Then what sort of property ARE they?!?! Damned activist judges.

Oh, well, passed over yet again. At least I'm still in the running for People's Sexiest Man Alive award.

“Successfully approved assets” makes it sound as if I’ve hired new spies and am about to take them to meet Miss Moneypenny and M.

Damn the rich and entitled!

“Can AI recover the past?” Depends. Does “recover” include “make up randomly generated crap”? Then yes, it can recover the past.

Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert

I defy you to find a better opening two lines of a down-on-your-luck song.

Kris Kristofferson - Sunday morning coming down (1970)

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NOT ACCEPTABLE

Kris Kristofferson, rugged star of song and screen, dies at 88

He drew acclaim as a poet laureate of longing with songs such as “Me and Bobby McGee,” and starred with Barbra Streisand in “A Star is Born.”

Been real busy negotiating the film rights to my edition of Silius Italicus’s Punica. You think it’s easy finding an A-lister to play Hasdrubal?

Oh, lovely. A far-right Austrian nationalist who calls himself Volkskanzler, calls the very existence of people of one faith a “problem,” and advocates for “service centers” where the authorities can “concentrate” undesirables in one place. Can’t see any way that could go wrong.