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I would have gone with “What a bought-and-paid-for Putin stooge”, but “idiot” will suffice, I guess.

It is worth using your one free article a month to read this on NYTimes.com.

Of course they do—that’s why they care against getting rid of it!

At least you're not asking me for investing advice, which I would be glad to provide you if your goal is to lose money!

Flip side, I hate going Krogering to Mariano's (or "Krogerano's" as I like to call it) because they are continually SKU'ing out line items I've been buying for years. Gatorade G2? Gone. StarKist EVOO tuna? Gone. Siggi's Yogurt? It's now a third of the shelf space it once had so that's on its way out. The latest? Cascade dishwasher powder! CASCADE, FOR GOD'S SAKE! Literally the best-selling dishwasher detergent brand in America! They don't carry the powder anymore! Everything now is liquid or pod-based at twice-plus the price per wash. I challenge anyone to go to their local Kroger to see if you can find it. Over the past decade especially, America is becoming less and less the land of plenty we happily bullshirt ourselves into thinking of it as, and more and more the land of line consolidation and outright shortages. We can blame COVID for it all if we want, but really, it started long before COVID, which just accelerated the the slow-motion conditioning of the American consumer to expect less while paying more, while continuing to insist we're still the only land of milk and honey on the planet. We've already come to expect garbage customer service, so that's what they give us. They conditioning us to expect product shortages, too. This is especially true of middle-of-the-line items. Everything anymore seems to be either cheap off-brand or private label stuff, or fancy schmancy overpriced stuff, some of which is of dubious quality anyway. It's basically an allegory for the disappearance of the American middle class altogether. Here in the Land of Opportunity™, you either you got all the money, or you got nothing. </rant>

That means the Democrats will need to target their efforts at states that will make the difference. BTW: you know how Republicans are always against getting rid of the electoral college because they say only big coastal cities would make any difference in elections? My response to that is, how is that any different than a system in which only two or three states make the difference?

That makes me four for four! “I would not expect to sign any position-player free agents until after we start playing spring training games. I'm fairly confident we'll get somebody, but probably not a somebody that anybody here really wants on the team as of today. It's going to be somebody we're not talking about now, and who comes here because he needs a job. Think along the lines of Johan Comargo or Cesar Hernandez or Jonathan Davis or Jake Marisnick.”

I did not personally contribute to putting Trump in power because I voted for Michelle Obama in 2016. Running up the score nationally makes no difference. He will still not win Illinois.

Biggie Smalls/Notorious B.I.G has now been dead for longer than he was alive.

I shouldn’t laugh, either.

Every grocery store has eight or ten or twelve available checkout lanes, and at any given time you go, exactly one of them is open as you get into a long line waiting to check out.

Every time he goes on Bret Baier or something, he’s campaigning, talking about all the stuff his base want to hear, and it’s just calcifying his position. He doesn’t have to talk about political stuff like the economy, except to say he had the greatest economy in the history of the world under his watch, and more than that’s good enough. His lizard-like charm is intoxicating to his people. He could expose himself to a Girl Scout troop on Fifth Avenue and he wouldn’t lose hardly any voters.

That's exactly what he was doing. I just wonder why. Seems to me the more a perps blabs, the more they got the goods on him, and the easier it will be to convict him, or have him at least plead out in a harsh bargain. But it's almost as though the cop wanted to give this guy a decent chance to get off. Since when do cops do that with arrestees? If cops want suspects to clam up and not tell them anything, why do they question suspects at all?

Illinois is in the bag for Democrats, so there's nothing I can do here.

is he done with the case in any event? Won't he have to be present and potentially testify at trial?

Could you seriously see the same cops doing this if it were a black guy killing his kids on his property?

Honestly, it's hard to take anything the Republican Party does seriously, since it is dominated by unserious performance artists, and anyone within the party who purports to be a serious statesman or -woman is an utter non-factor. The party has evolved into a malignant force against which we and the country must be defended.

Back in the old days, before we were all twinkles in our daddies’ eyes, a lot of baseball corporate names would run along the lines of “The National League Base Ball Club of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Inc.”

According to the story, the shooter started to say something, and the cop cuffing him at the time said, “You have the right to remain silent, dude, use it!” Why did the cop say this? Why was he so concerned about the perp talking? Was he concerned that the perp was going to incriminate himself further? I always imagined cops would want perps to blab on the spot to make it easier to convict them.

Yawn.

Corporations are people, my friend.

I see you're confused about this, but I think I can help you here. I was, as you suggest, keeping sight of the many factions in Ukraine that are ultra right Neo Nazi types. Hope that clears it up for you.

I'm not sure how some of these fit in with Frank Zappa, especially the soft prog rockers, but I did listen to a lot of them in my long-haired schooldays.

Middle School Marjorie.