Exercising isn’t a sport.

You have to live with all the mistakes you’ve made for your entire life.

How are the american people not rioting in the streets?

You’ll find your conversations much more effective when you don’t begin them by being patronizing. My point is that neither party has been able to solve our problems.

For fucks sake. Are we only going to have a choice between the far left or the far right in this country?

All is one.

Such a great album!

Of course this changes over time but right now it’s probably a toss up between Marquee Moon by Television and 154 by Wire.

Let’s be clear. The primary reason people have lost pride in America and democracy is Donald Trump and his administration. You can say other administrations have had their faults, certainly, but what’s happening now is far, far worse. And let’s not forget the constant drumbeat of propaganda from Fox News and other right wing outlets telling us our country is a shit hole. And again, we have our problems, but this is how propaganda works. You mix in some truth about something while wildly exaggerating or making up other things about it.

It does seem like a daily assault on our well being, doesn’t it? But there is something that helps with this - read history broadly. It helps give you a deeper understanding of current events that lessens the impact of the current moment. And consider the quote “this too shall pass”. It’s attributed to Sufi poets about impermanence. If times are bad it gives you hope that those times will one day, eventually but certainly, be gone. If times are good it makes you relish the moment deeply and do what you can to make it last.

I have nothing to brag about.

My wife and I have been binging a show called The Last Ship. Supposedly came out a number of years ago. It’s a Michael Bay production and kind of a post apocalyptic scenario but well worth a watch.

And of course there’s Always Sunny.

Gary Marcus has a Substack everyone should read. It’s sobering.

ROFL!

Apparently it’s only girth they can modify. Not length.

It’s been known for some time that many of those from outside the US are unfamiliar with our tipping culture. I was a waiter in a nice restaurant in '96 when the Olympics were in Atlanta. We had lots of large parties that we added a 20% gratuity to, and clearly indicated on the check and no one complained. But normally the only place you encountered tipping then was in a sit-down restaurant with waiters. Now there’s a thousand and one places where you’re encouraged to tip. Even places where it’s only counter service and you’re supposed to put money in a tip jar when you pay the cashier. It’s all over the place and it’s completely ridiculous and out of hand. Americans hate it. It’s no wonder our guests are confused and pissed off.

Wait, people were driving on the reflecting pool just after the bottom was painted blue?

Not at all, actually.

I’m sorry, who is discriminating against asexual people?

If it must change it might be cool to have a blade runner vibe where old buildings are retrofitted with futuristic technology.