Insert Matt Bors "guess I'll have to be a Nazi" cartoon.

Well it's obvious. They stole it from him. Genius, stable, etc.

We have all the technology necessary for people to stick their hands into blenders while they're switched on, Sheryl, but there's been no inevitable trends to it because no one pretends it's beneficial or cool and we'd all regard someone encouraging it as dangerous and wrong.

We can reject genAI.

Short shameful confession: totally forgot there was a Seahawks game. Couldn't figure out why the light rail was so crowded until all the Seahawks gear tipped me off. D'oh!

Harry Nilsson did the gag verse for "It Had To Be You":

I'm five foot ten, a man among men, and you're seven two
But with all your faults, it's you I adore
When you stand up your hands touch the floor
It had to be me, unlucky me, it had to be me

(From memory; I think that's right)

Guess they're not in season. Magadonian fever brains will come up with something else to fear and hate in no time.

Tom, c'mon. You know better. Hotel Guy is driven utterly by revenge, and he would have ordered his thugs to toss Hunter in the soon-to-open American gulag. He may yet.

It's not that I don't like Elon. It's that Twitter has become a fetid and festering sewer of lies, hatred, and bots spewing lies and hatred. No thank you.

Way ahead of you.

It's Politico. That's required there.

[wild enthusiastic applause]

I'm not a ticker, nor a photographer, so I can't justify the expedition. Hope you get some shots!

West Coast equivalent is probably a black-throated Gray Warbler, and one wouldn't be able to see the yellow lores in this photo, but to me it really does look more like a B&W.

Good luck; not seeing any mention in either tweeters or ebird, but it's cold nights right now so who knows what cold-weather buddies might drift down to the lowlands?