Apparently there are some people still unaware of this, but: e-mailing a stranger to ask them to pass on a message to a more famous person they have worked with is *astonishingly* rude. (It’s also usually pretty rude, in a different way, to do that to a friend! Tread carefully!)

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The longer you wait the more it seems like the e-mail has to be really good / long to make up for it and then it's even harder to just sit and write it

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Today I replied to an e-mail from a friend I really like, who is awesome and cool and whose e-mails I love to receive. I had been wanting to respond for a while but somehow just… did not. The e-mail I replied to was sent in January, 2024. Why am I like this.

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Well Texas and Kansas at least, I think, would involve a lot of persuasion thanks to shit-tier GOP candidates, so I’m not sure that would show up in EV.

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McKinney — a Yakima Republican and county commissioner — and Duresky — a West Richland Democrat and retired Air Force major — are running to replace Dan Newhouse in a Central Washington district that stretches from the Canadian border to the Oregon line. (Olivia Palmer / Yakima Herald-Republic)

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