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  1. That's the 5th line in my soon-to-be smash hit song. It also involves the hero getting into a running gunfight over a misunderstanding involving a raven-haired beauty with green eyes as well as the ownership of a certain cantankerous burro, and has a great line in it about skinny dipping with said raven-haired beauty in Balmorhea springs to cool off after the sun went down, leaving just enough light from the fingernail moon to let me know what pleasures awaited when we got out.
  2. That is the platonic ideal of a cheese enchilada plate (even has the right number of them: 3). Could use some fresh diced onions on top, but not having them is fine, too, as that's literally the only matter of choice for that meal: "You want 'em with onions or without?"
  3. You're probably that asshole from New York who tried to order trout back in 1987. They don't sell no goddamned trout.
  4. My reply to this story on another thread: This is the result of a specific case, about a specific product, which was specifically found to be subject of unfair subsidies and then being priced below their cost of production (dumping). In other words....THAT is the kind of situation that specific, targeted tariffs are SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR. The problem is that this admin has taken such an idiotic blanket approach to tariffs on....everything....against....everyone....that it's functionally impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff....and the shit....and garbage....and shards of glass. Tariffs are a tool. They can be useful in certain specific situations. Running around and whacking everyone you see on the head with a hammer is not a good way to convince people that a hammer can be a useful tool when it comes time to drive a nail into a board.
  5. YOU'RE WEAK.
  6. Nope. I mean, other than the criminal laws of each jurisdiction are slightly different, so how you subject people to your post-burrito farts may matter. I dunno, I don't practice crimlaw.
  7. This. God bless my BIL, who is a physician and not the most open-minded guy, but even he has turned on all this MAGA bullshit. He walked into my FIL's therapy room with my wife (kids were trying to get a handle on his affairs -- FIL was not helpful), and Fox news was blaring. He immediately grabbed the remote and turned the TV and said "you have to quit watching that shit. It's garbage and it's literally destroying your brain." No nonsense or ambiguities. Now, I'm positive it didn't work, because my FIL is a juvenile, immature, selfish racist, so Fox is just telling him what he already believes: nothing wrong in his life is his fault, it's all the fault of dirty minorities and such. But BIL did the right thing. And you gotta tell your parents "first thing first -- you gotta stop consuming that poison. Watch the fucking Weather Channel if you need background noise on."
  8. It's just so fucking childish, and narrow-minded. We can get into some broader discussion about how being open-minded about food also speaks to socioeconomics and sophistication. And yeah, I can be a judgmental snob in that regard. For example, years ago, I took all of our law clerks out for happy hour. Conversation turned to discussion of the various places people had traveled -- turns out that each of them had been to some cool place or another. So I asked "okay, so what's the most unusual thing you've eaten while traveling that you ended up liking." Got lots of different answers, some of them were pretty adventurous. Till we got to one guy, and he said "you know, everywhere I've been, I've found that they serve some version of steak and potatoes, so I just eat that when I'm traveling." Dude had been to something like 8 countries....and BRAGGED about only eating meat and potatoes. And just like that, this narrow-thinking dude dropped off my list of potential hires (I need creativity, and people who aren't afraid of taking on assignments that nobody has ever done before). Or my kids, who have traveled and live internationally. I remember when my daughter was on her first solo jaunt in Germany, just a little two day excursion by herself to Dresden. She texted us one day to tell us about her breakfast mistake -- she misread the menu, and ordered mett. It's raw pork and onions on bread. Hit it with a little lemon and salt: She said "yeah, I messed up and misread the menu, and got served raw pork for breakfast." "Did you eat it?" "Fuck yes I did, you didn't raise a whimp." Now, it's not her go-to breakfast order, but she'll eat it. I've tried it since, and I actually like it. The point being . . . there's something social and open about trying a people's food, and accepting what they serve you. It goes hand-in-hand with living a lifestyle that is likelier to be healthy. Somebody who has never left Dayton, Texas . . . probably doesn't have the healthiest eating habits. That goes with socioeconomics, exposure, wealth/poverty, all of those factors. Dude in Dayton doesn't know that "fresh asparagus season" is a thing in Germany. He doesn't even know how to prepare asparagus. It's biscuits and gravy and such for him. Can't blame a fella too much for just not knowing things.
  9. Our standard backup was "you don't have to go hungry. We always have bread and peanut butter, you can make a peanut butter sandwich if you don't want to eat anything on the table." That worked for us because they were ok on PB sandwiches -- they'd eat them, but they didn't love them. So, it was an option for the path of "fine, you need a food you'll eat, but not opt into every meal because you love it." I think it happened for each kid maybe 2-3 times. Most other times, if they REALLY didn't like what we served, they might ask "are there any leftovers from last night's dinner, because I liked that." And there would be, so one of them would eat a plate of leftover arroz con pollo while the rest of us had meatloaf and broccoli. I genuinely believe that truly "picky eaters" are made, not born. Sure, everyone has taste preferences, some more than others, but when you treat all food equally and don't make a show or production about feeding them "kid friendly" food, they'll eat a much broader range. My buddies still laugh about watching my daughter -- 10 months old, with no teeth yet -- working on her second big slice of tender brisket at a friend's 30th birthday party. She was thrilled, and my buddies all chuckled and said "yeah...she's your kid for sure." She ate what we ate. We didn't bring special kid food. She had brisket and beans for dinner at under a year old, and loved it.
  10. Yep. I remember the son of one of my wife's friends (mom group). He at chicken nuggets, pizza, and mac and cheese. That's it. That's the whole list (I mean, I assume he also ate sweets like birthday cake and ice cream, but I really don't know). To the point that as a young kid, he had major constipation issues and such. NOW....I put a shitload of that on the parents. We were respectful of our kids' strong dislikes (I get it, you don't like cauliflower), but 1) really didn't indulge them much, and 2) fed them what we were eating, pretty much. If tonight was braised lamb shank with wild rice, then that's what they got to eat. Now, it's a plus and a minus that they developed reasonably sophisticated palates (good food costs more than shit food, and they both LIKE to eat good food, which can add weight), but we didn't have any of that picky eater bullshit. And yeah, sure, they'd eat some nuggets and mac and cheese when it was served (shit, I'll eat 'em when served), but it was never an expectation or regular thing. Their peer was hardly alone - we knew plenty of "picky eaters," and it's amazing that the list of foods they would eat was always almost entirely pure shit.
  11. Yeah....at the sort of events listed, it generally does mean that. If you're at a burger joint, not so much.
  12. This is the result of a specific case, about a specific product, which was specifically found to be subject of unfair subsidies and then being priced below their cost of production (dumping). In other words....THAT is the kind of situation that specific, targeted tariffs are SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR. The problem is that this admin has taken such an idiotic blanket approach to tariffs on....everything....against....everyone....that it's functionally impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff....and the shit....and garbage....and shards of glass. Tariffs are a tool. They can be useful in certain specific situations. Running around and whacking everyone you see on the head with a hammer is not a good way to convince people that a hammer can be a useful tool when it comes time to drive a nail into a board.
  13. Also, unpopular take here: I'm kinda "meh" on Birria. It's good, don't get me wrong. I'm just not feeling all the hype. It's a style of food that wasn't ANYWHERE around here, and now it's everywhere. It's originally from Jalisco, and then Tijuana....which means it eventually ended up migrating into California, and became a trend. But for most long-time Texas hispanics, it is not and was not a "thing." I never saw it anywhere -- restaurant or home -- in the parts of mexico I grew up visiting (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon). It's a bit messy, and honestly, it's often bland to me. And lord, do the hipsters love it, which is automatically off-putting to me and my more pedestrian and proletarian sensibilities. Give me a good S. Texas taco joint inside a gas station, and I'm a happy man.
  14. Le me put that in real terms: After starving someone for years so that they've lost an unhealthy amount of body mass, we served them one meal. BUT, it's the biggest meal they've every seen, and the bastards still have the nerve to complain about their years of malnutrition. Fuck this Lege. Fuck this party. Fuck everyone who votes for them, especially when they've made it plain they have nothing but contempt for YOU, the fucking citizens they serve, who are fucking ABOVE EVERY FUCKING ELECTED OFFICIAL ON THE ORG CHART OF THIS STATE.
  15. TLDR; Statewide, we have built and set up a system guaranteed to deliver failure, and in that respect, it's a roaring success. This is all working as designed and intended. The death of public education is the end-game. They aren't hiding it.
  16. I drank more soda than I should have as a kid and college student. And then simply realized that it was so much damned empty sugar that I had to dump it. Now, I hardly drink soda. I'll drink a Coke Zero on occasion, but if I want a soda, I want the real thing as a treat. So, my wife and I buy the Coke Classic in the small glass bottles (like, 7 oz I think). Keep them in our bar fridge. Every now and then, I want a real-deal Coke. So I pop one open, and drink the 7 oz bottle. It's more than enough to satisfy my desire. I also like mexican fruit sodas (like Jarritos), and again, a few times a year, will get one as a treat with a taco plate. But truly.....I'm talking maybe 15-20 sugared sodas a year, and half of those are 7 oz servings. It's just an easy way to dump a lotta sugar out of your diet. But then, sugar really wasn't ever my weakness. Neither was fast food. And, in spite of my rep around here re Allsup's burritos and such, those are genuinely a road-trip treat -- once or twice a year, that sort of thing. Naah, my weakness is just good food, and portion control. Can I eat 2 dozen oysters on the half shell? Hell yeah. A big plate of BBQ? Yep. A Popeye's three piece spicy? Fuck yeah. Now, I eat a lot fewer of those meals than I used to (they are mostly treats, as opposed to anything like a regular meal choice), and have way trimmed back my portion size, and that helps - I've lost a decent amount of weight the last couple of years, and still need to lose some more (I also need to add in some weight training, as I'm of the age where losing muscle mass is a thing). Exercise has never been my thing, and finding time for it has never been my thing. But I've pretty much always known what my weaknesses are and how to address them. And I've seen other folks -- mostly NOT in my socioeconomic group -- who really don't know. I have some sympathy for them, and I do love that there are SOME resources out there to offer them information. But it's not nearly enough.
  17. If you were or were related to a SETX gal, a "fried shrimp plate" was so often their go-to choice when you went out for a "nice dinner" (read: mid-priced joints). If it was on the menu someplace, my Beaumont-born MIL would consistently order the fried shrimp. It's just a solid classic.
  18. Shit, I remember that we always stopped at Kincer's Chevron near Kendleton 40 f'n years ago on our pre-dawn trips to go goose hunting, because they had next-level breakfast tacos. There have always been small-town gems offering different variations of goodness at gas stations. And of course, there have also been the versions that simply have a giant deep fat fryer and the willingness to fry....anything. Then you get a glass display case with 40 variations of brown fried goodness. In high school one time, we went to one such location in Devine, and bought like $30 worth of....stuff. And had a fried buffet with beer for dinner. It was glorious.
  19. These -- while not granting ANY absolution to AISD and its overall management and handling style, this circumstance is mostly a result of a system the Legislature purposefully set up as a trap to ensure eventual state control of all urban school districts. AISD may have done a poor job, but they did a poor job of an impossible task: ensure that no school in a massive urban district ends up with an F grade. Socioeconomics alone dictate that WILL happen. And once THAT happens, then there are very limited tools available to stave off state takeover. Combine that with shrinking enrollment (as what used to be affordable family neighborhoods are no longer places where families with kids can buy/move), massive budget holes due largely to 1) recapture sucking half of our money away and 2) fuck all in the way of state funding (the goal is to starve and kill public schools, and the Lege is achieving that goal)....and this shit was inevitable. And it's only going to get worse. The Legislature set a trap that can't be avoided. And if it means that thousands of kids will be utterly fucked over in the process....well, that's actually the point. It's maddening, but you know, fuck you for living in a community (we call them "cities") that our current Legislature actively hates and wants to cause maximum harm to.
  20. Exhibit eleventy billion in the case of "irony isn't just dead, it's been dismembered and disposed of in a series of unmarked graves."
  21. Trust in a market and economy is definitely built in long-term timeframes. Trust in a market and economy - like trust in anything or anyone - can be destroyed in 24 hours. Less, even. Trust destruction? Going swimmingly. Any inkling of even a coherent foundation for building a long-term trust? Nope. You are siding with the economic strategy of a man who literally made up a fake authority that is an anagram of his own name to cite in his book. This is fantastic. That you are all-in on it with zero chance of ever admitting you might have it wrong makes it even better.
  22. I mean, FFS, we’re probably a week away from bombing Chuck E Cheese.
  23. And maybe…just maybe…the economy is about more than betting right on the stock market. A guy can make a lotta money betting on destruction….which is still destruction. Celebrating a plague because you invested in coffin futures is certainly an approach.
  24. Says the man who thinks that an economic approach that has the world - not just China, the whole fucking world and everyone in it - dumping 1) our assets, 2) our debt, and 3) our currency….is 10-D chess. I’m perfectly good with where you and I stand relative to each other. And yes, I know what your point re the DJIA was…which was also a deflection from the fact that the market as a whole, not just the DJIA, has been taking a massive dump with no sign of arresting the trend. I’m going to nod my head largely in agreement with what the guys at JPM are observing, not a self-styled brain genius on surly who thinks the exact opposite.
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