This book will get you started in the right direction.

What could possibly go wrong with making a senator from a state carried by the presidential candidate of the other party, your party’s floor leader?

For members first elected before the 2012 elections, yes (on the 1.7%). Every other member from is on the same FERS formula the ordinary federal employee is. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Potash fertilizer, hydrocarbons, and wood products.

Wait, so Francisco Lindor joined the New York Mets when he was 7?!

This reads like she’s reciting the shahada.

Yes but tbc just because the price is going to rise a lot if Iran blocks the straits, not because of actual shortages. The US is oil independent but not price immune as we learned in the spring of 2022. East Asia is reliant on oil from KSA, Iran, etc. and they’re a huge market.

I don’t know who they really expect to go to work for the US federal government as a new hire.

Assuming a 22% federal bracket, add in 7.65% for FICA, 5% for TSP match, 14.4% as a FERS contribution, and then state taxes and FEHB premiums on top of that and over half of their paycheck would be gone.

A strange way to say “was murdered in a hate crime.”

RIP Jonathon Joss. I enjoyed his work as John Redcorn on King of the Hill, one of my comfort TV shows.

Out of boredom, I asked ChatGPT to rewrite CW McCall’s 1970s novelty song “Convoy,” to instead be about a papal conclave.

Yay! Wisconsin women can have some peace of mind that their reproductive health care rights are safe for a few more years.

He looks like he’s trying to emulate Mao.

So I learned there was never a Dutch tulip bubble in the 1600s, just a total collapse of the guilder followed by a complete rebound. 🙄

If you need something to be amused by about the German election.

How it started vs how it’s going.

If Russia doesn’t want Ukraine to attack them (hey totally understandable), maybe Russia should deescalate by withdrawing their troops out of Ukraine back east of the Donbas?