Last year we started bi-monthly lunch and cards with our mom and the tradition continues this Saturday. We've been playing a game called Skyjo. It's mostly luck, with a little skill thrown in, and it's perfect for kibbitzing.

Church and seeing an old friend on Sunday. Hopefully, the tail end of this stupid cold I came down with after Christmas.

I'm not seeing that referenced in the article.

The L.A. Times article regarding the water projects isn't quite as damning (sic) as I thought it would be. Perhaps the CA legislature could write some deadlines into the law.

We probably didn't get the level Chris is alluding to, but 30 years ago breast feeding was being pushed hard. Sadly, my daughter never took to it. I agreed with my wife that bottle feeding was better than starvation.

(Though my brother and I would joke privately about throwing out perfectly good steak.)

Maybe Mickey D's will take care of it for us.

This was the outcome. The law triumphs over common sense, once again.

"I cannot bring myself to believe that a Forest Service decision to cut brush and use controlled burns to reduce forest fire danger near urban areas is arbitrary and capricious.   And I cannot quite bring myself to believe that the categorical exclusion in this case, covering less than one half of one percent of federal land, will have a cumulative impact on our environment requiring years more research, analysis and report writing before we do anything to protect people from forest fires.   As a matter of common sense, cutting brush and using controlled burns on parcels no larger than 1,000 acres and 4,000 acres respectively seems most likely to have the cumulative impact of reducing the catastrophic effect of forest fires on people.

Nevertheless, the government's brief does not point us to anything in the record that supports my intuitive view.   The best I can find in the record is some scattered bits that were written after the categorical exclusion was made, saying that the categorical exclusion is not expected to contribute to adverse cumulative impacts on sensitive wildlife species.   The briefs and record control, and the government has made no serious attempt to show us why the categorical exclusion was not arbitrary and capricious or that it gave the required “hard look” at the categorical exclusion before promulgating it.   A judge's duty is to decide the case based on the law and the record, not his personal policy preference.   I am therefore compelled to concur."

You know, Atomic Kristin pops up here every now and again to complain about how focused this site is on DJT. I'm kind of beginning to see her point. What to do about this country having to suffer through 4(?) years of this guy's idiotic meandering streams of consciousness?

Thank you. Let's not let this site go the Twitter route of pronouns without an antecedent.

They?

To be fair, he is touting Anschluss lately.

Important right at that second. I'd love to have that moron's ear for 20 minutes. Whispering the right things in his ear could accomplish so much good.

It’s only lewd in the biblical sense.

Same with you on the work thing. Talk about unmotivated!

My partner's mom is paying north of $9K for memory care in Chicago (a really nice place). I'm guessing in SF, that just gets you in the door.

We watched this and completely loved it. Is there an actor who does a better deadpan than Marc Evan Jackson?

The wild thing to me is the first thought I had about the Vegas explosion was, “Yeah, sometimes those things just spontaneously combust.”

Who knew LVPD would turn out to be Tesla spokesmen?

I remember my dad telling me he voted for John Anderson so he'd qualify for the federal matching campaign funds.

Maybe if people like Cotton had some actual evidence, people might have taken that theory a little more seriously.

"it probably came from a lab"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-sudden-rise-of-the-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory

"On February 16, 2020, the Republican senator Tom Cotton appeared on Fox News to discuss the possibility that the virus had originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. “Now, we don’t have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says,” Cotton, of Arkansas, said."

JAQing off.

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"Trump’s head turn was a perfect example of an event that has no explanation outside the favor of the gods, or whatever modern equivalent involving wind factors and directional probabilities you might prefer to the word “God.” Trump was fated to win, just as Achilles was fated to overcome Hector, because the gods, or if you prefer the forces of cosmic randomness, were on his side, on that day, at that moment. That move not only saved his life by allowing him to escape an assassin’s bullet; it revitalized his chi and set in motion a series of subsequent events that generated a reordering of the entire world."

Look where that got us.

LOL!

Until today.

At least she, or more likely one of her staff, read the damn thing.

Incoming administration sending signals to the boss.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609564-russian-general-trump-envoy/

I think this is the correct take. There's a lot of Dem self-flagellation over a point and a half popular vote loss. DJT is such a bizarre phenomenon, and I'm not sure how any cogent analysis can be done for an election in which he's a participant.