Portland Oregon’s newspaper the Willamette Week. Has a nicely understated single-line reason associated with their endorsement of Kamala Harris:
On the whole, we’d rather this not be America’s last election.
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That’s how I put it with someone who was flirting with voting for a 3rd party candidate: voting for a 3rd party is a vote for the party that will act to make sure there is only one party, forever.
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It could be. Because there wasn’t another “winner” scheduled to be selected in Pennsylvania, and because it’s one day before the election, issuing an injunction would have been pointless. It’s essentially a moot issue. Regardless, that headline is misleading, because it makes it sound like the case was tossed out, and it absolutely was not. The case will proceed, and there could very well be consequences for Musk. I am not buying his argument that the drawing wasn’t random, because he clearly said it was. They had better have some rock solid evidence showing that winners were vetted and not chosen at random. I don’t think they have any such evidence, though. This part was interesting:
One of Musk’s lawyers, Chris Gober, acknowledged that Musk used the word “randomly” in his speech. But he said that was not meant to suggest that winners’ names would be drawn from a blind pool, as occurs in a lottery or other game of chance — but that the method for choosing winners would be random because it wasn’t going to follow any predetermined pattern or criteria.
That is not what the word “random” means. It just isn’t. It’s a common word and everyone understands it to mean that a name will be selected from a pool by chance. Random absolutely does not mean “well we don’t have any set criteria, we’re just going to look at everyone and pick someone based on vibes.”
The other argument they made, that what they won wasn’t a million dollars, but an opportunity to be a spokesperson, for which they would be compensated with a million dollars is irrelevant. It’s still something of value. If you are giving something of value away based on a random drawing of entrants, that’s a lottery. Period.
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Unfortunately, neither is not participating. 
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…and it’s such a damned ugly nose, too.
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I am jealous of your bag! Make sure to wash it inside out by hand or delicate and hang to dry. The dryer will ruin all that pretty shine
My anxiety tends to express itself as irritation. I feel kind of bad for my family 
trying my best but it’s going to be another day plus of keeping myself to myself
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To all US peeps, vote if haven’t already.
I’ll be hitting the ice as Central polls close tomorrow night, getting home shortly before Pacific polls close. I am nervous AF, but full of hope.
Dog help us all.
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For the next two days-sh, I’m unplugging as much as is possible so as not to elevate my anxiety.
(Yeah, I know; good luck with that.)
Ran across this link randomly; Plopping it down here for anyone who wants to watch now, and for myself to view later:
Toodles.
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1,200 from Bucks County? I am not surprised.
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What do you do?
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Thanks.
I have determined it was actually intended for transporting LPs rather than groceries. It’s constructed like an envelope without a square bottom. This also explains the design’s disk motif. This was not stated on the website, hoever.
But I already have a bag for LPs, and I certainly don’t use that everyday, so this one is going to take groceries and look good doing it.
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Georgia peeps, be aware:
These will be worst of the worst—since Alabama isn’t even close to being a swing state they don’t have to worry about keeping too close a watch here except in a few areas.
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Sorry, it’s been a minute since I posted regularly here!
I play ice hockey for funzies, like maybe too much? Is 3 games a week too many? How about 2 of those within a couple hours of each other, too much? I was bit by the hockey bug more than 20 years ago, and it hasn’t let up. 
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That’s what it sounded like. Good luck. It’s good exercise.
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Vaccines are so 2021. Now they’re trying to ban Maxines.
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I really believe it. People are like, oh, well, we had another hurricane, must be global warming,” Carlson said. “No, it’s probably abortion, actually. Just being honest.”
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