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Irritating, annoying and repetitive in the face of better evidence does not a troll make. One night I woke up at 3:00AM in a two dollar dive hole of a room with a dip toilet on the second floor of the train station in Jaipur, India. On the platform below an army brass band was beating out what I can only guess was supposed onto be a coherent song. For the most part it made no sense and just made my head hurt. That didn't make them trolls, just true believers like Brent. Be nice. Unlike some, when Brent is gone we'll miss him.

You're up to 1000. Now you owe me. I'm pretty sure the current slate of religions haven't helped, either. We even have an SC Justice who belongs to a sect that believes her husband should be calling the shots and, apparently, another that believes his wife should be calling the shots. That's some weird gender shit, if you ask me. If men want to wear dresses there is no reason they should need to move to Myanmar. Where, by the way, I wore one for the 5 weeks I was there and quite liked it, too. U-Joe they called me and giggled every time. I can't claim to understand the need to be focused on correct pronouns when being addressed but I can respect the need. We all get just one shot at this, if it makes someone happy at no expense to anyone else just do it and you be happy, too. What's so hard about that?

Something that occurs to me is that gender only matters because we have so much hierarchy, so many customs, etc tied up in it. Maybe that’s a problem. Wendy P.

OK, Buddy! Who are you and what did you do with Brent? Brent, wherever you are just hang in there, we're on the way.

It is all about man dates.

Marty. I have United from April 1970. That’s all I have. Fly might have more. eBay has some timetables.

One of the 'funny' things they've discovered is that there's very little difference in mask use whether a mandate is in place or not. Last summer, when Texas & Florida were the first to eliminate the mandates, many (including me) expected to see significant spikes* in cases. Those never occurred. It's been figured out that the mandates were never really strongly enforced. Many places refused to. So lots of people weren't wearing them, even with the mandate in place. When the mandates were lifted, those that were wearing them continued to do so. Those that didn't hadn't been the whole time. So nothing really changed much. * - It should also be pointed out that Florida's numbers have been seriously under-reported for pretty much the entire pandemic. They simply ignore cases and deaths. Pretend that they aren't happening.