Studies like this make me glad I quit drinking 510 days ago and help keep me sober.

New Report Links Alcohol To Alarming Health Conditions— And Health Officials Are Quietly Dismissing It - HuffPost

My cup of schadenfreude runneth over.

Something really cool that’s happening in my home town of ICT KS.

The owner of the 4-year-old Rise Farms, which sits atop Fidelity Bank’s car park, is inviting people five floors up to buy herbs, inspect the unusual veggie abu…

An excellent read by Frum: The Coming Economic Nightmare - The Atlantic

I really related to this:

A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump - The New Yorker

Elect a businessman they said.
A businessman man will know how to run the economy they said.
Yeah right!

I liked this quote so much I put it in my journal.

I guess the stock market, like my Econ professor, doesn’t like tariffs!

Too true.

An ICT KS Costco report: no eggs and premium gas was $3.32 a gallon, 26 cents more under Trumpy! Thanks MAGA’ts

Absolutely love this!

There are so many good memes on this and this may be the best.

I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.

If anyone can find this in the actual NFL rule book, please post it. I’ll be waiting.

NFL issues statement on bizarre penalty at the end of Chiefs' Black Friday win over Raiders - CBS Sports

Simple solution to SS. Apply the withholding tax to income above $110k. Problem solved. Column: Trump pledges not to cut Social Security. Here are the ways he could breach that promise - Los Angeles Times

What gives me some modicum of hope for the next 4 years. Opinion | A hidden Catch-22 that could ruin Donald Trump's plans - Newsweek

Here’s where the founding fathers truly miscalculated; they counted on only honorable men running for or holding the presidency. Of course, in their time a dishonorable man like Trump could have never been elected.

We Know Who’s to Blame for Trump’s Evasion of Justice. It Isn’t Jack Smith. - Slate

I asked this question at Costco just this last Saturday.

Truly I wish I was more influential in order to get more of #RaiderNation on this app along with @nntaleb. Perhaps some real influencers on Bluesky can do that for me.