Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

A consequence of cucumbers

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Cole is on a roll !

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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  2. 2.

    Hotdamn

    I hear ya.
    I had a dream about work last night (for which I will demand to be compensated), so I am staying home today. I won’t work a double-shift.

  5. 5.

    Punchy

    But but but we haven’t heard about Lily’s first chewtoy/carpet peeing/pawshake/drool episode/hair shedding or the second and third bowel movement!

    /winks

  6. 6.

    New Case of Right Wing Terrorism

    New case of right wing terrorism – over the weekend in AZ three affiliated w/ border patrol/anti-immigration movement and aryan nations disguised as police forced themselves into the home of a suspected drug dealer, killed him, his 9yo daughter, and wounded his wife. Objective was to steal money and start a race war. Talking Points Memo has details.

  7. 7.

    Anna Granfors

    NOOOO!

    It was the FSM’s way of trying to speak to us, by sending you dreams!

    So, what did you dream of blogging ABOUT?

  8. 8.

    Laura W

    John is tired of blogging and taking the day off because he did a 13-post marathon yesterday/last night.
    I look forward to 14 today, since he’s “off” and all.

  10. 10.

    cmohrnc

    I had a dream about reading some blogs last night, so that means I can take the day off reading Balloon Juice and other blogs today. No double-shift for me. Besides, I like the way events were playing out in the dream-blog and dream-world much better than the way events are playing out in real-blog and real-world.

  12. 12.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Taking up the blogging slack, here’s Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, offering what you’d expect: Obama didn’t want to bomb Iran so he loves theocracies and so on (and of course Kagan doesn’t, if it’s our own) and blah blah blah, but this turn of phrase was particularly noticeable:

    Supporters of President Obama, who until very recently had railed against the Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” and who insisted on a new “realism,” have suddenly found themselves rooting for freedom and democracy in Iran.

    Got that? People who didn’t agree with Bush’s invading and bombing countries into piles of rubble in order to spread Democracy, preferring that those countries should decide these things for themselves, now find themselves in the position of cheering on people to decide for themselves! How “ironic”!

    His framing of Bush’s “freedom agenda” as the benign and fervent hope for world peace and nothing more makes Bush sound more like a beauty pageant contentestant than what he was as President.

    It gets worse from there.

    This would almost be nothing worthy of notice except that it’s as usual in the Washington Post, that famously liberal paper, where all of the Neocons like Kristol and Kagan and Krauthammer and other right wingers like Gerson and Will can barely get a word in edgewise, what with all the far left liberals like er, Michael Kinsley taking all the space.

  14. 14.

    jibeaux

    @New Case of Right Wing Terrorism:

    Why is it that the white supremacist/aryan nation types are always uglier than sin? Their best chance at creating semi-attractive children would be an interracial marriage, maybe they’d at least get a nice olive skin tone and pretty curly hair.

  15. 15.

    Dan

    Umm.. Really doesn’t count. I dreamt I was on the moon. But I really wasn’t. Back to work.

  16. 16.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Hotdamn:

    I had a dream about work last night (for which I will demand to be compensated), so I am staying home today. I won’t work a double-shift.

    When you ask to be paid for that I bet they answer “In your dreams”.

    Which would actually sort of make sense.

  19. 19.

    Betsy

    I dreamed about my dissertation last night, but sadly I still have to work on it if I ever hope to finish.

  20. 20.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Extravagance, check
    Gluttony, check
    Greed, check
    Discouragement, check
    Wrath, check
    Envy, check
    Pride, check

    Good on John Ensign for not paying this bitch hush money, and coming out with a statement taking accountability for his actions. She lived in a $1.2 million house she couldn’t afford. What a whore.

    Correction. A whore offers an honest service in exchange for compensation. A friend explained that the price tag for near-top-of-the-line service has fallen to $300/pop if you make the right pity pitch. I have met whores, but not in that manner, and they were very decent people.

    This went on for 8 months, figure twice a week. That is sixteen times. A mortgage payment on a $1.2 million house is probably $7000/month. She and her husband probably wanted the Senator to pay their mortgage going forward. This works out to $3500/pop, plus a future cash stream.

    I have decided to volunteer for John Ensign’s campaign if he chooses to run for President. As a separated man, he has the entitlement to see more tail than a toilet seat in the ladies room of a Mexican bus station. Poor judgment, good correction John.

  23. 23.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Is anyone else clicking “check for update” on iTunes every so often today?

  25. 25.

    Laura W

    @Ned R.: I’ve been hoping to ask you this for weeks, Ned.
    Will you be attending HONK’s concerts in July? And hopefully reviewing?
    I dream of being at the Dana Point performance!

    BTW, I can’t get the songs she has linked to play on my Mac but #1, I Wanna Do For You and #3, Don’t Let Your Goodbye Stand are two of my very faves. Got the CD weeks ago and it’s still playing in the car.

  27. 27.

    Xanthippas

    Got that? People who didn’t agree with Bush’s invading and bombing countries into piles of rubble in order to spread Democracy, preferring that those countries should decide these things for themselves, now find themselves in the position of cheering on people to decide for themselves! How “ironic”!

    Good catch. I read that and thought exactly the same thing. As would anyone with a brain who wasn’t also a dishonest hack.

  28. 28.

    The Moar You Know

    Good on John Ensign for not paying this bitch hush money

    @Brick Oven Bill: Actually, it was her husband/pimp that was asking for the money. He didn’t seem to have a problem with Mr. Ensign borrowing his wife every now and then, he just wanted to be compensated for the use of his property.

    Otherwise, I’m in agreement with you. People should never submit to blackmailers. The demands just keep escalating.

  29. 29.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @tripletee (formerly tBone):

    Nope. Been running 3.0 for months. Neener-neener.

    PPpppppppbbblllltttthhh.

    So, how is it?

    I guess I know basically, having seen the whole video and etc.

    @Ned R.:

    I just bought a 3G in May, partly because I needed one and partly because I’m absent-minded and wasn’t paying attention to when the new one was coming. None of them are locked here so I could probably sell it if I wanted to and just buy a new one even though I have a subscription. Might do so.

  30. 30.

    cleek

    Is anyone else clicking “check for update” on iTunes every so often today?

    new WIlco doesn’t come out till the 30th. so, no.

  31. 31.

    PaulW

    I had this crazy dream last night about going to work, but in bermuda shorts which you’re not supposed to do, but no one seemed to notice I was wearing shorts, and then for my lunch break I decided to go back home and change out my shorts for business slacks, and I started walking, and it had rained so the streets were barely flooded, about 4 inches deep, just enough so that you had to slog through these massive puddles, and I was three blocks from work when I realized I had a car, so I slogged back but down a different street, and the street was in view of the ocean, so blue and indifferent. And then I remembered I didn’t have a job, and I woke up.

    Oh. And Save Iran. Freedom for my peeps! :)

  32. 32.

    tripletee (formerly tBone)

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    So, how is it?
    I guess I know basically, having seen the whole video and etc.

    Good solid update – copy/paste and stereo A2DP were the two big features for me, and there are a lot of other nice little enhancements (autofill in Safari and a 30-second skip back button for podcasts are the two I can remember off the top of my head). With voice control and video recording in the 3GS, the iPhone finally has all of the features I was missing from my old Windows Mobile phone.

  33. 33.

    Punchy

    Lettuce agree to naught feed BOB’s obvious troll fer attenshun. Ignore it, young padawans.

  35. 35.

    Elroy's Lunch

    Sounds like we’re off and running on a Mac vs. All Others thread.

    And BoB’s is still (way) off the reservation.

    Sent from my iPhone. :)

  37. 37.

    Krista

    No dreams for me last night, just my nightly game of changing positions 40 times to try to get comfortable. I swear, this baby is riding so high that I almost expect to see fingers coming out of my nose.

  38. 38.

    LD50

    A friend explained that the price tag for near-top-of-the-line service has fallen to $300/pop if you make the right pity pitch.

    A ‘friend’ told you this. A ‘friend’. Got it.

  39. 39.

    jibeaux

    Okay, remember how we all chipped in (even me) for Svensker’s friend? Well, since it’s an open thread I have a cause for you, granted it’s a much less dire cause than Svensker’s friend. But a friend of mine was the district Teacher of the Year, and he received the email telling him about that at the same time he got an email telling him that the state was revoking funding for his award-winning technology students to go to a conference in Denver. The state in the past has paid the travel expenses, etc. for the national conference for students who win at the state level. They always have some kids to win this, and they pool those expenses to help defray the costs for the whole team to go. So this year, even though they had state winners, they got no assistance with their travel. So, ok, you don’t know him from Adam, but it’s for teachers, middle school kids, and science and technology, it’s tax deductible if you care to provide your name and address you will get a receipt — so I’m going to go ahead and link to the FB cause, what the hell. You may now resume your Mac-PC discussions in peace.

  40. 40.

    burnspbesq

    As of 6:15 a.m. PDT, the iPhone software wasn’t available yet, so I won’t get it until tonight.

  41. 41.

    tripletee (formerly tBone)

    @Krista:

    I swear, this baby is riding so high that I almost expect to see fingers coming out of my nose.

    Does he/she do those long arm/leg stretches that make your stomach look like a scene out of Alien? Those always freaked me out.

    You may now resume your Mac-PC discussions in peace.

    It’s either that or another ultra-emo thread where everyone cries over how cute John’s dog is…

  42. 42.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    $300/pop if you make the right pity pitch.

    Pity pitch?

    As in “take pity on me, I can only afford $300 for a high priced call girl?”

    Yeah that’s rough.

    We should see a whole new genre of blues songs coming out soon.

    “Woke up this morning, had only one high-priced call girl in my bed…

    Oh that penthouse was lookin sad and empty, people

    Gonna trade the Lamborghini for a Ferrari instead….”

  44. 44.

    Ash Can

    @Krista: At one of my OB visits during the beached-whale stage of my pregnancy, the doctor said to me, “Here’s the good news: So far, none of my patients have remained pregnant forever.” (I kept repeating those words to myself every 15 minutes or so for the two remaining weeks of my term.)

  45. 45.

    Elroy's Lunch

    It’s either that or another ultra-emo thread where everyone cries over how cute John’s dog is…

    Not me. I’m firmly in the cunning Tunchumus Maximus’ corner.

  46. 46.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    @Punchy:

    Lettuce agree to naught feed BOB’s obvious troll fer attenshun. Ignore it, young padawans.

    Damn. I was going to suggest that Brick Oven Bill be added to BJ’s roster of bloggers and featured on the front page.

  48. 48.

    R-Jud

    @Krista:

    I swear, this baby is riding so high that I almost expect to see fingers coming out of my nose.

    A few more weeks and you’ll expect him or her to point out when your footwear is untied. You are making strategic use of pillows to support yourself, right? I found hugging one like a teddybear helped.

    Last night I dreamt that my teeth were falling out while I was giving a presentation. The people in the boardroom were very patient about it at first.

  49. 49.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Go read this post by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is simply some of the best writing I’ve read online in quite some time.

    It is one thing to be judged immoral. But to be judged immoral and backward, at the same time, to be both debauched, and yet in your debauchery, still be a loser, is deeply painful. It was not bad enought that my people had been enslaved, but the fact that we were first enslaved by people who looked like me robbed us of any moral high ground.

    The South long evaded that painful reality, and when confronted with it, simply lied. Thus pre-War Jefferson Davis is arguing that the fight is over slavery and white Supremacy. Post-war he’s claiming it was about the sovereignty of states. To this day, 150 years later, you find people parroting this lie.
    Nathan Bedford Forrest (pictured above) is beautiful. Again, dig those steely eyes, that dead serious countenance, the warrior’s beard. His story is American–the dirt poor son of a blacksmith who becomes a millionaire. But he’s noble too, and volunteers to fight for his home state of glorious Tennessee. With no military training, he rises to the rank of Lieutenant General, giving the Union hell the whole time.

    It really is worth reading the entire post.

  51. 51.

    jibeaux

    @Ash Can:

    That’s funny, I love stock OB-GYN humor. My second was born at 5 a.m. and my regular doctor made rounds the next morning to scold me. “That’s a terrible time to have a baby! You should see Dr. X, she looks awful!”

  52. 52.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    15th anniversary of when The Juice ran loose in the Ford Bronco. Warrants mentioning…

    Does everyone remember what they were doing that day?

  55. 55.

    demimondian

    @tripletee (formerly tBone):

    It’s either that or another ultra-emo thread where everyone cries over how cute John’s dog is…

    Or it’s an ultra-emot thread in which everyone cries about how much like a PC John’s dog looks…or is she a Mac?

  56. 56.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    @AhabTRuler: ESPN had a “this day in sports” segment this morning. Game 5 of the NBA finals (NY/Houston) was going on when the slow-speed chase began and the game was basically pre-empted.

    Also – I remember that a Howard Stern listener pranked Al Michaels on ABC saying he was inside OJ’s compound on a cell phone and could see Simpson in the Bronco.

  57. 57.

    AhabTRuler

    Or it’s an ultra-emot thread in which everyone cries about how much like a PC John’s dog looks…or is she a Mac?

    I thought that all of John’s pets were Unix?

  58. 58.

    The Moar You Know

    Does everyone remember what they were doing that day?

    @Gordon, The Big Express Engine: Drinking in front of the TV (I got absolutely smashed that day) hoping that OJ would pull a Budd Dwyer and blow his brains out on national television. Sadly it didn’t work out that way.

  61. 61.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @AhabTRuler:

    I thought that all of John’s pets were Unix?

    You mean they have unnaturally high voices?

    Well that’s easier, he won’t have to get them spayed anyway.

  63. 63.

    SGEW

    @The Grand Panjandrum: It was probably the best blog post I’ve read anywhere in a long while (even including Ta-Nehisi’s other pieces of brilliant conversating). Man, I love his stuff. Him and hilzoy are probably the only voices on the internet I really trust.

  64. 64.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Here is another example of why sometimes it is cheaper to just pay for it: Paul McCartney. This five-year marriage cost him $48,600,000 plus $70,000/month. Let us do the math:

    Year of Marriage/Estimated average times per week
    1/4*
    2/2
    3/1
    4/0
    5/0

    *Number highly skewed towards the first quarter.

    So Aggregate times = (4)(52) + (2)(52) + (1)(52) = 364 times

    Dividing $48,600,000 by 364 equals $133,000 per time (and counting). This is not worth it.

    So, the answer, following the division of the United States, is to abolish feminism and adopt the Islamic tradition of easy break ups if she gets out of line. This will encourage more marriage, and make everybody happier.

  67. 67.

    YellowJournalism

    @R-Jud: Ugh. The teeth falling out dreams are the worst. I always wake up with my hands to my face, my tongue searching frantically to make sure everything is still there. I hated the feeling of loose teeth when I was a child, so the memory of how it felt to have a tooth come loose and then out (chewing on it, even) always pervades every tooth-loss dream.

    I actually got some sleep last night. I didn’t have to eat an entire bottle of Tums, and there was only occasional shifting during the night. My son didn’t wake me up at the butt-crack of dawn. I feel great today.

  68. 68.

    Krista

    Does he/she do those long arm/leg stretches that make your stomach look like a scene out of Alien? Those always freaked me out.

    Not yet — it’s more that I occasionally see a large mound slowly moving under my skin. Right now, the upper-left quadrant of my belly is almost flat, while the upper-right quadrant is this big, firm mound. It’s an unusual experience to try to type while leaning back at a 45 degree angle, and to the left at about a 15 degree angle.

  70. 70.

    Krista

    The teeth falling out dreams are the worst.

    I know – and they always seem so REAL at the time.

  71. 71.

    valdivia

    quick question–have any of you been able to log onto Steve Bennen’s site at Washington Monthly? I have been getting ‘the site does not exist’ messages all day. Thanks.

  74. 74.

    GregB

    Fox News meat puppet laments “misogyny against women”.

    Funny stuff.

    Fox News, we report, you deride.

    -G

  76. 76.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    Sounds like you’re speaking from experience. How long was the period between the time your wife stopped giving it up and your divorce filing?

  79. 79.

    Comrade Darkness

    I had a dream about glass houses.

    Maybe I should go find some stones to throw.

  82. 82.

    John PM

    I had a dream about blogging, so I think I’m just going to go ahead and take the day off.

    Well, great, now what am I supposed to do? Work?

  83. 83.

    DZ

    @Gordon, The Big Express Engine:

    I was smoking pot with my just turned 18 twin daughters in the backyard of our house in SF – something I had committed to do when they were 14. You know, parent crap – if you avoid pot until you’re 18 then I will be the one to smoke it with you first.

  85. 85.

    p.a.

    My second (of two) office jobs had so much paperwork involved I had a recurring dream. Well, twice that I remember. I was tied down spread eagle (but comfortable) on top of a grass covered hill. Beautiful, sunny day, mid 70’s. A small plane kept circling over me dropping service orders out. They fluttered down gently, covering me slowly, like a soft paper snowstorm.

  86. 86.

    Gus

    Smart move, but once the dreams start they won’t stop. I still have dreams about high school, 26 years after graduating. I still have nightmares about a job I left 6 years ago.

  87. 87.

    jake 4 that 1

    @valdivia:

    I just tried and got this:

    Welcome
    You see this page because you have set up your Web server for serving a new site, but have not uploaded the site content yet

    .

    Could it be … WaMo is updating its site to 1999 standards?!

    Be still, heart.

    I just dropped Steve B. a line asking ‘Sup?

  88. 88.

    Jon H

    I hate how CNN.com cranks up the hyperbole on everything. “Obama slams Fox News coverage”

    That was no ‘slam’.

  90. 90.

    Irrelevant,YetPoignant

    @DZ: Look out! Marijuana can be a gateway to more parent-child bonding moments.

    An Anecdote from my teenage years:

    Me: So Dad, why did your generation call it “grass”?
    Father: Well, I suppose because the dried out leaves sort of look like grass, don’t you think?
    M: The leaves? You smoked the leaves? I didn’t even know that could get you high!
    F: Well what on earth else does one smoke?
    M: The buds.
    (meditative pause)
    F: Really?

  93. 93.

    Krista

    @Krista: Babies are super weird. I disapprove. You should have just bought a kitten.

    They ARE less maintenance, but I’d be living off of Claritin for the entirety of its life. I’m horribly allergic to cats. Besides, we have eagles and ospreys around our house, and I’d be too worried about kitty becoming a nice light snack.

    I was smoking pot with my just turned 18 twin daughters in the backyard of our house in SF – something I had committed to do when they were 14. You know, parent crap – if you avoid pot until you’re 18 then I will be the one to smoke it with you first.

    Did they find that incredibly bizarre to see you doing that? I know my mom tried it back in the 70’s (she wound up getting a bad case of paranoia and hid in the closet for the rest of the party – the mental image always makes me laugh.) But I never saw her smoke it — that would be just really weird.

  94. 94.

    Zifnab

    @Jon H: Did you see the Scientology Ad running on Anderson Cooper 360? I’m waiting for the brainsucking evil that is Scientology to find a soulless host to latch itself on to in its’ mission to conquer the world. In the mind numbing trifecta of Wolf Blitzer, Nancy Grace, and Larry King, I believe they may have hit the jackpot.

    If they pump enough ad dollars in, it won’t be long before we get “Expose America: Could Scientology be the Bestest Religion Evar?!”

  95. 95.

    Indylib

    @Krista:

    I swear, this baby is riding so high that I almost expect to see fingers coming out of my nose.

    Well, the good news is when you feel the baby drop you know you are getting close to the big day.
    Do you have name choices picked out yet?

  97. 97.

    gex

    If John ever ends up taking Am-antispam-bien, do you suppose we’ll get some sleep-blogging?

  98. 98.

    passerby

    @jibeaux:

    Consider it done jibeaux.

    When I was in HS, a group I was in was heading for a competition in Chicago. Someone had the bright idea that to raise money, we were to stand at a busy intersection with cans and collect from cars stopped at the light.

    There are no words to describe the loathing I had for that activity.

    The annual trips to the midwest were always fun. IMO, the soliciting group is being shy using the example of $10 from 100 folks. Its a long way from Chapel Hill to Denver.

    Since I don’t have kids, and since I haven’t forgotten how miserable I was when faced with the task of door to door fundraising, I always make it a point to support the neighborhood kids whether they’re selling candy, or coupon books or Girl Scout cookies or just collecting change in front of the Bi-Lo.

    Good luck to the group with my best wishes.

  99. 99.

    DZ

    @Krista:

    For all my technical expertise, tags are my downfall, so I’m still figuring out the way to blockquote

    In any event, yes, they did find the experience bizarre. They were amazed by the fat No CA buds that I had. They were weirded out by me rolling a fat joint. There were completely weirded out when I smoked the roach down to the bone and then put it out on my tongue. Old college thing.

    But, they got totally stoned, didn’t really like it, and, to my knowledge, never smoked it again. They are internists today. I remain unreconstructed in that way but frequency is way down.

  100. 100.

    Zifnab

    @Krista:

    They ARE less maintenance, but I’d be living off of Claritin for the entirety of its life. I’m horribly allergic to cats. Besides, we have eagles and ospreys around our house, and I’d be too worried about kitty becoming a nice light snack.

    Fair enough. Just be aware that eagles and osprey aren’t against a tasty baby every now and again, too.

    Just remember not to waste the best part of pregnancy.
    http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5426/20051017hiv0.jpg
    http://pregnancy.about.com/od/placenta/a/placentarecipes.htm

    /ducks

  101. 101.

    passerby

    @DZ:

    To blockquote, highlight the text you want to appear in the block then click the B-QUOTE tag.

    [though be warned, this may be a case of the blind leading the blind]

  102. 102.

    Krista

    Do you have name choices picked out yet?

    We’ve got a short-list, but it’s still under revision. I expect we’ll have the child named at some point before he or she starts school, at this rate.

    DZ: well, I’m glad that worked so well. The “cool and forbidden” factor was probably taken off of the weed by seeing their parent smoke it. LOL. (Mind you, I saw my parents drinking beer and wine while growing up, but still found it mighty alluring during university, so that theory has some flaws.)

    Just remember not to waste the best part of pregnancy.

    No. Just…no. That shit is just not right at all, I’m sorry.

  106. 106.

    asiangrrlMN

    Heh. The minute I saw Cole saying he wasn’t posting any more, I knew we were in for a long day.

    Washington Monthly is back up. It just started working about five minutes ago.

    You all are newbies when it comes to dreams. Sigh. I wish I had y’all’s dreams.

  107. 107.

    asiangrrlMN

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! Brett Favre is planning a comeback…WITH MY VIKINGS!!!!!!!!

    HEELLLLLL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    That is all.

  112. 112.

    andrea

    Least John could have done was to leave pics of Lily and Tunch.

    Argh Brett, how can we miss you if you won’t go away.

  113. 113.

    jibeaux

    @passerby:

    Consider you thanked! They have already been holding car washes, hitting up friends and family and teachers’ friends and family, etc., so I think that’s where the $10 from 100 people figure came from. Seriously, very kind of you to chip in, if you’ve run out of friends it’s time to turn to strangers and you came through, and I appreciate it. He felt it was pretty ironic to win Teacher of the Year, which comes with no prizes or bonus or anything, plus this year got the travel funding taken away from the kids he coached — but congratulations! What an honor! What a — nothing else!

    Anyway, I always get the coupon books, too, and I am a dead mark for the Girl Scout cookies. Did you know that if you put Thin Mints in the freezer to try to stop yourself from eating half the box that it only makes them MORE appealing?

  115. 115.

    Comrade Darkness

    @Throwin Stones: You know what is really funny? The dream was specifically about *designing* a glass house for myself. (I’ve been kicking around the idea of building a concrete house, actually) And in the dream I’m standing in front of someone else’s glass house, evaluating it, and the really funny part? I’m thinking, man, the windows are just WAY too big.

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