Epstein appears to have won a $29.2 million immediate payout from Powerball at about the time he entered a Florida prison in 2008. Grok, the AI machine on X, confirms the important details. His manager of his New Mexico ranch signed for the check. x.com/i/grok/share...

really starting to understand why that old woman left it all behind to go live in a shoe

The State of the Union Speech Should Be Held Outdoors In Late January, Says Local Curmudgeon

Urethra Franklin, urologist and sister of Aretha Franklin, passes.

‘Abolish ICE’ wins Chicago snowplow-naming contest thehill.com/homenews/sta...

The US Olympic men’s hockey team is facing backlash after laughing during a call with President Trump. Trump joked he would be “impeached” for not inviting the US women’s hockey team, who also won gold. The women’s team later declined his State of the Union invitation. www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/s...

I guess she didn't give a tinker's damn, and for that we are grateful.

Hawaii's a little slutty

Her beauty regimen includes drinking 800 gallons of water per minute.

Okay. Next do a Port-a-Potty named after Trump.

US sailors enduring clogged toilets aboard USS Gerald Ford mol.im/a/15580349 "[L]oved ones are also shipping as many packages as possible [as sailors]are begging for better food ... mac and cheese, hot sauce ..." Just what you need to eat when toilets aren't working - cheese and hot sauce.

What the hell is a tactical polo shirt? To wear in battle? And men's "performance" clothes? To wear in the 100 meter dash? And what are “tech” clothes? Clothes that protect you from the elements that threaten you in your cubicle?

I read voraciously. I feel sorry for dyslexics who have trouble reading. Perhaps they have to have others read for them, so they read vicariously.

Short movie reviews: Camille – Conspicuous consumption Alien: Hungarian goulash run amok

Trump's new tariffs are illegal. Some heavy reading. www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump... and www.stlouisfed.org/publications... Yes, National Review. Conservatives who understand business and economics abhor what Trump is doing with tariffs.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court of the United States has officially ruled that President Trump's tariffs are illegal, in a 6-3 ruling. The US now faces $150-175 billion in potential tariff (illegally collected tax) refunds. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Three Stooges look pretty normal. Many decades ago, my late uncle John was in a NYC hotel lobby. A man started hassling a woman. The Three Stooges were also in the lobby. They walked over and told the guy to get lost. Just a little factoid for the internet. h/t 80svintagevisions on Instagram

The US economy is now reliant on older Americans like never before: Americans aged 55+ now represent 45.3% of all US consumer spending, the highest in at least 28 years. You know what this means -- Lawrence Welk in prime time.

I'm having trouble finding information on Arms Akimbo, the notorious Nigerian gun runner. Is Google hiding something?

H.L. Mencken: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary". He wrote this in 1921 to describe how politicians maintain power by creating fear.

Iowa House bill would impose new restrictions on minors at public libraries, create criminal penalties for librarians littlevillagemag.com/iowa-house-b...

New Balance is coming out with a new walking shoe for journalists. It's called No Balance.

A buzzer should go off when it's time to give up on someone.

Ocean Spray has a great brand name if they should ever decide to sell incontinence pads.

The mechanic listened carefully to the roughly running car. He might have looked like he was doing nothing but in fact he was engaged in idle speculation.

What's in the same family as a fuel pump, a water pump, and a sump pump? A pumpkin

Super cold weather, a few days of warmth, then cold again. I guess I'll just wear my gloves intermittently.

Any bread can be sourdough bread if you don't wash your hands when you're making it

If I was as large as an elephant and could fly high and straight as a crow Each morning I'd fly over Washington And crap on the government below

We're going to DC's winter food truck festival. It features any food truck that hasn't had its license suspended for health violations within the last 30 days.

Confucious: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a call to Uber. * *In the Western Han Dynasty 206 BCE–8 CE, China used the lǐ (里), to measure long distances. 2,000 years ago a lǐ was about 0.26 miles. So Confucious was talking about 260 miles. The Uber guy used Bactrian camels.

True love

Jeez it’s only one day after Valentine’s Day and the stores already have their Ides of March stuff out on display

When asked “Who better represents America? Bad Bunny or Donald Trump?”, more Americans said the Puerto Rican music superstar does. Forty-two percent said Bad Bunny better represents America, with 39 percent choosing Trump. x.com/intent/post?...

If you didn't get any Valentines this year, blame this guy.

A good comedian does not reach the heights of his profession by climbing the ladder of success. He gets there by a lack of gravity.

Saw this picture advertised on Fine Art America. No, I didn't look.

Walk up to someone entering or exiting their BMW and ask: "I know what the initials B.M. stand for, but what's the M stand for?

Speaker Mike Johnson says 6 Democrats should be indicted even after a grand jury refused to do so. A whiff of eau d'fascisme has floated in the air.

We're in a long, dramatic novel, right? And we're just stuck in the middle of a chapter gloomier than a rainy New Year's Eve in a cheap New Jersey motel. And the cosmic reader will soon get past these pages.

Headline in the NYT today>>What Kennedy Doesn’t Understand About Schizophrenia There's a comment section. I wanted to write: "There are two sides to this argument."

Alternative plot for movies-- (1) Miracle on 34th Street : A house in Georgetown actually sells for under a million dollars. It is, however, only six feet wide, having once been a stable. (2) The Green Mile: A rival team sabotages a track meet with spoiled food.

Last night I watched an episode of Naked City (1963). Great show the doesn't use stereotypical characters. Plus, you get to see actors when they were young. Last night the main character roles were played by Peter Fonda and Martin Sheen. Last week we saw William Shatner played a deranged artist.

The poet Elizabeth Barret Browning after she had children looked sadly at the cellulite on her thighs. “It looks like cottage cheese!” she wailed to Robert. He took her in his arms and said “How do I love thee? Let me discount the wheys.”

When you're really hungry and all the stores are closed it's then that you find vending machines indispensable.