Brendan

This site can really be soul crushing.

@TracesofTexas He's not "still" out on the road. He's on the road again.

Happy birthday to Willie Nelson, who turned 93 today and is still out on the road, performing two nights ago at the Koka Booth Amphitheater in North Carolina. He is amazing. Here's a circa 1950 photo of Willie with his grandmother, Nancy Nelson, who raised him. Willie's mom left soon after he was born and his father remarried and also moved away, leaving Willie and sister Bobbie to be raised by their grandparents, who had taught singing back in Arkansas and who started their grandchildren in music. Nelson's grandfather, Alfred, bought him a guitar when Willie was six and taught him a few chords before Alfred died in 1940. If only Alfred could have lived long enough to see what those few chords would grow into! Nancy died in 1979 at the age of 96, so she lived long enough to see Willie become a success. Maybe it's just me seeing what I want to see in this photo, but it's pretty clear that Willie and Nancy loved one another dearly.

@SlangsOnSports Cullenbine was elite.

Nick Kurtz has drawn a walk in 18 consecutive games Most consecutive games with a walk in a single season since at least 1900: 1947 Roy Cullenbine: 22 1941 Ted Williams: 19 2026 Nick Kurtz: 18 *active 2002 Barry Bonds: 18

. @douglass_meghan Hey. Are you aware that Tormented Tales has separate listings for Kindle and Paperback on Goodreads? So the ratings / reviews go to two different places even though it's the same book?

This handsome boy is named Figaro, he's 5 years old and have decided to put his stray days behind him. He's now looking for a loving forever home 🥰! Come meet him at the SAHS!

Mei Mei, 5-yr-old Terrier mix, is truly a sweetheart. She loves affection & would thrive in a home ready to shower her with love & attention. 🥰 Mei Mei is ready to find her true forever home. If you've been looking for a loyal new best friend, come meet Mei Mei today!

NEW: We were hoping to interview California High-Speed Rail CEO Ian Choudri today about issues with his business plan, but it’s not happening. He wanted to limit what we ask, banning questions about issues that came up about him in February. We would not agree to those terms.

A new batch of books just arrived. So when I finish my current read, I can get started on another round of the Indie Project. #Reading

Were Stone and Kendrick not available?

He lived in a monastery with Jerry Brown.

- Mahan wants to be reasonable, but he can't break free of the Dem machine. - Hilton wants to cut everybody's taxes, but he never mentions how things will get paid for without that revenue. All dream, no scheme. - Eight is too many candidates for a 90-minute debate. 2 / 2

Anyway, a few thoughts on last night's debate: - The Dems seem more interested in running against Pres. Trump than anything else. - Bianco and Hilton need to work on not interrupting people. - Thurmond and Villaraigosa seem better than Steyer and Porter. 1 / 2

Waiting for that Harriet Tubman $20 bill:

Meet our sweet @redmactoyota pup for April, Charlotte! 🧡 She would do best as the queen of the household, meaning she prefers to be the only dog in her home. Also she absolutely loves soaking up all the attention & affection from her people. 🥰 Age: 2.5 yrs Breed: Retriever mix

@ZBerm There's a pretty obvious trade they can make in early June. Let's see what draft picks they have after that.

Re: 2027 draft picks... As it stands now, the Eagles don't have picks in the third round and sixth round. They have two picks in the seventh round. They're expected to get a compensatory pick in Round 3 for Jaelan Phillips leaving. They could also trade veterans for more picks. But they don't have the same cupboard of picks they had last year to make August trades (unless those deals are pick swaps).

Mitch McConnell, who leads the Senate Defense spending panel and was at this meeting, now writes in the Washington Post: "Ukraine aid we passed months ago is now collecting dust at the Pentagon. When Senate appropriators have sought an explanation from the department’s policy shop, led by Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, they’ve been stonewalled. Our colleagues on armed services have also expressed growing frustration with the Defense Department’s inability to communicate."

So Justice Kagan is reported in Molly Hemingway's new book on Justice Alito as having urged liberal members of the Court to slow-walk their dissents in the Dobbs case for months after Justice Alito had finished his majority decision, presumably with the "hope" that the composition of the Court would change and the 5-4 outcome striking down Roe would turn into a 4-4 deadlock that left the lower court's decision in place - affirming Roe. NOW, it is clear that it was Justice Kagan -- and not Justices Jackson and Sotomayor -- who has held up her dissent in the Louisiana redistricting case, as she has written the only dissent -- with the whispered-about motivation being to push the decision back far enough into the calendar back such that some states don't have time to engage in redistricting before the Nov. elections -- redistricting that might eliminate minority-majority districts and cost Democrats seats. If both these two anecdotal accounts about Kagan gain traction, it will forever stain her legacy on SCOTUS.

@budweiserusa Pardon me, sir. May I have some sap from the tap?

Order a beer in the replies without using the word "beer"

@ActwithAlison Mention an elderly wealthy relative in whose will you feature prominently.

headin to the bank to get a loan. any advice?

@Rishibets People should already be tipping hotel maids and cocktail servers anyway.

Also go back and find the Uber driver that took you from the airport to tip him more too. and the flight crew, fellow passengers, your boss that let you take off of work, oh and hey why not your kindergarten teacher for teaching you that 3 cherries in a row is a pattern

@AlyssaMaria - Oh no! This is so sad. Johnny, you might have cancer. - Really? (fighting tears) - No, just messing with you because you're a Penguins fan.