“My children are Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Jew, Mormons, descended from conquistadors, Vikings, cowboys, pioneers, and prophets, and we had Indian food for dinner last night before watching a Japanese TV show while I glued together pieces of a Spanish war game. My ancestors introduced the chili pepper to Thailand and my wife’s ancestors were legal to shoot on sight in Missouri. Who the hell do you think you are to tell an American not to culturally appropriate stuff?”
— The International Lord of Hate explains it all…in a Republic far, far away:
"The more you lose your grip, Left-wing, the more our systems will slip through your fingers."
Joan Jett singing the Mary Tyler Moore theme:
In other news, the recent “women’s march” on DC featured a speaker who got 25-to-life for her active role in kidnapping, torturing, raping, and murdering a 62-year-old man.
Which feminism do you prefer?
On seeing the contents of the Amazon package that she’d brought over from the other building, the cute glasses-wearing female engineer said:
"You have a cordless circular saw? Cool!"
…and now she’s going off to assemble a CNC router kit…
This scene has been running through my head recently.
I walked into TAP Plastics today. The sign on the door said:
"Scrap sale, 75% off"
I gained 15 pounds of HDPE, for $8. I think I’ll go back tomorrow for a load of acrylic.
[Update: another $20, another 38 pounds of plastic (~21 HDPE, ~17 cast acrylic); I may go back again if I can find someone working there who knows what some of the mystery plastics in the scrap bin are…]