I received this interesting email yesterday.
At first, I was confused because I made a post on Monday. However, it turns out I made a mistake scheduling the couple of posts, thus no recent posts. Sorry about that. It’s nice to know that someone actually cares and appreciates my content. I should post more often, I try to twice a week. Things have been just so darn discouraging as of late, personally and nationally. Hopefully, I can be more consistent.
Ah, what the heck, I’m turning comments on today.
I had a pipe freeze on Monday, which caused a big, unfortunate mess. I rushed to the main water turnoff valve in the front yard, but had trouble finding and accessing it because it was covered by at least two inches of ice.
The leak caused was such a mess that I knew my small one-gallon wet-dry vac wouldn’t put a dent in it. Thankfully, my neighbor let me borrow his larger one that holds sixteen gallons. I had to empty that thing six times. My quick math tells me that’s about 96 gallons. I called the property management company immediately, but had to leave two messages and didn’t get a hold of them until a couple of hours later.
This tweet randomly appeared in my feed, and I thought it made a strange and outrageous claim. I’ve been in a lot of local non-chain donut shops over the last three decades. Each has a slightly different taste and/or texture, and every one had a visible kitchen in the back.
How the DFW donut cartel works (because you care):
There’s a donut shop on every corner here. And they all get donuts from the same wholesaler, delivered at 3am daily…
…except for one. That one exception is called Max’s Donuts in Allen. BEST DONUTS IN THE WORLD! Made on… pic.twitter.com/ssC6WaAyXk
— Chris Koerner (@mhp_guy) January 15, 2026
As you go through the thread, you can even see that he double-downed on it. I can’t tell if this guy is insane or leaning into it a bit and using AI to make up stuff.
And, for the record, this family-owned shop in my old neighborhood has the best donuts and kolaches I’ve ever had, and I continue to go out of my way to support them. If they had a website or even a Facebook page, I would have linked to it, but that’s how mom-and-pop they are.
One ticket! (via The Guardian)
The God They Preach at the Pentagon
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Curling isn’t a real sport.
Texas: “Hold my beer” pic.twitter.com/X81RVtg9zv
— Land, man (@PLM_Pimp) January 27, 2026
That reminded me of this recent Amish video.
It’s like he has a pet stingray.
Totally amazing moment
pic.twitter.com/J8H1M7VFfp— Science girl (@sciencegirl) January 27, 2026
OK, how can you not adopt this pup?
Little puppy was tired of no one adopting him, he saw a hooman and jumped over all the cages so they’d pick him first.. pic.twitter.com/fPkt1fjRSq
— o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 25, 2026
This image was trending recently, but it comes from an April 11, 2025, Financial Times article.
Compare and contrast.
Reagan Presidential Library
