While I'm getting my car cleaned during the morning sprinkles...

And continuous war is a continuous breeding ground

His group found that among extremists “the No. 1 predictor of being classified as a mass casualty offender was having a U.S. military background – that outranked mental health problems, that outranked being a loner, that outranked having a previous criminal history or substance abuse issues.”

https://apnews.com/article/military-extremism-pentagon-veterans-terrorism-capitol-riot-jan-6-0c1fdd7b6b761e9c9e8556a9b9e45dc9

It's been a delightful 24 hours.

The best part of it was my DD-- our son and I driving a long way home (35 minutes) from my bowling with some coworkers and talking shit and hitting the Sonic.

It'd been many years since I'd eaten there.

But they were golden minutes with our son. "I wore eye liner (guy liner), makeup and dangles in my left ear from time to time, but for a different reason than you."

"What was your reason?"

"It was a gender bending 80s mod thing."

Good morning #CounterSocialites!

#GiftArticle /nosanitize

I'm getting behind Justice Barrett as the next strong leader of the #SCOTUS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/climate/supreme-court-shadow-docket-environment.html?ogrp=ctr&unlocked_article_code=1.TU4.VAT0.0UwB2CUE_eQN&smid=url-share

Women are not breeding vessels for workers and soldiers.

--Sorry, unless they choose to be.

Tomorrow night is our 40th HS reunion. I go to hang out with the popular kids, who have all done VERY WELL.

"It's not a beauty pageant," a coworker once remarked about how people dress at corporate.

"Everything's a beauty pageant." I responded.

We all expected the luxury pullback, but this is good news. Note, it's not all bloody for the luxury market. See Hermes.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/10/18/lvmh-q3-earnings-affordable-luxury/

I just got a refund because of a cancelation of a recurring membership I forgot I signed up for-- payback for the money management app I started using.

JS

Pucker you mother fucker.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ted-cruz-starts-sound-rather-nervous-re-election-bid-rcna175494

Good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are #CounterSocialites!

Um...

Check out this story from AZ Central: Charges dropped against Black, deaf man beaten by police

On Thursday, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell dropped the assault charges against the deaf man who was punched and Tased by Phoenix officers.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2024/10/17/rachel-mitchell-drops-charges-in-tyron-mcalpin-police-assault-case/75725578007/

Random thought. This toy was never fun, even for us poor kids.

Some good news.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/10/16/sirish-subash-americas-top-young-scientist-2024/75696722007/

BITCH! (Lake)

Are you ever tired of being wrong?

The Gallego divorce was much ado about nothing and Lake comes out of it looking even shittier-- which is hard to believe possible.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/17/nx-s1-5155222/arizona-judge-unseals-gallego-divorce-filings-rejecting-efforts-to-keep-the-records-hidden

Us: "You coming for the holidays or not?"
Family: "We are looking at flights."
Me: "They're pretty easy to find. "

The night of this photo was NYE 1999 after we had just seen Phantom OfThe Opera. We stayed at the same hotel as the actors and the party was there.

That night STARTED in our hotel room wth a bottle of Dom. Remember the extra cost of champagne about that time?

I am sooooo looking forward to our black tie masquerade ball on Halloween night.

Here we are on #ThrowbackThursday. Post your #TuxLife photos!

Ok I just took a vape hit but know this is next statement is maybe obtuse.

It's time to #EndWar

Just LOL for a lot of reasons.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-short-consume-energy-distance.html