What happens if you go to the doctor's office because you think you have hypochondria? What are they going to do... diagnose you?

If I were stranded in the desert with no water, I would simply hand my phone to my kid and wait a few minutes for him to find water to spill on it.

Well, I had not expected to be legally declared a trans woman in the first week of the Trump administration, but here we are, girls!

Question: How can Chief Justice Roberts swear him in without openly suborning perjury? (Or maybe, he can't but it doesn't matter because no one apparently cares)

Any ultraconservative toughguys that are having trouble making sense of the CEO shooting... Just pretend it's an episode of "Yellowstone" and the CEO was a counterparty to Kevin Costner's character.

"Hey buddy, you're sporting some pretty aggressive bumper stickers for someone who's taking forever to enter the roundabout."

[getting kiddo dressed this morning]
Me: "You've got to get these pants on."
Kid: 😫"Why?"
Me: "... You know what, I'm sorry but a while ago people decided that we were all gonnah wear pants. It wasn't a great decision but now it's just too late to turn back."
Kid: 😔"... okaaay."
#parenting

See why this would be a ridiculous line of reasoning in any other endeavor.

What went wrong? Probably lots of things. But one thing is that Dems should have taken their own advice from over a decade ago: A calendar date is not a platform.

Eubulides: "If a heap remains a heap if you remove one grain of sand, when is it no longer a heap?"

Duh... When the regression coefficient of the slope is less than the arctangent of the coefficient of static friction of the material in question.

Paradox solved. Ancient Greek paradoxes are lame.

And oldie but goodie... (Someone was asking for this, and danged if I couldn't find the digital version but apparently I still had an old printout.) Wall Street is still pitting working folks against each other and it's still working.
#pensions #classwar #publicemployees #pers

The West Linn Wilsonville School District has a lot of nerve: tanking the value of their own asset, demanding that the City of West Linn cover the fees associated with cleaning up that mess, and now whining about "good faith" after going to court to wiggle out of their contract. Shame.

My handy-dandy chart for telling people where to stuff it.