Got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine today. No side effects so far... except...

I made Microsoft Edge my new default browser.
I made Bing my default search engine.
I bought an XBox even though I don't play video games.
And I can no longer bring myself to say anything derogative about Windows ME.

My vaccine appointment is Wednesday, and I have a question.

My first shot is this Wednesday, and I was planning on cleaning my bathroom after. Should I do anything strenuous after getting my shot?

*Exclusive* Disney releases deleted scene from the movie, "Bambi".

You can just tell when a president is doing the job extremely well. The media strains to find...

something negative and inflates it into a full blown crisis.

The opposite is also true. When a president is doing the job extremely poorly and displays a massive level of incompetency, then the media strains to find something, anything positive about the president.

Joe Biden is single handedly pulling this nation back from the abyss of despair. Feeding and healing Americans, and yet that's not the biggest story in the country. It's one of the greatest stories in the history of humanity.

What do you get when you mix The Peaky Blinders with Deadwood?

A bunch of fookin' cocksuckers.

How we have designed our cities and suburbs puts too much of a strain on our infrastructure.

Urban/suburban sprawl, where we give copious amounts of space to roads, parking lots, residence only subdivisions, etc., has stripped our ability to build a tax base to support our infrastructure needs. Property taxes on housing is not enough to support the sprawl. For example, if you have residence only neighborhoods, the property tax base alone is not going to be enough to maintain the necessary infrastructure for those neighborhoods.

Remote work will make the situation even worse. Yes, there will be somewhat less wear and tear on the roads, but the tax base will also drop because less gas will be bought. The crumbling of our current infrastructure is inevitable.

Maybe what we need are more tight knit living spaces with mixed use residential and commercial properties. Emphasize walkability which will remove the space for cars and encourage retail. Limit strip malls with gigantic parking spaces.

The responsibility of Sen. Joe Manchin to make bi-partisanship work.

Unlike most of his fellow Democrats, Sen. Manchin is a strong believer in forging bi-partisan consensus with Republicans on major initiatives like voting rights and infrastructure. Also, he wants to maintain the filibuster as well. He believes in the traditional rules of the senate.

Fine. Then it's up to him, and him alone, to find and forge Republican support. He has to demonstrate to the world that bi-partisanship is indeed possible and that Republicans really do want to help govern this nation. He has to prove that.

If he fails to do so, then he's just a tool for Republican obstructionism. So, instead of peppering him with questions about the filibuster, ask him directly what he's doing to garner Republican support.

Cubs prospect arrested with 21 pounds of meth in team duffel bag

Oh, just great. Now, the Cubs' meth and oxy fan night giveaway has been spoiled. Way to go Jesus!

Remote work, a new way to cut salaries?

Before everyone praises the new wave of working remotely, understand that corporations have another tool to lower salaries, esp. high paying tech salaries.

I can see corporations estimating wheter a particular on-premise service can be done entirely remotely. Once determined, that particular service can be officially re-located to a low cost of living state. For example, say an L.A. company can re-locate network help desk functions to Mississippi. They can give their employees the option to work remotely from any where, but they will be paid as if they live in Mississippi regardless of where they actually live. You can live in L.A., but you'll be working at a Mississippi rate.

This is already starting to happen:

Kitteh is channeling his origins.