That settles it. We're overdue for a mass extinction event.

Thanks. I know that trash polka is something many people hate, but I think he would have liked it.

He once explained his retirement from songwriting and performing by saying that “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Nothing says "we care about quality" more than putting out this announcement with a non-working URL.

Unfortunately, that's a price point where a lot of people will be unable or unwilling to say "yes."

Sorry, not checking here much. It rained a little bit.

Also, there are community spaces, many of which predate the George Floyd uprisings and have remained active. E.g., one cafe cooks and takes food to the major homeless encampments five days a week. Volunteering to do that (and/or teach adult literacy) sounds like a good retirement.

The Twin Cities. I like the culture/community, it's fairly affordable (more expensive housing but far better and cheaper health care), and there are lschools (UM, Augsburg, community colleges) where maybe I could adjunct for extra $ if I don't want to or can't continue to teach online for MiSU. /1

It's the Land of Entrapment. I've decided against moving to the Silver City area, though; access to health care is too poor.

I saw him and a woman whose name I can remember on a Gong Show clip, and I remember Artie Johnson (who I know from Laugh-In) being honestly and seriously impressed.

I lived it Fort Worth for many years. I'm sure you don't have the chance to get out and just do things, but if you do, the Kimbell Museum is well worth visiting.

Well, no, but why the hell depict Ronald Reagan, *the sock puppet who helped start this whole fucking mess*, in a positive light?

I showed this to a few undergraduates who had never before watched a movie with subtitles and knew next to nothing about the period. They were rapt.

Sorry, but at $17.00 for shipping a shirt and a mug, I have to pass.

Oh, you mean meeting for 40 days every year rather than 80 days every other year? That's minor.

Now I've got to look and see what idiocy they've come up with now besides the idiocy I've having to track as Faculty Senate president.