Clearly, right this moment’s publish will likely be an in-depth have a look at the election outcomes and what they imply on a granular stage:
However I’ll say that right here in New York Metropolis there’s a normal air of despondency, and actually one will get the sense that most of the metropolis’s liberal residents have even decamped early for the weekend homes they preserve in pink counties with out even a touch of self-awareness. I’m not a kind of despondent New Yorkers–principally as a result of I don’t have a weekend home, but additionally as a result of I realized to not catastrophize stuff like six catastrophes in the past, and I choose to be grateful that we reside in a affluent nation with, like, free elections and stuff. I additionally wish to suppose that someplace on the market somebody is absolutely bummed concerning the outcomes, and another person is absolutely glad about them, and this morning every of them determined to set out for a journey. In so doing, these two strangers simply so occurred to cross one another, and once they did they smiled and waved, every unaware of the opposite’s political views, however each united by the delight of a journey on a wonderful day.
Or else one was on a street bike and the opposite was on a mountain bike and so they gave one another the finger, what the hell do I do know?
Both approach, I used to be lucky sufficient to be a kind of riders making the most of the pleasant climate this morning, and that is the bike I occurred to seize:
I didn’t actually give it some thought on the time, however this bike is an efficient metaphor for this nice and zany nation of ours, the US of A, a.okay.a. Canada’s BarcaLounger. Constructed of two unique supplies fused collectively (or not less than supplies that have been nonetheless unique again in 2003), it transcends the “can-do” spirit and embodies an angle of “we-probably-shouldn’t-but-what-the-hell-let’s-do-it-anyway.” And finally isn’t that what being an American is all about?
Positive it’s.
Talking of comebacks, The Professional’s Closet is re-opening after solely a month:
Underneath new possession, it joins a roster of firms that features FrangrantJewels.com:
If Frangrant Jewels isn’t a model chamois cream, it rattling effectively needs to be.
Hey, all people deserves a second probability, even a used bike enterprise that didn’t succeed regardless of investments of not less than $70 million:
$70 million and so they couldn’t even compete with a typical Craiglist vendor:
That’s much more than Tadej Pogačar’s new contract:
Under no circumstances am I accusing him of something, but when it does prove he’s been dishonest and he does get caught, not less than he’ll have sufficient to open a motorbike store.