I'm not a hip smoker I'm just a regular smoker

 I have a main cigar store I go to but decided to try a few smoke shops.  Despite the name they generally don't carry cigars or pipe tobacco.  You go in the place and it's usually empty and some foreign guy sitting way at the end.  You ask for pipe tobacco and he acts confused.  He looks around and hands you what looks like a pouch of pipe tobacco but it's actually shag for cigarettes.  The storefront should change its name to The Hookah and Vaporizer Place or something like that and so you politely walk out.  Usually there's a cannabis place in the area.  Googled the hookah and it sounds too complicated for my taste to even set up after a hard day at work.  Also vaguely dangerous like you could burn the house down or have a Richard Pryor like accident.  Cat might knock it over.  ALL I want is a couple of Romeo and Julietas or Perdomos maybe and something nice to light up my pipe.  It's kind of a strange place like you expect to see Kash Patel and a goat in the back room.  I hear Cuba is in the dark.

I'm trying to forget about Trump. 

Still kicking ass

 Mitch McConnell back in session.

Kash Patel and the farmer in the dell

 Now perverts can join the FBI.  Well some perverts anyway.  FBI Director Kash Patel explains before the Senate Judiciary Committee why bestiality is no longer a disqualifier from being hired there.  BTW old theory about how Sasquatch started.

Does the FBI have a zoo?

My white privilege

 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.

As a feminist cause the optics are so bad on this

 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.

Let me pull it out of my ass

 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'.

I liked Google better without all the AI Overviews

 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.