Chokepoint

When I bought my smartphone, I switched to TMobile because they offered phones with a chip that could be swapped, which was something I needed in order to be able to connect the phone to a SIM that was owned by a French network. (Trivia: apparently Orange is the big player there; the other networks, such as Lebara, buy space from them.  Guess what happens when Orange itself gets tight on space?)

I don't objectively know if TMobile is better than Verizon, the company I did have a connection to; in fact, given that Verizon has wider coverage, Verizon is probably better.  But I like TMobile more.  Part of that is smart marketing. .  Part of it is that they seem more responsive.  Part of it is that their website is not cluttered with ten thousand services that they want to sell you, unlike Verizon's.

And part of it is stuff like this.

Weaselicious

Republican Mitch McConnell says there is no need for legislation to protect Robert Mueller because 'there is no sign that Trump plans to fire him'.  And, one presumes, if he does move to fire him, McConnell will say Well, shucks, too late, we can't do anything now.

And a California Republican apparently wanted to buy clothes for a vacation, but his wife said No, we don't have the money for that -- but just charge it to your campaign fund and mark it as Golf Balls for Wounded Warriors or Isomething like that.

I can see how this would take a lot of balls. 

Eating

I totally do not get why people like food that looks like this.  I get that they do, but even just the thought of biting into something like this makes me nauseous.  Now a decent burger - that's a different story.

A Different Take On The Need For Affordable Health Care

Hmmm......