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Got on an XTC kick tonight. And speaking of rock covers by Canadian ladies, I just dicovered that Sarah McLaughlin covered Dear God. She really tears into the third verse. I bet this would cook live.

So many good moments. "You want a bad night? Try sleeping on one of these!"

Damn, suspending their big FA OL on the eve of camp? What kinda bad moon is on the rise out there? Dennis' twitter reveals nothing, he's just trying to borrow a TV for camp. Wonder if they're putting veteran players on the suspended list in order to get more bodies into camp?

http://3downnation.com/2016/05/21/16278/ Please please someone ask Dyakowski how he'll stay pumped up without the best fans in Canada cheering him on.... But seriously how do you turn a dime-a-dozen import receiver into a starting national OL? Is Toronto dumping a bad contract? Is Dyakowski's odometer just about used up? Some alchemy there...

I don't think Kushner has ever tweeted, at least not according to the Wayback Machine.

The President can't fire the VP. The VP is, in fact, the only person in the executive branch that the President can't fire.

oh god I can't believe I'm posting this. maximum nerd shame engaged. please ready your mocking gifs. The thing with the Klingons is even more interesting when you remember that the TOS Klingons were basically swarthy generic Asiatics. TMP gave us the modern bone crested Klingons. There are episodes of DS9 where Worf is asked about this and he says they don't talk about it. So there's already canon established that the Klingons occasionally transform as a species (or wholesale kill off a subspecies, maybe) so it'll be interesting to see if they explain how Discovery Klngons became TOS Klingons became TMP-forward Klingons.

There's a long road ahead. Giant investigation with dozens of players, many of whom are foreign nationals. It's gonna take time. Of course, anything could happen. Trump could get spooked and resign, the pee tape could emerge, a genuine national emergency makes people rally round the president, etc. But I think we're in for a long haul with fewer juicy leaks, as potential leakers find an audience with the FBI instead of the media. Like Winston Churchill once said: (Yeah, Atomic, in addition to being a communist stooge and an fascist sympathizer, I'll also quote a British Tory hero when I need to make a point. Complicated!)

Ah, Ryan -- the cold-eyed granny starver, the guy who's been dreaming of cutting Medicaid since he was a kegstanding fratboy. To see him snared up in this would be a pleasure worthy of Xanadu.

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Andromeda is a Mass Effect madlib. It's kinda like The Force Awakens, they're recycling story points like crazy. (see spoilers below) I played it for about thirty hours then got busy with other hobbies and just kinda drifted away from it. For previous Mass Effects, I've put my life on hold for weeks, locking myself in my office and living off lucky charms and pizza rolls. This one, not so much. If you're a casual fan of the series, I'd say wait until it's on discount to buy it. Everyone I've talked to says that Horizon Zero Dawn is really super good. sigh. guess I've gotta get a PS4...

So you're a Coast Guard Academy graduate. This is a massive achievement. (Seriously, USCGS people are badasses.) You've worked your ass off and now is time for you to celebrate your legit massive accomplishment with your family and classmates and instructors... and your commander-in-chief shows up and bellyaches about how rough his life is. I guess it's not just the millennials who are easily-triggered snowflakes! also wrt "no politician has been treated worse or more unfairly" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

oh yeah, if gifs are your thing this is worth a look:

lol. The worm isn't just turning these days, it's spinning like a driveshaft.

Comey is gonna testify publicly to the Senate. Don't know what his play is, why exactly he'd insist on a public hearing, since there will be classified stuff he can't talk about .... but I will have my popcorn ready.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/11/15624544/fbi-trump-comey-war

It's been this way since I've been here -- presidents will fly into town on Air Force One, requiring all kinds of local security and traffic disruptions, so that they can attend big-dollar party fundraisers. Those fundraisers sell tickets that are priced based on the proximity to the big guy. How this isn't selling access to the president, I don't know. Also, your top priority as a Congressperson is to raise $18K a day: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-are-members-of-congress-becoming-telemarketers/ This is what happens when your supreme court decides that corporations are people and money is speech, and this is what turned me off economic libertarianism forever. Don't let this happen to you, Canada.

Anyone watching Mystery Science Theater?

A Democratic Congress wouldn't just hobble Trump, it would be a machine gun that fires subpoenas. We'd definitely get a sniff at those tax returns...

Ah, John McCain. He talks a good game, but not a lot of follow-through there.

Nicholls has had some gruesome injuries -- the dude has definitely seen his share of punishment.

Meant to get back to this but spaced on it... I can't really talk about the rural parts of the PNW. When I get out of Seattle, I usually go to Portland or Vancouver or some other big city. Which is part of the problem facing the USA -- me and a hypothetical rural Trump voter are kinda like aliens to each other. That article is from 2015, before Oregon legalized recreational dope, which is going to change things some. I have heard that legal dope reduces rates of illicit drug abuse, diverts people away from the harder stuff, but don't quote me on that. Seattle itself has massive inequality -- we're more expensive than Vancouver now. We have lots of highly visible homeless people, on embankments, underpasses, in tent cities, begging at stoplights. Lots of them you'd consider non-traditionally homeless. It's easy to get pushed out of your rental, our tenant protection laws are pretty weak. The interesting thing is that there's a socialist backlash brewing, we have an explicitly socialist city council member (Kshama Sawant, who makes certain people very anxious .. her opponents are always very well funded by donations from across the country). I was just doorbelled by the president of the Tenant's Union, who is also running for council on an explicitly socialist platform. Last time I was in Winnipeg was summer 2014, during the Fringe festival. Didn't see as many homeless people as I was used to, but the weather was gorgeous and the Exchange District was full of young theater freaks so maybe they were there and I just didn't see them.

Yeah, and the Lions are gonna roll out Chris Williams this year on top of Manny and Burnham. That is a scary set of receivers ... Jennings could pass for forty TDs next year. He can just score his way out of all the picks he'll throw. It'll be fun to watch if they're not playing the Bombers. (As of April, Williams' knee was on track to be ready for the regular season.)

Yeah, there's something to this .... but the bill also represents a huge real actual victory. Obamacare -- both the medicaid expansion and the individual policy subsidies -- is largely financed by extra taxes on investment income. This bill rolls back a lot (if not all) of those taxes. Despite the name, its goal is not to increase access to health care, create better health outcomes, create a more efficient health care system, anything like that. It's just a tax cut.

GET THE **** OUT OF MY CAB