I had a shit-ton of work dumped on me in the last few days, so here’s more shortened shrift. First, be advised there’s a colt entered in the Kentucky Derby this year named Sandman. He has an excellent social-media team, or maybe it’s just Churchill Downs’. Whatever, he’s been popping up on my socials a lot in the last two days. With his name, as you could guess, he has fans in Metallica, who sent over a bunch of merch for the barn crew:
That’s Sandman, obviously. I love grays. What a beautiful boy. And look at all the faces in his team, overwhelmingly Latino/a. (I refuse to use Latinx, sorry.) I wonder if ICE will be dropping by to fuck up the Kentucky Derby this year, too. Of course, many of these people may well be Puerto Rican; racing is big there. Trust our ICE team not to understand they’re Americans too.
Horses don’t have walk-on music, but if they did? Man oh man, Sandman would have that race in the bag.
Moving on! To the Mysteries of Kristi Noem’s Purse. Who carries three grand around in a purse? The other day I read a business owner complaining on Facebook that the local parking meters haven’t been converted to an app, and still require the antique currency known as “change.” But we’re to believe our homeland security secretary was carrying around that much dough for “family activities” during Easter weekend? The most benign speculation is that she’s trying to keep her much-gossiped-about affair with Corey Lewandowski off the credit-card bills. The funniest was Roy’s, of course.
I am the increasingly rare adult who enjoys drinking milk, but I’m starting to think I should reconsider:
WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
… The testing program was suspended because FDA’s Moffett Center Proficiency Testing Laboratory, part of its division overseeing food safety, “is no longer able to provide laboratory support for proficiency testing and data analysis,” the email said.
Thanks, Croaky! 10/10, no notes.
Back to real work.
Jeff Borden said on April 22, 2025 at 3:47 pm
Lotsa gangbangers carry fat wads of cash to demonstrate their power, but certainly not the Director of Homeland Hair Extensions. She wears a $50,000 Rolex to show off.
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nancy said on April 22, 2025 at 4:00 pm
There’s a guy on Twitter whose business is commenting on menswear. He is clever at a level that most of us will only see through the clouds. He was dunking on MAGA chuds over MS-13 after he pointed out that carrying that much cash was indeed very MS-13-like. They just walk, one after another, into his sights, and he picks them off boom-boom-boom.
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