Loved the show ‘Earl’. No wonder I don’t watch TV, they cancel the good shows.

The MUSIC, is so awesome. They pick classic 70s, 80s, and it matches what’s going on in the story. It’s such a fantastically better audio accompaniment than a laugh track.

I was relaxing in bed watching My Name Is Earl on my iPad and my husband came in the room and threw this book at me and said, “You have to read this book!”

https://www.amazon.com/Under-Siege-Familys-Fight-Nation/dp/1668205874

He read the whole thing in one day.

I had one of those big erasers that stuck to the end of a #2 pencil after the tiny eraser wore out.  It never fit right so I thought I'd just force it on by banging it on the table (you can see where this is going).  Two hits worked fine, but on the third I lost my grip.  The pencil stayed upright on the table and my hand banged back down on the point.  I pulled it out of my hand OK, but the lead left a trace of black where the point stuck in.  Nothing in there but a trace of lead and a funny little black mark.

I don’t recall the exact details but I think I was in the first grade so only 6 years old. I seem to remember metal chairs with holes in the seat and some kid had stuck a pencil through one with the point up, and I ended up falling over onto it. Memory is very fuzzy, but the memory of looking at my elbow and seeing a broken tip embedded there is very clear. The top layer of skin healed over it and it was visible under there for years and years, well into my adulthood. I eventually forgot about it and then one day noticed it was gone.

Why didn’t I go to the teacher with my “injury” and get her to dig it out with tweezers or something?  I was a stupid 6 year old. Never occurred to me. 😂

My wife says that I will never have a tattoo or anything pierced.  I'm OK with that.  Well... except for that pencil lead I have stuck in my palm from grade school.

I had pencil lead from grade school stuck in my elbow for years, but I can’t find it now.  I’m not sure where it went.

I’ve wished for years that my hoodwinked lefty friends could see what the Trump Administration is doing on behalf of the American people. That the Administration is DOING ITS JOB. But of course they won’t look at or don’t believe what, say, the DHS, DOT, DOW, etc. are posting on X.

So now, the departments can post obliquely and with humor right in the lion’s den, getting tons of attention. It’s Trump’s gift, really … make leftists see what they don’t want to see, then make them take a stand against something so obviously good that they look like the anti-American idiots they are.

Social media, unfortunately, is a tool that anyone interested in promulgating human flourishing must pick up and use.

Edit. It just occurs to me that maximum irony value would be achieved, though, if Bluesky banned the government from posting.

Exactly. Insert yourself inside their bubble. If they ban the official government (like they did Trump from Twitter), it only shines a big spotlight on their hypocrisy. And look where that got Twitter.

And there’s a strong argument that what happened to Twitter is what got Trump elected in 2024.

The left keeps going too far and it keeps biting them in the butt.

Funny but juvenile.  Intentionally antagonizing the democrats is how we ended up with a Biden presidency.

Tim

How so?  I thought we ended up with a Biden presidency because:

1.  The deep state suppressed the Hunter laptop story. One poll of Biden voters in swing states found that 17% of them would not have voted for Biden had they known, and 9% would have voted for Trump. This would have swung the election.

2. Universal mail in ballots because covid. This alone might also have swung the election if allegations of fraud are true.

I think the ink fad is fading. I'm seeing less on younger women these days. Also, almost none of the girls that work out at my gym have piercings anywhere. Neither do my GFs friends.

It's definitely peaked, and on the downside now.

I sure hope so.

There are also those who mature and come around, even with the nose ring and tattoos, like this lady:

https://www.tiktok.com/@officialalicemusique/video/7550398980786556167

Maybe eventually it will become a fashion that started out signaling something but eventually became part of mainstream culture. I hope not though. I will never not think “snot” when I see a nose ring.

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