I’m never fussed about being put to use as a purse holder. I do appreciate those stores which provide a generously sized bench or a few chairs in a husband parking zone.

Heard that GLONASS, the Russian Satellite Navigation System, utilized radiant insect butts.

If you bake a couple pounds of the stuff you get an artisanal seven grain loaf

She might just be hoping to have a picture taken by a renowned photographer, one who uses a conventional standard or slightly longer portrait lens.

A gustatory example of failing up.

That the Jupiter Mining Corporation’s Mining Ship Red Dwarf was included made my morning. Thanks.

Received a similar (or possibly the same) suggestion while shopping on Amazon. The glass screen protector seemed like an interesting idea, but some of the reviewers who had put the glass screen protectors on Canon DSLR articulated screens noted that the thickness of the glass protector prevents the proper seating of the articulated screen in the closed position. It seems that the glass screen protectors are notably thicker than plastic-film type protectors.

I was severely afflicted with ‘bookworm’ as a child. Though the malady was in a sort of controlled semi-remission throughout my working life, retirement has brought on a very substantial relapse.

2020 Books list - Some were newly published, quite a few had been on the someday list for a very long time.

Disunited Nations : The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
– Peter Zeihan
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- Peter Zeihan
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
– Mark Blyth
Angrynomics
– Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth
The Square and the Tower
– Niall Ferguson
América: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- Robert Goodwin
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle
- NicK Jellicoe
Torpedo Eight
– Ira Wolpert

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Vol. 3)
– Ian W. Toll
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
– Adam Tooze
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
– Darrell Bricker
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
– Robert Kagan
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
– Kory Stamper
The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-53
– Robert Dallek
The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
– Amy Chua
From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
(Asian American Studies Today) - Haiming Liu
A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
- P. J. O'Rourke
The Geographical Pivot of History (1904)
- Halford John Mackinder
The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
- George Friedman
Really
– Jeremy Clarkson
Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg (Modern War Studies) (v. 1)
- Steven E. Woodworth
Grant's Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox (Modern War Studies) (v.2)
-Steven E. Woodworth
Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
- William B. Feis
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I
- Michael S. Neiberg
That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863
(Emerging Civil War Series) - Chris Mackowski
The Great Battle Never Fought
(Emerging Civil War Series) - Chris Mackowski
The Campaign of Gettysburg: Command Decisions
- William E. Hewitt
Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg
– Troy D. Harman
Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed
– Tom Carhart
The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War
- Edwin C. Fishel
General John Buford
- Edward G. Longacre,
Dragoon or Cavalryman, Major General John Buford in the American Civil War Paperback
– Army Command and General Staff College
The Devil's To Pay: General John Buford, USA
- Michael Phipps (1995-08-02)
I Rode With JEB Stuart
– H.B. McClellan
A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9–19, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series)
– Bill Backus
Memoir of A Revolutionary Soldier
– Joseph Plumb Martin
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life
– Charles Murray
The Book of Poisonous Quotes
– Colin Jarman
Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
- William Knoedelseder
You Might Be A Redneck If ... This Is The Biggest Book You’ve Ever Read
– Jeff Foxworthy, David Boyd
Jeff Foxworthy's Complete Redneck Dictionary: All the Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
You Might Be A Redneck If...
– Jeff Foxworthy
No Shirt, No Shoes...No Problem!
– Jeff Foxworthy

So that's what Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) is doing now!

Not really: The basic sentence actually is ‘…what passes for fashion enables… flaunting.' Did you miss that? The detailed identification of who flaunts what is useful supplementary information. Parallel rewording avoids boring repetition. Did that escape your notice?

Much of what passes for fashion enables the extraordinarily pulchritudinous to flaunt the fact that they are exceptionally beautiful. Those clothing choices assert that they can even carry off either worn-out dungarees or new clothing so unflatteringly cut that it would destroy the reputation of anyone whose appearance falls in the normal ranges. The efforts of aspiring ‘normies’ to follow their fashions serves to emphasize the unbridgeable appearance gap.

I agree - On the real work of tests Polin works hard and reports his results clearly and with appropriate caveats. His wind-resistance and sniff tests may be a bit precious, but he usually provides fundamentally useful information.
There was a period when Polin seemed to be going about with a bag of stakes specifically to be driven into the hearts of all DSLRs within reach. He seems to have gotten beyond the compulsive need to hasten DSLRs onto their long journey into the dark; perhaps sensing that sensors have been improved to the point that they are now generally known to be good enough to enable photography without resort to mirrors and prisms.

Harley-Davidson is now running an assembly facility in Southeast Thailand, just a few kilometers inland from Pattaya. Originally set up to supply East and Southeast Asia Harley buyers, it now send bikes to Europe as well.

After which, I suppose, she was used to melt snow