Saw these posted on a discussion thread about one of those perennial scientific studies, and they gave me a chuckle.

W.C. Fields is definitely not for everyone — usually you like him or hate him (doubtful if anyone loved him) — but I got him. He dissociated from society.

Woman: What would your father say if he knew you were drinking a bottle of liquor every day?

WC Fields: He’d call me a sissy.

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“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”

— Johnny Carson

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he’s a dead man. An Irishman’s stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

— Mark Twain

School District Turns to Diesel After Attempt to Convert Bus Fleet to Electric Proves Disastrous
Gateway Pundit | July 31, 2024 | Michael Schwarz

On July 25, Megan Davey Limarzi, Inspector General of Montgomery County, Maryland, issued a blistering memorandum regarding her office’s (OIG) investigation into Montgomery County Public Schools’ catastrophic management of an electric bus contract, which has cost taxpayers millions and forced MCPS to rely on diesel buses.

The sad story began with the usual virtue signaling.

“On February 23, 2021, as part of its commitment to sustainability, MCPS announced it was replacing 326 diesel school buses with electric school buses,” Limarzi wrote.

That ambitious purchase came at a cost of $168,684,990.

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Alas, Limarzi found that the electric bus contractor “did not deliver any of the buses expected in FY2022 through FY2024 by August 1st as required by the agreement’s delivery schedule.”

Nor will the contractor meet said delivery goal for the 2024-25 school year.

With that in mind, MCPS should have assessed fees, as it would have done under a diesel bus contract. But it did not do so, which cost an additional $1.8 million.

This led Limarzi to conclude that MCPS had utterly fleeced taxpayers.

Upon review, my mistake: This is safe for work, after all. What’s NSFW is the scenario I had in my mind.

Interns at Kamala Harris’ Office Ordered Not to Look Her in the Eye – That Privilege Was Only Reserved for Senior Staffers
Gateway Pundit | 7-30-24 | Jim Hoft

A letter penned in November 2019 by the father of a Kamala Harris intern is making the rounds again.

This California Democrat reported how Kamala Harris throws “f-bombs” around all day and berates her staff.

Peter Schweitzer retweeted this report.

Interns in Kamala Harris’ office instructed to not “look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members,” according to the father of one, who is a political liberal and was a supporter. https://t.co/qQkcxWoid7

— Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) July 29, 2024