My dogs answer "I'm 'Drop It'" and "I think I'm called 'Get Down!'"

There are a lot of people who want to restrict you from doing things they themselves do. Most of the ones who don't want you, a responsible adult without a criminal record, to be allowed to own firearms are in fact guarded by those with firearms. Politicians who want to pass a law with a higher minimum wage don't pay that higher wage to their interns, or even the CURRENT minimum wage.

A couple presidents ago, his first action as US Prez was to restrict the kinds of jobs the outgoing cabinet members (plus other White House appointees) could take, and then right before leaving office eight years later he repealed that edict, so it only ended up applying to the previous president's cabinet. Some politicians pushing a "net zero carbon" agenda own several mansions, but they offset that with carbon tax credits they purchase from companies. OK, if you really believed that the carbon emissions are ruining the planet, paying a little extra tax DOESN'T UNDO THAT DAMAGE.

What's that coming out? A toad stool?

But what would be weird is if fuckery doesn't map onto the complex space, like it needs a Laplace transform or something.

What kind of illustrated family is this, where the dad doesn't even have a pipe?

Animal sacrifices?

One of the things they track is "Diversity." I wonder if diversity increases or decreases the likelihood of unionizing. That is, does a highly diverse workforce lean pro-union in some way, or is a more diverse group able to be fractionalized, with more "lines" that can be used to separate "us" from "them?" And of course, the lines can be changed to make it seem like "that gender" is being better served, or "that skin color" has an advantage this week, or people from that church/synagogue/mosque have an advantage, depending on the union-preventing theme at the time.

And of course it should be "Les" and not "Le." Les Francais would be aghast.

As long as people can choose to work in a factory or not, the choice should improve things overall. Having another possibility besides drug manufacture and prostitution, especially if there's more than one garment factory, gives an alternative despite people in the developed world thinking that the work is too hard for low money (based on *their* economy's standards).

Little kids prefer a McD's hamburger to a ribeye steak, so somewhere along the line our palates change. Although I like a side of shrimp with a steak main dish, I still don't care for some things the cognoscenti rave about as the peak of meal perfection--lobster, foie gras, escargot.

Not mac and cheese, though. We always like that.

Places like that attract people who are looking for an other-worldly experience, and are open to encounters with aliens, spirits or whatever. So, more visits feed the legend with the wild stories and nobody wants to hear the "I went there and nothing happened" stories.

Or, maybe there's a high concentration of some kind of mushroom that sends its spores into the air.

"I am the wife of the guy two kings ago, and it's my turn."

Also, men at the end of the movie "Brian's Song."

I thought the five second rule was that it's OK to eat something off the ground as long as it's been there less than five seconds.

FYI for non-Americans + Americans in several regions: A Bear Claw is a kind of pastry.

I feel like all that's missing is a wise-cracking iguana (Danny Devito's voice?), and they can go on an adventure that coincidentally reunites a girl and her pony.

29% of the audience thought it was one of the other three.

Or didn't think that, but entered the wrong stuff just to see if they could cause him to lose.

"My Struggle" in German is "Mein Kampf."

Wait 'til they discover spices on Jupiter. The English will go there straightaway.

...but then never use any of the spices in their own dishes.

Ugh. Why make up a story when the truth is more believable: The car damage, ruined fence, along with the scratches and bites to the hands, face and stomach, were all caused by an alien abduction.