I know I'll regret my choice of lunch, but—all together now—IT SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME.

Off to watch tiny Georgia possibly beat mighty Portugal.

OK. Some days you just want a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Today is one of those days.

Really. What *did* the Scooby Gang do for, you know, the necessities of life?

I used to be obsessed with polling.

Now? The fact that so many of them are garbage which do not reflect reality from 2017 to now makes me think of this as far as the polling "industry" goes:

No, really. What is wrong with people? Jaysus. I didn't expect to get a "well akshully" on a child rapist being sent to the Olympics. Whew.

If you in any way defend sending a child rapist to the Olympics, that's a block. FFS.

What the actual fuck?!

Good West Coast morning!

May your day be as groovy as this.

And really, with that, goodnight.

#Poetry

Were It Not For Fidel

It's funny.

I hate Communism like I hate fascism. I hate all totalitarian systems.

But were it not for the communism which drove my parents to flee Cuba, I wouldn't have been born at all, or certainly not here in the US.

Now *that's* ironic.

Anyway, carry on.

OK, off I go into the wild blue yonder. See y'all on the flip.

What I'm reading right now:

American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

How To Make A Bomb (novel)

The Black Book of Communism

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis

Four Quartets (poetry)

What do y'all have in your stacks?

I mean, with a genius strategy like this, I'm just shocked that Bowman lost...

Was I listening to BBC 1 Dance and shimmying in my car on my way home just now? Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe.

He's got the goober golf vote sewn up...

snerf

"Moses! Enough of your crazy schemes!

"Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes."

"No it isn't."

#MontyPython

As she was walking out with our guard, she says, "I'm homeless. I'm not on drugs."

Maybe that's the problem, there.