I hate when it does this.
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English, the language that makes rules just for the fun of breaking them.

The WA GOP never stops surprising me. First it looks like they aren't running anyone at all for state office--and it still looks that way, except for governor. Everybody runs for governor, it's the state pastime.
Then it looks like they won't endorse anyone for governor: not the old white ex-cop with a decent campaign chest. And certainly not the Black guy with a record and a tiny campaign chest.
Surprise! They endorse Black guy.
He won't survive the primary anyway.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gop-endorses-semi-bird-for-governor-at-trump-dominated-convention/

First local asparagus of the year!
Sorry, no pic, it's already a delicious memory.

I want this on a plaque over my desk (except I never write at my desk, so maybe tattoo it on the back of my hand):
"Four. That’s what I want you to remember. If you don’t get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won’t do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four."
~ Lyndon B. Johnson

The more I think about it, the more I think the question of which is the greenest car is like asking which fork a cannibal should use.

Wondering how a picture of a young blonde with big breasts in a pile of grey fluff is supposed to inspire me to buy solar panels.

Apparently dad jokes and pesky younger siblings go back about 13 million years.
Not that spending ten hours with a five-year-old put the question into my head, but if you're wondering whether other animals tickle each other, the answer is not quite "no." Other animals have play behaviors, but only the great apes have developed the art of annoying each other into multiple genres.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68292810

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Please know that you are seen and loved.

Anne Carson
https://poets.org/poet/anne-carson
Not many poets write in both English and ancient Greek.

He hasn't raised it from the banks that love him (according to him).
He hasn't raised it from the 74 million who voted for him in 2020 -- they could do it for less than $7 each, but somehow they haven't.
But I think he'll pull it out of a hat somehow (probably an ushanka). All this drama is just part of the con.

Bet:

@Alfred, can you generate an image of Donald Trump as a puffed-up monkey wearing a tin pot for a hat?

Finally let my fiddle teacher know I've been wearing this to every lesson for the last couple months. My kids gave it to me years ago.