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For some reason today I’m thinking of my seventh grade biology class, which was in a religious private school in Texas. When we got to evolution, we were met with a little speech:

The Art of the Deal. That’s all, that’s the whole skeet.

You’re not supposed to Say The Thing, you sundowning moron! You’re supposed to shake your fist in anger but then Be The Bigger Man and everyone goes home alive! This is Western Power in the Middle East diplomacy 101!

Waiting on the first “Qatar while you’re ahead”

It doesn’t take a lawyer with expertise in war crimes prosecution to determine that attacking Iran is illegal, but as a lawyer with expertise in war crimes prosecution: yup.

Turns out the entire corpus of human knowledge has a few gaps in it. Apparently like in the definitions of “entire” and “corpus”.

Want me some hard Capri Sun as we move into summer. I’ll know I’ve had enough once it’s a struggle to get the little straw into the next

I know the plural of anecdote isn’t data but I’ve now been in California a whole afternoon and haven’t been killed by a lawless mob yet

Gotta love the airport lounge at 6:30am. There’s a magic here, a sense of being outside time and place, that turns pancakes, scrambled eggs, a tarte au citron and a beer into a choice of breakfast that makes sense, and I’m leaning in

ChatGP-Zombie. That’s the skeet.

Now taking bets on which of the two girls drops a summer banger that eventually gets a Super Bowl play.

Where’s my Mario universe complete chronology? And what’s more depressing: if bowser has been after the Princess for like thirty years now, or if it’s day after day for a *really bad* three weeks?

As a former CIT clerk, I feel *seen* today

Life advice: never look directly into the bottom of your toothbrush cup

There is an electric van passing me that, as it makes no engine noise, constantly makes a low level wind chime/organ sort of trilling noise. Sometimes the future is just a small amount of strange.

Folks, the ex Steeler’s coach is Bill the Cowher

TBH preferring this Q2 Trump Administration strategy of hiring drunken incompetents over conniving little bastards

Judge Janine Pirro: DUI Hire