Don't know when the cows come HOME, but here is a herd being heard responding to their names at roll call when they first got to work.

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Q: About Patel, is he just stupid or possibly suffering from long held untreated mental illness?

A: A bit of both.

Trump reading something? HI-LARIOUS!

The scene: San Francisco, 1989. Corner of 15th & Noe.

The crime: Window smashed on my Toyota beater. Only item stolen was my Giants hat with 4 Croix De Candlestick pins!!!

I’ve since gotten over the cost to fix window. Theft of hat w/ pins? My rage still smolders. Moo Yeah!

No one wants to work anymore.

… problematic in other ways. We have a tendency to believe everything will eventually work out on its own without facing problems squarely now. Or taking responsibility for past mistakes the results of which continue to affect us.

I just started the series. Liking it very much.

Agree! I’d argue the US has always been a deeply optimistic nation, seeing itself as an ongoing, utopian project. A country forever in the act of becoming. You rightly point out that the Founders believed this optimistically. They also did a lot of self dealing. This ongoing optimism has also been …

"Everything will collapse unless rich people are able to gamble on tulip futures with magic beans unless the government accepts all their risk and gives them free dollars." Am I getting this right?

"Floorham" sounds like a the name of a quaint English village.

Just gotta say there could be a whole other bit of Thanksgiving storytelling in which "the cousins" and "a dope cloud rolled out" feature prominently.

Uh, whatever the answer is let's keep this on the down low about ham. TSA is ridiculous enough as it is fantasizing about how ordinary stuff can be "weaponized." 😜

My one Irish Catholic grandma would never make spaghetti. Too "ethnic." The other poured a can of sauce over broken in half, boiled to death pasta. Called it "the spaghet." In their defense, both were born in the 19th century and grew up very poor.

I can be as star struck as anyone, but "... we left her alone" is as good a life philosophy as it gets.

There's a book in this. 😂

She had me at Dershowitz being charismatic.

So, business attire for flying, jeans and a sweatshirt for church?

“Channel Andy Rooney!” Is a bold editorial philosophy. Gotta give Bezos that.