They've done away with the penny. When are they going to get rid of that damn 0.9 cents in a gallon of gas? Finding that change has always been difficult.

One of those columns needs to be Plexiglas and have Barron encased in it.

The front page of every contemporary daily newspaper ought to print a trigger warning, for those who need a little cushioning from reality.

"Watch me pull a penis out of my hat!"

The US media, not to mention the Democrats should have been this direct in 2017.

And the UK tabloids should have been trolling Trump hard since 2015. They have the attitude, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of the kompromat has or had fallen into their hands.

I maintain that all the kompromat in the world wouldn't change things at this point--live man or dead woman.

Not to compare horrid atrocities, but whatever Trump has done in the past pales compared to what he's doing right now in terms of scope, scale, and insanity.

The less perfect in he is in the eyes of Evangelicals, though, it just feeds into their persecution complex, so 20 percent of the US is always going to support him. No. Matter What.

And then there are the other 10 or 15 percent of the US who want to (a) pwn the libs or (b) refuse to admit they were ever wrong.

And I'm beginning to think that Epstein was an Israeli spy, pure and simple, getting the goods on everyone they needed him to.

Meditation.
Avoid the news.
Stay single.

Because they apparently can?

That is true and he wore a tan suit while doing so!

#28 | Posted by BellRinger

Reagan wore brown suits, but he never, ever, ever asked for Dijon mustard.

his beard, Big Mike, would often fly in a separate plane.

#7 | Posted by visitor_

Only took 7 posts for the right's homoerotic fixation to come up, in an article about Trump's golf habits.

Noted.

but still moonlights as frat party/truck stop entertainment.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Just about every thread ultimately comes to this, sometimes sooner rather than later.

It's the itch that never goes away.

Charles Manson, "Garbage Dump":

It's all in the presentation. Headline could have stopped with "Look at me."

Nothing personal, Truth.

"Innocent Cubans?"

--today's GOP

Sigh. For someone turning 65. Medicare part B 202.90 per month per person. Supplemental insurance 190.49 per month per person. So for a couple around 10,000 per year before co-pays, deductible and max out of pocket. We need to reduce the cost, not just shift them to third and fourth party payers.
#10 | Posted by visitor_

Might want to check your abacus on that yearly amount, and your information on what Medicare is all about.

And unless you're dopey enough to fall for a Medicare Advantage plan, there's nothing after the deductible.

My wife's been on Medicare since March 2020, and I've been handling her Medicare. She's had plenty of medical care and a lot of pricey stuff done. I'm on Medicare also, as of last year.

The only times she's been charged anything beyond the deductible was twice, from the same chiropractor's office. It was BS, and we left the practice.

Right now, she's on a zero-premium drug plan and her pharmacy costs are minimal.

I saw the headline and presumed it was a GOP concept of a plan to convince older folks to get off the dole.

We'll know Trump's feeling it for real when he starts throwing his present wife and any of his children under the bus.

The current high-level grifting and warmaking is providing plenty of cover for Uday, Qusay, and the Kushners to be conducting raids of their own. And Melanoma on behalf of her and the 6-7 POS.

Blow it up real good.

4. I worked for the Fed back in the late 80s, and the economists were all about creating weird theoretical asset/loan/derivative instruments and what their effects might be.

About half the economists were hip or at least interesting smartypants; the other half you'd have a hard time peeling off a wall.

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Is it true that Elvis' middle name is misspelled on his gravestone, indicating that he didn't really die?

Too lazy too look it up --

I'd be curious to see the parenting that the photographed couple brings to the table.

Reproduction: hardly a perfect experiment in any case.

Looks about as real as Trump's assassination attempt.

Founded a cheerleading association? Like some people buy beauty pageants?

Uh-huh.

2.

"Headless Body Found in Topless Bar"

--actual New York Post headline, decades back

"The Marines, my eyes are always on those fab Marines."

--L. Graham