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The top 10 percent of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all spending, Moody’s Analytics estimated this fall (this tidbit cited in a NYT story on conspicuous consumption dining. $600 for a suckling pig anyone? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/dining/nyc-restaurant-prices-luxury-menus.html)

all the more reason not to overwork him now. We've seen the story of an overworked goalie fading with the Wings often enough.

half a dozen dozen Christmas cookies baked!

when we were kids they painted some yellow pencils with lead chromate - double whammy.

LOL - more projection.

my dad loved gadgets and hated the arguments over picking out Xmass trees so when the first silver aluminum ones came out he had to have one. It had the floodlight with a rotating color wheel that shined on it. They were pretty hilarious in retrospect but seemed pretty cool at the time. The boss and I have evolved in several stages from cutting live down to a 4' fake that goes up in about 5 min. Should have started there years ago.

I've only known one navy airman - a top gunner - flew the F-14. It was a fair number of years since he'd been out but at the time he was driving a mini-van!

interestingly enough, there is an argument to be made that the big increases in urban crime in the 70's-80's which have taken a few decades to fall back, line up with the increase in lead burden in children from the huge increases in the use leaded gasoline that were occurring during that period. Lead isn't good for brains, esp young ones. Things like poor development of impulse control follow. There are a lot of environmental scares that pretty much just that, but I tend to believe that one was real and never has been fully recognized for the disaster it was. The combined political pull of big oil and the auto biz meant that no-one was ever going to be held to account for what happened or even look all that closely.

at least they have the surgical technique to the point were full recoveries are more likely. As recently as Brandon Jennings it was pretty much a career ender.

I suppose they want to see if Cossa can hold up over a whole season this time instead of fading in the 2nd half, but OTOH it seems a waste of potential if he could be supplying high quality play in Detroit while we're waiting to find out.

especially when your team has Dylan Larkin. I don't know if there is a 3 on 3 first line in the league any better than Larkin, Seider and Raymond.

between the trip to the trainers room and the bad penalty that let the Stars get the lead JVR probably has some mixed feelings on his night.

Chippy game. I don't think these two teams like each other much. But even some good shifts by Rasmussen early leading to the assist. But as the game went on I seemed to be progressively less aware of his presence.

I love when the top of the food chain discloses itself as unable to even feed itself without assistance. At the Forbes 100 I once worked at, a divisional VP sent out a 200 page bid on a nearly 9 figure contract to the customer. Not only did he not even bother to convert it to PDF, he sent it as a Word doc that still contained the markup history from the starting template, which was a bid to a different customer. But he and the Pres were a couple of Italian blood brothers so they blamed it all on us peons that had sent him the pieces of the rewrite for him to assemble - a job he regarded as too important to let us do for him - most likely because we might find some things out they weren't telling the team.

thought they started looking tired in the 2nd half, but they still had too much for the Kings

Cade playing sloppy on defense. 3 fouls early in the 2nd.

Pagans were already into pine trees in the OT.

even odder, going into Feb 2025, who would have though the Lions would be the only Detroit team not to lead their division for much of their season?

a problem that's not going to go away for smaller D men in today's game without rule changes is that you need brute strength to clear the front of the net more than ever today because the league is allowing less hacking/cross checking of offensive players near the crease.

Not to worry. If Trump has any input into the design of a ship you can be sure it won't be fit to fight.

unfortunately, consumers don't have the option of spinning off their loses and leaving someone else holding the bag the way US corps do. They end up having to pay their bills sooner or later.

league really needs the rule change about contact initiated by the offensive player.

football teams have terrible injury years, nothing you can do but reload and try again. As long as it's Holmes picking the talent they'll be back.

I think the Navy has screwed up on every ship but one it's designed in the last 30 yrs. Add Trump to that mix and you can count on it being 40.