5 concerts to introduce Sun God @ UCSD, Beck, No Doubt, They Might Be Giants. Simon & Garfunkel, LA, ca 2010 Aerosmith. The Forum, ca 1988, my first real rock concert CSN, 1987. Included a mini Stonehenge T Swift, Minneapolis. Best concert of my life. She cried after playing Marjorie for us.

I'm going to stop referring to myself as a Former Politician and start saying I'm a Failed Pastry Chef

I once had a sinus infection go into hyperdrive 12 hours before getting on a 6 hour flight I couldn’t miss. That flight was like a hallucinatory trip to the underworld in some bathetic hero’s journey.

Our first snow at our new home on the isle of Skye. The forecast had alternating bouts of light rain and snow but it’s a couple degrees cooler than they had predicted so we’ve had a lot of fat fluffy snowflakes.

The int’l symbols for On-Off have befuddled me for 40 years. “O” looks like a completed electrical circuit, so it should mean the device turns On. “I” looks like the circuit is not complete, meaning the device is off. Color me abashed. I’m 54 years old and I just realized the “O” stands for “off.”

The 12th amendment says, ‘no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.’

Was it a leopard?

Man I want this outfit

The man speaks the truth. Don’t draw attraction to your mankles. For the love of Jiminy H Cricket don’t hike up your pants legs to show off your novelty socks and cottage cheese calves. If you want to sport something like a cholo grinch driving a lifted cybertruck, buy a $14 tie from a mall kiosk

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.

Emphasis on Article 3.

Q in High Pasture Cave, on Skye. We were doing a geology tour and he said, with all this limestone are there any caves? Our guide was excited to take us. Most of it is very cramped, and you’re in a stream, but it’s lovely. Next time I’m doing the hard bit including a stretch under water.

I have a cabinet full of herbs and spices to use up before we move. Puff pastry w/blue fenugreek, ground coriander, smoked chile, dried marigold, garlic, cream cheese, butter. Sea salt, sesame seeds, egg/milk wash. Basically Georgian Ajika.

Homemade crackers : store-bought crackers :: homemade bread : store-bought bread

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Soft spot in my heart for #kansascity

My dad was OSS and training for the invasion of Japan in 1945. His task was to swim to shore from a submarine, then sabotage stuff in advance of the invasion.

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It's not just fancy lawmakers. It's why I got out of local politics.

All federal employees must build a scale model of one of the California Missions for reasons absolutely no one will explain.

The most shocking thing is Elon has two left feet

Missed this #seal #severance

“In Bed With the Right” is one of my favorite podcasts. It’s always thought provoking, illuminating, and a joy to listen to. I can’t wait to listen to them dissect L&O. I think that show feeds rightwing urbophobia — murders and druggies and sex crimes oh my

Here’s an anecdote. My wife is in the board of a small nonprofit foundation, which just hosted an international medical conference here in the US. The NIH sponsored it, with a $10k grant. Now bills are due, and the NIH didn’t send the check. And probably won’t….

This is a basic precept of international trade, especially w/ag. The only coffee not for export is low quality — export costs eat up too much. If Abel’s coffee is $1/lb and Bobby’s $2 (b/c it’s 2x desirable), but exporting costs $5/lb, who’s buying $6/lb when $7/lb is 2x desirable?