My most controversial middle aged sportswriter take: Bob Seger has better songs than Bruce Springsteen

How DARE Thomas Edison get rich by inventing the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion picture, alkaline storage batteries and large scale electrical grids!!!! The nerve of that guy. No one should have that kind of wealth.

I don’t buy property because I think the value will go up. I buy property because I can make the value go up.

Our true enemy is the religion of envy. We could call it ‘toxic envy’ or ‘jihad of the envy’ when it advocates violence. Taxes are violence.

🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that the Black male wielding a knife and threatening to k*ll passengers on the Charlotte NC Light Rail this week on the SAME TRAIN where Iryna Zarutska was m*rdered... ...IS A VIOLENT, REPEAT OFFENDER WITH OVER 19 CHARGES!!! He has MULTIPLE violent charges including assaulting women and government employees. HOW WAS THIS MAN EVER ALLOWED ON THE TRAIN WITH A KNIFE?!!!!!!!!!! HAVE WE LEARNED LITERALLY NOTHING FROM IRYNA?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember the Mississippi couple Billy and Virginia Blair who were murdered in their home by 17 year old Cordarius Hobbs last week? Turns out his two older brothers Cortavious and Cortavion Hobbs were just caught after shooting a Covington County deputy during a traffic stop. That deputy will never walk again. Three brothers. One family. Two separate violent crimes in five days. This is the story the national media doesn't want to talk about?

Growing up is realizing that Ayn Rand went through what we are going through. Everything she wrote was about that. Generations of "educated" people made fun of her. But she was right. She knew what was coming. The West laughed. It should have listened.

In my second year of brokerage our car was stolen from our apartment as we slept. The car my husband had just prayed over that it would last us till our situation improved. It was a crappy car with 200k in miles and the check engine light on but we needed that car. We had no money , my husband was still in college and I hadn’t made a dime from brokerage. Our area is car dependent so we had a few choices: 1. Car loan from sketchy car lot that would give us a loan considering our lack of income. We couldn’t afford another monthly bill❌ 2. Quit brokerage and get a “real” job (as my circle referred to a W2) But the recession was in full swing and unemployment high ❌ 3. Trust God. I remember my manager at the firm I worked at asking what was next as if I had no choice but to throw in the towel. I told him I didn’t know. By miracle we had full coverage on that piece of crap and when the insurance co. asked me what the value of it was I estimated $2000. I knew we couldn’t buy another car for that. They called us the next day saying they wanted to settle because recovery was not likely and the car was probably in parts and in Mexico by now. They offered us $6500 if I remember correctly and sent us a check. We couldn’t believe it. We were able to buy a cheap Toyota Corolla off Craigslist in all cash. No car payment. Our expenses were low enough to stay in brokerage and that “new” car lasted us till after our first home and baby until the engine blew out. Sometimes our prayers are answered in weird ways. We prayed that car would last and it didn’t but God provided another that did and far beyond what we expected.

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

This is true. I am regularly shocked by the terrible business sense of university leaders, who use corporate lingo to justify self-feeding bureaucratic monstrosities.

This was true twenty years ago. Less and less true now.

For all these dumbasses claiming if they had Elon's money they'd end world hunger, cause world peace, educate everyone, or whatever, blah blah blah... No you wouldn't. You're full of shit and everyone knows it, because that's not how the world works. Throwing money at a problem doesn't fix it. The entire history of government demonstrates that. Saying vapid nonsense just makes weak, unimaginative people with a childlike grasp on reality feel better about themselves for caring harder, while accomplishing nothing. Meanwhile, the guy you hate revolutionized EVs and self driving cars, brought affordable reliable internet to every corner of the Earth, and is making the dream of colonizing space real. And the process of doing all that has given hundreds of thousands of people jobs. While you posture about how you'd give everybody an imaginary unicorn, he's done stuff that's actually changed the world for the better. And you don't get it. You can't get it. Because you're just too fucking small.

RT @DScully77: real life check-in: i'm grading AP exams (for extra money) and y'all, the kids are not okay. this literary crisis is really…

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What’s living in the UK like? I’ll tell you. In the last week alone we have had to process: -an attempted beheading by an illegal migrant from Sudan in Belfast -while still trying to make sense of a boy, Henry Nowak, being stabbed to death while police were more anxious about allegations of “racism” than trying to save his life -then we learn children in Scotland were assaulted by Bulgarians while the police didn’t believe them either -while reading that a vulnerable 18-year-old was r*ped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan -while an asylum-seeker from Iraq got only 6 years for r*pe -while an Iraqi national, was found guilty of eight counts of r*pe and grooming children as young as 12 -and his friend from Iran who arrived illegally skipped bail and is on the run -and now we learn that a teenage girl has been stabbed in the neck by no doubt “a local man” in Burnley. That’s one week in the UK. Oh, and the Left say talking about all this is “divisive”, they blame social media and Elon Musk, and local councils have told us not to fly our national flag because it might “intimidate” migrants. One week. The UK. 🤡

Pro tip for commercial real estate deals: have the buyer cover the commission and reduce the sale price accordingly. This way, the buyer’s reassessed value is lower, meaning less taxes, and the seller faces a smaller capital gain. Win-win

I know, right? If only he employed, say, 100k people. If only he revitalized a dead auto factory in Fremont, California and made cars there, again? If only he invented a product to allow someone to get Internet access anywhere on the planet, affordably? If only he proved that electric cars were something people wanted, helping to reduce pollution? If only he revitalized American excellence in space, allowing us to not rely on Russia for orbital boosting?

My dad was from Texas so whenever we had chili at home Fritos were a part of the meal. I got to have Fritos if I make chili. Of course I get the Scoops Fritos which was a nice innovation.

I read a story in which the author, whose hero was Texas, mentioned someone taking a "slice" of Frito pie, and thus exposed himself as a poseur. In a different story, by a different author, the hero went to Waffle House and bought a Belgian waffle - making it clear he had never in fact visited a Waffle House. In the Walking Dead, they go from Florida to South Carolina and can't find a single firearm in any house. "Huh" I thought. "The screenwriters are from Los Angeles." What examples can you give of a writer unintentionally giving away his lack of knowledge?

This is the kind of thing that haunts families, and it haunts me and my deputies.  All because a prosecutor won't prosecute a crime. A man cosplaying as a woman sexually assaults a young lady as part of a sport.  It's on tape. That's what happened.  We recommended charges.  The Pierce County prosecutor declined to charge and says the fact that it was a man doesn't have any bearing on the assault. It's right there. On video.  They don't want you to believe your own eyes.  It's gaslighting.  It's awful. To everyone on here.  Flood the internet with this story.  They're not listening and it's time we got loud. More below 🧵⬇️