Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

We still have time to mess this up!

Bark louder, little dog.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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  2. 2.

    Joseph Nobles

    I don’t understand why Obama was going to have to shoot down the Israeli planes himself. Couldn’t he have given the Iranians a heads up and let them do it? That’s Obama’s real problem: bogarting all the evil.

  4. 4.

    ruemara

    I’m working on sales projections and marketing strategy. So many numbers. I don’t know how anyone survives a job with so much math. Gross. I hate this and want to get back to creating.

    But this is my job. I will be effective. Does anyone else use mantras to get through presentations?

  5. 5.

    Violet

    Going through paperwork. Everything piled up when my parents had their health problems last year and it’s like digging through a mountain to get through it. Plus some of this mess is because of moving twice in one year. I’ve saved things I have no idea why I’ve saved. Random business cards for people or businesses I don’t recognize. Amazon packing slips for things that arrived years ago. A menu from a restaurant I went to on my birthday about five years ago. The restaurant no longer exists. The recycling bin is getting full and the shredder is getting a workout.

  6. 6.

    jl

    What other wonders of the world are unfolding up there in Canadian suburbs?
    Canucks been holding out.

  7. 7.

    Violet

    @ruemara:

    Does anyone else use mantras to get through presentations?

    To get through life, not just presentations.

    I will be effective

    Change it to “I am effective.” Your brain hears it differently and interprets it as now, not some random, undefined time in the future. Works better.

  8. 8.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Great Dane is sleeping upside-down, snoring and I have to wake him up and get him out for a walk. If you don’t hear from me again, it means he finally got the upper hand and left me for dead in a the ditch.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    My 10 yr old has mastered the drop-step, left hand sweep as he goes to the hoop.
    Fucking poetry.

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    I hate STAAR testing and I hate this fucking WH admin and I hate several successive DoE bosses named by Obama.
    You are fucking all these kids. And feeding all the BS talking points of your wingnut enemies.

  14. 14.

    Bystander

    David Roth could be the next head of ABC News.

    Meanwhile, President McCain put out a feeler today. He mused, what is stopping us from flooding the Polish/Russian border with soldiers and armaments. What better way to protest Putin? BTW and most comically, McSame had preceded this with a psychoanalysis that Putin is a megalomaniac and has no regard for the consequences of his actions. To ice the cake, he reiterated how ashamed he is that we haven’t handed WMD to the Ukraineniks, presumably along with shovels and a promise to send in the stone utters once the smoke clears.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @ruemara: Sure. “I will not put this framing hammer thru this a-holes head. I will not put this framing hammer thru this a-holes head. I will not put this framing hammer thru this a-holes head. I will not put this framing hammer thru this a-holes head…..”

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    Personally, I am making the King of BLT sammiches tonight.
    Only Uncle Clarence Thomas, Bob Loblaw, Joe Beese, and Tim, Interrupted are invited for delish BLT’s.

  18. 18.

    mainmata

    I am trying to imagine a Great Dane sleeping upside down and there just seems to be some gravity-defying aspects to that. As for me, schools closed because of an ice storm so I’ve had a bunch of screaming sixteen year old girls at the house simultaneously baking and playing video games. Somehow, I can’t imagine boys doing the same combo of cabin fever activities.

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    Haha. I used some names that have been banhammered and my last got ate up.
    Such a joke, especially since the fragile ego of ABL is gone from these here environs.

  20. 20.

    mainmata

    @Bystander: OMG, lead singer for Van Halen to head ABC News??! That’s just such an amazing out-of-the-box move. Now News presented very loudly and with electric guitars!

  21. 21.

    Botsplainer

    http://wfpl.org/kentucky-doesnt-have-any-more-working-union-coal-miners/

    For the first time in about a century, no union coal miners are working in Kentucky. The state’s few remaining union miners were laid off New Year’s Eve when Patriot Coal’s Highland Mine in Western Kentucky shut down, the United Mine Workers of America confirmed.

    “Appalachia was always a really tough nut for the union to crack, and I think maybe Kentucky was the toughest nut of all,” said labor historian James Green, author of a new book about West Virginia’s mine wars.

    In retrospect, the fight to unionize Harlan County’s Brookside mine in 1973 was one of the last stands for the union in the commonwealth, Green said. The struggle was immortalized in the Oscar-winning documentary “Harlan County, USA.”

    Which side are you on?

    Here’s hoping that now that the immensely critical battle for marriage equality is over and done, that the beneficiaries of that effort are are going to pitch in and make things better in a big way for common working class union proles…

  23. 23.

    MomSense

    Just came back from a play date for the pup with another puppy who is the same age and size. The spent an hour plowing through deep snow and rough housing. If this doesn’t tire her out–I give up.

    Now it’s dinner and catching up on Downton.

  25. 25.

    mdblanche

    @Bystander:

    Meanwhile, President McCain put out a feeler today. He mused, what is stopping us from flooding the Polish/Russian border with soldiers and armaments.

    The fact that Poland’s only border with Russia is with the Kaliningrad enclave?

    @Botsplainer:

    Here’s hoping that now that the immensely critical battle for marriage equality is over and done, that the beneficiaries of that effort are are going to pitch in and make things better in a big way for common working class union proles…

    It would be immensely helpful if the Appalachian proles would meet them halfway and stop hitting themselves voting GOP.

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    @JPL:

    I have a feeling it is going to be sad. At least the puppy is sleeping at my feet which has to be one of the great, simple joys in life.

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    @ruemara:

    Oh I have to deal with too much math–and boring projects at work. If you find a good mantra, please share.

  29. 29.

    shelley

    Where are those geese heading and what do they know that we don/t?
    *******
    Finishing up some chinese food and then starting the finished illustration for a YA novel.

  30. 30.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @MomSense: I think Pres. McCain(he was a POW dont-cha-no) may need his eyes checked out. In a toolbox full of tools he can only see a hammer. I hear Baby Doc Paul could help out, he’s got one of them medical degrees. Joe Scar may want to see Baby Doc as well, he also seems to be having vision problems.

  32. 32.

    Hildebrand

    @MomSense: “Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I can assure you, mine are much greater.” Albert Einstein

    Not sure if it is a good mantra, but it is a decent thought.

  34. 34.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @mdblanche: It would also be immensely helpful if all the fat, comfortable people who wonder how they will ever pay for their new i-phone 6 would vote pro-union so coal miners don’t have to decide between safety regulations and jobs (the way their state senators and reps pitch it to them). Seriously, the vast majority of people who do not belong to a union do not think unions benefit them. And seeing as the vast majority of people do not belong to unions….

    We’re fwcked.

  35. 35.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I had a cheese and onion crisp sandwich for dinner. Believe it or not I recently rediscovered the joys of a crisp (potato chip) sandwich thanks to BuzzfeedUK which did a whole article on the art of making them. There is something quite magical in the softness of the bread, the smoothness of the butter and the crunchiness of the crisps. What is especially magical is once you have buttered the bread (or roll) and piled the crisps high on it, you then put on the lid and the wonderful crunch sound you get when you smush the two halves together. I guess this means I need to get out more.

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    My brother posted a rant on Facebook earlier this evening saying that every state should impose mandatory drug testing on welfare applicants, and if you don’t take drugs then you have nothing to worry about. I was going to let it go (I don’t particularly enjoy openly fighting with members of my family), but I decided to write a calm, rational (fairly lengthy) rebuttal and put it in a PM. Just hit the send button on that, and am curious to see how he responds.

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @mb: Peanut butter with dill pickles is sublime. Seriously, A friend introduced me to it in 5th grade.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I’ve been craving a proper cucumber tea sandwich lately. The kids asked me about London the other day and now it’s all I can think about but I can never quite make them right.

  43. 43.

    Botsplainer

    @mdblanche:

    It would be immensely helpful if the Appalachian proles would meet them halfway and stop voting GOP.

    The killoff of the unions and decline of progressive fortunes in areas of Appalachia are just indicators of a larger nationwide problem, n’est c’est pas? Isn’t it more of a “glibertarians of all stripes are choking out labor” problem, and the fact that a major coal producing state HAS NO REMAINING UNION MINERS a proverbial canary in a coal mine?

  45. 45.

    germy shoemangler

    @mb: peanut butter on apple. peanut butter with banana.

    I had a friend many years ago cook spaghetti with peanut butter. I thought he was insane, but it tasted quite good.

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    AFAIK, every state that has done that discovered that only a tiny percentage of welfare recipients were using illegal drugs, so if nothing else, it’s a complete waste of taxpayer money. Unfortunately, logic and rationality doesn’t seem to work on people who want to punish the poor, but my first question to your brother would be, why does he want to waste taxpayer money on an expensive boondoggle like that?

  47. 47.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Tell him I agree. As long as he is subjected to the same, as he receives the benefits of countless gov’t services too. DRUG TESTS FOR EVERYONE!!!! If you don’t take drugs, what’s to worry?

  49. 49.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Good on Al, from TPM

    There are now apparently 51 members of Congress not attending Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech tomorrow. Seven Senators and 44 members of the House. The latest is Sen. Al Franken (D). The list is heavily weighted toward African-Americans but also toward Jews. By my count, Franken is the 6th Jewish member of Congress to sit it out.

    @SiubhanDuinne: Is the obsession with the “undeserving poor” unique to the US, or at least to the extent it drives so many people’s politics?

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Update: He takes my points, he deleted the original post on FB, and he thanked me for “rebooting his brain.” All in all, a pretty satisfactory outcome, with no hard feelings on either side.

  51. 51.

    mb

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, everyone who takes a tax deduction for their mortgage should have to be drug tested. Might be using that federal subsidy to get high.

  52. 52.

    germy shoemangler

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Test the lawmakers instead. Because if they’re under the influence they can do considerable damage. Is there a test for excessive alcohol consumption? Test Boehner.

    Wasn’t Reinquist on a veritable cocktail of medications while he was on the court? Serious, mind-altering medications? And I remember Bush sr. was on a powerful sleep aide with a ton of cognitive side-effects.

  54. 54.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @mb: I know, i know, I thought so too, but what do you have to lose?

    @MomSense: Actually, that sounds pretty dam good to me.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Exactly. Not that anyone here needs persuading, but if you’re at all interested, here’s the message I sent my brother (minus some personal, jokey things):

    You couldn’t possibly have known it, but you tapped into one of my pet issues, and I just couldn’t help responding.

    I am against mandatory drug-testing for welfare benefits for three primary but interlinked reasons:

    (1) It has been shown again and again, in the states that have tried it, to be a huge waste of money. It costs significantly more than it saves. In states such as Florida, Arizona, Tennessee, Utah, and Mississippi, to name just a few, a very small fraction of those taking drug tests to receive public assistance actually have positive results (that is, fail the tests). The highest percentage I could find in a very quick survey was 2.6% in Florida (108 applicants tested positive out of 4,086 tested). In Utah, it was about a tenth of that — 12 out of 4,730, or around .25%. Tennessee — 1 out of 812, or .12%. I won’t bore you with a lot of statistics — they’re all available on line — but the main point is that the rate of drug abuse among public assistance recipients/applicants is lower than in the general population (estimated at 9.2%). Which leads me to my next point:

    (2) It is pointless and discriminatory. If the idea is that everyone who receives money from the American taxpayer should undergo mandatory drug testing, then let’s extend it to governors, state legislators, members of the House and Senate, hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats, Congressional staffers, etc. Heck, let’s drug test every single banker and Wall Street trader and auto manufacturer who benefitted from bailout money a few years ago during the financial crisis.

    Furthermore, most types of urine-based drug tests are MOST likely to detect marijuana (which is fully legal in two states, about to be legal in a third plus the District of Columbia) and which is fully proven not to be either addictive or a “gateway” drug — but LEAST likely to pick up methamphetamines or cocaine. (The reason, and I was fascinated to learn this, is that MJ stays in the body’s system for several days, whereas meth and coke exit the body’s system in a matter of hours. Interesting, huh? And you can easily see where the abuse might come in!)

    (3) Finally, mandatory drug testing adds an additional layer of humiliation and stigma to the already awful “cycle of shame” among the poor. There is already a burdensome level of paperwork, and this just adds to it. Applicants for TANF, WIC, SNAP and Medicaid are required to provide medical and financial documentation, often on a regular basis. The assistance is often for a limited (short) period of time, perhaps a few months. Contrary to the Reaganesque “welfare queen” image, these are mostly working parents in minimum wage (or lower) jobs, who already live paycheck to paycheck and who can rarely arrange their schedules to take time off to go to a lab and pee in a cup. Instead of wasting taxpayer money to weed out a small percentage of people who really need the cushion of a few extra dollars to feed their kids, or so they won’t have to choose between paying the rent or putting gas in the car (if they even have a car) — let’s use that money to help them get out of the system. Education. Job and skills training. One way or another, I expect the money’s going to be spent, so let’s be as smart as possible in HOW we spend it.

  59. 59.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @MomSense: Ooooh…. open faced in the oven, the cheese a little melted, then add the strawberry preserves… Now I have to go back to town for some feta cheese!

  60. 60.

    ThresherK

    @OzarkHillbilly: Little did we know it was a gateway to Thai food: Can’t have a satay without pPeanut sauce and that cucumber with sweet vinegar / hot pepper flake.

  61. 61.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Just turned on Tweety long enough to see him ask his panel if “any president can live with a nuclear Iran”, I think were his words. We “live with” a nuclear Pakistan and North Korea, two countries that strike me as far more volatile and potentially dangerous than Iran, cause what the fuck’s the alternative? I don’t suppose anybody ever points out who was President when they got the bomb?

  62. 62.

    JPL

    @SiubhanDuinne: Very nice. Ozark had a good point about drug tests for everyone who receives gov’t money. Let the representatives and senators line up now.

    I just read your reply to your brother and It was great!

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    My brother’s a good guy. He’s rather like Tommy’s father, I think — votes Republican and describes himself as conservative because he always has. But whenever I (or someone) calls him on the specifics, he is actually very generous about seeing the point and walking back his knee-jerk positions.

    @germy shoemangler:

    Why thank you! What a nice thing to say!

  70. 70.

    BGinCHI

    I was just at Redstate reading EE’s post on the “takeway” after CPAC (blame Booman for my being there).

    Here is Erick son of Erick on Jindal:

    Jindal is, perhaps, the most substantive of any of the candidates. He is a healthcare expert. He has a free market record in Louisiana. And he is throwing rhetorical bombs to get noticed. He is getting noticed, but not in a way that helps him with large donors. And rhetorically he is competing for a segment of the voting Republican base that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a large hold on. I think Jindal has a path forward, but the one he has chosen degrades all his accomplishments and leaves him looking less than the bright light he is.

    Well. There it is. If you sincerely think that how can anyone reason with you?

  74. 74.

    Corner Stone

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    My brother’s a good guy. He’s rather like Tommy’s father, I think — votes Republican and describes himself as conservative because he always has. But whenever I (or someone) calls him on the specifics, he is actually very generous about seeing the point and walking back his knee-jerk positions.

    Hmmm…hmmm….

  75. 75.

    Corner Stone

    @BGinCHI:

    Jindal is, perhaps, the most substantive of any of the candidates.

    How is there any reasoning with you after just this part?

  78. 78.

    Corner Stone

    @catclub: He plays center in his league so it’s more a post-up, butt to the goal move, but it’s still nasty when he doesn’t get out and out hacked. He gets two to three buckets off it before they rotate.

  79. 79.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Corner Stone:

    If there was just some way I could bring him over the thin line and persuade him that he could vote for the Democratic candidate(s) and not go straight to hell. He’s a Jesus freak but sees my point about atheism/agnosticism. He’s a conservative but when you actually pin him down, he agrees with the “liberal” viewpoint. He believes any old silly thing going around on Facebook, but show him a link to Snopes and he’ll walk it right back.

    Shorter: I love him, but I am the first to admit he is not much of a thinker, and is easily swayed by the most recent person to talk to him.

  80. 80.

    Tree With Water

    I just saw a recent photo of Stephen Colbert. His head of hair is as dark as ever, but he grew a beard and it is grey and I know why that happens. It’s because he uses his mouth more than his brains.

  81. 81.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @BGinCHI: And rhetorically he is competing for a segment of the voting Republican base that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a large hold on.

    Every GOP primary poll I’ve seen shows Cruz in single digits, and I’m surprised every time I see those polls.

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Shorter: I love him, but I am the first to admit he is not much of a thinker, and is easily swayed by the most recent person to talk to him.

    I recently told my mom and sister that the “PBO doesn’t love America the same way as us” discussion had no place in my house and they could GTFO if they didn’t see what they were saying.
    And they both vote D, FWIW. So, I get that pain. At least a little.
    It’s just fucking pernicious.

  85. 85.

    catclub

    @BGinCHI: also substantive the same way Brownback is substantive in Kansas.
    Bust the state budget by cutting taxes, use one time funds for stop gap fix the first time it happens, then leave office.

  86. 86.

    catclub

    @Corner Stone: How in the world can any person who gets elected president – by millions and millions of people voting for them, not love this country? Tis a mystery.

  87. 87.

    Botsplainer

    @MomSense:

    It’s a nice project – typical of something arising here in the People’s Democratic Socialist Republic of Louisville.

    Here’s praying that the Kentucky House stays reliably Democratic so that we don’t get cut up and parceled out to 3 redneck congressional districts in a Mayberry Machiavelli move like those demented cocksuckers did to Austin.

  90. 90.

    MomSense

    @Botsplainer:

    I taught performing arts in the schools for many years so I have to give it up for a teacher who does such great work and motivates her kids to spend nights and weekends rehearsing.

    I’ll be rooting for Louisville!

  92. 92.

    Hal

    @SiubhanDuinne: Brilliant. I see Facebook posts about testing people on welfare every once in awhile and it drives me insane. That and the fact that every other rant I see has someone who swears they saw someone buying lobster, which I know is b.s. I had one friend who posted about someone who spent over 200 dollars (she knew the exact amount) using an ebt card and she was livid. I was sitting there thinking you’re mad because she used food stamps for food?

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    I love the El Rey network, and there isn’t a damn thing any of you can do about it.

  94. 94.

    Corner Stone

    @catclub:

    How in the world can any person who gets elected president

    Easy. That’s a love of power, not country.
    I absolutely lost it on them for a good forty-five minutes. Discussed the “legit prez” and all the rest of the things we talk about here. It got pretty ugly, but that’s not unusual here in TX.

  95. 95.

    Howard Beale IV

    TPM: Radio host: Congressmen Should Hang ‘From A Noose’ For Skipping Bibi Speech.

    Yes, Andres Shea King did go there:

    She noted that most of the congressmen missing the speech are members of the Congressional Black Caucus. King said that members of Congress, unlike President Obama, will eventually be up for reelection and “could pay with their jobs.” However, in audio posted by Right Wing Watch, King said she hoped their punishment would go one step further.

    “I would like to think that these guys could pay with their lives, hanging from a noose in front of the U.S. Capitol building,” King said in the audio clip. “Most of those members who are opting out of attending the speech are members of the Congressional Black Caucus. And their districts are all dumb clucks. Because the dumb clucks wouldn’t be electing these people if they knew better.”

    Here’s another one for the Render No Aid list.

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Hal:

    I know. I figure, once the money is given (whether it’s me handing a fiver to a panhandler or someone receiving government assistance), it is none of my business what they do with it.

  98. 98.

    Elizabelle

    @Corner Stone: I heart El Rey too. Francis Ford Coppola in The Director’s Chair tonight, and then “The Conversation.” Repeated immediately after.

    And episode 5 of “Better Call Saul.”

    An embarrassment of riches tonight.

    (For Hobbits fans, Peter Jackson movies on TCM, 8 through 6 am.)

  100. 100.

    Corner Stone

    @Hal:

    That and the fact that every other rant I see has someone who swears they saw someone buying lobster, which I know is b.s. I had one friend who posted about someone who spent over 200 dollars (she knew the exact amount) using an ebt card and she was livid. I was sitting there thinking you’re mad because she used food stamps for food?

    I agree with the main sentiment of this post. But, I am reminded of the overwhelming reaction here, at this very liberal blog, to Shanesha Taylor in AZ when it was found out she didn’t want to stick X amount of donated funds into a trust fund for her kids to go to school in 15 years.
    This very liberal blog got their hate on for the fact that she spent money on rent, food, utilities.
    So, to sum up, that oft stated hate-on is not exactly unique.

  101. 101.

    Corner Stone

    @Elizabelle:

    I heart El Rey too. Francis Ford Coppola in The Director’s Chair tonight, and then “The Conversation.” Repeated immediately after.

    Beyond the Kung Fu, of which mine is better than yours, I love stuff like The Directors Chair. I have recently seen Tarantino, Del Toro and right now Coppola.
    For anyone who loves nut ass control freaks, and how they make movies, you have to watch the GdT session of Directors Chair.
    That nutjob breaks it down, yo.

  102. 102.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Elizabelle:

    I am annoyed with El Rey because they promised in commercials that they were going to show Mario Bava movies, and so far, nothing. Just a bunch of Lucio Fulci, the inferior (if ludicrously gorier) Bava imitator.

    Plus their website sucks ass. You can look at the schedule, but it won’t let me click to see which of the many movies called “Shock” is the one they’re showing.

    (It’s probably the Fulci one, which is an alternate title for “Beyond the Door II,” but I’m annoyed that they’re making me guess.)

    ETA: Wait, hang on — IMDb tells me that “Shock” was Bava’s last film. But why not pick something that’s a little better, like “Bay of Blood” or “The Whip and the Body”? Lame.

  103. 103.

    Ruckus

    @ruemara:
    Math every day. Trig and such mostly but numbers is what I do. OK I move metal but you have to do the math to do that. Never more than a arms reach of a calculator. Before calculators I used slide rules, most used pencil and paper. Lots and lots of paper. When I used computers to run the machines you had to plan out the entire job in numbers before you pushed one button. Over 50 yrs of this. What amazes me is when I run into an adult who has no idea how to do something simple like percentages.

  104. 104.

    PurpleGirl

    Watching my favorite kitten cam. Also watching LOTR on TCM. I like the trilogy. I still enjoy it.

  105. 105.

    debbie

    Man, I hate Canada geese with a white hot fury, but I’ve never seen them move like that.

  106. 106.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Ruckus:

    slide rules

    I’ve been half-tempted to put my Pickett in a glass-topped box with a hammer next to it, with a badge along the bottom:

    “In case of nuclear war, break glass.”

    True story: Back in the 1970s I had a entry-level slide rule that still had Pickett’s lifetime warranty. Some of the markings on the scales stated to come off. So I mailed it back to them under their warranty procedure-two weeks later, got a replacement.

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