FEMA has had staffing gaps over the past few years. Surprise, surprise -- reductions under Trump have made them bigger, even as the demands on FEMA have continued to grow. Pray that we get a break this hurricane season www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...

America's Golden Age has surely begun. Can you feel it?

A little suburban archaeology: these surfaced from the circa 1970s bathroom we were renovating. Love the Pep Boys!

Is Marco Rubio asking himself: a) Why the fuck did I take this job? b) Gee, how can I learn to suck up like JD Vance? c) What corporate boards can I join if I quit right now?

Meant to send you this. The Gibneys of Malahide, in living color. They now have an outpost in Manhattan. As I stood there, waiting to have my picture taken under the sign, a helpful fellow came by, put his arm around my shoulder, and said, "You need an Irish drunk in the picture." Amen, brother!

This is what the National Archives says about the Intelligence Advisory Board. Devin Nunes's past history shows he is incapable of living up to this standard:

There is effed-up, and then there is really effed-up, and this falls in the latter category: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The juxtaposition of this ad in the Atlantic next to David Brooks’ (America’s self-appointed scolder-in-chief) earnest handwringing about Ivy League elites and their assortative mating and social segregation made me hoot with satisfaction. They know their audience!