It’s so weird that terrorism mainly strengthens authoritarian regimes rather than bringing them down. But of course there’s no reason at all to suspect that’s their real goal.

I lived in Cleveland at the time. They evacuated Terminal Tower (the tallest skyscraper in Cleveland) in case the terrorists got so fucking far down the target list that they had to attack Cleveland.

I’m a school bus driver and drug testing is a DOT mandatory requirement. Some of the districts around me have a reputation for making sure the “random” tests are only give to the drivers they know will pass, so a driver just has to keep clean long enough to pass the initial screening.

I was a programmer for 25 years and never had a drug test in that time. No employer ever even contemplated doing it. In general, programming high or drunk isn’t going to hurt anybody, but I did once have a colleague accidentally shoot a 125 mph knuckleball a foot over a kid’s head. He wasn’t coding high as far as I know, but he was coding stupid, which is a lot worse.

I’ve been tested only twice in my life (I’m nearly 60), once while in college for an engineering internship at IBM and once five years ago when I started driving a school bus. I actually failed the IBM drug test (for marijuana) but they just told me to “clean up my act” and gave me the intership anyway. I’m kind of OK with drug testing school bus drivers only because there’s not really any way of testing whether or not a driver is currently high. On the other hand, they don’t regularly test drivers for alcohol and it’s more common than most parents would want to know for drivers to be drunk.

the only thing I noticed was the return of dreams

Same thing happened to me. I quit wake-and-baking about five and a half years ago because I felt it had just taken over too much of my life. Shortly afterward I became a school bus driver, which requires an initial drug screening and then you’re subject to random tests thereafter. I’m a little pissed that I’ve never been selected for the random test, which means I could have been happily puffing away for the last five years.

The dreams are insanely weird and happen every time I sleep, even just a short nap. Most of the dreams are about me messing up driving a school bus and losing my job; one dream was me driving through high school hallways with kids scattering in all directions while thinking I really shouldn’t be doing this. I never dreamed at all when I was smoking.

A weave is attached to remnants of real hair. There’s no fucking way there’s any real hair coming out of that head unless it’s his eyebrows, ears or nose.

Universal Basic Bribe

The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump’s political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.

He never reads it, though. Because the pages are stuck together.

They meant fish tank.

https://archive.org/details/SpyMagazine/Spy Magazine 1986-1998/1986/1986-10-OCT/mode/2up

In the 1980s, Trump always made Spy magazine’s “Top 10 Worst People, Places or Things” list. His one “mitigating factor” was always “at least he’s not in politics”.

I got the moobs like Jagger.

Fresh! I don’t grow that shit for no reason.

I like to make half with paprika and half with diced chives, around Christmastime. I think that’s the only valid reason to not put paprika on them.

I might get some hate because I use spanish smoked paprika instead of the hungarian variety.

I’ve never even thought to buy pre-made deviled eggs. Never even seen them for sale, for that matter.

I might buy pre-boiled eggs in a pinch, though.

I try to keep it down to three

Three eggs … meaning six halves, right?

Huh, interesting to know. Ninth grade me didn’t give a shit about things like that.

The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability

The first computer I ever used (not counting punch cards or the VIC-20) was an Apple IIe, and I can confidently say that color was green. Later versions of the Apple II had full color, but that wasn’t “innovation” by Steve Jobs, it was just the technology for it becoming affordable.