And a passport is only good for ten years. So if you’re planning to be around more then 110 years (and not leave the smoldering remnants of the USA), the Certificate of Citizen is the smart money move.

It’s a pretty respectful junta that listens to UN criticism. We’ve got plenty of UN members that just laugh it off.

Your neighbors ask that you finish mowing the lawn and go inside already.

It’s starting to look like the movie “Desperado” (or perhaps the entire “El Mariachi” trilogy)

Are you certain that they aren’t working it out in the style of “You Got Served”?

This was a really valuable interview. I don’t know enough about James Baldwin but I’ve seen a couple of his interviews and I appreciate his perspective and what he has to say.

You kept at this way longer and put far more energy into it than it was probably worth. Imagine if instead of bitching about bag bans to anyone online we just, like, looked up from our phone and paid a tiny bit of attention to bringing a bag to the store. Then we wouldn’t have to spend all this time justifying our lack of care.

I appreciate the examples you gave and I hope someone benefits from them. The simple fact is that the person you’ve been going back and forth with will not.

Is this the prequel to Cocaine Bear?

…so everything is going according to “their” plan.

They were charging a flat rate ($240/year) for households to buy a sticker to dispose of as much waste as they wanted. The town was losing money and was concerned about doubling the annual price, as it would disproportionately affect low-income and smaller households, so they started charging $65/year plus per-bag of trash. This lead to a decrease in the amount of trash being discarded so that their municipal refuse program is now breaking even instead of losing something like $65k/year, and it costs smaller households significantly less than if they had doubled the all-you-can-discard sticker.

That’s my summary, but the full article is a quick read and contains some interesting details.

(Edit: corrected a typo)