Another vacation option.

Why, Miss Alkon, I didn't know you were the bucolic, get-down-with-Nature type!

I'm not either.

Y'ever hear that old expression, "…And throw away the key?"

That looks like the perfect spot for being eaten alive by a swarm of mosquitoes.

It's either that or every light source in that picture is a citronella torch.

She seems nice. Emphasis mine.

Police arrested a top Democratic staffer in Oregon's state legislature this weekend for interfering with a police officer during the Portland riots.

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On Saturday, officers blocked a crowd marching toward the East Portland Community Policing Center. Police declared a riot after somebody in the crowd threw a firebomb toward officers, which set fire to a member of the community. The rioters continued to throw rocks, fireworks, and mortars toward the officers.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/

The rioters continued to throw rocks, fireworks, and mortars toward the officers. ~ from a link by IRA Darth Aggie at September 10, 2020 11:00 AM

Mortars? They threw mortars?

Let's hope they threw the "cup-shaped receptacle ... in which ingredients are crushed or ground" and not the smooth-bore gun used to lob shells at the enemy.

Conan, I presume they mean this

https://fireworks.com/products/aerial/reloadable-mortars/tripleload-mortar-fire

and not one of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)#/media/File:5_Podhale_Battalion_-_mortar.JPG

As opposed to the stuff masons use. Pretty versatile word, it turns out.

I can see why Gavin wants to charge an exit tax.

California businesses are leaving the state in droves. In just 2018 and 2019—economic boom years—765 commercial facilities left California. This exodus doesn’t count Charles Schwab’s announcement to leave San Francisco next year. Nor does it include the 13,000 estimated businesses to have left between 2009 and 2016.

https://www.hoover.org/research/california-businesses-leave-state-thousands

No, no self awareness. I tried "oh, eff off" and "go copulate with a cactus". The harder you to try to control the language, the more systems slip thru your fingers.

Some European maniacs have decided to design a font that automatically censors your speech by replacing politically incorrect words with their approved newspeak, because there’s absolutely no way that could blow up in everyone’s face. You can try it on their website – they even give you “permission” to say naughty things, saying “this one time, it’s OK.” Oh, thank you so much, my liege. Do these people have no self-awareness at all?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/399685/

I tried "oh, eff off" and "go copulate with a cactus". The harder you to try to control the language, the more systems slip thru your fingers. ~ IRA Darth Aggie at September 10, 2020 1:31 PM

I tried to type "niggardly" and it corrected it to black persondly - even before I'd finished typing.

Is this really the font making the "corrections?"

This is enchanting.