Cats are evil

Ok, so Chess is a sport in the same way that motor racing is a sport which is to say that while it has some athletic subtleties (hey, this maximus gluteus didn’t happen by accident, it took years and years of joystick work to develop these sitz skills) it doesn’t depend on physical ability as …

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I find myself explaining my jokes more frequently which is not a good sign but it is of a piece with the gaslighting alternate reality that Republicans seem to inhabit. In case you missed the humor of it, my post Serious Mendicant was entirely (well, mostly, on another level it’s about the PBS style begging …

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Anna Akana Good for your head. Lost a Cat Totally sorry. About Politics No, really.

So this Armistice Day Trump is blowing off the traditional vist to Arlington National Cemetary (marking the Centennial of the end of the Great War no less) because it’s raining and he might be exposed as the fat balding popinjay and blowhard he is. Law and Order Party indeed. I’m not personally invested mind you, …

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Somebody once called me a polymath and I was enormously flattered. First, of course, by the fact they called me that, but secondly that I was called that by somebody who even knew what it meant. Am I an elitist? Sure. Proud to be. In addition my style is condescending and obnoxious, yet I do …

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Man of La Mancha I have read this, in Spanish (the only thing I ever really wanted to do with my skills en Español) AND English, about 18 times. It’s exactly like that. It’s of a genre called picaresque which means “rogue” or “rascal” and is natively Spanish, used by authors to satirically critique the …

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Point/Counterpoint Often Imitated, Never Duplicated The Wall Bathrooms Wonder Woman Net Neutrality Bad Leadership Helsinki Midterms

  Bloomberg (not exactly a hotbed of Left sentiment) Coop Pretty shifty rock if you care to ask (and I don’t normally do Greek puns). Not only was he always about personal advancement (“What’s in it for me?”) he got his just desserts by being crucified upside down like a, what is it?, pineapple/caramel cake. …

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Another thing I’d do for fun is play several very different takes on the same tune. Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows – Phil Collins Tomorrow Never Knows – Danielle Dax Tomorrow Never Knows – Alison Mosshart Still want to dance with me?

This isn’t really a story about Medicine, instead it’s an illustration of the problems that integrated institutional software always has. That problem is, by the very nature of doing what it’s designed to do, it imposes costs in training and, ultimately, individual efficiency. Oh sure it would be great if we were all coding geniuses …

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You see, the important thing about my jokes is they amuse me. When I was a DJ I used to stitch together several songs that had nothing in common but the title. Rise – Jonas Blue Rise – Origa Rise – Katy Perry