Peter Glover

One glaring lie is their claim that people are abusing the ACA tax credit. Tax payers reconcile their tax credit when they file in April, via the 1095-A and 8962 forms. Nobody just skates along paying fraudulently low premiums. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

Democrats should counter-offer $7000 for a veto proof majority. Republican pundits will carp “where’s this money going to come from?”

(Continuing the Fred Ward theme) Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I know this is un-American, but I find this Final way more compelling than yesterday’s high scoring 3rd place match.

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow

A month ago, right before the Maine primary, Graham Platner went to Washington to be grilled about his candidacy’s viability by other Dem Senators. They asked if there was the risk of more allegations from women. He assured them “No.” Whether he lied or simply didn’t know is equally damning.

It’s super easy to guess (without even looking) which SCOTUS justices voted against birthright citizenship in Trump v Barbara. It’s gobsmacking it wasn’t 9-0.

The kid from “Lonely Boy” should hang out with the kid from “Seasons in the Sun”. #at40

Bummer that the Graham Platner campaign is imploding in the worst way possible because I really wanted to get one of those Maine Bicentennial “Dirigo” logo t-shirts he sports.

This one ate almost every quarter I earned in high school. Later in my career, I was thrilled to work on a rom-based browser port for Shockwave.com.

I don’t buy the “Graham Platner will just be a Fetterman” online hand-waving. He seems to be a lifetime, truly left of center guy. But my concern is he may have more skeletons in his closet. He’s had foot-in-mouth issues just a couple weeks ago using a slur (while talking about the tattoo no less).

Dispatch from Mossbirn, NZ: I don’t know what’s going on with this roadside sign. I don’t know if I want to know. But I’m grateful they didn’t spell “You” as “Ewe.”

Trump literally appointed Noem to be an Agent of SHEILD.

The USA Gold in Men’s Hockey reminded me of a flight we took from Boston to Barbados. It was a vacation flight; everyone was hammered. The airline knew the route though, so the in-flight movie was “Miracle.” At the end, all the passengers were crying and hugging “GAWD, THAT WAS WICKED EMOTIONAL!”

Drop a crush from your youth

David Byrne’s cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” is about 10x better than it has any right to be. And yes, I acknowledge I am in the core GenX, alt-dad demographic targeted by this release. youtu.be/LmeeH2c6Xfo?...

Two guys in front of me in the coffee shop. The conversation was along the lines of “yeah, we just inked our Series A which gives us a run to summer. No talking B round yet, but if we get $12M revenue, we’ll see…” Unremarkable other than that they seemed like fetuses to me. Where’s my Geritol?

Post a banger not in English. (This cheats with a little English, but I appeal to the judges for dispensation) youtu.be/kgB9aXhogLA?...

The dog was an oddly agitated this morning. She jumped right out bed and beelined it to the back door. I went to let her out and fortuitously glanced out the window before opening the door, because there in the middle of the backyard were two raccoons in flagrante delicto.

I occasionally pop onto Threads and was prompted to join their Community Notes system, so out of curiosity I did. After a little playing with it, I’m convinced that Community Notes itself is a cynical user engagement feature rather than any kind of a good faith moderation tool.

#AT40 I haven’t heard “Sister Mary Elephant” in decades, but this time I picked up the production detail of gating the “SHUT UP!” to make it sound like it’s blowing out the speakers, regardless of the volume.

#AT40 My college roommate’s sister played violin on “Le Freak” (and other Chic and Madonna songs, and more). It was always fun to see the platinum record on the wall of their family house in Maine.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. “Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet pretty much cemented my musical taste for the next 35 years.

Deteriorata” > “Desiderata” #at40 youtu.be/9Axyqk5ERKQ?...

In an attic box somewhere, there’s a dusty cassette of my cousin and I’s attempts at “Mr Jaws” style humor…only with more fart jokes. #at40

It seems like the Colorado Gay Conversion Therapist petitioner in the Supreme Court case yesterday is basically arguing that “Come on, we all know therapy doesn’t do anything, it’s just talking.”

Democrats need to stop calling the ACA Tax Credit a “subsidy”. It’s a tax credit for regular Americans who buy their own insurance. Rolling back the tax credit is a huge middle class tax increase. Democrats should be punching Republicans hard on this every time they are in front of a camera.

I know that you aren’t supposed to respond to spammers but I was in a mood

It can only good happen.

It wouldn’t be entirely bad if Trump convinced enough followers to stop taking their baby aspirin.

My wife and I were sequestered with COVID this weekend, so we did some catching up on movies. So…”Superman” was supposed to be good? Because damn, that was a colossal chore to watch.

I cancelled Hulu/Disney+ because of the ABC Kimmel suspension, but noticed that I can still watch the last two episodes of “Alien Earth” before the end of the billing period. So I’m not exactly a Freedom Rider, but damn that show is good.

Real conversation today: Cardiologist: It’s great that you lost 20 pounds. How’d you do it? Me: Reduced caloric intake and increased exercise. Cardiologist: Wow, people still do it that way?

@kenwhite.bsky.social sees the Candice Owens story, sighs, and dusts off his First Amendment explainers.

I guess it’s ime to be reminded that there IS a lot of evidence that the 2016 Trump campaign coordinated with Russian Intelligence on the release of hacked (stolen) DNC server documents and emails. www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/u...

Rickie Lee Jones is one of those artists whose number of chart appearances don’t convey her awesomeness. #at40

I opened up Wordle and got a “What’s new in Apple Game Center” pop up. I briefly thought I time-travelled back to 2007.

Workout Playlist Random Song of the Day (6/27/2025) The Happy Fits “Everything You Do” Not really random because it’s on heavy rotation. Probably gonna be my song of the summer. youtu.be/oKf11AW1RbM

The Administration is simply reminding citizenry “You know, we control the military, right?”