I bet all those businessmen who listened to their college-age daughters scream Republicans are na-zeees! Why are you supporting them?! REEEEE! are starting to regret it.

The business lobby, which has traditionally and disproportionately supported and financed Republicans, decided to hedge its political bets in the last couple of elections by endorsing many Democratic candidates it viewed favorably. The Chamber now finds itself in political purgatory—alienated from many Republican lawmakers it once considered close allies, while not winning much of a hearing from the new Democratic administration and Congress on its pet priorities.

https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/713289/chamber-of-commerce-getting-squeezed-on-all-sides/?unlock=JWG22K4F4E3TAJED

Blame the computer.

Sometimes, the answer to "Why no response yet to my email?" is "You forgot to hit 'send,' ya big dummy!"

Yep, I've done that one. Or it never escapes the out-box, or I was writing it, got distracted, and it lingered on as a draft. Or...Or...

PSA: People with this kind of avatar in their Twitter profile are often red flags waiting to happen:

https://twitter.com/WashireRPAdvice/status/1381266386866081793

Los Angeles:

CBS News is reporting that barrels full of DDT-laced toxic waste have been found off the California coast between Catalina and Long Beach.

There could be as many as a half-million of them, some dating back to the 1940s. A submersible was used to discover the surprise gift from the past at a depth of 3,000 feet.

Just thought you'd all like to know.

Yikes. Turns out it's not a surprise after all. Just a surprise to me.

Thanks, chemical industry, always living up to your rep.

• Was any teevee show ever going to bring you entertainment like this?

Twitter. Twitter, of the Computer Internet: Fascist… authoritarian… irresistible!

• Goggles—

> living up to your rep.

When I was in college, back in the day, in the times before electricity, the Santa Monica Bay was described as "a marine disaster of unprecedented proportions"… Not just because of the DDT, which was off-the-scale horrific, but also because every Cold War manufacturer in SoCal dumped their heavy metal toxics into that puddle for thirty or forty years. A lot of people got real rich while poisoning that water.

I learned to scuba dive on the northern rim, a few miles from a munitions "retirement" dump that no one talks about, not even the boat captains.

Also, I'm sure that thing under my left arm is just a lump.