hoist by foucault’s petard

don’t worry, neither have i!

wag the dog/air bud/manchurian candidate mashup is cinema gold. i’ll let you run with it since it’s your idea, but i’m going to pitch it if you don’t want to.

the tow truck fell off, too, so it’s going to be difficult for our elite news team to follow up on the reports

i’m sure if the parliamentarian weren’t such an obstinate bastard, they could come up with some creative way to revise it so that trump can’t whipsaw tariffs via twitter decree while maintaining the ability to impose sanctions.

but alas

yeah he’s declaring use of the international emergency economic powers act of 1977, so theoretically a congressional resolution can just put a stop to it and say the emergency is over or they’ve decided to revoke their delegation of authority. apparently trump is the first to use this act to impose tariffs, so the senate parliamentarian was caught completely off guard and has to dig through decades of legal documents before anything like that could happen.

cnn headline leaving out the best bit.

yemeni armed forces assisted comrade ocean in this one:

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard. The Houthi rebel group claimed on Monday to have launched a drone and missile attack on the aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea as part of the US military’s major anti-Houthi operation.

it’s hard to tell with the mask

hourly minimum wage is 10 to 25 rmb depending on province in 2021 according to natopedia

low alcohol beers were often brewed and consumed throughout history before modern plumbing and sanitation made clean water widely and readily available, and sugary flavored soda water became popular

that’s where i shamelessly stole the joke, yes

of animal summoning i would guess

heck yeah the 70s had some great music and fashion. peak han dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n6n45bHUyM

and it’s a liquidation sale, folks! everything must go!

well you are certainly not judge gerald hardcastle

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/hardcastle-says-hell-quit-bench/

He drew controversy in recent years for his handling of the Brittney Bergeron case. He refused to grant Brittney’s request to terminate the parental rights of her mother, Tamara Schmidt.

Authorities said the girls were stabbed in January 2003 by two Utah teenagers in revenge for a bogus methamphetamine deal orchestrated by the Schmidts, who were girlfriend and boyfriend at the time.

Brittney, then 10, was paralyzed from the waist down, and her 3-year-old sister, Kristyanna Cowan, was killed.

Hardcastle’s decision was on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in February when Tamara Schmidt, still a prisoner, formally relinquished her parental rights and signed an open adoption agreement with the foster parents who have shared their home with Brittney for five years.

“This job is pretty hard on people, especially in Family Court,” Kathy Hardcastle said Wednesday.

She said Gerald Hardcastle builds model ships for relaxation, and she still has one on display in her office.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/nov/05/judge-plays-solomon-with-beanie-babies/

“This isn’t about toys. It’s about control,” Family Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle told the couple. “Because you folks can’t solve it, it takes the services of a District Court judge, a bailiff and a court reporter.”

There was snickering among the five or six people in the gallery.

“I don’t agree with the judge’s decision to do this. It’s ridiculous and embarrassing,” said Frances Mountain, moments before squatting on the courtroom floor alongside her ex-husband to choose first from a pile of dozens of stuffed toys.

The courtroom was silent for about three minutes while the two took turns picking babies.

yeah but how tho?

hydrogen fuel-cell firebomb, maybe?

thanks, that’ll do

American households are allocating so much money to U.S. stocks that the valuation of the whole market is now dependent on their appetite, according to JPMorgan. Individual investors have become the most important holder of U.S. equities, owning around 60% of the universe, the Wall Street firm said. This record level of ownership creates a lockstep movement between the price-to-earnings ratio of the S & P 500 and the retail flow into the market. “The higher the appetite by US households to hold equities in their portfolios, the more expensive the equity market becomes and vice versa,” strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said in a note to clients. This correlation also means that if households start to flee the stock market, their action could effectively lower market valuation.

one way to combat inflationary pressure is by inducing a deflationary spiral