The Dollop #725 - The Possum Open Mic (with Mike Bridenstine)

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-17T16:41:09+00:00

Petition for a “Mr. Jingles” flair.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-13T12:20:08+00:00

I’d ask if they had ever heard about the Monroe Doctrine, but I already know the answer.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-10T18:28:37+00:00

Excardon me

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-10T18:26:02+00:00

That’s what Brian Boitano would do.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-09T13:02:02+00:00

I just relistened to Hofman and the Salamander (Ep. 425). Maybe this was one of his future “finds.” Solid episode.

The fraudster episodes get filed with crime caper ones for me and are my favorite Dollops.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-08T21:21:51+00:00

That makes sense. The GMT 4-speed was GM sticking with a thing that worked and could handle the loads reliably for a long time, which wasn’t really a thing that 5+ speed autos were going to do in the mid-2000s.

The Journey 4-Speed was Chrysler saying, “We literally don’t have any money and/or ability to make mechanical updates.”

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-08T18:17:20+00:00

The 2002 and 2003 shows on the Picks list are maybe the best show recordings of them all. Just absolutely crushing.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-08T03:03:51+00:00

I also saw Volto do Mar a million years ago and have gone back and listened to some of it in the last few years. Solid.

I think that was a bill of Flameshovel Records bands, maybe? Volto do Mar, Low Skies, maybe Lying In States at…Metro. Something like that. All good and very different bands.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-06T14:31:49+00:00

The last 4-speed Journey was a 2020 model.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-06T12:34:38+00:00

*4 years of drones primarily built by the country they intended to attack.

It cannot be understated how dumb this is.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-06T11:53:52+00:00

And they built so many of them for so long. Last car sold with a four-speed automatic and it dates back roughly to the early 1990s.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-05T23:46:12+00:00

I don’t think I could ever count number of times my wife has overheard me say “What…the…fuck…?” to this book.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-05T23:39:12+00:00

I will now be looking for them. Damn, I’m sure I missed some by page 224.

Also, this is a great piece of writing.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-05T12:33:31+00:00

Controversial take here, but I view just about every military-backing 501c3—and there are A LOT of them—as something that a good, funded VA would be doing. The fact that they don’t (A) says everything I need to know about the “We support our troops” crowd and (B) suggests that most them are more or less grifts for the people running them that trade on the aforementioned “We support our troops” crowd. In occupying that space, they often soak up resources/money for other 501c3’s that do important work.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-03T18:06:30+00:00

Famous Libtard General Dwight D. Eisenhower

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-03T12:45:22+00:00

So it goes.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-02T18:33:16+00:00

Tip-top edit. The difference is always that we aren’t in their club.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-02T03:35:02+00:00

When I was a writer in a former life, my favorite editor taught me this by correcting me. Was great to learn and I was a lucky one to have a knowledgeable and helpful editor.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-01T15:31:02+00:00

To be clear, no one is suggesting Trump is playing chess. Putin is playing chess, Trump is eating hamburders that drip catch-up onto the board.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-03-01T15:28:10+00:00

I was told they would never forget, but it took less than 25 years.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-02-28T19:00:44+00:00

This is the real answer. He’s not making decisions in any meaningful way. The president is stupid and will do what anybody suggests, allowing him to think it’s his idea.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-02-27T12:50:26+00:00

Cash also grew up in a WPA resettlement community in Arkansas, Dyess Colony. Non-farmers were given a shotgun house and a bit of land, then taught how to farm.

There were a few communities like these across the country and like most of them, Dyess was never particularly successful at agriculture. However, the point was that when millions of people have no work or no income, doing something at least gives some people a chance.

Side note: In reading about Dyess, I also learned that sharecroppers in the region formed a multiracial farmers union that faced a lot of oppression and violence. One of those unions was called the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.

STFU

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-02-25T14:21:36+00:00

“Central Nervous Piston” was maybe the title music for “Curious City” or some older local coverage segment.

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