Buy the book, too.

Yeah, I did not mean to disparage or downplay their decision to leave. Better late than never, it’s just that the time for trying to “change the system from within” seemed well past to me.

Given St. Paul’s reputation for left-wing activism, kinda surprised they were still on Twitter for this long.

Two good movies my wife and I saw in the last year and we were pretty much the only ones in the theater:

The Last Stop in Yuma County, a tense indie crime movie set almost entirely in an isolated gas station diner. Loads of, “Hey, that’s that guy from that thing…” actors in it.

Outlaw Johnny Black, a comedic Western produced, directed, written by, and starring Michael Jai White as a revenge-obsessed outlaw who has to pose as the town’s new preacher.

Many is the time I’ve gotten halfway through typing a response only to lose interest in my own opinion.

It was a frozen yogurt company. The ice cream was a ruse to smoke out those not committed to the cause.

Ooo, what kind of boat?

What, Netanyahu cynically making political moves for his own gain and damn the consequences, stop, that’s crazy man, you’re blowing my mind, dude.

Sadly, no.

Just got back from voting, no wait. It’s about a 10 minute walk from my house to the polling place. They had 3 lanes open for people to check in, only 1 was occupied. I was in and out in under 5 minutes. Longest I’ve ever had to wait was probably 45-60 minutes in 2016 but that was at a different polling place that was always poorly organized.

Just got back from voting and I was looking for an opportunity to mention how attractive the lady that checked me in was.

You can dish it out but you can’t take it? Well, so can I!

Obviously.

Might be a typo? A donor phlebotomy technician is one who specializes in drawing blood from donors, I guess as opposed to ones who do the lab work.

I struck up a conversation with a guy at a bar one time, turned out he was an animal control officer and the county shelter had just had a bad outbreak of parvovirus. He said he had spent the whole week just euthanizing dogs from sunup to sundown. He looked rough.

Hospital security guard. Had to help hold down suicidal mental patients so the nurses could put restraints on them. Had to escort counselors from Child Protective Services when they were collecting babies from the maternity ward, so that angry family members didn’t attack them in the parking lot. Had to help wheel bodies down to the loading dock when the mortician came to collect them. Had to stop grieving relatives from trying to rush the ER or operating room when their loved one was on the table.

I quit after walking into the ER one time to see one of my coworker guards getting a wound on his neck examined while the other guard said, “Dude, you just missed the excitement! Lenny just got bit by a crackhead!”

I work with a Burl (short for Burlin) and he’s probably pushing 70…haven’t seen any Horaces around lately, though. For a lady, Constance.

I feel like “don’t try to get with your kid’s best friend’s mom” is also an option that should be on the table.

That said, don’t go the Facebook friend route. The intent is too ambiguous and doesn’t get you any closer to your goal. I’d favor either the direct approach (the classic, “would you like to go out for a drink sometime?”) or tie it to an activity you’d both be doing already anyway (“My son and I are going out for pizza after the t-ball game, would you and your son like to join us?” (I don’t know how old your kids are)).

I got called “Mr. Left Face” once.

Don’t care, just give me romanceable Elcor crew member.