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Happy anniversary!

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I can't really defend the statements, since I don't know where I got it, but I remember it making more sense than your suggested possible conflation.

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Except I was reciting well-known history.

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Sorry, yes, you were. However, I do know the difference between the states in the late 18, early 19 hundreds and the English under the Plantagenents, so it is no refutation of what I read.

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no replacing the water in Old Faithful with Coca-Cola

That would cost too much money. Just rename the feature!

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It's better than it was. We had well water, which was pristine since it came from about 30 feet down, but there were regular fish kills in the Uncompahgre when there was heavy rain (there were open piles of tailings, and CDOT used to come and scoop 'em up to use as road base), and by no means did one drink water out of the creeks. Ouray has gotten to be popular enough to have year-round visitors, so they've cleaned things up a bit for the tourists. No more piles of tailings and they've done a good job sealing and controlling seepage from the hundreds of small mines in the area surrounding the river.

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I think it's more likely to be in gold lights.

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Nothing can be more crushing than Malia rolling eyes and saying "Thanks Obama" to his face.

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Holy crap. Those are some clueless white folks there.

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They'd have a heart attack. Some of those things were just HANGING IN YOUR FACE. It was so fucking funny. I was 12 when we went. Never forgotten it.

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Great! Aside from the carcinogens and nuclear winter.

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We give Nutinyahoo and Israel three billon dollars every year. What a load of hooey moar hooey is us giving Egypt 1.5 billion dollars every year.

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Yeah, I made it up. I was lying to her for my own amusement. That's why the joke only lasted for a moment.

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I'll bet the Kenyan Usurper even stayed at Yosemite's tony Waka-Waka Hotel, which is the only place to get laid properly, because the B&B down the road has squeaky springs where even a come-hither look announces to the wilderness just exactly what you're doing.

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That shot of Obama makes me slightly bitter.

I've wanted to go to Yosemite most of my life. As an Australian, it's not exactly a minor trip. I finally got the chance to go... in October 2013.

When the US governments hut down and the park was closed.

Fuck you, Congress. I waited twenty years to make a 24-hour journey and you can't manage the single most basic function of government, that of ''existing".

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Try driving there from LAX after flying from Australia only to find it's closed.

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