Basically just writing checks to pay off bills. Saving very little if any money. No big raises at work. No discounts on pipe tobacco. Bodega down the block overcharges my items as I place them on the counter. Still have to cut my grass. Where is my mansion?
I am privileged though to pay the Yonkers Property Tax. Second installment today.
Never a real news junkie myself but kept seeing the name Lindsay Clancy on my phone the last few weeks. Saw that hundreds of women were dressed in pink outside the courtroom supporting her. Hmmm some kind of true crime story so finally clicked on one of the links. At first I thought here was a woman who probably shot her husband in self-defense or killed a rapist. Turned out to be something entirely different as we all know. Now it's theoretically possible that she was technically insane in the strict legal definition of the word although I don't personally lean in that direction myself so I appreciate the different POVs but are we sure we want to make this pretty bizarre and tragic case into the latest cause of feminism and women's rights? Then there is the doxxing of the lone holdout juror a black man in his 30s. NBC Boston doing the major doxxing here which from what I'm hearing might be illegal and a crime in itself but I'm no Dershowitz.
Didn't know Oprah had a podcast but why not everyone else does. Held some kind of town hall special on the whole thing. She really does have guru cultlike powers as the room jam-packed with young women all zombie-like nodded in agreement with every pro-Lindsay Clancy utterance onstage. All except for one young woman who basically said what I hear from the average person these days that Clancy should have been held legally responsible for her actions. It's not that people don't have differences of opinion they do but the absolutely monolithic wall of viewpoint at the Oprah town hall was downright weird imo.
Thought I'd do another post on this as people still rapping about it.
What Trump may as well say about those 5K dividend checks promised to Americans if Repubs win the midterms.
Why not send the checks out now? Rhetorical because we don't have the money just sayin'.
WHO put AI in charge of the information superhighway anyway? Practically every topic I google these days the AI completely takes over the information. It has the last word on everything even though it is sometimes wrong or inaccurate. NYC Council under Mamdani passed some bill protecting schoolkids from AI. Trump says the potential dangers of AI are overblown. I think Trump is overblown.
Weird scientific state we're living in. Let's put humans back in charge of the search for truth.
The Lindsay Clancy jurors. The Gals don't like contrarianism.
My impression. A strong and dominant group of woke women who wanted to acquit from the get-go. The ones you saw sitting around on nice patio furniture giving an interview. Let's do brunch and talk about it. There was one anonymous woman juror who gave an audio interview and said from the beginning she thought Clancy was probably guilty and might still feel that way. No doubt intimidated by the group vibe. Now on to the main bone of contention the lone male holdout whom they're publicly attacking and who prefers to remain anonymous. Wasn't going along with the not guilty by reason of insanity consensus forming and is now being pilloried. The arrogant one who wouldn't listen, the phone scroller who couldn't get past the fact that Lindsay Clancy viciously murdered her own children as one female juror put it. Yeah what's wrong with the guy? Another male juror went along with the women in the end but tried to be semi-reasonable in an interview but he too had issues with the lone holdout.
I too had reasonable doubt. I have a reasonable doubt that Lindsay Clancy is innocent by reason of insanity. Judicial conundrum
Sort of a crime. Trump has promised 5K dividend checks to Americans if they vote Republican during the midterms. Also gas prices will come down and the Iran War will end immediately thereafter.
That farting sound you hear is Trump talking out of his ass again.
YouTube runs from the perverted to the puritanical. There's something for everyone. Chad Ripperger chief exorcist for the Catholic Church chatting with Tucker Carlson. His main message seems to be people need to stop sinning it opens the gateway. The struggle with human weakness is ongoing for many people. We need to stop demanding perfection. A priest talking with podcaster Shawn Ryan about demons. He says among other things they love to get into electronics. I just thought I had a shitty tablet.
Feral cats in Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii decimating native wildlife populations. New Zealand has it as a goal to eradicate feral cats totally by the year 2050. Maybe Homan can get involved. Feral cats apparently the biggest problem facing New Zealanders. Not jobs not the economy. Cats are controversial. Many people hate cats. It's almost as if there's an anti-cat movement out there. Read an article in the New York Post many years ago by some columnist bemoaning American cats decimating songbird populations. Felines do catch birds. I like birds and feel bad about that but never once noticed in my neighborhood tons of dead birds. I thought the writer was drinking. Except for pit bulls dogs far less controversial.
Then I gotta take a break and go to the standups;)
