Awesome Pic. Suitable for Framing.

(IF I was the potog I'd have dropped down just a bit and had that fountain running into Trumpy's left ear and out the right. Prolly get Executed, but it'd def be Worth it.)

Yes, the $12,000 gift amount from Wilson is symbolic for Seahawks fans, but it's also under the limit for allowable gifts (to each person per year) to avoid gift taxes.

I believe women. Even when they're plotting mass mayhem.

shakes head

Florida: making Mississippi look good since at least 2012.

@2: Since Russell's married, he could've given up to $30,000, so I doubt the gift tax exclusion had much to do with the amount.

Another great Katelyn Ohashi vid.
Sorry I missed the chance to see her compete live.

Johnson squared is just one Johnson.

If you wanted to get Johnson + Johnson -- i.e. two Jonsons -- via squaring, you'd have to start with around 1.4142135623730951 Johnsons.

@1 kristofarian: It's more like a mug shot of a couple of fat slugs, suitable for throwing darts at or lining a litter box. Ugh! But I do like your brilliant idea of utilizing the fountain for going through Trumpty Dumpty's ears.

Wow. “Childbirth or hysterectomy or something”? Unbelievably lazy and dismissive wording regarding the serious medical issues that women suffer.

he is not an angel. good grief. he's currying favor with his underpaid teammates who have to protect his overpaid ass.

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It seemed a little lite to me as well.

Specially when they're all that stand (squat?) between a thousand pounds of pissed off Beefcake, and the little qb guy. What if they get hurt and Russell's gotta keep ponying up for new recruits all season long, and then thru the Playoffs and finally the Super Bowl -- which they WIN!! -- and it runs into hundreds of thousands? And then there's the Widows & Orphans fund....

Before anyone voted on the tunnel, it was known this would not relieve traffic congestion. Mike McGinn was right, that money would have been better spent on public transit.

As for the viaduct, has anything in this town ever been completed on time or under budget? I do feel for the folks who live next to the thing, because having a construction pit right outside your door is obnoxious. Constant noise, the debris makes everything ugly, and then there’s particulate matter in the air that you get to breathe in. I’ve been through that myself, so they have my empathy. However, you should’ve thought about that when you voted for the tunnel. The viaduct would be completely gone by now if we had been working on that rather than Bertha.

@5 - does your Johnson factor of 1.414 correct for shrinkage?

I hope Sen. Walsh learns something. Now, if we could just get Matt Shea to have to shadow an actual human being for a day, that would be something.

@18:

He's just another in a very long line of extremely bitter lower middle-class schlubs who mistakenly believe the lie that they can somehow bootstrap themselves into the ranks of the 1% and live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. So, they eagerly support the concept of unbridled avarice on the (extremely unlikely) off-chance that Power Ball ticket pays off, or some long-forgotten relative leaves them 10,000 shares of AMZN stock, or whatever fantasy of sudden, unearned wealth they have playing on repeat in their heads and they happen to find themselves on that side of the moat.

It'll never happen of course, but they just can't give up on the one delusion that keeps them from facing the reality that they're stuck down here in the mud with the rest of us plebeians, and will never be anything else.

17,

Awesome, someone actually reads the drivel I post. I thought I was just shouting into the void. Usually, the only feedback I get is some expression of disgust from Auntie Grizelda.

@18

People who have high incomes but unimpressive levels of wealth, like our friend Sargon, do get a big chunk of "their" money taken away by the government, and then they project their own experience onto the truly wealthy, most of whom don't have any income from work at all.

The problem is that Sargon doesn't think he's an ordinary Joe, because he's got a high salary and a mortgage that's mostly paid off on a fancy house and a late-model luxury car and an index fund or two. He's rich! But no so rich that he doesn't even notice the income tax he has to pay each year; not rich enough to hang out with the kind of people who don't even notice their income taxes, in fact he's so far away from being that rich that he has no idea how different it is.

For Sargon, to take all of that in would be to let go of the idea that he is Rich, that he is a member of the economic elite. But his sense of identity and self-respect is so wrapped up in being A Hard-Working Deserving Rich Person that he can't bring himself to think of his riches as vastly inferior to anyone else's.