Ironically, my grilled cheese method is to build the sandwich open-faced, place it under the broiler to melt and brown the cheese, then fold it up and cook both sides in a pan. This allows me to fuck it up three different times instead of just once.

They hate us 'coz they anise.

Not to mention that they were able to run the new interstate highways right through Black neighborhoods.

Yeah, maybe some day they'll figure out how to shrink artificial intelligence down to something the size of, say, a human brain.

I don't think it's even "they" any more.

I hadn't said the (US) Pledge of Allegiance since the 1970s but I attended my local school board meeting last year and they kicked off with it. I couldn't even remember which fucking hand to put over my heart, let alone the actual words of it.

I was astonished to see that they sometimes do stucco walls in Arizona by just putting the wire mesh directly onto the wood framing and applying the stucco. It doesn't even have cheap OSB behind it. Stucco is shitty enough even when it's done "properly".

I'm a school bus driver and one of my coworkers is constantly talking about how worried he is that somebody is going to shoot up a school bus instead of a school (I'm not exactly worried about this myself, but a full bus would make a pretty easy target). His proposed solution is that drivers be armed -- he wants to carry his beloved AR-15 with him on the bus. I foolishly engaged him and questioned where he would even mount the fucking thing (it's an assault rifle for those who don't know, the civilian version of the M-16) so he could reach it quickly but the kids couldn't get their hands on it. I keep encouraging him to suggest this to the district superintendent so he gets his ass fired but I don't know if that would actually happen. Our schools already have ex-cops for security and we do fucking active shooter drills with elementary school kids.

Rocket Mortgage had this truly nasty commercial that showed some schlub walking towards his house with three bags of groceries while the voiceover says that it used to be six bags. Then the guy's house starts talking to him, reminding him that he has a tiny bit of equity in the house and he can get a second mortgage to pay for groceries. Then the guy starts dancing happily.

Just astonishing that a corporation can sell borrowing money for food as a good thing. Rocket Mortgage's owner Dan Gilbert also owns my favorite NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers); I would be happy that they're getting the shit kicked out of them by the Knicks if it weren't for the fact that the Knicks' owner is just as big of a scumbag. At least Gilbert doesn't pretend to be a blues musician.

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There is no escaping Linux here.

"The board" is mostly just CEOs of other companies. All they have to do is vote for each others' absurd compensation packages, no smartness required. It's a true circlejerk.