The Evil Dr. Longshadow

The MRI results and medical reports did all the talking. No exaggerations needed. A back injury doesn't mean I'm on a walker or wheelchair, it just means I can't do any more of the heavy lifting that would be required for a job.

It's not shifting anything and "smokers club" is just what I decided to call them. They have nothing to do with any churches.

You can look it up. Wyoming has no state wide laws restricting smoking in restaurants.

I had mentioned some obscure smoker clubs here before, so it shouldn't be such big news to you.

The U.S. is a pretty big place... That includes Wyoming, where smoking restrictions are left to the counties or municipalities to hammer out. Some places there, you might think it's still 1973, with an ash tray on every table. The state has restrictions on canabis use in public and the state wide age minimum to buy any tobacco product is twenty one. The state itself has no laws of its own governing smoking, either in restaurants, bars, work places or even movie theaters.

You probably think it makes noise, too.

Yesterday: sliced thin and set on crackers, pepperjack and spicy brown mustard.

Wait a while. It's not every day I'm there.

No bribe involved.

That's a casino bar, totally different thing.

Or, the place has been there since Nucky Johnson was a thing and the family that owns it isn't going to let the state chase away three quarters of the customer base.

So? Who was it supposed to be?

When you're in the dining room, you're inside.

Some restaurant managers just don't give a hoo about the regulations.

Except when it's inside.

I'm still smoking in any restaurant where it's invited.

I still don't know who that is.

Why does Fox have to be your example? RT, NHK, CBS and more can be available, even when you don't have cable and yes, even in rural areas when you spring for a decent receiver with strong sensitivity.

Fishing trips, weird billoards, lawn tractors and any other oddball pictures that don't fit in other threads can be here.

So, what IS the grip? Nobody is preventing me from changing the channel. I think I'll watch RT today.

So, what IS the grip? It's not like the audience is left without choices.

What's the last line, there?

Oh, just look at he OP, up there, saying that shutting down PBS and NPR would somehow bring Fox closer to a monoply with a "grip on this country". Nah, there are actually so many competing networks in this country right now.

Such as the guy who fired a rifle at him, perhaps?

Wasn't I quoting you?