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Not for nothing, but I lived in Tucson when I was a kid a half-century ago, and even then while we self-sustaining with the local aquifer, with some 262K people. Now they're up to some 548K people, each of whom are trying to grow golf course lawns, as well as the bloody golf courses themselves. Phoenix and Las Vegas are going to be the real, ahem, hot spots, where golf course operators are going to be begging for permission to water their courses during the summer, even though no one will be able to play in the killing heat during the daytime. I wonder if night golf will be the next big thing, because at least at midnight it will only be 85° F/30° C.

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I've had a vague memory of hearing this song when I was a kid, and like some long-buried Freudian discovery, I finally remembered from where - it was a gag line in My Mother The Car, gods help me.

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Being tolerant of the intolerant.

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Queen Maybelle loves watermelon, of all things.

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Same here. I've been married for 30 years and have lived with women for another decade or so, but even with the filmstrip level I know about women's bodies, I know that ectopic pregnancies are bad trouble. I'm so happy that you survived that. I recently switched my Primary Care Physician from my old guy who was in a Catholic hospital network to a new one who is in a non-religious network. Not only is my new PCP an ebullient younger woman (like AOC's older sister) who inspires confidence and trust, but during my wife's first visit to her, managed to shave off 20 points on her blood pressure readings after talking with her for 10 minutes or so. (Even though her medical history is much more involved than mine, she is more likely to suffer from White Coat Syndrome.) We're both glad we made the switch.

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There's something about the sight of one of those Punisher decals that makes me wish I could carry and follow anyone who has one on their truck to the local Walmart and just vote them right in the face and then claim self-defense, as they're obviously psychotically violent fucks.

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I have always hated the co-opting of the phrase "rock star" having to do with people who have nothing to do with muisc.It is particularly disgusting is his case.

Call him their Timothy McVeigh wannabe.

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Abbott will probably ban them in TX before that can happen.

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Tell that to DeathSantis, who clearly doesn't agree.

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I'm just here for the Pinochet shout-out, LOL! I have 3 of the T-shirts. One says "Feliz Navidad" and had Pinochet in Santa's sleigh dropping gingerbread men. How about them apples?

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Minnesotans aren't that Nice.

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4) Buddy on the force.

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Idk who his mom is but clearly Mel Gibson is his dad

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They don't take domestic abuse seriously because they are far more likely than the average citizen to *commit* domestic abuse

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Some drunk scumbag hit-and-runned my uncle years ago. As I understand it, my grandfather and my great-uncle went to the guy's house and made him the subject of their final ass-beating (they were both about 60 at the time). Both the scumbag and the police apparently accepted this as part of the small-town justice process.

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