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Outside David’s fine establishment.
Oopsie!
Inside David’s fine establishment.
Bad news.
Irrelevant to the subject matter of this blog, but it made me laugh.
I give you Florence Griffith Joyner
When you’re old enough to understand what the lyrics really mean…
Attempting to give away a bed frame on Facebook.
When the serial killer would be justified.
So the nails have nails, and then….
It’s not eating that would be the problem.
Tears before bedtime.
“They shouldn’t even have those cars.”
And then she talks about her rights.
Strikes me as exceptionally immature.
“Vandalizing Teslas is how I stick up for my country.”
She’s improving the world by randomly degrading it. With gunfire.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own.
Comments that-a-way.
You do know how to brighten a morning.
employees angry that high performing employees are promoted and paid more than average performers
A very real and widespread delusion: Consider all the union contracts which base pay on seniority not productivity.
Uh-oh. Please, David, please don’t dispatch your Galleons of Vengeance again.
(But seriously, are these a particularly fine brand of biscuit?)
How children become criminals, part 7 million.
A DEI program I can support.
No idea. Don’t think I’ve ever seen them.
Curious. That’s a cartoon in the Spectator, so I assumed it would be a well known UK brand.
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Maybe it’s fake, maybe it’s not. But the people involved certainly are.
Pinged! 👍
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