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5) I’m too lazy, incompetent, and simply disinclined to do my own yard work so I pay a service to do it, even though the yard is small enough that I can handle it.

So does he, I’m sure.

Wenceel to center field! Nice shot!

Does this mean Max gets his call up? Because we are fresh out of at least halfway decent center fielders.

I have this terrible early feeling we are going to have our asses handed to us. Please, guys, prove me wrong.

Two predictions: All current passports will be invalidated by a certain date—let's say Dec 31, 2026—and holders will be required by executive order to replace them with new Trump-face passports at a cost upwards of $200 per passport, or else face fines upwards of $10,000 and imprisonment in a converted warehouse of up to two years for failure to do so by March 31, 2027. By another certain date—let's say June 30, 2027—all U.S. residents will be required to carry passports on their persons at all times to facilitate identification on demand by police military authorities posted around the country. There will be two passports types: standard blue for citizens, green for non-citizens. Cost of passports will also be $200 per person and all proceeds to go to the Board of Peace. Wages will be garnished for failure to pay. Damn, I should write a hard political fiction novel.

"I thought he was the lesser of two evils" comes up a lot. How you like him now.

Forget talking about boring stuff like destroying forest land and cutting benefits to children. THIS is the real stuff right here!

I recognize there’s value in admitting that some of the bad elements that exist mainly on the right also exist—usually to a far lesser degree—on the left as well. I just don’t like when a post leads with that assertion, because no one is reading past that part that says “Yes, there is political extremism and violence on the left.“ But then, the Bulwark is fundamentally right-wing anyway, so, no skin off their nose.

I saw a tweet that Alex Cora was just offered the Phillies job, but I don’t know how seriously to take that.

I know there is not much that’s convenient that I can do about this, but I hate how my car hijacks my phone for the purpose of connecting it for use with Apple CarPlay. Anytime I just have the radio on, and I happen to look up something online that has a video attached to it, the car hijacks the phone, and the video plays over the speakers. Right now I’m in a car wash, and I want to watch YouTube videos in the lobby while I’m waiting, but because the car is on, it keeps hijacking and re-hijacking the phone over and over, so I can’t use it unless I forget the car’s WiFi network entirely. A first world pain of the first order.

What if Disney simply refuses to file two years early?

The point is not to win this case against the SPLC. The point is to investigate them, for the purpose of destroying the credibility of and the public’s view of the SPLC. Consistent with Trump’s demand to Zelenskyy that he announce an investigation into the Bidens and “we’ll do the rest”.

who cares about that what about the ballroom!

One guess ... 😁 What I wonder as I see this picture is, what are these military people actually thinking as they are watching this shambolic farce? These aren't rank and file guys in their late teens and early twenties, are they? If they are at a Pentagon briefing, they must be highly ranked officers with decades of service across multiple administrations. Do they actually respect Bob Ritchie as a symbol of American military strength? I guess the Mike Flynn-types would, but that can't be most of them, can it?

If I don't recognize a number, I don't answer. Let them leave a message if it's so important. They almost never do. Occasionally, if I am annoyed enough, I will log into my Google Voice, which is under a different number, and call the number back to see whether it's real and if so who it is. Vast majority of the time, it's not even a valid number, or if it is, a recording tells me some flavor of "we are not available to answer your call". So, number spoofing, because of course it would be. On the other side of the ledger: One of my favorites when I call a bank about an issue is the menu items (which I have to listen to in its entirety because it has recently been changed 😏). The first option is usually, "to check your account balance, press 1", and I'm thinking, how old and/or offline do I have to be to have to call a bank on the phone to see how much money I have with them? Do people actually choose that option often? Last one: whenever I call a utility like DirecTV for customer service, the first three options are usually about sending them money: "To make a payment by phone, press 1; to make a payment by credit card, press 2; to make a payment by check, press 3 ..."

If the Red Sox fired the manager and staff this early, they were probably contemplating making a change in spring training. It’s not as though Cora was setting the world on fire with this team. He inherited one of the greatest teams in history and cruised to a ring in 2018, but ever since, they’ve been kind of flailing, clustering around .500, never winning another division, and missing the playoffs more than making them. Another thing to remember: Cora was not this front office’s guy. He belonged to the Dombrowski front office. Craig Breslow gets to reshape the on-field coaching in his image now, but then he gets full blame if they end up flailing, too. I sure wouldn’t want to be a Red Sox fan right now.

The kids’ll love it, the kids’ll love it …

Many retail stores have LED digital shelf tags showing price posted in front of products, which presumably are Bluetooth-enabled and thus can be changed online. So the idea, I guess, would be to triangulate your position in the store via GPS with the products they know you buy frequently through your loyalty program via a persistent cookie on your phone, and then as you position yourself closer to the product, the price on the shelf labels increases. Either that, or, they have no shelf label posted showing price, then when you pick up the product and have it scanned at the register along with your loyalty ID, they apply a “special” price “just for you”. Now that I spool it out, the latter seems more likely as long as people get used to not seeing prices listed on shelves.

This is why I’m thinking their strategy might be to not to stop the election beforehand as some people believe, something the American people are not close to being ready to accept, but to tie up the results in court instead, to the point which Congress will not be ready (or willing) to seat representatives on January 3, and we would be without a Congress for an indefinite period of time. (lol, I know big loss.) That, or Republicans might refuse to accept the results of Democratic wins, Mike Johnson will still claim speakership, he will seat a quorum of Republicans, including election losers, in order to act as a rubber stamp for Trump for as long as they can manage to (i.e., an “anticongress”). Either way, it would solidify the unitary power of Trump and lead to who knows what after that.

In other news, Nixon was not a crook.