We were on a roadtrip Sunday AM and stopped at McDonald's for some breakfast. I ordered a chicken biscuit. We were a mile or so down the road when I opened the wrapper and discovered ... a biscuit that contained:

1. one of those strange McDonald's folded-egg-blanket things
2. a hamburger
3. with cheese
4. and grilled onion (not those little minced raw onions McDs usually uses)

None of which go on a chicken biscuit.

As a bonus, it was in a "Sausage Burrito" wrapper.

But, I was hungry. So, I tried it. And, it was magical.

I've looked at a few web sites which claim to list all the items on McD's "secret menu", but this isn't on any of them.

But, it rocks.

I feel bad for whoever was expecting to get their magic cheeseburger egg biscuit and ended up with a boring chicken biscuit instead.

In his first year as President, Trump made 2,140 false claims, according to the Post. In just the last six months, he has nearly doubled that total to 4,229. In June and July, he averaged sixteen false claims a day. On July 5th, the Post found what appears to be Trump’s most untruthful day yet: seventy-six per cent of the ninety-eight factual assertions he made in a campaign-style rally in Great Falls, Montana, were “false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.”

Everyone who had Swinging 'Sex Addict', collect your prize money!

The messages were posted by hackers on the darkweb last year and provided several damaging stories about Manafort. He goes on trial today, charged with evading tax on tens of millions of dollars from his work as a political consultant in Ukraine. Now, the texts have been published in their entirety on the ordinary internet, where they can easily be searched and read. Previously, Manafort had confirmed the authenticity of some of the messages to Politico. They appear to reveal the private face of the man who was Donald Trump’s campaign manager. It is not a flattering picture.

One daughter purportedly tells another that their father regularly made their mother have sex with a “room full of men”.

“dad tapes it all”
“Poor mom”
“Dad is a sex addict”

Yet more bizarrely, it seems both parents shared these painful secrets with their (grown-up) daughters in an attempt to save their marriage.

“he has too many skeletons, he can’t have a public divorce.”
“the issue was he wanted her to WANT to have the group sex and got upset she didn’t”
“Has mom been tested for STDs?”

I hope this is true.

No matter how much I read about it, stories about QAnon are always good for a morbid chuckle.

QAnon exists as a kind of parallel history which a "deep state" took over decades ago. An all-encompassing theory of the world, it's able to tie together and explain everything from "Pizzagate" to ISIS to the prevalence of mass shootings and the JFK assassination.

Many Q fans believe that President Kennedy was set to reveal the existence of the secret government when he was assassinated. They also believe President Reagan was shot on the deep state's orders, and that all the presidents since he left office – with the exception of Mr. Trump -- have been deep state agents.

The military, eager to see the deep state overthrown, recruited Mr. Trump to run for president. But the deep state, which controls the media, quickly tried to smear him through "fake news" and unfounded allegations of collusion with Russia.

Despite the deep state's best efforts, however, Mr. Trump is winning. Q is releasing sanctioned leaks to the public in order to galvanize them ahead of "The Storm," which is the moment when the deep state's leaders are arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Q's adherents have called this process "the great awakening."

The storm takes its name from Mr. Trump enigmatic comment last October about "the calm before the storm." Q began posting soon after, and said that the storm Mr. Trump referenced are a coming series of mass arrests that would end the deep state forever.

In QAnon lore, Mr. Trump is secretly working with special counsel Robert Mueller to bring the deep state down, and the storm is a kind of Judgment Day to in which the evildoers are punished and the faithful are redeemed. Q has repeatedly suggested that the storm would hit in the very near future, and has even said certain people would be arrested at certain dates. When those dates come and go without any arrests, Q says that they needed to be delayed for one reason or another, but that Mr. Trump still has the situation well in hand.

The GOP is a cult.

A good guy with the bad guy's nuts in his hand.

NPR published a list: The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women.

I skimmed it. And of the bottom 100 songs, I think I've heard fewer than five. I've probably only heard of a dozen of the women listed in the bottom 100. I do better in the top 100, but not much.

I'm slipping out of touch.

Can you guys please just once do one on how racists need to change? https://t.co/nqaj45yBLJ

— A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) (@JuliusGoat) July 31, 2018

It would be handy if launching iTunes on Windows also launched an instance of Task Manager, so it will be easy to kill iTunes when it inevitably paralyzes itself.

In a piece absurdly titled "Why 'Fact Checking' and 'Reality Check' Do Not Apply to Trump", NPR tries to convince you of something that isn't true: that Trump isn't lying, he's telling you what he believes to be true.

The president may not even tell "lies" in the sense that the rest of us might.

If we lie and are exposed, we face consequences that affect us personally. It is different for this president.

Why is it different? Because the very idea of error or deception requires a shared sense of what is actually correct or truthful. The key word here is shared, and that is what seems to be lacking.

Our current president makes a practice of describing things not as they are but as he wants them to be — or at least as he wants them to be perceived. He puts his idealized version forward constantly, not as a vision for the future but as a view of the present.

Aaaaahhhhhhhh!

Making statements with intent to convince people to see things as they are not is lying.

Presenting an "idealized version" of the present, when the actual present is obvious to anyone who cares to look, is lying.

He intentionally, knowingly, says things that are not true to mislead or confuse or flummox people when reality is inconvenient for him - which, because he's a piece of flaming garbage, it often is. He's a fucking crooked real-estate developer, a mail-order scammer, a guy who pretended to be someone else in order to push positive news articles about himself, a guy who pays women to stay quiet about affairs, a guy who lies almost every time he opens his mouth.

But NPR wants you to believe he's just using the power of positive thinking to help him achieve his goals. But they're lying.

Nobody knows why they're lying. But they're lying.