Roughly once a year I remember with incredulity that, within the 21st century, shopping centres had bowls of carnivorous fish and people would pay to put their bare feet in them and have the dead skin nibbled off while daytime shoppers stood around watching.

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Not looking forward to the day after the Midterms when Ms Kitty McFluffy (D) who was promising better things for people has lost to the incumbent Republican: Shuma-Gorath of the Great Old Ones, who promises to finally pierce the veil and free The Eldritch Ancients for 1000 years.

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I remember when media did a whole bunch of stories about Joe Biden’s shoes to emphasize that he was old. But Trump can randomly blurt out random noises, fall asleep constantly in meetings, and walk like a drunk failing a sobriety test, and we get almost nothing.

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I listen to the Daily Blast podcast and every day the host Greg Sargent is furious about the 2024 pundit consensus that Trump's win marked a long-term sea change in US politics and he's not wrong to not let it go. Such a destructive mistake, leading to all manner of capitulations and reversals

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For years I thought the stick in "carrot and stick" was the stick from which dangled a carrot over a donkey's head to make it keep going forward.

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