So the guy was totally crazy after all

June 29, 2019                 

     

The king [Charles III] tried to ignore things that vexed or displeased him…which he consigned to the "Committee of Oblivion"

Excerpt From

Atkinson, Rick. "The British Are Coming." Henry Holt and Company. Apple Books.

They don't grow on trees anymore?

But do you like it this much?

Study: Spinach Is Pretty Much a Steroid, Maybe We Should Ban It - InsideHook

In a 10-week study that involved 46 men, the researchers gave some participants a placebo and others a supplement that had the same concentration of ecdysterone as nearly nine pounds of spinach.

http://bit.ly/2YekUhP

Pro tip for you Dems

Look, it's entertaining to hear all the talk about fighting for this and fighting for that—free public education, universal healthcare, abortion rights, sanity at the southern border, and being nice to everybody—but what I want to hear is one candidate—just one, surely you can manage just one, can't you?—who says…

> I will make the government work again. I will put competent people at the heads of the departments, people who know what to do and want to do it. I will provide the staffing and the budget to do the inspections and enforce the regulations and the laws that Congress has passed at the People's behest. I will fix the bridges, clean up some of the mess we've made, and put the public soul back in place. And maybe invest in a decent spellchecker.

Wouldn't that be grand?

Meanwhile…

All that hot air coming up the coast from Miami is going to push us into the high 80's today and 90 tomorrow.

Thanks, D's.

Springtime for the digital nag

Your Apple Watch could soon remind you to eat healthier, relax more | Cult of Mac

http://bit.ly/2FzvoRE

Who doesn't like breaking records? Us.

Robocalls prompted federal and state action 94 times over past nine months - The Washington Post.

We're all fed up with the tens of billions of illegal robocalls [a record number] we get every year," Andrew Smith, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. 

https://wapo.st/2ZLEnGX

[Of course we're heading into what must be the longest campaign season ever, which means peak robocall for the next 18 months and not much chance the FTC is going to shut that down, at least for long. But still, what's not to love?]

First, buy a calendar [Spoiler: It's 2019]

Who Needs to Do What in the First Democratic Debate of 2020

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Wait, there's an election this year?

Democratic Presidential candidates quiz: how well do you know them? - Washington Post

https://wapo.st/2ZM3FVy

A modern world

We don't have any musical coffeehouses where I live so I don't have anything to go by here, but Apple Music's "Coffehouse Jazz" playlist sounds sort of like soy elevator music to me.

Just a thought

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."

—Voltaire