Bailing Out Missouri?

 

August 19, 2025

 

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, he of the numerous grandstanding lawsuits, debunker of science, and no friend to the common man, has been named Co-Director of the FBI by President Trump. (I didn’t think of it while I was drafting this, but they have a lot in common.)

 

As loath as I am to see Andrew Bailey in any position of authority, let alone one that is responsible for public safety and even-handedness with the law,

 

It may save Missouri taxpayers a ton of money in frivolous lawsuits if he’s out of state office.

 

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Christians Do It

 

August 18, 2025

 

A couple of months ago, the pastor on the radio Bible study was lamenting about how well Cosmopolitan magazine did its marketing. But that nugget came at the end of a rant about how it was a terrible magazine that extolled sex, and how it gave tips on whatever it gives tips on… Hard to say if he was going by repute, or if he’d actually read one.

 

Anyway, he thinks that it is a horrible magazine because it glorifies sex.

 

I wondered if his wife had ever gotten any tips from it.

 

 

 

 

The Anti-Reacher Scenario

 

August 11, 2025

 

Have you ever traveled through a rural area or a small town and felt relaxed just by looking at it?

 

The thing that makes rural areas so pleasant to look at is the lack of development. It’s peaceful. No rushing, no stress. So, I wondered what would happen if somebody bought land and had the occasional house with a white fence and horses grazing and all the trappings of a peaceful countryside for people to drive past. 

 

I keep reading Jack Reacher books, where peaceful-looking small towns hold ugly and dangerous secrets. This would be the reverse scenario: The only secret is that nobody really lives there, it’s just window-dressing to make people feel good.

 

There wouldn’t really be a business upside to it, but it would sure make driving more pleasant.

 

I think that would be cool.