the most egregious is the unfounded assumption of superiority so often seen in in our...

So it really comes down to whether you consider arrogance and intransigence to be worse than incompetence and hypocrisy. Personally, I wouldn’t...

He tried to quietly return documents found by the lawyers he hired to “clean out his office” to the National Archive. Only when their IG began...

Looks like Tim Scott is teasing a run now.

Do you think Ray Liotta’s soul is amused in the afterlife that the last film he finished was “Cocaine Bear”?

I think you’re safe unless the rest of the PNW get ideas. They can get pretty creative with other people’s money too.

Does the GOP run the Florida High School Athletic Association?

Been there a few times. I mostly remember the bourbon, blues and barbecue.

Thermopylae will seem mild compared to the serried ranks of lawyers contesting the value of vineyards, Klimts and Gulfstreams.

I understand Norway, Switzerland and Spain have recurring (ie not just at death) taxes on net worth. France and Italy have partial wealth taxes, I...

Why is there only one national organization that designs these courses? I don’t think it matters that much for biology or physics, but if they start...

In general, a sales tax gets collected once at the retail level, while a VAT gets collected at each stage of the production process. Exempting...

People are forever comparing unfavorable output/cost ratios of American (Yeah, I said it, American) medicine to other countries. But we don’t do the...

Back in the eighties, DoD had electronic security standards (TEMPEST) that everyone had to confirm to. Some rooms you worked in had degaussers built...

It would have been funnier if he’d gone on “60 Minutes” the week before to scold someone else’s “irresponsibility.”

Well, it’s looking increasingly possible that Mr Reagan’s tenure as President will be twice as long as Mr Biden’s Maybe we should wait until then...

A hostile questioner at one of the debates raised that issue with him. He replied to the effect that he wouldn’t hold his opponent’s youth and...

A group of 40-60 year old women housed with a group of twenty-something men with the object of hooking up. To make it interesting, the men are their...

Sure he did. Once a subpoena was all but inevitable. This is the guy who hired a private legal team to clean out an office. The White House first...

Back in the day, I would have been shredded and pulped for mishandling classified material. They liked to make the occasional example to drive the...

I call it a sign of progress that politicians lie about being Jewish bankers to help their electoral chances. It makes lying about having been a...

I think they may have peaked when they got a professor fired because his organic chemistry course was too hard.

There’s a pretty long list. I’d start with the people who want to replace “field” with “practicum” lest anyone take offense. Then I’d work my way up...

Mar-a-Lago > Car-a-Lago It’s science!

I see that the State of California has a reparations task force, with a report due to the legislature in July. I would expect the proposed payout...

I see that the day after the President pronounced “There is no there there” (No doubt Gertrude Stein is grimacing in the Great Beyond) the FBI found...

Petty much just performance art, then?

It will certainly taint the concept when advocates raise less audacious if equally foolish proposals in the future.

Go nowhere? Probably. Go viral? Most definitely.

A “Land Acknowledgment” ritual before every meeting?

As my friend Virgil says, “Timeo Danaos et Dona ferentis”. As my friend Norbert says, “There’s never a Trojan around when you need one”.

I’m not a gatekeeper. I want to tear down the fence. When our new puritans want to scrub words like “mother”, “American”, “field” or “walk-in” from...

I’m talking more about our reaction to conditions rather than the conditions themselves. Those kids under the desks were a display of resolve against...

I think we’ve become a more fearful culture than we were three or four decades ago. Look at all the panics and counter-panics driven by Covid. We...

Made me think that a paper mask they hand out for free is a dumb choice of a hill to die on.

It may only be a matter of time until they come after “football” because it offends soccer fans. The same way “American” has been discovered to cause...

I see they found a third collection of documents in Delaware. You would have thought that when his people first discovered the problem a couple of...

There was a heart-rending piece on the CNN site about how damned busy poor Joe and his staff were in 2017 when the documents got lost. Another...

I liked the way Joe tried to display his goodwill by explaining that the second tranche of lost documents was stored in the garage where he keeps his...

Warns about construction or speed traps too.

Don’t lose that phone!

You’re right. We as a society may never recover. And the extinction of the McRib sandwich and the Choco Taco are a severe blow to junk food...

I would never give up my cell phone just because silly people sometimes do silly things with them. Look at all the things it replaces in one little...