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The Atlantic: "If Harris prevails in November, she'll face a complicated world."

Really? So does every president, Atlantic.

 

I do hope the point is made that if elected, Harris will be the first Democratic President since Kennedy to take office without an economic crisis at hand. Sure, the "Bush recession" wasn't that bad - but it isn't like any Dem President has taken office with a fairly decent economy like HW, W and Trump did. Biden had Covid, Obama had the financial meltdown.

 

BWAHAHAHAHA

 

Another strange, but not terribly surprising, twist in North Carolina's bizarre gubernatorial campaign: Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was a regular at Greensboro's jack shacks back in the day.

And apparently this came to light largely because one of the guys who used to work the counter back then leads a band called the Trailer Park Orchestra that just put out a song/video about how Robinson still owes him $25 for a bootleg video from 20+ years ago.

 

I never heard them called jack shacks. Great name.

Way too close to feel comfortable at this point. Harris needs to finish strong.

 

The other side of the coin is that at his age and his condition, he could have a heart attack or stroke at any time. I wouldn't be willing to bet on September though.

 

They should really be called Bate Shops.

 

Sometimes I like to think about different ways my life could have gone to this point. Different college. Different friends. Different women, they all take me to different places, make me a little different, ya know?

I can't imagine a scenario in which I could have become so much of a regular at a porn shop that people would remember me decades later.

 

the marketplace of ideas is stimulating

 

On my way to work I drove behind a truck with branding for a local tire/auto repair shop that had a sticker in the window reading "Support Law Enforcement, Defund the Democrats."

This is a shop I considered patronizing, but not now. Brings me back to Michael Jordan and "Republicans buy sneakers, too." Support who you want, but why risk alienating potential customers?

 

I worked as a front desk clerk at the main Carnegie Library branch in Pittsburgh, which was across the street from Pitt's Cathedral of Learning and got its fair share of cute college girls and absolute nutcases -- one of which was a guy who we nicknamed "The Wiz."

This was the late 1990s, where not everyone had access to the internet and many had to go to libraries to do internet surfing, searching and research. It was also a place where you could print out some of the things that you were looking at, with pages being free of charge -- until The Wiz ruined all of that for everyone. The man, who looked like John Larroquette on decade long bender, traveled with a female companion who looked and sounded like one of those Furby toys. The two of them would settle in at a library computer terminal and download page after page of pictures of young women peeing themselves. I'm talking a stack of like 170 to 200 pages a day. And this was the late 90s, early 2000s where all prints were coming off of a giant black and white document printer so they weren't even color prints. When management saw how much paper we were now giving away for free, they implemented a five cents per page bounty on all patrons, which this guy gleefully whipped out a roll of money and paid for. We're talking three or four times a week, for months.

The insane part is that he would chat with you and make small talk like a normal person. "Hey man, here to get my pages. Hey that Steelers game was crazy huh?"

My point in this babble is this: when you work a service industry job like that, you don't remember most of the every day schlubs who come in, check out and return books and don't bother anyone. It is always the waaaaaay out there ones. Think of how waaaaaaaay out there this guy had to be for people to remember him all these years later.