I' would say that the flash football competition at the pro bowl was mind-numbingly boring. I'd still give this a shot of they broadcast it for free, though. If they put together an entertaining show, it'll solve my problem of needing cognitive dissonance to be entertained by watching people destroy themselves for my entertainment.

These monsters...

There's also just something about the guy. There have been populists and cult of personality types before. But I've never seen a political figure so good at getting dumb people to commit violence for him.

Ugh. Four fucking Ducks starting in the pros. At least my Huskies have two, though one is kinda sucking.

Even weirder, they have "strasse" printed directly above it.

There are two options. You watch your pet die or your pet watches you die. I don't know which is worse.

His name will still be on the ballot, so he'll probably leach some of the idiot vote, still.

I have to keep saying this. The Epstein files are the fucking distraction. Dismantling the world's most powerful nation is the real lede here, people.

Harambee was our anchor being. Everything's been fraying at the edges since that day.

Interesting story. Dropkick Murphys (Boston-Irish punk band) got their first national hit by doing a punk version of "Shipping Out to Boston," which was a Woody Guthrie taperoom-floor forgotten song. They also just lost one of their lead singer/songwriters last year.

They were trying to figure out what direction to go in, when Woody Guthrie's granddaughter called them up to say she had found a bunch of other scraps and notes, wondering if they had any interest in putting together an album.

They said "fuck it, sure" and made an album called "This Machine Still Kills Fascists." It's not quite my cup of tea, but it resonated with a lot of people. If you're interested in Guthrie's music it's definitely worth a listen. Modernized medium-talent version of his b-sides, basically.

Every republican administration in my lifetime has left office in a recession.

Seattle PD is and has always been terrible. For a city with as little violent crime as we are, you would think that we would have a semi-competant police force. We aren't Baltimore or Chicago or Memphis. We don't need a violent, antagonistic, adversarial police force. Yet decade after decade, Seattle PD shows themselves to be the worst of the worst of violent white nationalists.

SPD's training standards are embarrassingly low. SPD's staffing numbers are embarrassing low. Rookie cops make over $100k and the right-wing pundits say it's not enough, while first-year teachers make $55k and the right-wing pundits say it's too much. They blame the BLM riots and say that the city betrayed them, but the average person here had absolutely zero faith in them well before the riots. Most SPD officers don't actually live in Seattle.

Sorry if the second paragraph got a bit into unhinged-rant territory, but shit like this is infuriating. SPD is so clearly shit and needs to be purged.