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Oh, I see his handlers finally got to him. 

Remember when the Republicans were a political party rather than a personality cult?

Those are called Oompa Loompas

What, no Weird Al?

I hope Chris Christie pulls through. I hear he was in the running to be cast as Bouncing Boy in DC's Legion of Superheroes movie.

I sign up for emails from every campaign because I used to do political commentary (many times they send out messages to followers which they won't verbalize in public). But I'll admit that the Republican party under Trump has been more dense than any I've ever seen.
 
They called me to ask if I'd be willing to work from my own home for a Trump phone bank. I told the person, "Sure I will. I'd be willing to do almost anything to defeat Trump. What do I need to do to get started and get access to those phone numbers?"
 
This was like the fifth time that they'd contacted me to ask me to work for the campaign in some fashion but apparently nothing I'd said up to that point had gotten through to them.
 
Oddly enough, I haven't gotten a phone call from them since. Plenty of mail but no phone calls.

It wouldn't bother me, as my OCD causes me to sort them before eating.

My wife bought a ceramic dinosaur, but one of its horns was broken..
 
I asked, "Wouldn't that make it a diceratops?"
 
My son answered, "No, a dieceratops would have one to six horns." 

And I want to go back to the office without risk of getting a life threatening illness; I want my daughter to grow up in a world that doesn’t involve fascism. I want a leader who isn’t bull horning for racism, and who at least at the basic level, can get through 5 sentences without lying. 
 
I want a pony.
 
The options are what they are. I get it. But. This is the system. These are the current rules. We have to play by those rules and we have to play to win. The only way to achieve that, currently, again, from a non-Trump point of view, is to vote Biden/Harris or, preferably a straight blue ticket. Again. Hope I did that without triggering anyone.
 
If you want to change the system, then elect people who will fight for ranked voting, so we can get away from the first past the post/wasted vote mechanic (no offense meant to the intent of your vote, as much as the way votes are tallied). So in a ranked system, you could put Libertarian first, then Democrat, and when the LIbertarian is mathematically eliminated, your vote moves to the next viable candidate. However, that won’t happen in a Trump/GOP administration. Shoot, it might not happen in a Biden/Harris administration, but Maine did it. Which means your State can do it and enough States do it, then Federal law will change.
 
Separate thought, but I thought a valid point, considering.

Here’s where I potentially veer into trouble, but I’ll make it plain: Any vote that is not for Biden, is a vote for Trump, mathematically speaking. It’s not enough to want to vote Trump out, nor is it sufficient to vote for an alternative, non major party (i.e., Democrat). Your vote is part of the group vote that determines how your State votes and pushes the electoral college. 
 
I am not telling you how to vote; I am telling you how you should vote if you want Trump out of office. Because we are in a democratic republic, and not a democracy, your best tactical option, regardless of personal opinion, is to vote Biden. Everyone who identifies as a member of  the current Republican Party is going to vote a straight red ticket, so bear that in mind. This is a “first past the post” system. If you vote an alternative party, you’re only weakening the Democratic position, not the Republican. This is the battle for the margins I was speaking of earlier; if that display pushes you to not vote for either of them, then it counts as a win for Trump. It’s kind of like a pass in football; there’s three options, and only one of them counts as a success; the other two — incomplete and interception — are both bad. Relative to a democratic, or at least, non-Trump point of view.
 
...I think I said that without triggering anyone. 

I liked the two Fantastic Four movies with Alba, Gruffudd, Chiklis and Evans, but as I said earlier they weren't the groundbreaking, game-changing movies we've come to expect since the MCU came into play.  I, for one, would have liked there to be more movies with that cast--but I doubt Alba would have returned after director Tim Story's treatment of her.  (He was supposed to have told Alba in one scene of the second movie that she "Wasn't crying prettily enough."  Just how is one supposed to cry pretty?)
 
But again--no Goldface?  No Argoman?  No Black Scorpion? (The first movie was okay, the TV series was a tremendous disappointment.)  No Blankman?

Q: What is heavier, water or butane?
 
A: Water. because Butane is a lighter fluid
 

Yoda and Luke are walking through the swamp. Part of their usual training course involves shimmying along a cliff ledge, but today, there's a long break in the ledge they can't cross.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says.
 
He reaches into his bag and takes out a bunch of regular dinner table forks and a roll of duct tape. He tapes several forks together to make a bridge and lays it down, allowing the two of them to get across.
 
When they get back to Yoda's hovel, they find that some creature has chewed a hole in the fence around Yoda's garden.
 
"Something for this, I have." Yoda says again. Once again, he takes a bunch of forks out of his bag and, using duct tape, tapes them in to patch the hole.
 
Yoda and Luke return to Yoda's home, where Yoda looks through his bag. He's used all his forks but one, he discovers.
 
"That's ok Master." Luke says, wanting to be helpful. "I'll write us a note reminding us to buy more." So he writes the note and uses the very last fork to pin it to the bulletin board.
 
He looks down at Yoda expecting pride, but instead finds a look of horror. "Master Yoda!" he asks. "What did I do wrong?"
 
Yoda replies sagely, “A Jedi uses the forks for no ledge and the fence. Never for a tack!"