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Interesting tidbit: He filmed his audition tape for House from his hotel room during the shooting of Flight of the Phoenix.

You can find it on YouTube.

Maybe not directly…

Guess I’m out of the loop. Who’s Elmo?

If you’re unfamiliar with the history of the Donner Party it’s a fascinating, if gruesome, read. Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, 45 survived to reach California. Some became quite successful there.

There were 90 wagons in the train and they were trying a newly conceived route to California that obviously didn’t pan out well.

Imagine taking a wrong turn in the wilderness and finding that you’ve led 90 wagons into hard terrain and deep woods. They were at times literally having to cut trees down to clear a path through dense woods for miles and miles. Horrible, slow going, and hard work.

Couldn’t find the date?

Did you check the EXIF data?

That’s right. For a company greater than 50 employees the insurance companies charge a group rate that is the same for everyone. Fewer than 50 and each employee is billed on their and/or their family’s merits.

Because I have fewer than 50 employees, most of my family employees use their spouse’s insurance from larger company than mine. And there’s little I can do about it.

For my small business I’m just as screwed over as the employee. If I hire a guy I can’t (and don’t want to) ask him him or her health questions, but because I pay half of my employee’s insurance I’m hiring with an unknown cost component. That employee might have a costly pre-existing condition for all I know.

As an employer I would LOVE to be shed of this system. I have no reason to be involved in the health care of my employees, and given the state of health care in America there is literally no upside for my business. It’s all bad.

Unfortunately our system requires it, though. If I didn’t offer health care and instead just increased the base salary I wouldn’t be competitive. People would think I was trying to pull a fast-one on them, and few people in America know how to get health care on their own. It’s a mess.

Okay. For elections pre-Trump you might twist my arm into half-assedly agreeing with you.

But if you think that now you’re one of:

1. A genuine idiot
2. MAGA cultist
3. Russian Propagandist

My wife is there.

She’s gotten two knee replacements this year and is scheduled for a hip replacement before the end of the year. And last night I reminded her she’s been meaning to go to a dermatologist.

Assuming this isn’t just shopped, which it probably is… As a guy that bakes cakes from scratch a couple of times a year, two things:

1. Props to whomever got that pattern into the cake, that couldn’t have been easy. Imagine: There’s a toroidal swastika in that cake.
2. That’s one ugly-ass cake for having spent so much time on it.

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I honestly thought you were going to tell me that was an Idiocracy quote.

Mencken makes sense too…

Google makes money on ads. They make $300-$400 annually per user by displaying ads.

They are motivated to tarpit you in order to show you more ads.

Giving you your results quickly and efficiently costs them revenue.

Use kagi, or another search engine.

Yes, he has played a significant role in past elections all the way back to Reagan, and you haven’t noticed.

He’s an intellectual pundit that was on Fox News until 2017. He writes political commentary for the Washington Post; his column currently appears in 415 newspapers.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

He continues to appear on MSNBC to this day.

He’s also considered to be a baseball expert who has written extensively on the subject including his own book. Their “baseball fan” comment was intended to be cute, I think.

Unfortunately, as an erudite pundit, most people that would be swayed by him to vote for Harris are smart enough to have decided to do so on their own.

Because think of how Trump is now. Now add two, three, or four more years to his obvious decline.

Even if he doesn’t end democracy, they’re afraid he could literally end the Republican party.

Secret to longevity: keep it turned off 85% of the time.

Thalidomide was originally created in Nazi Germany as a sedative for healthy, non-pregnant adults. After the war many of the drugs created during the war were boxed up by German pharmaceutical companies. The story of Thalidomide is simply mind-blowing from start to finish.

Frances Oldham Kelsey at the FDA in the United States almost single-handedly, and while under enormous pressure, kept Thalidomide out if the USA for insufficient safety testing.

One reason that Americans are a bit less familiar with this horrific story.

Hunter Gatherer’s

Hunter Gatherer’s what?