Not an unusual story to emerge from the swamps of a Blue state, but Stephen Green does have a couple of questions

/

“And see, dear? They come wrapped in lovely foil packets.”

(Actual photo)

2. Who are the condoms for in pre-school?

I grok, man

/

Musk explains his email demanding that federal employees send a list of five things they’d accomplished in the ast days at work

The billionaire Tesla founder revealed on Sunday he was simply eager 'to see who had a pulse and two working neurons' amid concerns that some government workers have it so good that they don't even check their emails.

Regarding his missive, Musk wrote on X: 'Consistent with President Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.' 

'Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.'

The email was sent late Saturday night, and employees had until Monday evening to respond, sparking panic among the workforce.

Earlier on Sunday, Musk had also pointed out that 'many do not read their email at all', indicating the move was more about seeing which staff had checked their messages and bothered to reply, rather than the reply itself.

This theory was further amplified when Musk shared a conversation he had had with AI tool Grok, asking: 'Make up five things I accomplished at work this week that they can't really verify, I work for the government, keep it brief.'

Grok spat out five examples, including 'streamlining a filing process, briefing a senior official on a classified project, debugging an internet database glitch, sparking a new interdepartmental initiative and conducting a discreet security audit.'

Lawyers usually bill by segments of time, and, associates especially, are expected to record and account for every minute of their day (can you bill a client for time you spent thinking about his case while taking a shower? The jury’s still out on that.) One of the first “lessons” I was taught by a senior partner upon joining his firm was to never just enter “phone call with client: 15 minutes” on my timesheet “because sure as hell, the asshole’s gonna complain ‘I timed that call, and we were on the phone for only 12 f**king minutes!’ So”, my new boss continued, “enter ‘review file, and t/c with client’. He can’t argue with that, because he can’t tell if you’re lying or not.”

Grok obviously had the same tutor I did.

(For those few of you born after the Free love/flower power/Purple Owsley had passed — or you had too much of that Owsley and can’t remember the 60s — and if you don’t have the patience to watch the very interesting, but longish video above, here’s a succinct definition of the word, from the master himself):

Of course he has

/

pete’s got nothing on me!

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers introduces budget recommendation that replaces "mother" with "inseminated person"

No room for an obsolete term like “mother” in progressive Wisconsin — not when there are so many officially-approved non-gendered words one can use.

and if this can be called a girls track meet, why quibble about the event formerly known as mothers Day being renamed inseminated persons day?

Instapundit on Europe (Updated)

/

Oh, what will we do, what will we DO?!

/

Sadly, there’s no beach in Huntsville – you’d think J. Edgar would have known that, and dressed appropriately

Kash Patel Orders 1,500 FBI Agents and Staff Out of the Building on Day One

“FBI Director Kash Patel followed up a fiery introductory speech on Friday with equally fiery action. He ordered 1,500 staff and agents to be transferred from its Washington, DC, headquarters to various locations across the nation. Some 1,000 agents and staff will be reassigned to cities the Trump administration has designated higher crime locations where they can fight crime rather than engage in political shenanigans. Another 500 staff will be reassigned to Huntsville, Alabama, which is the DC equivalent of exile to Siberia.

“This is Director Patel's first step, and it shouldn't come as a shock. He told us it was going to happen.”

During his confirmation hearing last month, Patel was asked about his previous comments suggesting he wanted the FBI’s headquarters emptied out and shuttered. His responses did not directly address whether he would actually shut the building down or seek to transform it into a museum, but suggested that he believes the FBI’s workforce in Washington should go out into the country.

“A third of the workforce for the FBI works in Washington, D.C.,” Patel said. “I am fully committed to having that workforce go out into the interior of the country, where I live west of the Mississippi, and work with sheriff’s departments and local officers.”

Streiff: “Some of those agents are on temporary duty to DC and will return to their home offices. You can also bet that a non-trivial number of those ordered out of the building will retire rather than move. That would be sad, and we'd be filled with regret over the loss of their talent, but we shall have to somehow soldier on.”

NYT's designated ABM strikes out, leaves the field to join his fellow losers

/

Teammates blowhard and the word of god have parted ways

Charles Blow, the official Angry Black Man mascot of the New York Times, has quit. Sniff.

The List of Libs Writers Quitting Has Become a Butcher's Bill

From three years before:

(It’s a quibble, yes, but thunder doesn’t strike the earth, lightning does; unfortunately, it rarely strikes NYT columnists.)