If @MLB had a Christianity night and all players were required to wear crosses, people would lose their minds and want to opt out.
Why can't Christians opt out of pride nights?
"Aussie boys are on a bender. Donald Trump is a sex offender" generational chant btw. Always have said they're some of the best in international football 🏴🤝🇦🇺
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Guitarists at home, you can shred like Corey Feldman…🎸🔥
Step 1. First thing you have to do is crank your gain way too high, no noise gate. You want that feedback to singe your eardrums.
Step 2. You don’t have to worry about which string you’re actually hitting, give them all love.
Step 3. Combine the left-hand spider technique with those spastic guitar pick movements, and you get that perfect combination of pure shred.
Step 4. Make facial expressions that match the spider and spastic guitar techniques.
Las Vegas is throwing a parade for a mechanical horse racing machine.
The last remaining Sigma Derby on Earth moves from The D to the Golden Gate on June 16.
Shetland ponies and little people will escort it down Fremont Street at 10am.
Bring quarters. (h/t @VitalVegas)
BREAM: The Journal says the percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest since the period following the financial crisis. People say they're using them for necessities. Your message to them?
HASSETT: We talk to the CEOs of the credit card companies all the time. Delinquency is different from default, and there's not any financial threat to the credit card companies. It's just people are taking a little bit longer.
Hassett: "When you say 'American consumers are really down in the dumps,' what it is is Democrats are in the dumps. Republicans have actually stayed around 80% on that survey all the way through."