Abulsme.com: Saturday, July 28th, 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Goaty Little Hooves

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, a break from politics and the news. Sam is joined by his wife Brandy and son Alex (with a cameo by daughter Amy) to discuss a few highlights of the start of their road trip from the Philadelphia area to the Seattle area. The hijinks include Sam donating their luggage to charity, Sam shoplifting, fleeing a really bad hotel, and more…

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Recorded 2018-07-27
Length this week – 0:58:38

(0:00:20-0:01:56) Intro
(0:03:56-0:20:40) Day 1: Donated Bag, Stealing from Wawa
(0:22:23-0:43:35) Day 2: Abandoned Turnpike, Bad Hotel
(0:44:44-0:52:17) Day 3: Safari Park
(0:52:56-0:58:17) Outro

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-27 (UTC)

00:10:52 Great thread on the futures we don’t have, and what we do have instead. https://t.co/X3YpVuwFeo
00:14:12 Retweeted @ABCPolitics 00:03:08 Judge in Manafort’s Virginia trial asks prosecutors to avoid mentioning collusion https://t.co/BsOSlLY4kP https://t.co/aCFlustuOG
01:14:00 Chicago is friendly. https://t.co/SVEr4OQ3ls
01:45:23 Nice! -> Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting (CNNPolitics) https://t.co/wtWaBBMgMq
13:10:41 Retweeted @mcnees 04:39:58 I confessed to my therapist that I was very concerned about the prospect of heat death in a universe with no cosmolвЂ¦ https://t.co/MdMxyUKtZ6
13:18:57 Retweeted @NBCNews 13:07:48 JUST IN: 2 days after US pushes date for a second Trump-Putin summit, President Putin says he is ready for anotherвЂ¦ https://t.co/vJzgI4DCH2
14:55:16 Retweeted @Stonekettle 13:45:43 Guy claims to have a business degree from Wharton, and they had to explain grade school economics to him with alphaвЂ¦ https://t.co/Bf8y3FvRme
19:52:19 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 11:04:30 In this, @AprilFDoss has written the definitive explainer on how FISA really works, debunking utterly the Nunes/HanвЂ¦ https://t.co/905LCuREcV
19:56:12 Retweeted @TimKarr 18:34:36 Russian soldiers guard the remnants of Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, which was destroyed earlier this week.вЂ¦ https://t.co/SCjwB9MZgO
20:04:01 Retweeted @mattzap 18:53:07 A spokesman for the special counsel confirms this is Mueller, waiting to board a flight. He adds, “If it’s accurateвЂ¦ https://t.co/WHM6qCvLuo

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-26 (UTC)

04:54:03 Retweeted @JMilesColeman 2018-02-01 05:10:46 Here’s a neat #ElectionTwitter map. These are the counties/cities/parishes that voted against Reagan in both 1980 &вЂ¦ https://t.co/sjCo74Kstj
04:57:05 Retweeted @thomasjwood 04:49:30 Helsinki, repeated presidential retractions, Cohen tapes–bookies shrug, and implied probabilities for 2020 presideвЂ¦ https://t.co/lBIHqxVxRl
05:00:16 Retweeted @Nate_Cohn 03:05:39 The 2016 presidential election, as you’ve never seen it before https://t.co/IW9jcvzAko https://t.co/KJSsPBdiIb
12:38:05 So the latest spin is that all the Russia stuff was Kissinger’s idea. https://t.co/6NP0OaBfwS
12:43:02 @dandrezner @BrendanNyhan I can’t remember a time when he even pretended to try to represent people who didn’t vote for him. in reply to dandrezner
14:47:35 Retweeted @MaxBoot 14:14:57 While Russia was helping Trump win the election, according to @moscow_project, there were 82 known вЂњcontacts betweeвЂ¦ https://t.co/qHJdUfYws9
15:33:50 Retweeted @AsteadWesley 12:00:52 Should probably be a bigger story that Ohio local police may have, without just cause, hatched a plot to arrest oneвЂ¦ https://t.co/LGoyn0J7jt
15:36:13 Retweeted @NickBaumann 15:23:20 So, um, Jim Jordan wants to become the SECOND Republican speaker of the House caught up in a wrestling abuse scandaвЂ¦ https://t.co/lTCaqkObJC
15:50:32 Retweeted @retroist 15:23:05 Remember when cable TV weather broadcasts were simple pages with a scroll and some jazz music? Well a duo in WinniвЂ¦ https://t.co/tYqC7lAvuK
16:06:05 Retweeted @KT_So_It_Goes 15:55:17 what could be a better training exercise for a republican house speaker than pretending to know nothing about authoвЂ¦ https://t.co/yq7IDxolWP in reply to KT_So_It_Goes
16:08:35 Amen. https://t.co/iXGSDeV8UE
16:33:22 @carlzimmer @JohannaEG What if we start treating stupidity as a disease. Then would it be OK? in reply to carlzimmer
16:48:36 Retweeted @GroveCityDem 16:31:26 Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry – The New York Times https://t.co/BSsfWbzSwz
16:51:07 Retweeted @Fahrenthold 2018-07-25 18:47:32 From today’s ruling: judge says @realDonaldTrump‘s biz dealings w/foreign govts are the kind of thing Founding FathвЂ¦ https://t.co/XQ4miBs7wm
16:55:39 @briantylercohen @joncoopertweets @GOP Do you have stats on this for a similar time period a year earlier? Two yearвЂ¦ https://t.co/Y7oLtOsrDJ in reply to briantylercohen
18:46:55 My New Friends https://t.co/B9eXCkQVA1 https://t.co/a0ch5HcU5e

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-25 (UTC)

05:26:10 Retweeted @igorbobic 03:14:47 Here’s how you interview Sean Spicer https://t.co/GeqZriPEDw
06:13:18 Retweeted @conradhackett 2018-07-23 20:37:21 We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A: #SharkWeekPeople killed annually by
Sharks 10
ElephaвЂ¦ https://t.co/U7HykdLsXb
06:15:56 Retweeted @TheStagmania 2018-07-24 12:49:33 I’ve really come to believe that the defining characteristic of Republicans is a massive empathy gap. They don’t caвЂ¦ https://t.co/ny7r72Rhmv
14:27:17 Retweeted @BBCBreaking 14:22:52 Scientists believe they’ve found liquid water on Mars for the first time, a potential game-changer in the search foвЂ¦ https://t.co/W8UcZKBCjA
14:31:20 Retweeted @alexwitze 14:04:30 But but but: there are lots of caveats. This is just one radar detection from MARSIS. The other #Mars radar, SHARADвЂ¦ https://t.co/mMF47ATsGe in reply to alexwitze
18:51:16 Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike https://t.co/jN8MSMQLJF https://t.co/4VucNAuhuH
19:39:35 Ha ha ha. https://t.co/LydWAKPvGh
19:42:49 Retweeted @brianbeutler 19:39:30 We will all rediscover ethics rules barring government employees from endorsing private products when a DemocraticвЂ¦ https://t.co/2M7Df6vqA4
20:06:24 Retweeted @natsecHeather 20:02:50 Pompeo comes perilously close to telling @SenatorShaheen that what matters is what he does, not what Trump and Putin discussed.

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-24 (UTC)

00:22:15 Retweeted @AngryBlackLady 00:18:52 If you haven’t read this thread yet, you really should. https://t.co/aIYN4wdR1t
01:18:11 Retweeted @AliceOllstein 2018-07-23 22:05:32 BREAKING: Trump admin releases new numbers on family reunifications. They still say more than 900 parents are “inelвЂ¦ https://t.co/m8aOm9rWl2
15:47:04 Retweeted @jbarro 15:37:02 This is an R+3 district. Lamb is an especially good candidate, but still, trailing by 13 (LV model) in an R+3, membвЂ¦ https://t.co/tfND1oJZ39
19:00:45 Retweeted @marcorandazza 14:16:23 NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER, STAY STRONG, HAROLD! #FREEHAROLD https://t.co/KrGDJG6K1S

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-23 (UTC)

07:53:57 Retweeted @GrrlScientist 2018-04-02 08:49:03 omg, too fun! if i dug a tunnel straight through the earth, where would i pop up? now you can find out!”The antipвЂ¦ https://t.co/72d55b0uZ9
21:25:41 Retweeted @Afro_Herper 14:44:05 Hey y’all I wrote a blog post about Goliath, The Giant Tadpole, for @AlongsideWild. Pop a squat and check it out!вЂ¦ https://t.co/hd0bmxWeno
22:49:21 Retweeted @ConStelz 22:32:54 This is the kind of thing Twitter is *really* useful for: excellent thread by @MiekeEoyang on POTUS’ threat to revoвЂ¦ https://t.co/WkfynLbBIQ
23:07:17 Retweeted @MuslimIQ 22:29:02 If you’ve had a rough Monday, here’s a short clip of a baby elephant taking a bath.You’re welcome. https://t.co/63zTdIP4fr

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-22 (UTC)

01:56:05 Retweeted @shermancourt 2018-07-21 21:34:41 UPDATED with story on Kavanaugh questioning outcome of 8-0 Watergate tapes case in 1974 that forced Nixon to hand oвЂ¦ https://t.co/uGGcOZiCgu in reply to shermancourt
06:09:14 @shelleyaw123 Thanks! DC portion successful. On to Philly in the morning. :-) in reply to shelleyaw123
06:09:30 Retweeted @Evan_McMullin 2018-07-21 17:51:19 Some analysts and Republican congressmen continue to point out that President Trump seems unnecessarily unable to dвЂ¦ https://t.co/R2Xn5oVeZj
07:15:20 Retweeted @JimBliss23 2018-07-21 13:30:15 I love this.When the Far Side came out in 1982, paleontologists realised they’d never actually named that part ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/vtL7jBKjdM
12:47:41 Retweeted @jayrosen_nyu 12:34:33 Please realize: his campaign to discredit the press and his refusal to inform himself are two parts of the same devвЂ¦ https://t.co/oZyQEYo0qb
17:25:22 Sullivan has gotten a lot wrong lately, but I think on this he groks Trump very well. But important to note this ALвЂ¦ https://t.co/idRdv4dPTR
18:29:00 Retweeted @TheRealBuzz 2018-07-21 17:37:20 I was on the Moon! #Apollo11 @NASA https://t.co/6Nb2cQVU32
19:01:48 Retweeted @michaeldweiss 18:51:40 So Konstantin Nikolaev is the oligarch who bankrolled Butina. His son, erm, volunteered for the Trump campaign: https://t.co/IKDfi5FOPO
19:55:35 Retweeted @eramshaw 19:39:26 This is why @TexasTribune isn’t letting go of this story: вЂњ6-year-old Heyli, separated from her dad at the U.S.-MexвЂ¦ https://t.co/uTdUmiG1uL

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-21 (UTC)

04:06:53 Retweeted @AuthorLMendez 2018-07-20 20:37:11 2018 Midterm Predictions: 07.20.2018.@TheDemocrats are 71% favorites to flip the House, @GOP are just 55% favoritвЂ¦ https://t.co/0aep83hYnB
05:04:51 @bloggingcaesar Looking forward to it! in reply to bloggingcaesar
05:07:54 Retweeted @0xKruzr 2018-07-20 05:08:36 Context: the heat index was 110, so they offered this little guy a drink of water. He had other plans. <symbol> https://t.co/J6vlQYKYJ2
05:17:13 Retweeted @Wolfe321 2018-07-20 22:26:57 A meme for our time. https://t.co/Hq5K5fijfY
05:18:54 Retweeted @DanRather 2018-07-20 15:56:49 When I hear the faux outrage about the so-called “Deep State”, I really think it’s more raging against being confinвЂ¦ https://t.co/oveqPwHvGN
05:32:39 Retweeted @GavinNewsom 2018-07-20 15:48:00 A 10-year-old who was kept in a room with no windows and was not allowed to know the time of day.A 2-year-old keвЂ¦ https://t.co/pEkCLE73Kz
05:37:56 Wonderful thread about trains. https://t.co/v1HqYKKF1R
05:40:09 Flying from Seattle to DC now. DC for a day or so, then a train to Philly. Then driving from Philly back to SeattleвЂ¦ https://t.co/Wv2D2PMOnK
11:15:17 Retweeted @jdawsey1 2018-07-19 22:58:26 Asked a foreign diplomat for any intel on Trump/Putin meeting. “If Dan Coats doesn’t know, how the hell do you thinвЂ¦ https://t.co/D9ueGOaAXq
11:21:00 Retweeted @jmpalmieri 02:50:49 WHAT THE HELL? The ad traffic move happened on OCTOBER 7th?!Do you know what else happened that day? Obama Admin stвЂ¦ https://t.co/cqtvkDwMgA
11:27:16 This is not OK. Judge needs to expand the class. https://t.co/hfTIIPkerc
11:42:02 Retweeted @JohnWDean 02:52:29 ICYMI posted 7/16. If interested in the Mueller investigation don’t miss this analysis! Must read! https://t.co/I35JuQ4KA2
11:51:15 Retweeted @QuantaMagazine 08:30:03 ICYMI: The effort to create a quantum theory of gravity is the biggest problem in physics. Has an old idea been oveвЂ¦ https://t.co/oD98KLcIlh
11:59:00 Retweeted @OsitaNwanevu 2018-07-20 23:22:35 It’s cool that when the BBC reports that multiple people have accused the president of going after “young women” atвЂ¦ https://t.co/YKKfAn1obx
12:03:09 Retweeted @sarahchurchwell 2018-07-19 15:24:56 Umberto Eco wrote a 1995 @nybooks essay called вЂњUr-FascismвЂќ in which he named 14 features of fascism. He said onlyвЂ¦ https://t.co/tNQE3S4w7W
12:24:55 Retweeted @pkmacdonald 12:02:56 вЂњOfficials have become increasingly convinced that Trump is not fully absorbing their briefs, even when they are taвЂ¦ https://t.co/FouDaraG0N
12:26:04 Retweeted @tribelaw 10:28:56 Trump’s base is being conditioned to accept a dangerous new syllogism: It’s good for America that Trump defeated ClвЂ¦ https://t.co/w7EUP1kn5y
18:18:20 This account seems to be fully supporting the вЂњhe is an idiotвЂќ hypothesis over the вЂњhe is compromised by PutinвЂќ hypвЂ¦ https://t.co/sysHuMHU4k
18:45:45 Reading – Trump Doesn’t Really Put America First (Beinart – The Atlantic) https://t.co/AvrnHTNgN1

@abulsme tweets from 2018-07-20 (UTC)

00:06:59 Retweeted @davidfrum 2018-07-19 14:01:46 Quote from Trumpocracy, newly relevant in wake of Trumpist tacit acquiescence to Russian aid in US elections https://t.co/pjBqxpBZHi
00:09:11 Retweeted @tedlieu 2018-07-19 12:56:10 In light of the recent disturbing actions by @realDonaldTrump and new information we have learned, the GOPвЂ¦ https://t.co/B68QXhnYHZ
00:09:53 Retweeted @JudyWoodruff 2018-07-19 23:30:26 In all the Russia news, this was largely overlooked today https://t.co/HlOjSsZ7MV
00:36:39 Thread https://t.co/JdR1oVgfts
00:38:45 Thread https://t.co/2dshbLUEVG
02:57:19 Retweeted @billyeichner 00:59:35 Putin’s gonna host SNL isn’t he
03:01:42 Retweeted @owillis 2018-07-19 16:24:56 occams razor time kidsthey want to allow russia to hack our elections and won’t condemn nazis because the russianвЂ¦ https://t.co/WZf8oFu8EK
03:08:31 Email geek thread. https://t.co/EjNnACOcK9
03:11:07 Retweeted @michaelbatnick 2018-07-18 20:30:35 The market cap of the top 5 S&P 500 companies:$4,095,058,706,432
The market cap of the bottom 282 S&P 500 companвЂ¦ https://t.co/0ZxIv8Tu6S
03:18:40 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 01:40:59 Enough already with the “why don’t we understand them” pieces. Let’s see a few on “why they don’t understand everyoвЂ¦ https://t.co/6jJuVhf9ox in reply to RadioFreeTom
03:39:36 Retweeted @PhilipRucker 00:09:50 Inside White House, there’s anger and frustration with Dan Coats over @mitchellreports interview. вЂњCoats has gone rвЂ¦ https://t.co/UvUW8W9YL6
03:48:43 Very interesting read. https://t.co/pFBamY5bVE
04:03:25 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS 2018-07-19 16:51:05 Great points from @EJDionne on the bankruptcy of centrist hand-wringing about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:вЂ¦ https://t.co/6R9gsbZbkf
04:04:29 Retweeted @AshaRangappa_ 03:35:28 Pro-tip for well-connected old rich dudes: If a cute, young Russian woman who loves guns wants to hang out with youвЂ¦ https://t.co/QoTP1xiieJ
04:39:57 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 02:28:31 This is the best and most rational argument on Trump’s ties to Russia, and what it means to be compromised, that yoвЂ¦ https://t.co/EwG6sg9ozC
06:18:02 Retweeted @mattblaze 2018-07-17 05:15:03 I’m probably the last geek on earth to discover that the model numbers of 3V CR button cell batteries describe theiвЂ¦ https://t.co/eJEdyH6xiK
07:08:43 Retweeted @kimgoodwin 2018-07-19 19:36:15 I have had more than one male colleague sincerely ask whether a certain behavior is mansplaining. Since apparentlyвЂ¦ https://t.co/uE85nY1g9w
07:10:36 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 2018-07-19 22:30:41 Meanwhile, two guys in a bar in Indiana explain to a reporter how they felt forgotten until there was a president wвЂ¦ https://t.co/SMwRMVduox
14:56:55 Retweeted @john_sipher 13:02:06 “He’s kept it up at great political cost to himself, and that suggest either that he is possessed by an anomalous lвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ld4234j1Nx
15:49:25 Oops https://t.co/hnmriNiJmq
16:40:39 Retweeted @joshtpm 16:39:30 The Butina file https://t.co/29pVJQfuQQ
16:40:56 Ha ha ha ha https://t.co/bQGMp1rwSe
17:21:55 Retweeted @ed_kilgore 17:14:19 The deception going on over Kavanaugh’s views on Roe are two-fold, I think: partly a matter of providing cover to CвЂ¦ https://t.co/NzLi3lYCyN
18:18:37 Retweeted @tripgabriel 18:14:50 If the universe had a sense of humor, Michael Cohen tapes would leak one a day for weeks, you know like the Podesta emails.
18:25:03 Retweeted @arawnsley 16:27:23 Also, Maria Butina apparently kept a diary. Pro tip: if you are going to engage in illegal or suspect activity, itвЂ¦ https://t.co/qa0qAqYZjy in reply to arawnsley
18:42:43 Fun thread about some quirky New York street grid historyвЂ¦ https://t.co/zgDSRzl97Q
19:02:02 Thread on вЂњeverybody does it, including usвЂќ reaction to Russia’s influence operations. https://t.co/3pgtF6hpU1
19:12:00 Retweeted @MaxBoot 18:31:47 I opposed Obama. Now I would take him back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reaвЂ¦ https://t.co/dcory7rYZk
21:56:11 Wut? https://t.co/pAhqM4olQH
23:38:52 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Fundle Money https://t.co/bzjVAHP8yg https://t.co/2uFO4hl3ue

Dirt Road Detour

Alex didn’t want to go to Crystal Lake Cave, and he didn’t want to go see the world’s largest popcorn ball, so that left the “fun thing of the day” an earlier detour we took when US-20 was closed for a stretch, then the next turn the GPS told us to take was closed too, and later a third road was closed too. So we spent an hour or so (at least) on back roads in rural northwestern Illinois. A good portion of those roads were dirt roads!

Alex verdict: Whatever I was doing there?

Brandy verdict: It was funny and a little scary.

Sam verdict: I love dirt roads. YEE HAW!!

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