twice the amount of time it would have taken to drive to my Chicago destination. Tho I believe the culprit was TWA, long ago relegated to the Great Holding Pattern in the Sky. Oh, wait, all holding patterns are in the sky...whatever...

Years ago, returning from ISA as I recall, in those old days when ISA could still be accommodated in St. Louis, I was stuck in a constantly changing delay -- "We're gonna leave, honest...as soon as the glue holding the wings on dries...oh, sorry, now it's nap time for the pilots..." for roughly /1

Probably at least 1000 people there at CVille, at the main intersection in the middle of town. And lots of support from people driving by (and the demonstrators let the Teslas, of which there are many in CVille, through without harassment...)

I'd be expecting to see the Emerald City around that bend

Well, there goes all statistical research into biased estimators. Compute the sample variance by dividing by N, not N-1, you hopelessly woke losers!

Suggesting also that he's probably on some serious stimulants. Seriously.

Exactly: when I went to West Africa having received every imaginable vaccination, I felt like an immunological superman (particularly during an outbreak of meningitis). Similar feelings about folks skipping classes having had Palestinian students spend a day getting thru checkpoints to get to class.

I've always found in poignant/appropriate that our independent auto repair place provides a well-used Bible in the waiting area.

Trump and the Vance factions and the desire of the Project 2025 types and a Senate-controlled GOP to minimize drama in order to actually change policies, and the tendrils of this drama get remarkably complex. Remember: fiction must be plausible, reality just needs to happen /end

with the distinct possibility of eliminating the path of dynastic succession. Add to this the unpredictable timing of Trump's likely decline, the fact that any 25th Amend. action will require the cooperation of Trump's own cabinet appointees, the choice of those almost certainly influenced by the /7

ideological succession,and the additional issue—highly dependent on Trump's mental state—on the relative advantages for simply being puppet masters with Trump nominally in charge, or Vance playing his ace card and invoking the 25th Amendment and putting himself and his backers officially in charge/6

were in that situation, it gets complicated, and for the Trump administration, it's going to be really complicated due to multiple centers of power. While Don Jr. and JD are currently aligned, their future interests diverge sharply over the issue of whether to plan a dynastic succession or a semi-/5

future, which is, well, going to be complicated. This predicated on the likelihood that Trump's cognitive decline is very real but also is not yet catastrophic, which means he will have good days and bad days. Having—lucky me—been at not one but two universities during times when their presidents/4

educated rich white people; and the decades long transition to a party dominated by a small elite class who could afford expensive universities and unpaid internship and who had utter contempt for, and zero contact with, anyone outside their rarified social class. So that got us here; now to the /3

primary might have helped, though possibly not that given, second, the weaknesses of the Obama administration in addressing populist issues, specifically bailing out banks and not mortgage holders in the housing meltdown; utterly failing to address the opioid crisis since the Sacklers were well /2

Paraphrasing Mitch Horowitz, evil is not a librarian casting spells before a black candle inside a pentagram; evil is the person in a cubicle surrounded by pictures of children and drawings of rainbows who denies your insurance claim.

The "jaywalk" question is pivotal, and the full question is "Is jaywalking prohibited or mandatory?" Add to list: "How intent are bicyclists at running over pedestrians?" (Amsterdam = 10)

All news is "trump support underestimated in polls"

Being grifters, pretty sure these dudes were also throwing shade for past few months on various plant-based carbon offset projects, saying evidence was overwhelming that stoves were the best option. There are definitely a *lot* of issues with those other projects, but guessing not as bad as billed