Malcolm Young, guitarist and co-founder of pioneering rock band AC/DC, has passed away, the band said in a statement Saturday. He was 64.

I swear I've checked, but there is no sign outside my office that says "STAND HERE AND SHOUT YOUR IDLE CHIT CHAT AT EACH OTHER EVERY 35 MINUTES."

I can't believe I missed this.

The Flat Earth International Conference was held in Raleigh this year!

This guy is even worse than he seemed at first.

WASHINGTON — One of President Trump’s most controversial judicial nominees did not disclose on publicly available congressional documents that he is married to a senior lawyer in the White House Counsel’s Office.

The nominee, Brett J. Talley, is awaiting a Senate confirmation vote that could come as early as Monday to become a federal district judge in Alabama. He is married to Ann Donaldson, the chief of staff to the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II.

Mr. Talley was asked on his publicly released Senate questionnaire to identify family members and others who are “likely to present potential conflicts of interest.” He did not mention his wife.

District judges often provide the first ruling when laws are called into question, decisions that can put them at odds with the White House and its lawyers. Last month, for example, judges in Hawaii and Maryland temporarily blocked Mr. Trump’s travel ban.

Mr. Talley also did not mention his wife when he described his frequent contact with White House lawyers during the nomination process.

I suppose it's standard operating procedure in the Trump WH.

This fucking clown is going to be deciding people's fates.

Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

Talley, 36, is part of what Trump has called the “untold story” of his success in filling the courts with young conservatives.

Butter y males.

I noticed links here from posts back to older posts had stopped working. After fighting WordPress for an hour I decided to go nuclear and start messing with my .htaccess file - which feels like deciding to (eh, what the hell! hold my beer!) replace my car's gas tank.

It looks like I fixed the immediate problem, but there's no way I didn't break something else.

So, if you see something, say something.

The electric toothbrush has two minute cycles, broken into 30s intervals. That means I spend four minutes a day brushing my teeth. That's 120 minutes a month. I spend a full two hours brushing my teeth every month.

That's 24 hours, 20m of tooth brushing, every year.

The United States is now the only country not on board with the Paris agreement.

Syria, which has been engaged in a bloody civil war for six years and was the world's last holdout, announced it would sign up to the 2015 climate accord, delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, said Tuesday.

...

Nicaragua, which initially rejected the agreement because the government thought it didn't go far enough, announced last month that it would join.

We're #1, in this list of 1.