Except the first night the winds in the Palisades were too strong and erratically gusty to fly anything, especially the kind of daredevil flying necessary to drop water into a fiery maelstrom, in the thick smoke and rugged terrain. So they were limited to a ground attack, which is why so many homes and acres burned. The fact so few people died is a testament to much of the work they did accomplish, saving lives rather than property.

I was referring to the rat’s nest of pubes on his head

Insurance CEOs are immoral.

Billionaires are garbage.

“Pædo” under Kavanaugh

Donald’s a dickhead, complete with pubes.

Meta’s a bog, and Zuck is its boggart.

Free enough?

(Too bad I don’t have an account to test it out.)

Gulf Of Eggs

They didn’t realize Bezos thinks “Democracy Dies In Darkness” is a GOAL.

From a purely “medical necessity” viewpoint even, having a properly-functioning prosthetic helps him keep the rest of his body healthy! (Although I suppose they’d figure on denying claims for hospital treatment when his unhealthy heart caved in!)

And then throw out your back or fall and break a hip because of the unnatural motion required to walk with said broomstick.

Oh I guess that makes sense, since the vehicle is the collateral on the loan. Hard to repo a wreck.

Isn’t the required car insurance the part that covers the OTHER cars, property and people you might harm with your car?

I don’t think it’s required that you carry enough insurance to be able to replace your own car. Might depend on your state, though?

Separately, bird flu has egg prices up again. Which may or may not affect you.

Feeling very fortunate to live in SoCal where avocados are a local crop, even grow in backyards.

Bird flu, too.

You might wine up with a mess of shards and stains. Whereas you can pummel an assailant to death and still have Chicken Corn Chowder for lunch. (Just don’t put away any dented cans, use them immediately.)

You should anyway. Especially if you’re walking/taking public transportation.

We can be the change.

Embrace alliteration.

From now on, it’s the Smart Susan.

“And don’t let him come to my funeral!”

Oooh, I didn’t realize italics made it possible to put bigger letters in smaller spaces! Thanks, Professor!

Mordant laughter

It’s an affectation left over from the days when the editor had to find a compromise between the size of the type he wanted for the big headline and the number of letters that would fit on the page. Betrays has one more letter than Knifes. As you mentioned, “knifes” is also better because of everyone who will get the reference to Julius Cæsar.

Elon is an egomaniacal Nazi idiot. But seriously, “pens”? He probably hasn’t touched a pen since gradeschool, and certainly didn’t use one for this. “Writes” is being generous,“rants” is probably more accurate. But imagine what the paper would have looked like if he had penned it. Illegible scrawl wandering over the page, full of scratch-outs and errors…all his insanity fully on display. Without the dignifying effect of corrected spelling and grammar and typeface, people would see the pure Unabomber-level madness it all is.

Same thing with Trump, his tweets are idiotic enough as it is, imagine if he had to actually write them out with a pen. Or those fat washable Crayola markers is more his style, so he could use colors for emphasis.