It always felt like Rumsfeld was taking a bad rap from both his political contemporaries and the impulsive public... He was servant to, not the leader of, the Dubya administration.

I really, really like the first snowflake in this collection.

Amy's strong feelings about this seem ever-more justified.

More on that. I have a crush on this woman, and admire her faith that many of the policy types who've done such damage were actually doing their best.

I admire her faith, but don't share it.

Let's have big sex.

This is not right.

...My new phone doesn't have a replaceable battery, and I wish it did. But the manufacture had the right to offer it to me, and I had the right to go with a different design.

Furthermore, phones are small potatoes. If legislature are in the mood to screw around with tech, they have better things to worry about.

Animal behavior new to me.

The state of journalism:

https://twitter.com/AcademiaObscura/status/956953707991781376

Why can't depression be in technicolor?

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/956644497294639104

An artist's emotions are his own beeswax....

JJ, circa '92: "What have you done for me lately?"

Ooh woo hoo yeah.

Clay Travis has a mailbag.

t’s Friday, time for the Outkick mailbag to come rushing in and save you from the end of week doldrums.

So off we go.

A ton of you: Jemele Hill is out at SportsCenter, what are your thoughts on this?

I’ve been saying on the air for a couple of weeks that she was being replaced after the Super Bowl because ratings had collapsed.

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/all-that-and-a-bag-of-mail-22/

I'll see your JJ and raise you an EM 1987 What have you done for me lately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90mFGwYJ0s8

Well . . . bye!

Cecile Richards Steps Down (from Planned Parenthood)

"Cecile Richards Steps Down"

LOL - 'Concerned Women For America' - yeah, that's about as accurate as 'Antifa'.

Did you READ that inflammatory hate-tripe?! Good god, that's not reporting, that's dog-whistle mob-baiting at its worst.

I get it - they don't like women having abortion rights, but they could just say so without all the self-righteous histrionics. I'm sure Jesus isn't reading their blog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

Thats disappointing

Death by snu-snu?

https://twitter.com/AGhostlerer/status/957056730562809856

Sasse on Cece

A question raised here in 2003: useful?

Gigantic food processing corporation warns that leaving NAFTA will destroy American agriculture.

Tyson: they've got our backs. And our legs, wings, skins, and gizzards.