Big week for poignant stuff. I've always had a secret crush on this girl. She's a little young for me, but… Or she was a little young for me.

Graphic illusion. Pony fear.

Correlation does not imply causation

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1136644180414013440

We should ask this guy questions:

• Will I find true love?
  
  
• Which stock, Uber or Lyft?
  
  
• Flying cars, right?

Someone was whistling "Brian's Song" at breakfast. I hadn't heard it for several decades, so I looked it up on Wiki. Turns out Gale Sayers has dementia. America sux.

Well, football sux. So do trite teevee movies.

I want to kevetch about my water bill. And not just because I'm a cheapskate.

We've had the conversation about taxing the poor or just taxing thing in odd or inappropriate places. Ferguson riots and all that. Well, I look at my water bill and I use $10-$30 of water a month. What can I say, water is cheap here in Houston. The issue is I pay $80-$100 in taxes on that bill each month. Which feels crazy to me. Some of what they spend the tax money on I support and a lot of it I don't. But even so having 90% of my bill be taxes just feels excessive. I could cut the water line to my house and my bill would not significantly change. And the flip side as well. Run a hose out to the storm drain and just let it run. So what? My bill didn't really go up.

Now ~$100/mo isn't a big deal for me. I'm doing all right. But for a lot of people in Houston that isn't a small issue. Maybe I'm crazy and I just need to be told so. It's just having 90% of my bill be taxes feels really off to me.

Interesting article: Drowning Does Not Look Like Drowning

Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

The Instinctive Drowning Response, so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect it to. When someone is drowning there is very little splashing, and no waving or yelling or calling for help of any kind.

Keep this in mind the next time you fly and TSA feels you up.

The federal agency tasked with overseeing security at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing migrants who have been released from federal custody onto flights despite not having required documents, according to several Department of Homeland Security officials.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tsa-allowing-illegal-migrants-to-fly-without-proper-documents

Floriduh, man.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/its-florida-man-friday/

> I want to kevetch…

One syllable, Cowpoke.

> …about my water bill.

Right? It's getting to the point where a Dallas cityslicker making $165K can't do his homework in a centralized clearinghouse without his ballsack drying out.

> When someone is drowning there
> is very little splashing, and
> no waving or yelling or
> calling for help of any kind.

One imagines Trump adorers submerged into their own airless egos.

You couldn't actually add to the conversation Crid? Oh well, trollster has to troll.

Headline:

CNN | 6/7/2019 | Listen
Main Stories

Lesbian couple viciously beaten in homophobic attack on London bus

But I haven't followed the link yet.

Anybuddywanna wager?

Ben, people say the things they want to say: That's how conversation works. Those who whine would prefer a world of lectures, and would prefer always to be at the lectern.

Six— That's arguably the gee-deeist tweet of all time.

But I haven't followed the link yet.

The miscreants weren't identified other than being teenaged males. I suspect that means that they're south asians and in Brit, that means Pakistanis.

So, no, not taking the bet.

Educational witch hunts.

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/06/a-witch-hunt-comes-for-the-nonconformist/

Golly! While not prompted with specifics, Darth saw exactly where I was going with that. Which is really something! Wow.

There's one facet of the Virginia Beach monster's life which has not been described by the New York Times. But I bet even Darth won't be able to guess!

Golly! While not prompted with specifics, Darth saw exactly where I was going with that. Which is really something! Wow.

There's one facet of the Virginia Beach monster's life which has not been described by the New York Times. But I bet even Darth won't be able to guess!

Peter Bright, Ars Technica journalist, male feminist, troll, and frequent critic of gamers and other nerds as misogynist "pedos", has been arrested for attempting to have sex with a 7-year-old girl.

https://twitter.com/mombot/status/1137153156243046400

The singular achievement of Everest.