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We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough, and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our partner gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice holiday, when we retire.The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?Your life will always be filled with challenges.It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. A quote comes from Alfred D. Souza. He said, "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. "This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time...and remember that time waits for no one.So, stop waiting until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until winter, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink.... there is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination.Work like you don't need money,Love like you've never been hurt,And dance like no one's watching.

I would add — don’t have a bucket list, just figure out ways to do what fills your soul, or plan when you can (traveling the world hitch hiking with a backpack is not practical when you have a toddler). Ive done very little I regret having done — and the lessons I learned made that regret unimportant. Wendy P.

Apart from the reprehensible impact of this law on women's ability to control their own lives, I am also concerned that it establishes a blueprint for all kinds of trouble. Imagine the tactic of "deputizing" the general public applied to voting. As an example, a law could set up the following scenario: 1. Anyone, anywhere, can sue poll workers and anyone supporting polling (people servicing voting machines, people driving poll workers to work etc) if they suspect even a single instance of illegal voting has occurred. If successful the litigant would be awarded $10,000/illegal vote plus legal costs. If the poll worker wins they get nothing. Poll workers would be faced with huge costs to defend themselves even if the lawsuit is without merit. Of course, the litigants could ensure victory by getting just one person to vote illegally, for example by tricking or bribing a convicted felon to vote. The result would be that no-one would agree to work at a polling station, or service voting machines, etc. Couple this with: 2. If any precinct is unable to recruit sufficient poll workers, the state legislature will be empowered to assign the votes as they see fit. This would put "counting" the votes in the hands of state legislatures and strip the public of any meaningful ability to vote. I would be curious to see what this Supreme Court would do with that. My guess is that 5 or 6 of them might wring their hands but decide they couldn't do anything because the legal issues are "too complicated". Don

You're damn right there will be a backlash. Democrat politicians will be united in deploring the decision. I really won't be surprised if some party leaders get hopping mad. Activists will hand draw cutesy signs and cross their arms and scowl. The Supreme Court will rue this day, for sure.

I have an image in my mind. An old man calls a press conference. He walks up to the lectern with an old parachute, a stack of twenties, and other definitive proof that he is in fact D B Cooper. But nobody hears a word he says, because the entire audience is engaged in an old west saloon style brawl, with fists and chairs flying everywhere.

I still miss Shannon

Here is a Dick pic for ya!

New episode out now! Couple of shoutouts to my pal Flyjack. Hopefully I did an okay job paraphrasing your parachute research bro. Come on the show Flyjack!

It's time to stop talking about stacking the SC, and just fucking do it!

Christians do have a long history of supporting those with crimes Gaetz is rumoured to be accused of.

It's INSANE. The supreme court has outsourced justice to citizens. A very slippery slope.

To me, an entanglement is like a pilot chute in tow. There is no perfect answer; people have died who didn’t cut away, and people have died who did. If there isn’t a good way to fix it, then you have to invest extra effort in preventing it. Wendy P.

Who could have foreseen that the Taliban would take Afghanistan and Texas in the same week?

History suggests that outsiders should leave Afghanistan alone.

Can you explain how deliberately "slow walking" visa applications from allied Afghanis fits into your narrative?

I learned a new term yesterday: "hospital pass". Geoff Hoon, who was the British Defense Secretary when Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded (the British military was involved, not just the American), put the blame for the Afghanistan situation on the "peace treaty" Trump negotiated with the Taliban, and said Trump threw Biden a "hospital pass". I had to look it up as I had not heard the term before. A hospital pass comes from Rugby but it's sometimes used for other sports, it's when you avoid being tackled yourself by passing the ball to another player who then immediately takes a hard tackle that could put them in the hospital. Sounds to me like a good description of what has happened here. Don

Just like robbing banks is a good way to make money. But we have rules against that. Being an efficient way of making money does not justify morally corrupt actions.