Linemen for the power company will always stay busy regardless of the economy, and it pays stupid well.

My boss is a former lineman; he quit because there was a lot of bullshit dealing with the power company. I gather that the pay in my area wasn’t that great either. When storms roll through, shifts are going to be long and brutal.

InRangeTV and A Better Way 2A.

I’ve met other supporters of both groups, and they’ve all been pretty cool people.

I’m strongly considering supporting Galen Druke’s GD Politics now that FiveThirtyEight has been shuttered.

Vampires can enter your home whenever they choose. They’re just all autistic and really hate going into someone’s house without being asked to come in first.

OTOH, if you shifted the ionization state of every single atom, then pretty much every molecule would end up flying apart. You can’t form H2O if hydrogen has no electrons at all; hydrogen becomes a single proton.

I wish for one electron to disappear from every atom. The net result would be that all atoms would now have a positive charge.

True, it would not only end all life on earth, but also destroy the entire earth. But everything would be positive.