Every time you see an ad for the Minnesota Senate race, you should remember this: www.startribune.com/dark-money-m...

Everybody talking about Sam Neil's passing today, and somehow nobody's posted this scene.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge says Trump lawsuit against IRS was filed for 'improper purpose' and refers attorneys for disciplinary action

My friend, Paul, is in the final stretch of crowdfunding for his latest comic. He's just a bit of $1k short with 4 days to go. He's a school social studies teacher by day but a talented comics writer by, uh... slightly later in the day! Give him a shot!

Oh, and for the record, it became obvious after the second bang that it was either a terrifying cascading failure of electrical load transfer or dipshit neighbors. But the lights stayed on and I saw the starburst on the third explosion so now I have a pretty good idea who my dipshit neighbors are.

Let's play a game! It's called "Blown transformer because it's been 90 degrees all day or dipshit neighbors lighting off fireworks at 10:00 on a Sunday night in the suburbs (where we all know exactly who it is) because they're dipshit neighbors?"

I suspect that many of the people mourning him are those privileged enough to not have been impacted by his votes.

Back on a Pokémon kick lately and I've gotta say: The greatest fantasy of the setting isn't the hundreds of Pokémon themselves, nor is it 10 year olds hiking the countryside alone trying to become the basically-cockfighting champion of the world, no. It's the free universal vet care.

I know you are tired of seeing these. But we have 4 days to raise $1,128 to make my newest comic a reality. And I can't do it without you. #indiecomics #comics #history

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

Some other card colors: - Pink: Too many cards issued and card printer is running out. - Green: Player switches FIFA nationality mid-game and plays for the other team from 2nd half. - Blue: Must move off-line and yield to faster striker. - Purple: Reference for bruise to test real injury vs. dive.

Replaced our thermostat this week because the "old" one (that we had installed when we bought the house only a few years ago) was regularly failing to talk to the furnace. It seems to work fine, but we went from no noise when turning on AC to a relay click loud enough to hear across the house.

Finally got out of bed and moved to the living room. The only noise in here is one fly that won't stop flying around long enough for me to deal with it. My dog looks just as peeved by the buzzing as I am. She's straight up side-eyeing me, like "are you going to do something about that?!?"

For the evening crowd! Who will be revolutionary 35???

1. Chicago dog 2. Flint-style Coney 3. This one time I wrapped a grilled dog in prosciutto and put a little Dijon on it Also, a reminder that the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (the lobby for Big Hot Dog) says "Don't use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18." hot-dog.org/culture/hot-...

We have SIX days to raise just over $1,200! I'm hopeful, but we need your support to make it happen! #comics

Ordered breakfast delivery because I'm in meetings all morning. I think I just got the burrito that god microwaved so hot that he himself couldn't eat it. It's tasty, but 20 minutes after it was dropped off and I can only barely hold it long enough to kinda sorta take a bite.

A real "nobody has these diseases, so why do we need vaccines?" moment.

Reminder that "I'm excited because Obsidian is making a new Fallout game" is the video games version of the Seinfeld "You're actually rooting for the clothes" bit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-L...

GOAT

Walking the dog and came across two robins following a hawk around, chirping incessantly, and thought "Wow, even the neighborhood critters have their version of ICE patrols."

Watching old episodes of Pokémon. S1E13, a researcher declares "on this planet, there are 150 known species of Pokémon," (but there could be more out there). I realize this is before anybody thought of other regions, but the retroactive implication that nobody in Kanto ever travels is hilarious.

Switzerland bring us back to perfectly balanced current result, just as they should be.

A grade school classmate of mine with an illegal mortar started a 23-alarm fire that nearly burned my parents’ house down when I was house-sitting for them once in college. Char marks basically right up to the property line.

Now that the Fourth of July road trips are over, we can go back to our regularly scheduled misguided attempts at machismo that totally aren’t directly responsible for rising fuel prices, no, stop saying that.

Went and saw the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago this weekend while visiting family. Was fun, but I died when standing in front of Red and Blue in a display case and a guy told his daughter “This is what daddy played when he was little.”

Every day is "Take your dog to work day" when you work from home.

Just gonna go frantically google if anybody makes an NA Trappist and, if so, where I can get some locally.

Unrelated to the disaster currently live nationally on Fox: Cheers to the postal worker who took my call on Friday about a package being delivered in spite of my mail hold while out of town, and then personally drove to my house to retrieve it and hold it until we got back.

Mexico: died with honor US: [yakkity sax]

Pausa de Humiliacion

Over-extending and giving up an obvious own goal does feel kinda symbolic, doesn’t it?

This is a frustrating experience.

Just sitting here, writing and deleting posts about that goal. Do you know how ridiculous you need to be to leave a professional writer at a loss for words?

From Rueter’s mouth to Poch’s game plan: Dest on the bench for the second half.

Nike “They didn’t think we could make it to the moon, either” commercial at halftime of *this* USMNT performance is… a choice.

Poch punting the water bottle holder like the coach from Letterkenny.

When Belgium scores, I think to myself “no.”

When USMNT scores, I think to myself “yes.”

Did Team USA just not sleep last night or something? Constantly a step behind and looking surprised that the ball keeps moving after a block.

Welp. Gonna be a long 90, it seems.

Not sure which is funnier: The “I hate England celebrating with Wonderwall because they stole it from MNUFC” crowd, OR The “I hate England celebrating with Wonderwall because I hate Wonderwall” crowd who are posting on the MSP feed, not knowing about their local team.

Reaching unprecedented levels of CONCACAF tonight.

Pausa de Suspensión

Rain let up in my hometown in time for fireworks and some donor gave a ton of money to make it extra big special for the 250th, but there’s an embarrassingly low flight ceiling and you can barely see them from the designated viewing in the park across the street from the launch point.

Pausa de hidratación

Fallon d’Floor candidate right before that corner. Ref just letting this get turn from “shit house” to “shit mansion.”

I’m past “not going to be a fan of Paraguay” and into “active hater of Paraguay.”

Been at not-my-house all day wondering if the house's wifi has some weird security config I wasn't aware of, blocking all the images for the last few hours. Guess eventual notification is better than nothing and glad they're fixing it.