One of the rare times I did try to chat up a girl at a bar it didn’t go that well, for strange reasons. We’d already been talking for a while so it started out just fine. She was engaged and interested. But then she asked me what I did.

Her: So, what do you for a living?

Me: I’m a photojournalist and a paratrooper. I jump out of planes and do stories in the Army, 82nd Airborne Division.

Her: Oh, come on! You can tell me what you really do. You don’t have to impress me. Just tell me.

Me: That’s what I really do. I like it most of the time. But it can be a hard life.

Her: *shakes her hands in front of her* Ugh, I’ve just had it with all these guys making up these cockamamie stories to impress me! It’s just so lame!

Me: ????

Then she stormed off. No great loss, I’ll warrant. But still, funny. At least I got a story out of it. Should’ve told her I was an accountant or something, though.

No exit for Democrats: Mitch has them trapped, and the path ahead is darker than ever.

Hahahaha! No! Mitch has fucking nothing to do with it. They trapped themselves by refusing to govern, refusing to make their recalcitrant members fall into line, and being unwilling to actually wield power.

So I see we’re back to the Obama-era excuses that the Dems are just helpless li’l babies who have no choice but to wallow in their loserdom. Convenient narrative, but that also won’t win elections. And frankly, the Dems deserve to lose.

My dad has an officially tested IQ of 146 and believes evolution is a lie. Being smart often doesn't make you right, it mostly makes you more effective at believing what you believe.

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) September 22, 2021

Indeed. I had a friend whose IQ was officially tested in the 160+ range and who didn’t wear seatbelts because he believed it was safer to be thrown free of the car. He cited all sorts of things quite encyclopedically to “prove” this absolute insanity was true.

Model is Sara Malakul Lane. Photographer unknown. Even apart from the fact that Sara is very attractive, that’s such a well-lighted, well-composed and empathetic work. As a photographer myself (though I tend to shoot mostly bugs and stuff), I’m impressed.

Great cover of probably the Rolling Stones’ best song. Orianthi on guitar just burns the house down on this one, and the girl in pigtails on the right rocks those vocals. That’s a very, very difficult song if you do it like the Stones did it (and they do).

I watched it twice.

Why America Scrapped Its Pandemic Travel Bans.

About fucking time. Now one of my friends might be able to visit me. That was a totally useless, worthless ban that did nothing but hurt people.