Tom Cruise is maybe 5-7

It was a panic-driven reaction to 9-11, a bureaucratic monster, and has a creepy name. Unwind it. Put its 22 bureaus and agencies back where they were and naturally fit.

And all those years we worried about Communists and Russians and so forth, and now it turns out....

These dawns are reason enuf to get up early. Also coffee.

Lordy, but Rubio turned out to be a total suck-up. I didn't expect much, but...

Soon and I can get my coat on and find an ICE guy, make that 8001 verbal assaults.

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According to my local so-inclined pals, all of the signs all the time.

you made me laugh, but kind of a bitter laugh.

vice and sugar

The Upper Colorado River basin snow pack is significantly below optimal. Only 55-65% of whatever average means anymore. Here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California we've had only warm rain so far, no snow. Not good news.

I will continue to write the year as '2025' for at least two months into 2026

I was just feeling glad that since I don't write checks anymore, I won't inscribe the wrong year for a month or two. Happy New Year to you all, from Happy Me.

Oh, god, and the US war guys are blowing up suspicious boats right over there.

yikes