GLASHEEN: (helplessly gestures with hands) Well, the investigations are active.

BENNIE THOMPSON: Sir, you wouldn’t come to this committee and say something you can’t prove. I *know* you wouldn’t do that…



...but you did.

Her whole sordid career is the embodiment of the moral and ethical decay wrought by promoting "access journalism" above actual journalism.

And then its owners presume to call it "intelligent"!

100% in agreement with Hawke's take on AI as a engine of plagiarism. I think of LLMs as ravenous, thieving maw of the fruits of human creation—stirring together the good, the bad, the true, the false, it then vomits out a poorly digested stew of biased, error-ridden lowest common denominator pablum.

As well they should have been! Your aunts' announcement of imminent departure should have been met with a plea to stay a bit longer for just a wee drop on whiskey or a cup of Barry's! To take them at their word betrays a total lack of family feeling!

with national zoning policy to support smart transit

I mean, if you could easily leave at a moment's notice, and were permitted to do so without any delaying tactics, could you be said to have any personal relationship with them at all?

Yes, it was called the Irish rug dance in my family. You must signal your intent to leave a good hour before you must absolutely get out the door. And that's cutting it tight.

And then step back and let them work the introductions out

This thread is golden, BTW.

The next time this comes up (and we know it will) I'm going to enthuse to the known acquaintance: OMG, you've just got to meet to someone who just said this incredible thing (witty recap of the convo just had with person whose name I already forgot)....

They're assuming everybody else remembers names better than you do.

Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones is only 71 years old! (and not that it should matter, but she looks so much younger!).

I greatly admire politicians who understand that their leadership position is not forever and take mentorship of the next generation as an essential part of their duties.

A close friend from college told me that whenever people asked what he did and he told them that he was a writer, they'd just wave off his reply and counter with I mean, what do you do for a living.

There was a time once in America when dressing one oneself without assistance from staff was not considered too high a competency standard to expect from the leader of the nation's top criminal investigation agency.

I adopted these two floofy babies in late August, and they now are my whole reason for living.

you nailed it. What a "WTF" moment.