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I Fought The Law

by John Cole|  April 30, 20227:35 pm| 99 Comments

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I just got banned by twitter for six days for telling Walgreens I hope they get herpes of the eye so it hurts when they look at spreadsheets and try to cut more employee hours and count their profits.

I Fought The Law

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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 30, 2022 at 7:38 pm

    Not all heroes wear overalls, but Cole does.

  2. 2.

    Kropacetic

    April 30, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    C’mon, Cole, COVID’s “over” and business is down 15%*. Obviously this necessitates cutting a third* the hours and raising prices.

    *Numbers made up, attitude accurate

  3. 3.

    Gravenstone

    April 30, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    You rebel you.

  4. 4.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    April 30, 2022 at 7:44 pm

    There ought to be a medal or award for this.

  5. 5.

    Kropacetic

    April 30, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: There is. Twitter awarded it to him. Six days of peace.

  6. 6.

    JAFD

    April 30, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    I actually live near a Walgreen’s get my prescripts there.  Couple of months ago, was waiting at prescript counter, when Big Boss came out from reviewing the troops.  Went up, told him more staff needed, every time I come in, lines of people waiting in that store …

  7. 7.

    debbie

    April 30, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    @JAFD:

    CVS is even worse anymore.

  8. 8.

    Shalimar

    April 30, 2022 at 7:53 pm

    The one I hate is CVS.  the 2 near me have prices on over-the-counter medicine that is literally 3-4 times what it costs elsewhere.   No clue why anyone shops there.

  9. 9.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 30, 2022 at 7:55 pm

    Not satire, this is an actual op-ed

    Should Democrats concede the White House in 2024 to win in 2028?

  10. 10.

    randal m sexton

    April 30, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    I will appeal to Elon on your behalf. I’m sure he will think that wishing someone eye ball herpes is frreeeeddddooommm of speeeeech

  11. 11.

    Kropacetic

    April 30, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    @Shalimar: When two companies own 80 percent of any entire industry all they need to worry about is maximizing their money.

    Service, prices, inventory; none of that matters. The competition is basically the same.

  12. 12.

    Raoul Paste

    April 30, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    Herpes of  of the eye is really creative

    Now that’s style

  13. 13.

    Nicole

    April 30, 2022 at 8:00 pm

    I know someone who, when his herpes acts up, gets it in the eyeball.  It’s no joke.  He’s lucky he hasn’t lost vision yet.

    Walgreens deserved it.  Well done, sir.

  14. 14.

    Andrya

    April 30, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    @Kropacetic:   No, no, no, Kropacetic, you will never make a Randian capitalist superhero.  The  situation calls for raising the per-employee hours but cutting pay enough so that, while working more hours, they take home less money.

  15. 15.

    Kropacetic

    April 30, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    @Andrya: I mean it’s not like the serfs have bills to pay. Who would trust them with that responsibility?

    @Raoul Paste: What some see as creative is often just the creator’s experience. Jus’ saying…

  16. 16.

    debbie

    April 30, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    @Shalimar:

    Insurance, unfortunately.

  17. 17.

    Ken

    April 30, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    Help me out here. If Musk takes over, will Walgreens not be able to ban Cole because he’s exercising his free speech? Or will nothing change because Walgreens is subscribed at the Twitter Platinum™ level, and John is using the free account?

  18. 18.

    Shalimar

    April 30, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    @Kropacetic: 20 years ago, sure.  But I can stock up online on every medicine I may potentially need for what one of them costs in an emergency from CVS.

  19. 19.

    AJ

    April 30, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: ooh link please so we can share it with DougJ

  20. 20.

    AJ

    April 30, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    John’s Twitter ban: achievement unlocked

  21. 21.

    Eljai

    April 30, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    I’m just kind of curious how they came up with six days.  Herpes of the eye = six days suspension but suffering boils while picking nits off your sweater gets a month?  Asking for a friend.

  22. 22.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    April 30, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    First they came for Walgreens, but I said nothing because I didn’t have herpes

  23. 23.

    Juju

    April 30, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    @Shalimar: I loathe CVS. I have never been in a CVS that didn’t smell bad, so I try not to actually set foot into one. The only reason I have my mother’s prescriptions there is because we were required to use CVS the years she had Aetna Medicare Advantage. Aetna owns CVS. Their child-proof caps are a royal pain to open , but the 24 hrs thing that Walgreens has here and the fact that the store here doesn’t stink would be the reasons to switch back to Walgreens. To me it’s a coin flip. They both suck, but I don’t quite loathe Walgreens the way I loathe CVS.

  24. 24.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    April 30, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    OT – I forgot to mention that the funniest episode of last week was when a GQP candidate for the state senate (who is running against a very physically attractive woman who is cynically campaigning on “freedom, 2A and abortion” slogans I’m not sure she’s in to) launched into a “I’m into abortion issues, guns, fighting China, whining about Biden and inflation” before stating “you’re talking about roads – I ran over a dog on my way here and it was devastating but I thought it important to be here to talk about these issues. Oh, and my first vote was for Nixon and I’m a diehard Republican. I’m a Nixon Republican.”

    Crowd was 2/3 rural Democrat. They’re conservadems, and only care about products to market.

  25. 25.

    Kropacetic

    April 30, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    @Shalimar: This is true. Though bear in mind that mail order pharmacy is similarly concentrated in few hands. CVS Caremark is a huge one. They use their ownership of people’s plans and contracting with other plans to literally force people into their pharmacies or mail order service.

    Also mail order has some disadvantages of its own. Delays often take longer to resolve and it can be hard to speak to a pharmacist.

    The problem isn’t retail or mail is better. We just need some good old-fashioned trust busting.

  26. 26.

    Juju

    April 30, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I think my brain just exploded.

  27. 27.

    zhena gogolia

    April 30, 2022 at 8:17 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Who wrote that?

  28. 28.

    Geoduck

    April 30, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    Walgreens lost my business years ago when the CEO at the time tried to move their headquarters to Switzerland to avoid paying any US taxes. There was a huge public outcry and he backed down. Fortunately there are other options in my blue-ish town in a blue state.

  29. 29.

    CaseyL

    April 30, 2022 at 8:24 pm

    Hey, I saw those tweets!  I was there, baby, at the scene!

    (And no, I didn’t report you.  One, I just don’t do that.  And, two, it would never have occurred to me that you said anything objectionable.)

  30. 30.

    sheraprick

    April 30, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    • @schrodingers_cat: Christ on a hamster. Terminal pundit stupidity. I mean, the current Republican Party could not be clearer that they never intend to “lose” an election again to us – us being defined as fentanyl dealing, immigrant smuggling, child trafficking, pedophile grooming, Communist, atheist, Muslim, baby killing, Democrats. I mean, these folks are shouting it from a  bullhorn on Fox News, Breitbart, RW Talk Radio, Facebook, & every Republican controlled state legislature in the country. Until they are called out as the Party of Krazy Viciousness that would make the Nazis blush, they are a mortal threat to the Republic and the free nations of the world.
  31. 31.

    gene108

    April 30, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    Took a quick look. Walgreens’ stock prices have been dropping all year. They are profitable. Growth projections are lower than other pharma-retailers.

    I really find businesses having to be so sensitive to the stock market to be the real drag on the ordinary working person for the past 40 years.

    It has done more to grind down the middle class than anything else.

  32. 32.

    JanieM

    April 30, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Who wrote that?

    Um…..

    Douglas MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant, was a writer in the White House for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and former special assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon during the last three years of the Bush administration. His latest book is “The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence.”

    Here.

    Are you surprised?

  33. 33.

    gene108

    April 30, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    It’s a good take. It’ll drive a lot of hate reading the author’s way. I don’t think most op-Ed’s are written to be taken seriously anymore. It’s all about getting attention.

  34. 34.

    Danielx

    April 30, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    @Eljai:

    Could so have done without that image.

  35. 35.

    MikefromArlington

    April 30, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    I got a warning on Facebook for saying I hope Putin will be in front of a firing squad when the Russian people realize he’s lying why he’s in Ukrain.  Next violation will be a ban.

  36. 36.

    Mike in NC

    April 30, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    New show on HBO called “We Own This City” about corrupt cops in Baltimore. Pretty decent; people behind “The Wire” involved. We’ve yet to check that one out. Too many shows and not enough time. Switching to “Ozark” after a break.

  37. 37.

    NotMax

    April 30, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    So let me get this straight. You got wrist slapped for writing something which if it had been posted by anyone else on your blog would merit them a time-out?

    ;)

  38. 38.

    schrodingers_cat

    April 30, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Some Republican operative called Doug McKinnon in the Hill.

  39. 39.

    dww44

    April 30, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    @debbie: Yep.  I was there yesterday to pick up photo cards I’d done online.  There was a self help kiosk that was triggered by anyone walking by. Downright spooky.  Merchandise was pricey pre inflation  but they are insane now.  I priced items that I buy  elsewhere and I will do without if I have to.  Their aisles are slap full of merchandise but the store was mostly empty.  Their business plan seem idiotic to me.

  40. 40.

    dww44

    April 30, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    @Shalimar: Agree.

  41. 41.

    dww44

    April 30, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    @MikefromArlington: wow.  Their moderators are either pro Putin or simply lacking in common sense and judgement.

  42. 42.

    different-church-lady

    April 30, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    I just got banned by twitter for six days

    Gonna be the best six days of your life!

  43. 43.

    Suzanne

    April 30, 2022 at 9:02 pm

    I hate most of the drugstores I ever enter. We have a CVS down the street where Mr. Suzanne and SuzMom get their prescriptions, but I only go there to pick them up. I go to Target or BigBezos for my own personal care items.

  44. 44.

    Alison Rose ???

    April 30, 2022 at 9:02 pm

    FTFNYT has moved their Russia coverage down the home page so they can put up a huge fucking graphic about their three-part rim job on Tucker Carlson. (I don’t care if it’s mostly critical of him, for someone like that, any publicity is good publicity.)

    God, what a rag.

  45. 45.

    dexwood

    April 30, 2022 at 9:03 pm

    @different-church-lady: A vacation.

  46. 46.

    Kay

    April 30, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    Probably the part of the NYTimes Tucker Carlson story that will enrage him the most. He’s had about 7000 guests and a lot of them used to disagree with him- they’re the yellow dots. As the years go on there are fewer and fewer yellow dots until 2022, which is just a sea of grey- all agreement. None of his guests disagree with him now. So he either persuaded these guests to go full white nationalist or he simply stopped inviting anyone who disagrees with him.

    Justin Hendrix
    @justinhendrix
    8h
    This graph suggests Tucker Carlson is the ultimate snowflake.

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    April 30, 2022 at 9:09 pm

    Wait, I thought the Grand High Musk hath proclaimed that Free Speech  Shall Reign Across Twitter, and none shall be moderated for saying anything that is technically legal. What happened?

  48. 48.

    different-church-lady

    April 30, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    “Some day this war’s social media platform’s gonna end.”

    [Nods]

    [Stands, walks off screen right.]

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    April 30, 2022 at 9:17 pm

    IMHO a Twitter or FB ban should be at the top of one’s CV.

    The struggle is real.

    Don’t know how many folks know about “We’re the Millers” but it’s must-see in my canon.

  50. 50.

    RaflW

    April 30, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    @gene108: That kind of short-termism is what turned Boeing from a great engineering company, to a ‘cash cow’, to a total disaster that pushed out deadly planes and now can’t deliver a 787 or come up with any innovative designs.

  51. 51.

    Starfish

    April 30, 2022 at 9:21 pm

    Imani got a cute new dog and posted a video, and you don’t get to see it because you were being rude to your drugstore on Twitter. For shame!

  52. 52.

    Jay

    April 30, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    Polar bear sighting,

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/polar-bear-gaspe-1.6437187

    So it looks like my idea of getting politicians to get off their asses about Climate Change by bussing them south and letting them loose on Ottawa streets was not that far fetched,………

  53. 53.

    different-church-lady

    April 30, 2022 at 9:25 pm

    @gene108: When you already own half the drug stores in the whole country there’s not a lot of room for growth.

  54. 54.

    RaflW

    April 30, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    @MikefromArlington: The following tweet got my account locked. I agreed to delete it, because it was a throwaway anyway, but the AI thought I was engaged in “harassing other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”

    If you don’t wear a shirt and at least some skank ass plastic flip flops, McDonald’s wouldn’t sell you a Big Mac (except at the drive thru). So, really, how free were we 365 days ago?

    I guess the AI saw “you” and “skank ass” and thought it was a slur. I was just insulting some guy’s footwear! sheesh.

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    April 30, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    @Jay

    Busing.

    Bussing a bear a whole ‘nother kink.

    :)

  56. 56.

    sdhays

    April 30, 2022 at 9:32 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: It’s amazing that they never seem to print Op-Eds like this from Democratic hacks. I mean, I know there’s a hack gap, but this, I think, you could find someone to write.

  57. 57.

    dm

    April 30, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    @Alison Rose ???: Given Tucker’s Putinphilia, having a big article about him above the fold isn’t actually moving their Russia coverage down….

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    April 30, 2022 at 9:36 pm

    @Jay:

    “There’s a photo where you can clearly see the bear, and it’s white. In terms of colour, it’s the right colour,” Côté added. “I’m not a specialist.”

    It’s good to not claim expertise when one doesn’t have it. But the coloring is a pretty good clue in this case, I think.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  59. 59.

    Ken

    April 30, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    @Another Scott: It might be like the alligator-crocodile difference, so you have to walk up to the bear and inspect its teeth to be sure whether it’s a polar bear or a white grizzly bear. I can live with the uncertainty.

  60. 60.

    Another Scott

    April 30, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    Meanwhile, …

    CSPAN informs us that Calvin Coolidge was the first president to appear at a WHCD. That must've been an electric evening. And women were not allowed until 1960. JFK said he wouldn't attend unless they let the women correspondents in.

    Ulterior motives?

    You make the call.#WHCD

    — Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 1, 2022

    Sounds like a hep party.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  61. 61.

    Feathers

    April 30, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    Walgreens is easy walking distance and I don’t have a car, so if I need to pick something up, that’s where I end up.

    But it’s the weirdest place. We’re a walkable streetcar suburb and everything is flush with the main street. Except Walgreens. It’s at the back of a large parking lot, which is always empty, because people walk here. It’s got the strangest vibe. Like in a town of cool, lefty hipsters, this is where the people who would actually be in a David Lynch film hang out.

    The prices are so strange. It’s always like Original price: $9, on sale 2/$6. And the everyday price really is $9. I go there for real emergencies, but I also do check the sales circular I get, because if they want to lose money selling me frozen pizza and breakfast cereal, why not?

    The guys in the pharmacy counter who gave me my Covid shots are awesome, though. They ran a tight and friendly ship on that. Appreciated.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 30, 2022 at 9:49 pm

    @Another Scott: could be the very rare hybrid bear…

  63. 63.

    Bill Arnold

    April 30, 2022 at 9:55 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:
    That was LOL funny.
    This guy: Douglas MacKinnon served in the White House as a writer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush…
    (not the Good Omens guy) and for the curious,
    Should Democrats concede the White House in 2024 to win in 2028? (DOUGLAS MACKINNON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 04/30/22)

    Our answer is NO. The Republican party should disintegrate into factions that attempt to harm each other, and leave governing and power to the Adults in the Democratic Party.

  64. 64.

    Jay

    April 30, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    @Ken:

    Quebec doesn’t have Grizzly Bears,  they have Black Bears, but none with the Kermode gene.

    leads to the usual bear jokes, from the scat is filled with brass bells and smells like pepper spray to the “you don’t come here for the hunting, do you?”

  65. 65.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    April 30, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    @Jay:

    Not good – their habitats are changing, and when they decide that their new food sources are domestic dogs and farm animals as opposed to the seals they can’t get….

  66. 66.

    joel hanes

    April 30, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    The Bay Area used to have a superb local drugstore chain, Long’s Drug *

    A bit better quality merchandise than Walgreens, excellent service, nicer stores, well-staffed pharmacies with extended hours.

    They sold out to CVS, and CVS destroyed everything about the stores that made them better.  I moved to Walgreens, but Walgreens isn’t as well run, and had to pay a big settlement recently because they’d been making their pharmacists work too many consecutive hours without a paid lunch break (because understaffing).

    * In Fallout 4, the settlers Marcy Long and Jun Long are refugees from Quincy, where before they were pushed out by Raiders were operating a drug store, Long’s Drug

  67. 67.

    joel hanes

    April 30, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    @Feathers: ​
     

    t’s always like Original price: $9, on sale 2/$6.

    Walgreen’s purchases cheaply huge lots of not-very-perishable foodstuffs, shortly before the best-if-eaten-before date, and then makes them sale items. I had to quit buying Diamond almonds and Planters nut products at Walgreens, because very frequently the almonds were dried out and hard, or the oils in the nuts were just beginning to turn.
    I wouldn’t think it would be a problem with frozen pizzas, though.

  68. 68.

    gene108

    April 30, 2022 at 10:08 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    When you already own half the drug stores in the whole country there’s not a lot of room for growth.

    Institutional investors don’t care. A business has to find ways to grow. I’m sure there are internet based pharmacy business models out there that CVS and Walgreens are looking at for growth potential.

    Running a profitable business, with healthy cash reserves that took care of its employees, as a business model, died a swift death in the 1980’s, when the Reagan administration green-lighted M&A deals that wouldn’t have been approved in prior administrations from FDR to Carter.

    All the downsizing and outsourcing that’s hurt the American middle class & working class has roots in the junk bond acquisitions and hostile takeovers of the 1980’s. The long term damage the change in corporate culture this ushered in doesn’t get reported much anymore, but it has a large role in why we are where we are.

  69. 69.

    Brachiator

    April 30, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    @Bill Arnold:

    This op-ed piece is part of a dumb journalistic convention. It must also be a slow news day. An opinion piece written by a Republican about Democrats is generally by definition a waste of time. Nobody is meant to take it seriously, but it gets written anyway.

    ETA. I took a nap because some medication I am taking for an injury made me drowsy. Woke up to take a look at Balloon Juice and also see that the White House Correspondents Dinner is on. Never ever watched it before. It’s like the Golden Globes with more boring people.

  70. 70.

    Dangerman

    April 30, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    @Alison Rose ???: Clockwise or Counterclockwise?

    /ted

  71. 71.

    gene108

    April 30, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    @RaflW:

    I don’t know why MacDonald’s assumes pants as a given item of clothing in the “no shirt, no shoes, no service” policy.

  72. 72.

    NotMax

    April 30, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    Yeah, Long’s was entrenched throughout Hawaii. Then CVS bought them out (signage still advertises them as Long’s). Whole tenor of the place changed. First thing they did with the one closest to me was reorient the shelving to no longer run the length of the store, but now the width, which multiplies congestion

    – – – – –

    OT.

    “Gee, your house smells terrific.”

    Fried up a big batch of chicken livers (in chicken fat), now sauteeing a mess o’ onions in the same pan.

    All because yesterday had a sudden intense urge for chopped liver. Nearest supermarket had a selection of two varieties (both frozen). One packaged by the store’s meat department, the other some branded version. The former a pleasing 69 cents a pound, the latter an unbelievably exorbitant $2.39 a pound.

  73. 73.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 30, 2022 at 10:17 pm

    @NotMax:

    Nearest supermarket had a selection of two varieties (both frozen). One packaged by the store’s meat department, the other some branded version. The former a pleasing 69 cents a pound, the latter an unbelievably exorbitant $2.39 a pound.

    Madness.

  74. 74.

    Ruckus ??

    April 30, 2022 at 10:20 pm

    @Juju:

    I was going to comment earlier but have been on a call for the last couple of hrs. I get most of my meds from the VA but some of them cost less from CVS or most any other drugstore. Around me CVS has the most stores and the prices are reasonable. Now as to the smell I have zero sense of smell so I can’t answer that one. But the stores are clean, reasonably stocked and priced here. And yes I’ve been in other drug stores around here in SoCal and the prices are equal in most of them as well as in the stuff sold in the grocery stores. Maybe it’s because of the population, LA county has a larger population than 40 entire states.

  75. 75.

    Ken

    April 30, 2022 at 10:21 pm

    @NotMax: Reminds me of the sign in one of Terry Pratchett’s novels:

    CURRY …. 2p
    CURRY WITH MEAT … 3p
    CURRY WITH NAMED MEAT … 10p

  76. 76.

    CarolPW

    April 30, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    @joel hanes: One could look up the aflatoxin levels in peanuts as they age, and then the biological consequences from aflatoxin exposure. Cheap peanuts is not a very good trade for cancer.

  77. 77.

    Brachiator

    April 30, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    When you already own half the drug stores in the whole country there’s not a lot of room for growth.

    The Vons supermarket near me sells most of the same drugs that are on sale at the Walgreens across the street from it. Vons also has a prescription desk. The Walgreens also sells knickknacks and other junk that you find at the 99 cent store, and that used to be stocked at Woolworths, and other small bargain stores. I don’t even know why Walgreens and CVS are still in business. Also, I have Kaiser, and get prescriptions by mail from them, so I don’t even have much need to go to the drugstore for anything.

    When I was a kid, I would go to a local drugstore that had an ice cream counter to buy burgers and banana splits. Later, as an older teen and young adult, I think I went to a Thrifty drugstore to buy contraceptives over the counter. Otherwise, can’t really recall ever really going there for stuff.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    April 30, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    @mrmoshpotato

    Grandmother would be horrified but I forged ahead and deglazed the pan (gotta get all that yummy fond) with a small splash of brandy.

  79. 79.

    Ruckus ??

    April 30, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Target here in SoCal has a CVS inside as their drug store. It isn’t open as long every day as Target is.

  80. 80.

    Benw

    April 30, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    Speaking of rebelliousness, I found this blast from the past tonight:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoV6mk74_o

    If you click through I hope you like your Puerto Rican thrash metal licks heavy AF!

  81. 81.

    eclare

    April 30, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    CVS always seems dirty to me because it is carpeted.  I don’t even have any carpet or rugs in my house!

  82. 82.

    prostratedragon

    April 30, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    Good!

  83. 83.

    Ivan X

    April 30, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: is she available? If so, I’d vote for her.

  84. 84.

    Ivan X

    April 30, 2022 at 11:37 pm

    Also, I have no great love for CVS, but the pharmacists at mine (and also the next nearest one) are genuinely nice people, and when some med is outrageously expensive, even after insurance, they’ll sometimes volunteer to look for coupons or promos, sometimes yielding a fraction of the original cost.

  85. 85.

    Ivan X

    April 30, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    @Brachiator: you should have watched the one where Obama forced Trump to run for President.

  86. 86.

    Subsole

    April 30, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    @gene108:

    If they want attention they should set themselves on fire.

    They’ll be the center of attention for the rest of their lives. Which seems to be all they actually care about, anyway.

  87. 87.

    Feathers

    April 30, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    @joel hanes: Thanks for the heads up. It’s mostly junky stuff. I don’t buy it from the grocery store, but do sometimes indulge when it’s on sale at Walgreens. Makes sure it is occasional and it doesn’t stay around long.

  88. 88.

    The Up and Up

    April 30, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    I got banned from Facebook in 2020 for posting that Trump hates strong woman and frankly all woman in general. No obscenities other than the truth.

  89. 89.

    The Up and Up

    May 1, 2022 at 12:03 am

    @RaflW: A retired Business lecturer from a California college opined that Boeing should just break into the vending machine industry. They cannot do anything right anymore why not do the spare change and product line?

  90. 90.

    Brachiator

    May 1, 2022 at 12:04 am

    @Ivan X:

    you should have watched the one where Obama forced Trump to run for President.

    I read about that one. It was more than sufficient.

  91. 91.

    prostratedragon

    May 1, 2022 at 12:40 am

    President Joe at WHCA:

    “This is the first time the president attended this dinner in six years,” Biden said. “It’s understandable, we had a horrible plague followed by two years of Covid.”

    “Just imagine, if my predecessor came to this dinner this year, now that would have been a real coup if that occurred,” he said.

  92. 92.

    TS (the original)

    May 1, 2022 at 1:05 am

    @gene108:

    Just the top executives, they get their $$$billion bonuses based on the share price.

  93. 93.

    HeartlandLiberal

    May 1, 2022 at 6:32 am

    I was banned for seven days last year for asking why wasn’t Rush Limbaugh dead dead yet. Seven days.
    Recently I got a 24 hour ban for wondering why the French wax museum that removed Putin’s wax figure did not remove his head with a guillotine. Good company.

  94. 94.

    lowtechcyclist

    May 1, 2022 at 6:51 am

    @schrodingers_cat: ​

    Not satire, this is an actual op-ed

    I’m almost afraid to ask who wrote something that dumb. Like there’d even be a small-d democratic election in 2028 under those circumstances.

  95. 95.

    Nancy

    May 1, 2022 at 7:57 am

    Wegmans Pharmacy: if the lines get too long, staff open more registers. Customer service; what a concept. Stores are also clean.

    Wegmans is regional, in the Northeast.

  96. 96.

    evodevo

    May 1, 2022 at 8:16 am

    @Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: or those two-leggeds who can’t run very fast…

  97. 97.

    SW

    May 1, 2022 at 9:41 am

    Twitter suspensions are so weird.  All the vile shit on there and then you will say something tongue in cheek and it flips them out.  I got suspended once for telling someone to go ahead and “knock yourself out” like you know, just do whatever you you are going to do.  But no, I was advocating “self harm”!  Recently I made a comment about wearing socks with flip flops being unacceptable unless it was after your second heart attack, at which point you can put any damn thing on your feet you want.  That was apparently beyond the pale and bought me a 24 hour suspension!  Weird.  At first you are offended and then you realize that they have spared you 24 hours of wasting time on Twitter.

  98. 98.

    xjmuellerlurks

    May 1, 2022 at 11:09 am

    Geez Cole, we’ve watched you go from angry young warblogger to an older wiser family, house, garden, and soup blogger; from an alcoholic accident waiting to happen (the waits were sometimes short) to a more zen-like sober home owner with thoughtfully expressed opinions.  And now this.  Life is a great journey – keep up the good fight.  (I love the “herpes of the eye” dis – it’s damn poetic and they deserve it.)

  99. 99.

    Another Scott

    May 1, 2022 at 11:14 am

    I’ve never seen the whole movie, but the scene in the movie always cracks me up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9ysLspb4Q

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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