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By the year 2023 man will be living in colonies on the MOOON!! Or they will be living in underground shelters to escape from the radiation and other humans - or in undersea hotels complete with cocktail bars. That's how a lot of 1950'/60's science fiction started when I was a kid back in 1970. None of that shit came true. Oh well. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld you go to blog with the future you have, not the future you might want or wish to have at a later time. In that spirit, I'm back to start out 2023 with this resolution - Quality over Quantity. I'm not sure what I mean but that but it sounds like a worthy goal and one which lets me off the hook in terms of quantity. Anyway...on to the news.

David Cay Johnston, who has chronicled Donald Trump's financial chicanery for decades, has sifted through the Jan. 6 Committee reports and found evidence of at least 26 instances of tax…

Happy holidays & Merry Saturnalia, to every lurker, hate-lurker, banned dickface idiot, regular commenter, & people immersed in Delaware politics who pretend to not read the blog when we meet in public. Except for the hate-lurkers, banned dickface idiots, you are all trying to keep Bedfordfalls from turning into Pottersville in your own way, and that is worthy. We love you all. Cheers to you.

I was reading the FoxNews take on the Tufts University bomb threats and the algorithms naturally assumed I wanted to look like a complete fuckwit.

I'm not a big stock investor, so I don't pay very close attention to the rise and fall of individual stocks, but watching the collapse of Barron VonDickhead's business empire…

“This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.” ― Jack London, To Build A Fire

This is one of my all time favorite short stories. I think it is written in a more economical, modern style than Jack London's other work. But what I really like is how the dog has a bit part but is really the hero.

How did they miss this? Yesterday I joked — well, maybe half-joked? — that with all we’ve learned about Rep.-Elect George Santos, is he even gay? Being an “openly gay”…