Okay. It’s been a couple of weeks and I’m ready to call it. Opalite is my favorite track.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill

The purples are getting increasingly unhinged. #connections

Ranting and raving about fraud and abuse in the welfare system while blithely ignoring fraud and abuse in the White House doesn’t make you a conservative (or a liberal). It makes you an asshole.

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin:

I’d rather 100 welfare scam artists enrich themselves than 1 child go to bed hungry.

I watch a lot of college football and have seen a handful of Capital One ads dozens of times and it wasn’t until Week 4 of 2025 that I realized they were trying to push this dude as their version of “Jake from State Farm“. (I just thought he was a random MLB star I didn’t recognize.)

Holy hell. I just saw Seth Meyers new segment, Introducing the Interns and How They Mock Me, and I am dying at his commitment to the foam cinder block bit.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
– Vincent Van Gogh, to his brother Theo, The Hague, October 1, 1882

I have to be honest, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to process a new Taylor Swift album this week.

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden

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