Hammer Mill Days

Are you still tinkering with that thing? Holy shit, I thought you were a scientist. What kind of scientist spends a week screwing the legs into a mail-order ottoman? Whoa, Mitch .... put the hammer down. HEY! Greetings, Big Green die-hards. This is what I sound like a moment after someone tries to brain me with a flying hammer. Our friend and mad science advisor Mitch Macaphee is not all that pleased with me right now. I shouldn't have asked how his latest experiment is progressing. Don't know what he's working on, but I can tell you that it came out of an Ikea box. Maybe it's an ottoman, or perhaps a chesterfield. Kind of hard to tell from ten paces. Now, I know what you're thinking. Mitch is a mad scientist in the traditional sense, right? His stock in trade is formulating theorems to crack the earth in half or poison the atmosphere (not that we aren't already doing that without his help), BIG stuff ... not build-it-yourself furnishings or other petty hou...

Trump isn't happy with the compromise plan being served up by the Congressional Conference Committee to Avoid A Second Pointless Shutdown. That's certainly a good sign. Whenever Trump is unhappy about something, an angel gets her wings. Still, the Trump administration is always about fifty things in any given day, some retreads from previous cycles, some new bullshit, invariably something to get under nearly anyone's skin. The things I probably found most irritating this week (and that's always a hot contest) were Trump's Texas adventure, the big speech at El Paso, and his sloppily calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign. The former of these items was infuriating for obvious reasons; the latter more because it was dog-piling on criticisms of the Congresswoman from a broad swath of people, including many in the Democratic party. Omar is the perfect target for Trump. She's a woman, a person of color, an immigrant from Somalia, and a Muslim who, like many Somali wo...