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Friday Fun Link – Trump Prison Montage

Great editing – anybody recognize which show/movie this is from? So familiar but I can’t place it…The Wire? The Departed? Something else?

¶ Posted 24 August 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

The Worst Day of Donald Trump’s Presidency?

Trump’s personal lawyer admits to knowingly committing illegal finance campaign finance violations at Trump’s direction while Trump’s former campaign chair is found guilty of multiple counts of bank and tax fraud as well. The BEST people!

¶ Posted 21 August 2018 § Jobs § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history

Retro Friday Fun Link – Fred Armisen Does Accents To The City Level

A Netflix interview between Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman led me to this…

¶ Posted 17 August 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

Cost of A Broken Wrist? USA = ~$10,000, Canada = $12

Doing a lot of reading about various aspects of the scaphoid bone I broke in my wrist and always shocked to see American sites talking about the cost of healthcare (~$6000 – $10,000 for the x-rays, hospital stay and surgery I had) or how they would forego treatment completely due to a lack of health […]

¶ Posted 01 August 2018 § Politics § Sad § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Retro Friday Fun Link – Truth Is Better (Scarier?) Than Fiction (aka If This Was a Spy Novel, It’d Be Too Unbelievable)

This story of the FBI tracking deep cover Russian spies is pretty amazing…

¶ Posted 13 July 2018 § FridayFunLink § News § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history

“Dearest Father…” #SecondCivilWarLetters Wins Twitter on American Independence Day

My Love,Dusk. We're in position overlooking MAGA camp. I see their sentries' red hats in the dim light of their tiki torches and it steels my nerves. At midnight, we strike. May our battlecry, "Happy Holidays," strike fear. Send Kale. – Matthew#secondcivilwarletters — D-Fo (@ThisIsDFo) July 4, 2018 It’s quite clear that the increased […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2018 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history, language

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]