...a little light culinary treason

And also, you're going to put so many hours into revising that midling-at-best crap that you probably should have just written it yourself in the first place.

Dang, Chris, that's almost kinky enough to turn me back into a theist....almost.

...hanging, before settling gently to the soft, green-tufted plain with all the sickly sweetness of an over-written sentence."
That one's from @stevenbrust.bsky.social and it's one of the best examples I've ever seen of intentionally over-writing for effect.

Second favorite: "Snow, tenderly caught by eddying breezes, swirled and spun in to and out of bright, lustrous shapes that gleamed against the emerald-blazoned black drape of sky and sparkled there for a moment,...

Yes, but a sadly overweight and asthmatic 3rd grader can outrun an ICE agent, these days, so maybe aim a little higher.

Maine elected the wrong King:

Right, so we could end up with the next Kyle Rittenhouse AND his angry racist grandpappy as ICE agents.

For context, when I was in the Army, we had 8 weeks of basic training, but that was just to prepare for advanced training--about another 20 weeks, in my case. LAPD spend 6 months in the academy, followed by 18 months of probationary service under the supervision of a training officer.

Like ICE isn't already bad enough. I was just reading where they've dropped the training time for new recruits from 13 weeks (which was already too short) to just 6 weeks.

Just read the whole thing, and....wow.
Yet another example of Hannah Arendt's old observation that dictators prefer incompetent subordinates who are incapable of earning any influence other than what the dictator provides.

Last year we bought nearly $200 worth of the small sized stuff and STILL ran out, so it's gonna have to be even more this year.

I swear, somebody's busing kids into this neighborhood...

Government and banking should both be boring.

But they're usually so rational and civil