Recent content by Bodhisattva

A few odds and ends over the past few weeks ... We went back to the DC area over the Christmas break to visit my wife's sister and brother and their families. We also visited with some former neighbors that we have kept in contact with. One is an elderly lady who lost her husband recently...

I'm willing to see if a billion changes my mind. Everyone send money to my Go Fund Me and let's do the science on this.

I can understand that POV, but it's not for me. If I were at the billionaire level, I still don't see myself putting money into NIL. I just can't spend money that way. I don't spend money on fancy cars. I don't have a watch. The upper end of my wardrobe consists of khakis and polo shirts...

Exactly. My wife and I have done well, and we are in a position to be very charitable. As we plan for our retirement years, the main focus is how much of our money to give away and to whom to give it. Before we settled on our current plan, my wife asked me if I wanted to participate in the...

Absolutely. Body cameras tend to keep LE honest. And, overwhelmingly, the cameras show the kind of scumbags LEOs deal with on a regular basis.

When you go looking for trouble, you often find it. The "find out" part is often harsh. I wish she would have made better decisions, not let herself be influenced by people with bad intentions, and stayed home to be the good mother/wife/friend she is claimed to be. I wish the ICE agent would...

She's completely innocent. She just has (had) a stutter.

The apparent scale of the fraud had me wondering. Government programs are set up to be scammed. I've seen plenty of dubious spending. Usually it works because that's the way it's supposed to work. And no one cares. But, the size of this fraud ... there almost has to be government officials...

Lot's of self loathing in the West (including the US). So much so that they want to destroy what they have for something far, far worse. SMH.

Wow. This is on-point. It's so ridiculous, yet the tribalists are using this playbook almost word-for-word.

This wouldn't surprise me. Years ago, when I first moved to the DC area, there were a series of articles in the Washington Post about a disturbing trend among the DC local police and the new, relaxed hiring practices that started a few years earlier. It seems police-related killings were on...

Fake spring. Yep. Got to near freezing last week. Then it hit 80 degrees in the house the other day, so the a/c is back on. It's a trap! Worst part is that my wife has dozens of semi-tropical plants in large pots in the garden. And, for some reason, it's my job to bring them into the lanai...

They grow a special kind of stupid there.

In my local news feed, police are occasionally among the criminals. The video says seven were arrested last year. Good riddance.

Yep. Very little redeemable about any of them. I'm only surprised by people (tribalists) who are are surprised by this. Not really, I think the shock is feigned and selective.