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David Todd McCarty
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Writer. Journalist. Raconteur. I live in Cape May, New Jersey, USA, where I write about politics, culture, science, history, religion and travel. I hate bullies no matter what side they’re on. I'm kind, until you push me. Three kids. Seven grands. Grand Poobah of AI Haters. Phillies. Eagles. Liverpool. Pizzaiolo Extraordinaire. Publisher of four @medium pubs: Ellemeno, Rome, Hopping Frog Studios, and A Bit Dodgy. Signal: dtm.13

nostr:npub1ahmpls8x6nxlwr8p0ryyy5q0spw9ysrmtvt66wqlcz2s5vsr99lqxxryzr Congress passed a constitutional amendment which trumps all laws. None of the rest of the 14th required Congress to pass new laws.

nostr:npub15j377702yq4djtrv52qspx78mrtwdgl7a7ajve03psr9azxpgwhsqxs8gs Good adds. I’m going to keep the sections short. No need to belabor any individual fault.

I only WISH our biggest worry was a family portrait photoshopped by a mom.

The horror.

I don’t know how those Brits make it through the day.

I was never an admirer of the pinup-era Pamela Anderson. Not my type at all. But I very much like this new, older, more stripped down version. Kudos to her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/style/pamela-anderson-no-makeup-vanity-fair.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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nostr:npub1xpcqmx422lf6cm6nzup53vfsfvyz7pjfarwdklj3apxaggjtdqmqg03t05 Finally, we meet the actual author of A Little Dodgy 😏

nostr:npub1q360tzjtz3vep8m9g0akkc27fhcz8mgw6wgu797px9jqx9l9k0fqk3pysa Busted. He’s a cranky little fuck. Don’t let the smile and feathers fool ya’.

nostr:npub1q360tzjtz3vep8m9g0akkc27fhcz8mgw6wgu797px9jqx9l9k0fqk3pysa They wouldn’t cluck like a chicken or anything. They would just freeze up.

I missed this part. Why did the liberal justices join in the unanimous decision that Trump should be allowed on the Colorado ballot? It can’t be that suddenly Congress has to write laws to enforce Constitutional Amendments, a first.

Could you imagine the Republicans appointing a Democrat to investigate one of their own? Ha! Never gonna happen. Their idea of keeping up appearances is that they’re always on attack. The worst thing they can be seen as is weak, not partisan. #USPol

So the princess photoshopped her family photo? So what. “She undermined trust in the royal family…” Give me a fucking break.

Hey, maybe we need a royal family to obsess over instead of dealing with real problems. Or not.

I’m only 56 (my wife is 60) but I’m still counting on Social Security if I’m ever going to retire. We’ve paid into this our entire working lives. The GOP can go fuck themselves. If they ever succeed I can guarantee political violence will engulf America. It won’t be directed at the little guy, either.

#USpol

If you’re a David Sedaris fan, this is a gold mine.

https://youtu.be/vlVN0Ol83Lw?si=Y4wmUjXv5Cs7FKYK

The whole EU cookie website bullshit is such horse shit. No one is reading any of this. Pass the laws and enforce them but leave the consumers out of it. I’m so sick of clicking ok. I don’t care.

I never liked Belichick. I’m thrilled he won’t be in the league next year. https://apple.news/AtulST_iSSkCVzRAm0OwFtw

If Texas actually were ever to secede, I have a few questions:

1. What would they do for a military?

2. Who would they trade with? They’d be the 8th largest economy in the world, but it’s not easy if you can’t trade with number one.

3. What would they use as currency?

4. They’d need their own banking system.

5. Let’s assume it was done violently. We could simply blockade them. No ocean ports.

6. Without our protection, Mexico might as well take it back.

Just asking questions.

The case for Joe Biden is not that he’s the second coming of John F Kennedy or even a decent follow-up to Obama. He’s not exciting. He’s not young. He’s not bubbling with fresh ideas and eager to disrupt the world order. He’s an old guy who’s been around the sun a few times and, consequently, has seen some shit that turned his hair white.

#Politics

https://medium.com/rome-magazine/vote-for-biden-because-hes-boring-db44ac2cee1d

My grandson Quinn. His dodgeball team are called the Cheeto Puffs. His friend Dominic came up with the idea for the tutus. These kids today.

They made it to the championship. We’ll see if they prevail in all their orange dust glory.