Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 Useless, but in a fun way.

Bonus short!  People's inventiveness never ceases to amaze me.

At least be sure to frisk him

Probably not a good idea to let him speak, either:  "9/11 Families Accused of ‘Islamophobia’ for Asking Mamdani to Stay Away from Ground Zero".

Hey, there's a brilliant new idea! Class warfare!

"Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration has published a searchable database of Big Apple properties that could fall under the state's new pied-à-terre tax, effectively doxxing thousands of wealthy New Yorkers."

Wealthy New Yorkers better start moving out while they have the liberty to do so; otherwise, they're  going to have to get Snake Plissken to fetch them.

"This is getting to be a bad habit, people."

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The company's really slaying the competition.

I seriously hope Trump has some kind of backup security

"Secret Service Agent Arrested, Charged with Five Felonies in Near-Fatal Hazing Incident".

As the saying goes, what could possibly go wrong?

"Residents of a community on Long Island’s south shore are objecting to plans to transform a former Catholic seminary into an all-boys Muslim boarding school and mosque."

Classical corner

Swiss-born composer Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231. From the notes to the video, Honegger explains the inspiration for the piece:

"I've always loved locomotives passionately," he says, "for me they are living things ... What I've been looking for in" Pacific "is not imitation of the sounds of the locomotive, but the translation of a visual impression and a physical enjoyment by a musical construction. It starts from objective contemplation: the quiet respiration of the machine at rest, the effort of starting, and then the progressive increase of speed, to the lyrical state, to the pathetic train of 300 tons, launched in the middle of the night at 120. As "topic", I chose the locomotive type "Pacific", symbol 231, for heavy trains of high speed. " ("Pacific" is an express, steam locomotive "231" means: on each side 2 front wheels, 3-wheel drive, .1 rear carrier wheel.)