Paul L. Dion

I know. I didn’t mean that literally.

California should stop paying federal taxes

There’s no point fact checking people to whom reason need not apply, but

1. None of them were US Army generals
2. Lee was an engineer in Mexico and did not command. Bragg commanded a battery. Hill and Pickett did not command in Mexico. None of the rest were there.
3. None of them advised in 1898

The mercantilism will continue gradually until morale improves

Corruption.

Two loser picks by me today.

Assume a can opener…

Close-up of a smiling young boy.

Black and white portrait of a woman smiling with curled hair.

8 January 1932 | A Norwegian Jewish boy, Leopold Moses Borøchstein, was born in Kristiansund.

He arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport together with his mother Masha and four siblings on 3 March 1943. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

we've come a long way from bringing down the price of eggs

Don’t we have a Pacific Fleet?

Black and white historical photo of a man wearing a flat cap.

5 January 1858 | Hungarian Jew Yakow Heizler was born in Apostag. He was a soldier. During the war he lived in Ujpest.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Fair enough

Poetic license

A big misconception is that you need to be motivated to get rolling. You don't. Research: Motivation often FOLLOWS action, not the other way around. In Practice: You don't need to feel good to get going; you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.

This is the single most important advice any creative person needs to hear.

There are of course factors such as financial insecurity or mental and physical impediments (spoons ≠ motivation even though people will tell you they are the same) but when you can, do, whether you feel inspired or not.

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

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Listenable given the absolute other garbage that was popular at the time.

Geez, this might be the worst Top 40 ever

Andy Gibb. 🤮

Also not good.

Total schlock.

Bad. Just plain bad. 🤮

Not good.

The guitar work on this song is underrated and those Puerto Rican girls, wow!

A nice song for weddings and high school proms.

An okay pop song.

C’mon, it wasn’t that cold today. I walked 2.35 miles with my dog this AM without covering my face.

A bad pop song.

A good pop song.

A decent pop song.